In the UK, Crazy Frog’s “Axel F” was a #1 single.
In the U.S., it could not get above #50.
Honestly people, I can’t see why you’re all so upset, five minutes ago she was slagging off Britain:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4357650.stm
“Paltrow says she finds the UK’s streets are dirty, the weather cold and its customer services “rubbish” in an interview with Marie Claire US edition.”
I’m writing a strongly worded letter to the Home Secretary, demanding that the bitch be deported. And I will never watch one of her films again!
She is spot on about customer services, mind.
Start a petition to the Prime Minister!
And she’s right about the weather, too. Bitch. I will never buy one of her T-shirts/Magic 8 Balls/Donuts/Movies (strike out as appropriate) again either.
One cannot fault you for proceeding with such a course of action, dear chap. This is, after all, the Greatest Country In The World and these damn foreign Johnnies should start to realise that and desist with the hateful slurs.
Kick her arse back to the States, I say. Let’s see how she likes having to put up with their hellish ‘air conditioning’ and ‘plumbing’, whatever the fuck they are.
(emphasis mine)
Well, I think this clears up the question as to her stellar intelligence… :rolleyes:
I prefer the UK to America, too-I like their humor, their TV shows are appropriately silly (and don’t take themselves too seriously), their news broadcasts, for all they bitch about them, contain more content than any over here, I LIKE the weather there (no, I’m not on medication), and I even like the food (for the most part).
But it is always good to come home-even if that means putting up with the relentless self-absorption and hard sell and shallow dinner conversation that is America.
But I’m not famous, so no one cares. <heavy sigh>
‘Plumbing’, as you call it, is very civilized over here, we get both hot water and cold water out of the same faucet.
Caridwen wrote:
> Tina Turner & Shania Twain both moved to Switzerland obviously because they
> like living there better.
I wrote:
> Shania Twain is a Canadian who’s married to a Briton.
MrDibble writes:
> Rhodesian-South African, actually.
O.K., this is an example of how hard it is to say what the nationality of anybody is. Shania Twain was born and grew up in Canada. Eventually she moved to Nashville for a while as her country singing career took off. (I can’t find anything in my quick search about how long she lived in Nashville.) There she met Robert Lange, a record producer who was living in England. He had been born in Northern Rhodesia (which is now Zambia) though. Eventually they bought a place in Switzerland and moved there. Just recently they bought a place in New Zealand and have put their home in Switzerland on sale. I have no idea what the citizenship of either of these people is now.
I get really tired hearing actors and actresses spout off about things they have really no knowledge of.
These people are ACTRESSES and ACTORS. They’ve studied ACTING.
They have not studied history, politics, psychology, medicine, literature.
Paltrow saying she knows an intelligent conversation when she hears one is like Tom Cruise saying he knows the history of psychology.
The only thing I give them credit for is ACTING like they know what they’re talking about because thats what they do for a living, ACT.
Hampshire writes:
> I get really tired hearing actors and actresses spout off about things they have
> really no knowledge of.
Most people spout off about things that they know nothing about, including most people on this board. For those of you in this thread who haven’t lived in both the U.s. and the U.K., you are less qualified to talk about the differences between the two countries than Gwyneth Paltrow is. Paltrow is clearly no anthropologist and no sociologist, given the superficiality of her observations. Neither are most of the people in this thread.
What’s so wrong about talking about work?
And at least in my social circle we don’t spend a lot of time talking about money, but I suppose it comes up, maybe because it is a buig part of our lives, trying to pay bills and such. But, of course, I would hardly think her experience is similar to the ordinary American. I mean do you think there are a lot of conversations in her circle that would go on about how, “Man, I just took my car in and it is going to cost me $700 to get that work done. Sheesh, don’t need that right now.”
I am reminded of the scene in The Aviator where Howard Hughes is having dinner with Kate Hepburn’s family, a byunch of pretentious, stuck-up, self important socialites who go on and on about art and such. Hughes finds it all pretty distasteful and leaves.
But see, you’re from Alabama (or live in Alabama) and EVERYBODY knows that people in the southern US (or red states) are less intelligent than people from the northern US (or blue states). It must be a bitter pill for them to swallow to learn that even blue staters are less intelligent than the British. Must be so, Gwyneth said so.
Next you’ll be telling me that you have shower heads that do that too.
That’s just crazy talk. Water should come out of seperate taps, with the cold supply coming from 150 year old lead pipes that leak a lot.
Next you’ll be saying that your drinking water is clear and fresh, not nice and chewy because of all the sediment.
Say whut? I’m not sure I understood you, so I’ll just whup yer ass to be safe, OK?
You’re not alone. For many “ethnic” is synonymous with race and is used interchangeably. I used to think hispanic was a racial group until I was set straight.
Sure, I agree, but what you have instead is saying that one ethnic group is superior to another. I think we can all agree that Britons and Americans are two seperate and distinctive groups of people, right?
She said the British were more civilized than Americans. How could anyone view that as anything other than insulting?
Marc
I agree wholeheartedly. We’re a bunch of drooling savages. No wonder you’re insulted.
Just because I want to grind her bones to make my bread doesn’t make me a barbarian.
I said her comment was insulting but I didn’t say I felt personally insulted by it. It isn’t like I’m going to lay away at nights because someone half way across the globe things I’m not as civilized as an Englishman.
Marc
Talk about missing the point of someone’s post! I didn’t realize jjimm was making a little joke.
Marc