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[Ozle]

Laugh tracks always seem condescending to me

I know what I find funny thanks.

Also, it kind of implies that the jokes don't hold up well enough on their own. I can't think of a British comedy that uses them, is it just an American thing?

"Keeping Up Appearances" I believe...I was just watching it on Netflix

Seriously?!
Out of all the great British comedies there are out there, you are watching Keeping Up Appearences?!?

[eHalcyon]

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[WalrusMcFishSr]

Laugh tracks always seem condescending to me

I know what I find funny thanks.

Also, it kind of implies that the jokes don't hold up well enough on their own. I can't think of a British comedy that uses them, is it just an American thing?

"Keeping Up Appearances" I believe...I was just watching it on Netflix

Seriously?!
Out of all the great British comedies there are out there, you are watching Keeping Up Appearences?!?

You asked for a counterexample! My roommate had it on and it didn't seem too awful...certainly no Monty Python or Jeeves and Wooster, but passable to my boorish American sensibilities

[Axxle]

10/10 would glub glub.

[eHalcyon]

10/10 would glub glub.

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[Teproc]

Didn't Fawlty Towers have a laugh track/audience ?

[Voltaire]

Didn't Fawlty Towers have a laugh track/audience ?

Didn't most comedies, if they're old enough? It's excusable if the show is old.

[Teproc]

I was responding to Ozle's comment about British comedies.

I generally dislike laugh track/studio audiences, but in some shows it doesn't bother me because I'm just used to them : Friends and HIMYM mainly.

[Kuildeous]

Ahh Python.
Are you taking about flying circus?
Didn't realise it was live

I would certainly say that portions of them were not filmed in front of a studio audience. Upperclass Twit of the Year and the various animations must have been shown to an audience while their laughter was recorded. But the dead parrot sketch and the Argument Clinic very easily could have been filmed in front of a studio audience.

I remember when Roc was on the air that it was filmed in front of a studio audience. This was a big deal because they showed one episode live. Of course with enough rehearsal, any sitcom that reasonably takes place in the same location could be played live. Even some location changes can be done.

[eHalcyon]

Guys.  Guys.  Go to xkcd now.

[Witherweaver]

Guys.  Guys.  Go to xkcd now.

Wow.  And there goes the rest of today.  Just like that.

[Ozle]

Am I missing something?

[Ozle]

Laugh tracks always seem condescending to me

I know what I find funny thanks.

Also, it kind of implies that the jokes don't hold up well enough on their own. I can't think of a British comedy that uses them, is it just an American thing?

"Keeping Up Appearances" I believe...I was just watching it on Netflix

Seriously?!
Out of all the great British comedies there are out there, you are watching Keeping Up Appearences?!?

You asked for a counterexample! My roommate had it on and it didn't seem too awful...certainly no Monty Python or Jeeves and Wooster, but passable to my boorish American sensibilities

Yes but I didn't want terrible 90s sitcoms being used, slap your room mate (room mate or house mate? Do you share a room? Is that a too personal question?)

And then tell him to watch something decent....

[Kuildeous]

Guys.  Guys.  Go to xkcd now.

Wow.  And there goes the rest of today.  Just like that.

Goddammit! And I still haven't beaten 2048. *glares*

[Voltaire]

(room mate or house mate? Do you share a room? Is that a too personal question?)

Americans say "room mate" for both categories. At least I do and so does everyone here I have ever met.

[Tables]

(room mate or house mate? Do you share a room? Is that a too personal question?)

Americans say "room mate" for both categories. At least I do and so does everyone here I have ever met.

As an aside, I've always found it weird how sharing rooms is so common in the US. In the UK, it's pretty rare to have two strangers share a room, but in US it seems to be the usual university setup. I guess part of it is due to us Brits valuing privacy more than you lot in the US, but even so I couldn't imagine having to go to uni and sharing my room with someone I've never met.

[SirPeebles]

(room mate or house mate? Do you share a room? Is that a too personal question?)

Americans say "room mate" for both categories. At least I do and so does everyone here I have ever met.

