This is depressingly accurate.
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Wow, those were the exact words I thought
As an American, I wanted to read this but I got distracted and then bored because it's just text.
As an American I never learned English. Why would I, when everyone in my country speaks American?
Now stretch it over twenty minutes, with constant repetition of the few known facts, ad "breaks" with a short reminded of what happened beforehand...
It's been a few years and I still wanna throw my phone off the window watching it : The Gift Shop
Remember the show "Connections" from the BBC and they would take some technology like a steam coal shovel and explain how that somehow resulted in a series of cause and affect conditions that made the moon landing possible. It was like an hour of being spoon fed all this fascinating material in depth.
TV content used to be more nutritious for your brain. Then somehow everything became just pure fried sugar devoid of any beneficial or meaningful content. Why does everything end up being reduced to the lowest effort schlock?
That's "cause and effect"
Affect is about appearance: she effected an affect of indifference
Was about to post this: the unedited version at the end being included makes me think this came out of a David Mitchell rant
British character on British TV:
"you alright, man? My mum said you'd been feeling a bit down and could use a talk."
British character on US TV:
"Cor blimey, guvnor! Me mam gave us a right old bollockin' on that you'd bin down in the dumps and could use a jolly ole shot in the arm! Roger roger! Say no more!"
Reality:
"What's up mate?"
"Alright?"
OI OMELUNDAH YOU CUNT!
CUNT'S TAKEN ME BLOODY SON! OL SOUPS MUSS DIE!
British TV has to tone it down because British people get offended and think that the characters are just cartoonish stereotypes. Their US portrayal is more accurate because they don't have to tone it down.
Edit: britoids offended because I told the truth.
Yep, completely right we all talk like that all day and don't notice. That's why we notice it sounds weird when we see people speaking completely normally in US shows.
It's like hearing the sound of your own voice, or watching a movie in a higher frame rate than normal!
I miss when educational TV was actually educational.
Forgot the 5 minute long scene in the British documentary where the animals are shagging each other
Anyone ever see that French? documentary where snails fuck to opera in slowmo? Good shit.
This was also David Attenborough for the BBC. lol
They captured it perfectly
I call fake on the American one. Where’s the advertisement? Where’s the product placement and the political propaganda?
THE MANTIS WON BECAUSE IT HAD THE ELECTROLYTES GRACIOUSLY PROVIDED BY BRAWNO! BRAWNO: IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
They used a big word: "graciously"
They must be the smartest person on the planet! Make them president!!!
Where's the 3dcg render that shows a human being performing the same feats as the Mantis
And every video edit should be a camera pan, accompanied by a"whoosh" sound.