Caricatures
Aug 23rd 2010, 2:08 pm
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Caricatures
Was trying to explain to a friend back in UK the typical expats you meet out here, using sitcom / comedy film characters as examples. But I sorta dried up, couldn't get much beyond the waiters in Lebanese restaurants looking like the spiv in Dad's Army, and the been-here-far-too-long-and-unemployable-anywhere-else-50+-construction-project-managers resembling the fat bloke who exploded in The Meaning of Life.
Got any other examples?
Got any other examples?
Aug 23rd 2010, 2:16 pm
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Re: Caricatures
Was trying to explain to a friend back in UK the typical expats you meet out here, using sitcom / comedy film characters as examples. But I sorta dried up, couldn't get much beyond the waiters in Lebanese restaurants looking like the spiv in Dad's Army, and the been-here-far-too-long-and-unemployable-anywhere-else-50+-construction-project-managers resembling the fat bloke who exploded in The Meaning of Life.
Got any other examples?
Got any other examples?
...but I haven't seen any of them.
Aug 23rd 2010, 2:34 pm
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Re: Caricatures
Was trying to explain to a friend back in UK the typical expats you meet out here, using sitcom / comedy film characters as examples. But I sorta dried up, couldn't get much beyond the waiters in Lebanese restaurants looking like the spiv in Dad's Army, and the been-here-far-too-long-and-unemployable-anywhere-else-50+-construction-project-managers resembling the fat bloke who exploded in The Meaning of Life.
Got any other examples?
Got any other examples?
Aug 23rd 2010, 2:58 pm
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Aug 23rd 2010, 3:19 pm
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Re: Caricatures
anyone draws attention to themselves by pushing their way to the front, so they are effectively putting themselves in the line of fire. if you don't make a fuss, you don't get noticed. it is as simple as that.
Aug 23rd 2010, 3:21 pm
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Re: Caricatures
My comment had nothing to do with queuing and Homer Simpson knows that...
Aug 23rd 2010, 3:31 pm
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Re: Caricatures
types aspiring after those two on absolutely fabulous?
darling this...darling that
darling this...darling that
Aug 23rd 2010, 3:47 pm
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Aug 23rd 2010, 5:22 pm
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Re: Caricatures
We have all these caricatures in the UK....
Fat, overpaid blokes in pubs? check.
Ruddy red-faced rugby players? Check.
Dahling 'mwah mwah' ladies? Check.
Fat, overpaid blokes in pubs? check.
Ruddy red-faced rugby players? Check.
Dahling 'mwah mwah' ladies? Check.
Aug 23rd 2010, 6:06 pm
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Re: Caricatures
Expat managers a bit like ole bomber out of auf vedersen pet!
appartment landlords acting like Rigsby, in Rising damp
Motorcycle, Police doing a palastinion version of Chips
appartment landlords acting like Rigsby, in Rising damp
Motorcycle, Police doing a palastinion version of Chips
Aug 23rd 2010, 7:37 pm
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Re: Caricatures
..and nobel laureates - Literature I guess.
Aug 23rd 2010, 9:52 pm
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Re: Caricatures
Does this include fiction? Could this mean Tony Blair for his book? For which he's going to receive the US Liberty Medal/Award? The US equivalent to a Nobel Peace Award?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...l-Clinton.html
Yes, think he meets the criteria for a caricature of, take your pick -
an honest person
a hypocrite
an honest politician
a hypocrite
a megalomaniac
a hypocrite
champagne socialist
a hypocrite
Where's Gerald Scarfe when you need him?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...l-Clinton.html
Yes, think he meets the criteria for a caricature of, take your pick -
an honest person
a hypocrite
an honest politician
a hypocrite
a megalomaniac
a hypocrite
champagne socialist
a hypocrite
Where's Gerald Scarfe when you need him?
Aug 24th 2010, 4:25 am
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Re: Caricatures
To be fair, I've never heard of the US Liberty Medal and I'm half American and lived in the US for a long stretch. It's a long stretch to call it the US equivalent of a Nobel Peace Award.
The congressional medal of honor and presidential medal of honor are the only American awards that are noteworthy, other than the specialist awards like the oscars or the pulitzer.
The congressional medal of honor and presidential medal of honor are the only American awards that are noteworthy, other than the specialist awards like the oscars or the pulitzer.
Does this include fiction? Could this mean Tony Blair for his book? For which he's going to receive the US Liberty Medal/Award? The US equivalent to a Nobel Peace Award?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...l-Clinton.html
Yes, think he meets the criteria for a caricature of, take your pick -
an honest person
a hypocrite
an honest politician
a hypocrite
a megalomaniac
a hypocrite
champagne socialist
a hypocrite
Where's Gerald Scarfe when you need him?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...l-Clinton.html
Yes, think he meets the criteria for a caricature of, take your pick -
an honest person
a hypocrite
an honest politician
a hypocrite
a megalomaniac
a hypocrite
champagne socialist
a hypocrite
Where's Gerald Scarfe when you need him?
Aug 24th 2010, 5:14 am
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Re: Caricatures
well at least the practice of irony is not completely lost - just partially.