I've spent much of my life living in cooperative, communal houses of a couple dozen people.  I use "house mate" to refer to one of the other twenty or so people who live in the house with me, but "room mate" to refer to the other person or two who sleep in the same room as me.

[mail-mi]

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Robz that's awe...

wait...

[Kirian]

(room mate or house mate? Do you share a room? Is that a too personal question?)

Americans say "room mate" for both categories. At least I do and so does everyone here I have ever met.

As an aside, I've always found it weird how sharing rooms is so common in the US. In the UK, it's pretty rare to have two strangers share a room, but in US it seems to be the usual university setup. I guess part of it is due to us Brits valuing privacy more than you lot in the US, but even so I couldn't imagine having to go to uni and sharing my room with someone I've never met.

Isn't it quite common at lower education levels, though?  At least for those who go to boarding schools?

Sharing a dorm room is pretty standard in the US at the university level, though, yes.  Sharing a room outside of the dorm is less common, though splitting an apartment or house among N people is incredibly common.

[Tables]

(room mate or house mate? Do you share a room? Is that a too personal question?)

Americans say "room mate" for both categories. At least I do and so does everyone here I have ever met.

As an aside, I've always found it weird how sharing rooms is so common in the US. In the UK, it's pretty rare to have two strangers share a room, but in US it seems to be the usual university setup. I guess part of it is due to us Brits valuing privacy more than you lot in the US, but even so I couldn't imagine having to go to uni and sharing my room with someone I've never met.

Isn't it quite common at lower education levels, though?  At least for those who go to boarding schools?

Sharing a dorm room is pretty standard in the US at the university level, though, yes.  Sharing a room outside of the dorm is less common, though splitting an apartment or house among N people is incredibly common.

Hm, I suppose that's true, but I think it gets more and more difficult as teens get older, go through puberty and want more privacy, and also boarding schools (to the best of my knowledge) tend to have fairly strict times on going to bed. By Uni, you're in charge of your own life pretty much, so you could just happen to go to bed at vastly different times or whatnot.

Sharing a house is pretty normal in the UK as well. The majority of my (unmarried) friends share with around 2-4 other friends. I think that's very different though. The big thing being that you always have a space you can go to and not be bothered in. If you'd had a bad day, the last thing you'd want is to come home to your roommate constantly playing LoL and screaming at his teammates in your room.

[Ozle]

Also, you have to be rich/posh to go to boarding schools.

I'm neither if those , tables is a northerner to my knowledge so is unlikely to have done so either. And well Tinas is clearly a chav!

[Kuildeous]

I saw on Facebook a friend of a friend commenting with Every Single Word Capitalized Throughout His Entire Post.

Someone else called him out on it, and he claimed that it's because he's European. He's always typed that way. I have never heard of a standard where someone types every word capitalized. And the Europeans on here don't do it. Has anyone run into someone using this "standard"?

I'm thinking this may have been an April Fool's prank. I would say that it took a lot of effort to pull off, but then again not really. You just type your response in Word, select all, and press Shift+F3.

[Kirian]

I saw on Facebook a friend of a friend commenting with Every Single Word Capitalized Throughout His Entire Post.

Someone else called him out on it, and he claimed that it's because he's European. He's always typed that way. I have never heard of a standard where someone types every word capitalized. And the Europeans on here don't do it. Has anyone run into someone using this "standard"?

I'm thinking this may have been an April Fool's prank. I would say that it took a lot of effort to pull off, but then again not really. You just type your response in Word, select all, and press Shift+F3.

Sounds like AFD, yes.  The only Europeans who come close to that are those who speak German, and then it's still only the nouns that are capitalized.

[Ozle]

Well I Can't Speak For Every European, But It's Definately Not The Standard Here In The Uk (Nor In Tuvalu)

[Teproc]

I would assume it's a joke about Americans thinking Europeans are weird and let them get away with stuff because of it. Like if you watch Hannibal (the NBC show), it seems like the characters are thinking "He's a little weird, but I think that's just because he's European", when really he's just weird and should probably ring alarm bells.