Oh Dear God
That man who presents Dancing With The Stars is one of the presenters of the Emmys tonight, and he just said:
“Television is a uniquely American invention.”
I despair.
Posts tagged culture shock
A Name Is Not A Number
In my head there are two things that make a ‘real’ American address, and I’m doing quite well on that front.
One is for it to have a crazily high house number, the kind that just doesn’t happen in the UK with its far shorter roads. Having spent the last few weeks living at number 2433, [...]
Better Living Through Shopping
I’m not one of nature’s shoppers. I mean, obviously I shop. I obtain goods in exchange for cash both in real shops and online. But I don’t browse. I don’t take an afternoon to drift from shop to shop looking for things on the offchance I might see something I like or want. I like [...]
Guberning*
One thing that no amount of knowing it can prepare you for is the sight of California’s Governor being Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, intellectually of course you know he got the job, but in your heart you can’t quite accept the reality.
Until as I did last night you see the local news, which is full [...]
Landlord Of The Year
So I got back to the apartment last night, and found that there was no power. No lights, no sockets, no cooling in the fridge (stinky milk, but actually that was probably just my fault), NO INTERNET!!!!! (I should clarify that the first few days in this apartment I didn’t have a connection, and it [...]
Conversations With Cab Drivers
Now look, I’ve been in plenty of London black cabs, with many examples of the worst type of driver that the vehicles are occasionally notorious for. I’ve heard the railing against immigrants, the barely disguised racism and the political views that make Thatcher look like the very model of liberal democracy.
But in the US you [...]
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