European Browncoats?
POSTED BY: GweiLo
UPDATED: Thursday, November 3, 2005 18:55
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Originally posted by GweiLo:
At least you have the possibility to subscribe to the Sci-Fi channel. In Scandinavia that option was taken away a couple of years ago… right in the middle of an exciting season of Battlastar Gallactica too. (Grrr!) Apparently the channel does moderately well and is only “guaranteed” to go on in the UK and the Benelux countries.
it's _not_ UK SciFi but a german version. don't know if they have anything in common. and UK and US SCiFi seem not to be too closely related either, I think.
and I just come from a very disturbing thread on a german video-related board. they were bitching about the very thing we here are welcoming: the end of german-dubbed-only TV in germany. they are writing hatemail to SciFi for daring to plan to show the fourth season of Farscape only in english. it's never been shown in germany before and is not yet dubbed. so maybe SciFi will cave in and not show it at all or if they can afford it dubb it.
I really feel sorry for myself for living in this ignorant country sometimes. I was born here and there are open minded people her too but we seem to be fewer than I thought.
I wrote an eMail to the address mentioned in the thread and told them (SciFi) my version of things. congratulated them on their courage and asked them if there's something apart from subscribing that I can do to help end this madness.
for anyone interested (I think one has to register there so maybe the link won't work)
http://record.mkplace.de/viewtopic.php?t=2039
to say it with the 'grrrr arrg' monster (in the end of "Becoming" I think): "now I need a hug"
Idefix
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Pudor: The London area in general seems to be a good idea… seeing how there’s so many different airports (not just Stansted obviously).
Floor space sounds very very good. (A gym perhaps, or what were you thinking?) You’re the first person in the general area of the intended shindig to sign in so that’s great!
Oh, I just meant sleeping space (people I know with rooms/houses). If plenty of people were coming, it might be worth hiring the function room of a pub (I know one in central london that we could have for nothing, but the drinks are normal london prices - i.e. just under £3 a pint). :)
I'd assume most people would fly in to Stanstead, as it's dead cheap. Heathrow and Gatwick tend to be full-fare, but I'm talking from the point of view of a penniless student ;) Alternatively, Oxford means I don't have to move from my room, and I could put people up in my nice empty 5-bedroom house :> (out of term-time).
I'd be interested to know how many people would be up for it, anyway.
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Dutch browncoat here,
not much of those around are they 
arrrgh, well most here don't even notice good television if they were abel to see it
Boil the see
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Idefix: Oh! Germany has its own Sci-Fi channel? I hadn’t realised. I’m all jealous now. (Miss Sci-Fi channel… bad! I think it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment to dangle the goods in front of you, let you believe you have it made for a while – and then viciously snatch it all away. It’s cruel I tell you, cruel! … Ahem, but I digress.)
I’m afraid that my German is far too bad to participate in the thread but you know you have all the mental support in the world right here when you need it. ~hug~ (I loved when they changed the Monster’s Inc logo like that btw. I keep expecting them to do it again in some other way each time they do another dramatic episode! ~LOL~)
Pudor: Ah yes! I remember being a penniless student like it was yesterday… (Wait a minute! It was. I’m not that old.)
If the time is right and my schedule allows I’m most definitely there. As I only registered at this forum last week however, I personally would appreciate getting to know people here a little more before setting off. But that’s just me.
Anyway, good news on the sleeping space. That’s the kind of stuff we need!
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Originally posted by GweiLo:
Idefix: Oh! Germany has its own Sci-Fi channel? I hadn’t realised. I’m all jealous now. (Miss Sci-Fi channel… bad! I think it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment to dangle the goods in front of you, let you believe you have it made for a while – and then viciously snatch it all away. It’s cruel I tell you, cruel! … Ahem, but I digress.)
look at www.scifi.de if you want to make yourself either more jealous or less. I'm not sure they have that many exciting things to watch yet but they startet to send Farscape a while ago and it's the first series they show with german and english audio. hopefully they will stick to that at least. maybe even be bold and show some new shows without paying for synchro and thus having us wait for 2 years for it.
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I’m afraid that my German is far too bad to participate in the thread but you know you have all the mental support in the world right here when you need it. ~hug~
nah, don't have to respond there. they don't understand english and they don't want to learn and they PAY for the GERMAN SciFi and it's outrageous that they even consider sending something in english only. no need to argue there...
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(I loved when they changed the Monster’s Inc logo like that btw. I keep expecting them to do it again in some other way each time they do another dramatic episode! ~LOL~)
I love the 'grr arrg' monster. have to smile everytime I see and hear it. best logo ever.
Idefix
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Originally posted by pudor:
Alternatively, Oxford means I don't have to move from my room, and I could put people up in my nice empty 5-bedroom house :> (out of term-time).
I'd be interested to know how many people would be up for it, anyway.
Could be....
We're near-ish to Oxford (wife used to work in Cowley) - a couple of miles your side of Henley.
So, is that BIG Oxford, or Brooks (nothing wrong with the latter, hasten to add
)?
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GweiLo wrote:
Could the people who have said they´re British specify where in Britain they´re from?
I'm from Bracknell. A concreteish jungle about 40 miles from London.
Pat
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Originally posted by SouthernMerc:
To those who think Americans don't like being called "yanks": actually, Southerners don't like being called yanks, it's too close to "yankee." But then, that's an individual's opinion. Heck, I'm not even sure where the word "yank" comes from. Can anyone enlighten me?
Sorry to crash the Euro thread...just had to put my two cents in.
Sorry to interrupt, but I try to help out where I can.
To answer your question SouthernMerc, the origins of "Yankee" have been debated for quite some time, and to this day the Oxford English Dictionary says the source of the word is "unascertained." Perhaps the most widely accepted explanation was given by H.L. Mencken, a well-known newsman-scholar, who argued that Yankee derives from the expression Jan Kaas, literally "John Cheese." This supposedly was a derogatory nickname bestowed on the Dutch by the Germans and the Flemish in the 1600s.
The English later applied the term to Dutch pirates, and later still Dutch settlers in New York applied it to English settlers in Connecticut, who were known for their piratical trading practices. During the French and Indian War the British general James Wolfe took to referring derisively to the native New Englanders in his army as Yankees, and the term was widely popularized during the Revolutionary War by the song "Yankee Doodle." By the war's end, of course, the colonists had perversely adopted the term as their own. Southerners used Yankee pejoratively to describe Northerners during the Civil War. Of course it now seems to be a term the Brits and most of Europe use as a nickname for all Americans.
Again, sorry to have butted in. Carry on.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
You forget that Southerners still refer to Northerners as Yankees, Browncoat1.
And I think Europeans refer to us as Cowboys as if it is an insult.
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
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Greets to the new people in the thread! Good to have you here. :-)
Idefix: Sometimes when you download movies or episodes online there are dual audio tracks. You can pick either to hear the original English or the German dub via a special media player. In an ideal world – multiple audio tracks would be something that you could choose in your TV, like you sometimes can pick subtitles. Wouldn’t that be great? People who feel uncomfortable with subtitles could pick the dub and people who want to hear the original performance could have that too.
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Originally posted by patolver:
GweiLo wrote:
Could the people who have said they´re British specify where in Britain they´re from?
I'm from Bracknell. A concreteish jungle about 40 miles from London.
Pat
Ah, Bracknell - driven through many times. Have yet to stop (except at traffic lights!
).I work in Maidenhead, but live a little further west (see above).
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