JCC Ender Sigh rags on 'Murica

the office uk ends with david brent's rock tour, which is particularly biting satire on office politics

 

don't touch the dying gaul at the capitoline museum, the lady that works there will yell at you

 

The Americans at the Met were in a league of their own. Boorish, crash, unsophisticated, uncultured, uneducated. Stepping over rails for a better photograph. Even worse, taking photos of the pictures and not looking at them. Talking in that uniquely afflicted American way, the one that says the concept of "discretion" or "an inside voice" is utterly foreign. Asking insipid questions. The Rembrandt one is now ahead of the Caesar/divorce/Catholic Church story from Rome in terms of Peak Americana.

 

No - actually, at the end of season two, that's essentially what happens... except it happens on camera. Jim then transfers to another branch and Pam is still engaged to Roy.

I must admit you're spot on here, as Scranton is well-known as the home of American escapist romanticism.

 

Ok but if it's mundane why did American Tim and Dawn have to get together, if not the pathological need for happy resolutions to stories.

 

It's been a while since I've seen the UK series, but doesn't British Pam leave British Roy in the final special, with the implication that's she ending up with with British Jim?

In any case, while they end up together in the US series, this is early on, and they deal with trying to figure out their careers, having a child, buying a house, etc. Getting together is by no means the 'happy ending'.

I am curious how the other Office shows ended in other countries, though.

 

I used to go to museums all the time about 15 years ago, and that wasn't the case then. The Met, Museum of Natural History (NYC), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Peabody Museum, etc. I went on a school trip to Washington DC too, and the group of 13-14 year olds I was with were better behaved than that. Things really have gone downhill here since the advent of social media. That's taken the normal American tendency towards anti-intellectualism & narcissism to new highs (or lows depending on how you look at it). Seems like common decency has all but gone out the window entirely.

Makes me really glad I live out in the middle of nowhere, so I don't have to deal with all the stupid.

 

OK so it's not been a good year for you, America. Your experiment with a republic and all that has finally come crashing down, arguably 200 years too late, with the election of the arch-American himself.

But then we learned things like... you don't have kettles, so you boil your water in saucepans on the stove or MICROWAVE IT LIKE ****ING SAVAGES.

Then that people, actual people, think chocolate milk comes from brown cows was revealed to be a non-joke and actual American moment.

Then Trader Joes "invents" the sausage roll but in typically American fashion, is ignorant of this fact and gives it a stupid name ("Puff dog"? Idiots).

But now? Now it emerges you don't have egg cups. Which means you probably don't do soft boiled eggs and toast soldiers.

How do you take yourselves so seriously (or, in the underdeveloped parlance of your country, "how do you take yourselves so serious") when you just lack the basics like kettles, a young child's grasp of where milk comes from, and no egg cups?

At this point the ocean swallowing the US up would be an act of mercy.

 

*yawn*

 

You are an exception then, on the kettle.

But how do you have no egg cups?

This is not ok. It's almost worse than people being allowed to vote and thinking brown cows gave out chocolate milk.

 

Stop. You're becoming a parody of yourself.

 

I like eggs in a basket, with a cup of black coffee.

 

How do you consume soft boiled eggs?

 

You can't have the rainbow without the rain. Do you know which "philosopher" said that?

 

Moony, presumably; he was always the dour one on that show.

 

http://www.salon.com/2017/07/11/ame...rity-of-republicans-now-think-college-is-bad/

Sup, J-Rod.

 

As I get older, eggs become more repulsive.

 

Why do your lawn mowers have to be powered by petrol. ****s.