I get annoyed when people take pictures in front of mountains they haven't climbed, put books on their bookshelves they don't intend to read, and constantly speak with a British accent because they took two electives in drama.
Oh no, I constantly speak with a British accent! Does that make me bad? It does help me to get parts in the Shakespeare productions I audition for, I think...
Well not only was that little girl not flying, the one who sung "Ode to the Motherland" was not singing. Here's the story on that. To quote the article "it was the latest example of the lengths the image-obsessed China is taking to create a perfect Summer Games."
So she shouldn't get a Grammy.
But if they use lip-synching and computer graphics to make a perfect image for the opening ceremony, it's not much of an issue.
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Well not only was that little girl not flying, the one who sung "Ode to the Motherland" was not singing. Here's the story on that. To quote the article "it was the latest example of the lengths the image-obsessed China is taking to create a perfect Summer Games."So she shouldn't get a Grammy.
But if they use lip-synching and computer graphics to make a perfect image for the opening ceremony, it's not much of an issue.
I think that it's funny that there was such an uproar when Miley Cyrus used a body double to take her place so she could switch costumes, but no one seems to care about the Chinese doing it for the opening ceremonies. To them "that's showbiz."
P.S. I'm guessing that Bill wasn't upset, but a lot of other people were.
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I get annoyed when people take pictures in front of mountains they haven't climbed, put books on their bookshelves they don't intend to read, and constantly speak with a British accent because they took two electives in drama.Oh no, I constantly speak with a British accent! Does that make me bad? It does help me to get parts in the Shakespeare productions I audition for, I think...
Not if you're British. And even still, it wouldn't make you bad, just annoying.
What is a British accent anyway to people not from here anyway? (Apart from what the bad guys speak like in Hollywood movies of course. ;P)
Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, English, Channel Island, Isle of Man? Spoken in which language? Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish, Scotch? Scotch Gaelic?
Hugh Grant? :D (please say no)
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What is a British accent anyway to people not from here anyway? (Apart from what the bad guys speak like in Hollywood movies of course. ;P)
Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, English, Channel Island, Isle of Man? Spoken in which language? Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish, Scotch? Scotch Gaelic?
Hugh Grant? :D (please say no)
I think most Westerners think of a "British" accent as either an Oxford or Cambridge accent - John Cleese if that helps. But agreed, it is pretty ignorant to assume there is only one.
...cockney, etc.
Mockney! ;)
My accent is screwed up, I've lived everywhere. :(
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Just watched Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Hilarious. Especially when Mr. and Mrs. Lee speak English to the interpreter and he doesn't understand them."Psst! Wanna buy some charcoal..."
"Its an arms dealer selling components to weapons of mass destruction...get him!"
I love that movie.
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I'm not prejudiced. All fake varieties annoy me equally whether they are faking RP, estuary, cockney, etc.
"With all these epic battles, how are we going to tell the good guys from the bad guys?"
"Easy. If they're talking with a vaguely British accent, they're the good guys, and if they're talking with a vaguely Spanish accent, then they're the bad guys"- MAD Magazine's Narnia parody