meghan anderson

<<<<What I meant by "crummy" is more the production
value. Cheap sets are fine with them. Americans have
to have everything look like solid
perfection, new furniture, beautiful models to show
toasters, etc. Some of the game shows in
England are gloriously cheap and tacky. And seeing
what's typically on there, I get the TV-based humor
better.>>>>

I get it now. I know what you mean and that's one of
the things I love about British TV, not everyone is a
'beautiful person'. There are all shapes and sizes on
Brit TV! And I know what you mean about the tacky
sets, LOL! The thing about the sets is that they are
actually very realistic (the house ones anyway). I've
been in a lot of British houses and a lot of them
really are like that (where are the taste police -
what IS it about the clashing carpet and wallpaper
thing?)!

<<<<I was ashamed at the American shows they were
happily watching. Not ashamed of the Simpsons or
South Park. But ashamed that Brits had Jerry Springer
(which I've never even seen except a moment in
passing). An episode Little House on the Prairie
was on some afternoon on a weekend, I think. And they
were getting Frasier, I'm guessing in part because
there's an English character.

Sandra>>>>

There are a lot of American shows over there (of all
kinds). Friends was huge! Ally McBeal was popular and
so was Sex In The City, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks
(remember that one), and X Files, among others. The
other good thing about Brit TV is that it's not as
prudish on the sex front as US TV (they even put on a
slightly edited Emanuelle after 10pm). They also have
far more shows that include homosexuality and other
cultures in everyday lifestyles. It surprises me
sometimes how much more openminded the Brits are (in
general) compared to a lot of Americans.

Meghan

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In a message dated 12/29/01 1:11:39 AM, moonmeghan@... writes:

<< It surprises me
sometimes how much more openminded the Brits are (in
general) compared to a lot of Americans. >>

It surprises me not.

Secular unschoolers are expected to cater to and take care not to offend
fundamentalist Christians and so is the rest of the country, every senator,
bookstores, atheists, etc. TV shows sometimes seem the bravest, and book and
magazine publishers. But they lose sponsors when Christians campaign.

This month (2001) there is/was a Harry Potter book burning (and other stuff,
I don't know what all) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. That's not even Bible belt.

England has fewer fundamentalist Christians thanks to having a (liberal, but
still) state religion.

Sandra

Cindy

SandraDodd@... wrote:
>
> England has fewer fundamentalist Christians thanks to having a (liberal, but
> still) state religion.
>

And if there is a genetic component to it, they exported a lot of them
to us in the colonial period. My husband's family arrived here in the
1620s - to Mass. We figure they immigrated for religious reasons.

As one Sydney newspaper wrote during the Clinton scandal, "We're glad
we got the convicts and they got the Puritans."

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Cindy Ferguson
crma@...

Shyrley

SandraDodd@... wrote:

>
> In a message dated 12/29/01 1:11:39 AM, moonmeghan@... writes:
>
> << It surprises me
> sometimes how much more openminded the Brits are (in
> general) compared to a lot of Americans. >>
>
> It surprises me not.
>
> Secular unschoolers are expected to cater to and take care not to
> offend
> fundamentalist Christians and so is the rest of the country, every
> senator,
> bookstores, atheists, etc. TV shows sometimes seem the bravest, and
> book and
> magazine publishers. But they lose sponsors when Christians campaign.
>
> This month (2001) there is/was a Harry Potter book burning (and other
> stuff,
> I don't know what all) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. That's not even
> Bible belt.
>
> England has fewer fundamentalist Christians thanks to having a
> (liberal, but
> still) state religion.
>
> Sandra

It's a growing movement though but I've yet to meet a christian Home
educator.

Shyrley


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In a message dated 12/29/01 9:37:39 AM, crma@... writes:

<< And if there is a genetic component to it, they exported a lot of them
to us in the colonial period. My husband's family arrived here in the
1620s - to Mass. We figure they immigrated for religious reasons.
>>

So we got the dissatisfied and the uptight?
The yearning yet not-too-bright?

I think I do see that passed down in the genetics.

Sandra

Nancy Wooton

on 12/29/01 2:57 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> << And if there is a genetic component to it, they exported a lot of them
> to us in the colonial period. My husband's family arrived here in the
> 1620s - to Mass. We figure they immigrated for religious reasons.
>>>
>
> So we got the dissatisfied and the uptight?
> The yearning yet not-too-bright?
>
> I think I do see that passed down in the genetics.

Here we go again...

<g>
Nancy