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This must be the slowest fucking news day since there was nothing but void without form. Get a proper job!
Brit uploaders teach Yanks man-hug techniques
British web-vid upload site VideoJug launched yesterday in the States, offering a striking example of reverse cultural colonisation. VideoJug is a sort of how-to version of YouTube, offering short instructional clips on diverse topics such as tying a Windsor knot and coping with cancer. But, as Reuters tech hacks in New York …
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Monday 4th June 2007 15:59 GMT Kevin Eastman
Homophobic Tripe from the Reg???
I quite enjoy the El Reg, and respect it's opinions most of the time, but after reading the homophobic tripe Mr. Lewis page spouts in this article, I may have to re-evaluate my own opinion of El Reg. I am surprised to be reading an article such as this, in this day and age.
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Monday 4th June 2007 22:12 GMT Morely Dotes
El Reg editors on vacation? Or made redundant?
"America is, after all, the home of the inappropriate emotional display."
Right. And who was blubbing about some poor sod who was shot dead in the Tube by British cops?
Oh, and do go get some linguistic help. "Mana-a-mano" means hand-to-hand, you illiterate boob.
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Tuesday 5th June 2007 01:01 GMT Angus Lidstone
Depends on where you are from
"America is, after all, the home of the inappropriate emotional display."
"Right. And who was blubbing about some poor sod who was shot dead in the Tube by British cops?"
Morely, what are you trying to say here? I am afraid it has completely lost me.
"Oh, and do go get some linguistic help. "Mana-a-mano" means hand-to-hand, you illiterate boob."
To spanish speakers and you pehaps. But the english (and probably other languages too.. cept perhaps for French :P) language is rife with stolen phrases/words that have their pronuciation or meaning twisted or changed to suit the locals. So I would contest that your "you illiterate boob" statement should be changed to "you regional illiterage boob", cos he makes perfect sense to me and others in my particular neck of the woods.
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Tuesday 5th June 2007 01:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Man hugs... and other such activities.
As an American, A glance at photos of you brits playing cricket clearly demonstrates the unmanliness of your athletes, and thus, by some accounts, your population. For example, http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/112004/056052.jpg Any sport in which 2 men in golf clothes can prance around, while another man with a jockey helmet, and a badly made oar cowers away from a small red ball is clearly not manly. Even our geeks are more manly than your professional atheletes, (see http://www-tech.mit.edu/V115/N4/hockey_check.gif). As such, I feel that Britain is uniquely unqualified to determine acceptable levels of man on man affection, methods for demonstrating said affection and its relationship with manliness.
Show your manly affection the manly American way... just grab their ass.
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Tuesday 5th June 2007 10:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Manly sports?
Isn't it a little ironic that an American should criticise an "English" sport as unmanly? Bearing in mind that the American NFL players are wrapped up in so much protective gear that you could have a 10 year old girl play without being injured, I find our American friends comments to be ridiculous in the extreme.
On the other hand, I'm Irish. We play a sport called Hurling - which is the fastest field sport in the world. It's a little bit too physical for most Americans, though there a few teams in the UK. A little sample, til I find a better clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOggPACWsvs
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