# posh & beckham 'threat' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114 "2003-06-11T15:03:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/21 "2003-06-12T18:54:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yookeroo \* > \*\*American ignorance rears its ugly head yet again. \*\* Not too quick to grasp satire, are ya bub? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cowgirl \* > **I also laughed to hear about Posh’s plans to come over here. Never happen. We do not worship our celebrities in the manner they are accustomed to in the UK. We have our problems, but that is not one of them.** Well, at least not outside southern California, which is where _all of the celebrities live!_ But it’s also possible they might want to come here because they do get less attention. Didn’t they say they liked not being recognized in L.A.? ---
**Author:** ![Enkidu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Enkidu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkidu)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/22 "2003-06-12T19:03:28Z")
There was an article in the Sunday NYT a few weeks ago about the pair. From the article, it seems that they are on an actual campaign to raise their visibility in the US to a par with how it is in the rest of the world (or Europe, at least?). Sort of a this is their only celebrity world left to conquer. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/23 "2003-06-12T20:34:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*Not too quick to grasp satire, are ya bub? \*\* Don’t be too hard on him, everyone knows British folk are slow to grasp statements with even the barest hint of irony or satire. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/24 "2003-06-12T20:36:30Z")
I didn’t even know they were in the US until I spied them at the MTV Movie Awards. (I didn’t see their presentation, I actually recognized them from a crowd scan before I fell asleep.) Though, I’m wondering if I should buy some Posh Spice on HSX now given her big comeback and all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/25 "2003-06-12T20:41:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Don’t be too hard on him, everyone knows British folk are slow to grasp statements with even the barest hint of irony or satire. \*\* How DARE you insinuate that we’re slow to gr- Oh. _Shuffles off, grinning awkwardly_ ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/26 "2003-06-12T20:48:23Z")
Now now, **Lizard, Neurotik, and Yookeroo** , let’s keep the vitriol flowing where it belongs…toward Posh and Becks. Bickering at each other robs the dynamic duo of their deserved dose of hate. Like my alliteration? I think it’s laughable that Posh and Becks would say they love the anonymity they have in the States and simultaneously appear on the MTV Awards show. They are press-hounds. That’s how they got their fame, and stating otherwise is preposterous. They are on every front cover of pretty much every magazine over here in the UK. Their desire for the spotlight knows no bounds. If Bones and her Babbling Boy get famous in the States, next it will be Robbie Williams, and we **know** we can’t let that happen. Bring us Eddie Izzard! Bring us Graham Norton! Bring us proper scones, for God’s sake, just don’t bring us Posh and Becks! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/27 "2003-06-12T21:23:28Z")
Funny, I just got back from two weeks in London and was astonished at the level of interest in this pair (also the amount of interest in Big Brother, but that is for another thread) . I was also amused because I knew there would be incredible ambivalence back in the US about them. I was even hearing a debate on the radio about who will be more remembered in British History, Posh and Becks or the Royals. ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/28 "2003-06-12T21:23:56Z")
See Posh purse her lips…she is waiting for a kiss, methinks…she purses, she puckers…perhaps she loves air and kisses the air all day…still she waits, all puckered and pursed and ready…GOOD GOD HER FACE IS FROZEN. Or maybe she has no teeth. Or maybe it’s botulin toxin. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/29 "2003-06-12T21:24:39Z")
America, can you take Liz Hurley too while you’re at it? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/30 "2003-06-12T21:25:20Z")
Now how come you guys over on that side of the pond don’t just call him Bex? “Becks” is so, so gauche. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/31 "2003-06-12T22:39:12Z")
Ah, this article seems to confirm most Americans’ impressions of the couple: [Becks and Posh Fail to Impress in America](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030612/people_nm/life_beckham_dc_2) > [@](#): > > “Don’t Come Beck,” was the headline on a New York Post article lambasting the couple’s self-promotional tour. > > “Posh and Becks, as they are known on the other side of the pond, had hoped by now they would be as famous in the United [States as] they are in their native Britain,” the Post wrote. > > “Instead, they’re going home as anonymous as when they arrived,” the tabloid said, concluding with the suggestion, “How about coming back … never?” This may be the first time i’ve ever agreed with the NY Post on anything. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/32 "2003-06-13T03:11:50Z")
Posh comeback? How can we miss her when she won’t go away? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/33 "2003-06-13T03:40:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*America, can you take Liz Hurley too while you’re at it? \*\* Hell yes! She can stay with me! ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/34 "2003-06-13T04:41:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*Hell yes! She can stay with me! \*\* And use my face for a bidet. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/35 "2003-06-13T05:16:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Don’t be too hard on him, everyone knows British folk are slow to grasp statements with even the barest hint of irony or satire. \*\* I ain’t British. And satire is easy to miss (assuming it was even there in the first place) when you grow up hearing endless cheap shots taken at the sport you love. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/36 "2003-06-13T05:33:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shrew \* > \*\*Bring us Graham Norton! \*\* PLEASE take him away. I’ll even throw in a few quid to go towards the flight costs. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/37 "2003-06-13T05:43:11Z")
Being an ignorant American, why so much vile directed towards Posh Spice and Beckham? Not that I have any feelings for them one way or the other, but what’d they do that’s so bad? ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/38 "2003-06-13T05:44:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yookeroo \* > \*\*I ain’t British. > > And satire is easy to miss (assuming it was even there in the first place) when you grow up hearing endless cheap shots taken at the sport you love. \*\* Which of course makes it okay to go off on a snit. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/39 "2003-06-13T11:15:48Z")
I saw them on a chat show once. They weren’t as annoying as I expected. Give them a chance. PS. “That bent guy” and the whole satire thing, lol ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114/40 "2003-06-13T11:28:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Asylum \* > \*\*Being an ignorant American, why so much vile directed towards Posh Spice and Beckham? Not that I have any feelings for them one way or the other, but what’d they do that’s so bad? \*\* Think Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Just shameless media whores everyone is tired of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posh-beckham-threat/181114.md?page=3)