British phrases

[steppana]

Now I really AM gobsmacked. I had no idea Britspeak literature would be dumbed down, I mean altered. Imagine reading Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" or Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" without their flair for English narrative! Imagine if Stephen King's novels were anglicized - what would happen to all the product placements, for a start?
Dubbing children's tv programs I can understand.
Talking of dumbing down, I think Teletubbies should have been forbidden by law in the first place, but I grew up with Muffin the Mule, Thomas the Tank Engine, Pugwash the Pirate and the Flowerpot Men. Even the Flowerpot Men had better dialog than the flicking Teletubbies.
"Weeeed! Little weeeed!"