# BBCA Lesson: Brits, Don't Grab Tits in the U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869 "2004-03-28T04:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/21 "2004-03-29T05:36:17Z")
I only saw this show once but I was immediately impressed with how it relentlessly pursues its specific demographic; almost like a magazine does with articles this does with everything from language to production values – all very new-stylie Women’s Institute takes University daughter out shopping in Middle England. Clever, slick and paced like a raunchy coffee morning gossip session; it’s got its market completely by the nuts, except it doesn’t have any. Diff planet to me, but there you go . . . ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/22 "2004-03-29T06:21:56Z")
Hell, we export _Home and Away_ and _Neighbours_ to them so you can’t say the Brits have any taste! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/23 "2004-03-29T06:49:08Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > You’re using ‘What not to wear’ as a representation of british TV???.. \…!!! > > Trinny and Suzanna are _the_ most contemptible females on TV today. > > News. Brits don’t go around using ‘tits’ in every other sentence. So how often do they “go around using tits…” How about in every third sentence? Oh BTW, there are plenty of places here to see all the tits you want. They don’t mind squeezin 'em or shakin them in your face and arses too. We’re not all a bunch of prudes. Matter of fact I love a nice set of tits, hooters, knockers, breasts or whatever they’re calling 'em these days. 😉 Sorry **moriah** I just couldn’t resist. But I originally thought you meant that you didn’t condone strangers fondling each other’s breasts and were warning Brits not to do that when visiting the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/24 "2004-03-29T11:07:14Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > BTW, why is it that the bulk of British entertainment exports to the US seems to be of the variety that the British don’t like? …I’m at a loss as to why you’re Bogarting all the good stuff. I think it’s something unique to BBC America, and almost certainly it’s to ensure it’s 100% inoffensive, to not create any ripples in the commercial world of American TV. Just about anything of quality from the BBC, from comedys of the Python heritage, to hard-hitting journalism, to satire, would quite probably cause friction with the companies carrying it in the states. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/25 "2004-03-29T12:20:54Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > Hell, we export _Home and Away_ and _Neighbours_ to them so you can’t say the Brits have any taste! 😛 Just because there shown here doesn’t mean we watch them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/26 "2004-03-31T05:17:40Z")
> [@teemingONE](#): > > Katies got some fat tittays. Don’t you mean “phat” tittays? ---
**Author:** ![epepke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de0a6/32.png) [@epepke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epepke)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/27 "2004-03-31T05:47:51Z")
> [@Dogface](#): > > Oh, no. We mustn’t do that. Just like US television that is shown in the UK is a 100% perfect reflection of US culture, so whatever UK television gets shown in the USA is a 100% perfect reflection of UK culture. Tee-hee. I’ve met more than enough Brits who have solid beliefs about the US based entirely on re-runs of _Mannix_ and _Knight Rider_. ---
**Author:** ![helieo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@helieo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/helieo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/28 "2004-03-31T18:33:01Z")
… we don’t draw attention to a woman’s breasts in person unless there’s a very valid reason to do so. And this from the country that gave us Janet Jackson :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/29 "2004-03-31T20:02:11Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Bite your tongue! I suppose you’re more of a Charlie from _Ground Force_ type? Speaking of tits!!! Woohoo!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/30 "2004-04-01T00:39:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, one more thing. If you think we’re too painfully reticent to talk about tits. You can imagine our taboo over reaching out and manually adjusting them. Don’t do that. Just pretend you’re in Germany. As a matter of academic curiosity, does this imply that there’s places where reaching out and manually adjusting them is the polite thing to do? Where? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/31 "2004-04-01T01:16:41Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > That particular TV show is garbage. > > The two brainless, charmless, vulgar fashionistas who ‘present’ it know nothing. > > The show has nothing whatsoever to do with typical British attitudes, vocabulary or behaviour, so you can safely ignore it. We all do. > > And by the way, we don’t actually need you to tell us how to behave in the States or anywhere else, thanks all the same. Christ! What got on your tits? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/32 "2004-04-01T16:20:46Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > That particular TV show is garbage. > > The two brainless, charmless, vulgar fashionistas who ‘present’ it know nothing. I would dissagree. Unlike most fashion consultants in the US (Carson from QE for one), they actually dress themselves nicely. From what I’ve watched, about 8 out of 10 of their “victims” end up looking better after they start following T&S’s advice. Regarding the OP’s shock at the manual adjustment of someone’s breasts: Just be glad you’ve never had a professional bra fitting. Mrs Magill went for one a couple of weeks ago, and was shocked at the number of adjustments she had, but she couldn’t argue with the results. (Nor could I - Yowzaa!) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/33 "2004-04-01T16:51:33Z")
Trinny and suzannah are a pair of “Crouching Tiger, Hinting Lesbian” harpies that exist solely to annoy me. Unfortunately the time when their show was on was during my slouching on the couch period in my busy schedule. My sister would watch this programme, and if I wasn’t as lazy as a rug on valium I might have left the room when it was on. they come up with basically the same crap every week, slag off their targets clothes, but usually end up looking like sugar coated shite themselves. and as for the OP, tits tits tits tits tits. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/34 "2004-04-01T20:03:48Z")
Trinny and Suzanna grab women’s tits on that show? :eek: _rushes off to watch WNTW_ All our best shows stay here because TPTB think Americans wouldn’t get them. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/35 "2004-04-01T20:33:12Z")
JOKE TIME! How do you make 5lbs. of fat look sexy? Put a nipple on it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/36 "2004-04-02T14:03:41Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Yeah, so maybe its a bit of our Puritan heritage… Please stop dissin’ the Puritans. America’s twisted sexual phopia was a 19[sup]th[/sup] century creation. Please replace “Puritan” with “Victorian.” Thank you. Oh, if you can pass for a rural type, “teats” is daring choice of words that will set you apart from the pack. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869/37 "2004-04-02T14:04:54Z")
Phobia. Sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbca-lesson-brits-dont-grab-tits-in-the-u-s/236869.md?page=1)