Spinning Bin Laden - Absolute Power - BBC comedy Videos

adi87tya Says:

Jun 13, 2010 - @Woody263 Lol you are probably wrong my friend -- you see language, like people, evolves and diverges....the first English immigrants to land in America spoke exactly the same way as their counterparts in Britain: the languages evolved differently in isolation...in America, it probably got mixed up a lot with Irish, Scottish and German accents.

amet1980 Says:

Jun 14, 2010 - @xIdaMx ..maybe if there were more farts included..?

rabbitwho Says:

Jun 22, 2010 - Niagarationally! That's my favourite adverb for vomiting now.

rabbitwho Says:

Jun 22, 2010 - @Woody263 That is so unbelievable ignorant. The English in England and America split quite some time ago, with the English retaining some of the old ways of saying things but making up some new things and the Americans doing the same. For example the English randomly started saying "I have GOT an STD" while the Americans would say "I have the cure!" Without the got. The got is new. Language evolves. Americans also have the older way of spelling, but the loss of "present perfect" is new.

jazcash Says:

Jul 2, 2010 - @Christine27272 Nobody cares.

Gorteenminogue Says:

Jul 26, 2010 - Oh, excellent!

TheNishido Says:

Aug 10, 2010 - @rabbitwho Americans also have the older way of spelling, you say? So your saying 'color' pre-dates 'colour', and that Webster didn't create a new way of spelling some of the words in order to justify calling it an "american language"?

rabbitwho Says:

Aug 11, 2010 - @TheNishido Of course not, why don't you look up a dictionary of etymology instead of believing urban legends.

TheNishido Says:

Aug 12, 2010 - @rabbitwho Oh right right... so changing many words ending with -re to -er is older? Ok, I see. The fact is, spelling changes over time no matter where you are. Trying to say that America retains "the older way of spelling" is just... false.

rabbitwho Says:

Aug 12, 2010 - @TheNishido It's not false. It's a fact. You're just making things up as you go along, Why don't you try a bit of research? When the English went to America they were spelling "color" and hundreds of other words the way they are still spelled in America now. We've had standardized spelling since the 17th century, conscious derisions were made about spelling, and since then spelling only changes when someone decides to change it. (Except for thing like hyphens and diacritics from loan words.)

TheNishido Says:

Aug 12, 2010 - @rabbitwho But what you said is that America has the "older way of spelling" which just simply isn't true. Some things didn't change where they did here, but likewise other words were changed while here in Britain they remained as they were hundreds of years ago. Example: Centre. Also, in the 17th Century the words 'colour' and 'color' were both commonly used in America. It wasn't until webster published his dictionary that it started to become standardised.

trident3b Says:

Aug 17, 2010 - @rabbitwho I think you might be right. The British also used to say and spell aluminum the way the amercans do, but for some reason - something to do with chemistry - it was the Brits who changed it to aluminium... and the Americans kept it the way it was.

NAEIRNBRUFORU Says:

Aug 18, 2010 - Why is there a add on this???? The BBC should have no adds.

rabbitwho Says:

Aug 19, 2010 - @trident3b My chemistry teacher said, and I don't know if this is true, but he said that when the element was discovered a transmission was sent across the Atlantic to announce it and somehow it was misspelled or lost an I on the way. Wikipedia said a book reviewer who had nothing to do with its discovery decided to rename it "aluminium" because "it sounded better". Reading that makes me think I'll start calling it aluminum regardless of where I am.

fulfillingdreamsx3 Says:

Aug 19, 2010 - I am an american and I do enjoy british comedies so very much, always have. I think those who speak ill of americans tend to sell us very short. A person can enjoy and recognize a good thing no matter where they come from. Let us leave nationality out of the discussion people. Let us respect one another, thank you!

savethesnail Says:

Aug 22, 2010 - "he's got something about him""semtex probably" :D

MagicBoterham Says:

Aug 22, 2010 - I say, this video is too highbrow for my taste. I shall return to my inquiry of delightful moving pictures of a more boorish nature, tata.

radiodarkhorse Says:

Aug 24, 2010 - @fulfillingdreamsx3 Well said (from an Englishman)

h3ll0gudbye Says:

Aug 28, 2010 - @NAEIRNBRUFORU there's random ads on all videos...they come and go. Just push F5...or F7 to skip the ad next time.

Digdigs2 Says:

Aug 28, 2010 - @rabbitwho the conscious decisions re spelling were generated specifically in an attempt to distinguish american English from its ancestor. I guess in much the same jingoistic manner as the attempted re-naming of 'french fries' to 'freedom fries'... Ah the colonies - so full of desperation to distinguish...

rabbitwho Says:

Aug 28, 2010 - @Digdigs2 That's not true. I wonder if1. you made it up to torment me. 2. Someone told you it and you were stupid enough to believe itor 3. you're suffering from some kind of disorder that means you can't tell reality from your own imagination.

Digdigs2 Says:

Aug 31, 2010 - @rabbitwho Webster, speaking about his dictionaries said: "In the choice of pieces,..I have not been inattentive to the political interests of America. Several of those masterly addresses of Congress, written at the commencement of the late Revolution, contain such noble, just, and independent sentiments of liberty and patriotism, that I cannot help wishing to transfuse them into the breasts of the rising generation."

Digdigs2 Says:

Aug 31, 2010 - @rabbitwho He saw an understanding of where language came from, ie Latin and French etymologies as elitist and not for the masses, as was proper grammar and the spelling of English by the English.

Digdigs2 Says:

Aug 31, 2010 - @rabbitwho ... however alumina - aluminum, seems more logical, doesn't it...

rabbitwho Says:

Aug 31, 2010 - @Christine27272 the next joke will be about cancer. If you can't laugh at tragedy then you can't really laugh at anything.