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POSTED BY: GeekyGal21
UPDATED: Saturday, November 4, 2006 06:53
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Friday, November 3, 2006 12:02 PM

Eh dont watch the wire... Am I right in assuming that you are English?

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Friday, November 3, 2006 1:07 PM

^ 'Fraid so, down in the corner - next stop France. Mark Lawson put The Wire in the Top Ten TV shows to be watched on DVD in the Grauniad this week; Dominic West and Idris Elba are Brits of course - Aidan Gillen is geographically close too, as well as being within a degree of RTD via Queer as Folk.
Ricky Gervais references The Wire as the sort of quality drama that couldn't be produced in the UK - but then, it's hardly US Networks either.
I believe The Wire got a brief airing in the UK on Channel 4, but didn't do the numbers.

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Friday, November 3, 2006 4:19 PM

ok you might know this: what does bollox mean?

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Friday, November 3, 2006 7:43 PM

^ That you can't spell?

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Friday, November 3, 2006 10:39 PM

Or that you learned it from the Brian Daly Han Solo novels (there was a droid called "Bollux").

"Bollocks" is the British term for "ass," and is often used to describe something wrong, confusing, or messed up, or as just a general mild curse.

Spike used it a few times.

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Saturday, November 4, 2006 12:27 AM

Yes my spelling can be atrocious when I have been up for like 25 hours straight.

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Saturday, November 4, 2006 3:07 AM

Actually you can use either Bollocks, or bollox, which is a slang spelling. It's used in a similar way the french use Merde, or the americans use Crap.

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Saturday, November 4, 2006 6:53 AM

My apologies if the apparent misapprehensions here are ironic, but here is a US reference:
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/bollocks

I enjoy the antipathy between bollocks and the dog's bollocks; IMHO, Torchwood is somewhere in-between - back on topic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks

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