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[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Here's one who could. But I didn't quite catch what they all "know how to" do when the cops show up just before the title appears.

You understood why they won't let Carl grow his hair out?

[Happy Monkey]

On another listen, I didn't get:

Name of the neighborhood (probably because it's a proper name, so no context)
What Carl's hair standing on end makes him look like, and the second reason (something loves him?)
Debbie, between "total angel" and "she'll go miles"

[BigV]

Chatswood Estate

because it makes him look like Toyah, second, nits love him.

...total angel, you're to check your change but she'll go miles

And, absent from the end of that intro but present in the regular series after "know how to throw a party" is the shout "Scatter!" but it sounds like "Scaa-ah".

I get the gist, but details like Chatswood or Toyah do make a difference. One word that does appear in the subtitles but I don't have a ready translation for is "owt". I have substituted "anything" in my American mind.

Still, despite CLODFOBBLE'S MASSIVE, JUST MASSIVE SPOILER up there, I intend to (try to) continue to watch it.

As for me, *****SPOILER ALERT*****

I'm not kidding. highlight and be illuminated at your peril!

Well. You know Ian and Kash? How they have a satisfactory love life? Didn't feel good to learn that Ian actually has someone like Kash? I know I felt that way for him. He's a sympathetic character and I want the best for him. That he's gay isn't something I find distasteful. I also don't find it especially titillating, I'm just happy that he's got a love life in the face of a daunting social milieu. Yay Ian.

Now, remember when Frank was faced with seduction by Karen? I didn't like that pairing. I even said, no, he's not gonna do it. I clearly jinxed him because in the very next scene, they're humping away at about 7.5 on the richter scale. Oh, no, shit!

Somewhat later, Kash and Ian are talking and Kash chastises Ian saying "OI! Hands off the married man!"

Freeze frame!

I actually paused the playback when it hit me that these two sexual pairings are practically the same, a married adult man having sex with a middle-teenager. In both cases, all the parties involved are willing, enthusiastically so! But my reaction to each one was **very** different. I was happy for young Ian to be getting some lovin', physically and emotionally. I was disappointed, angered that Frank would be succumbing to his baser instincts by taking advantage of Karen's underage seductions. Where's the adult in the room?!

Now... wait a minute? They're the same thing, adult man, under age partner. One gay, one straight, but I don't think that was the rub. Why did I have such dramatically different reactions?

***** END SPOILER ALERT *****

[monster]

OK it's getting better

I totally understand the need for subtitles, it just makes me laugh.
in the 1980s there was a series called Auf weidersehen, Pet. Full of Geordies. I left my cosy Dormitary suburb near Manchester for a year and went off to live near there. Came back a year later -when the series started, with the accent. was the only one who could understand it! Once a week translation services were requested.....

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by BigV

Still, despite CLODFOBBLE'S MASSIVE, JUST MASSIVE SPOILER up there, I intend to (try to) continue to watch it.

Hey whoa hey! That was Dana, not me, sir. I'm only like 4 episodes in, no spoilers from me.


And in response to your highlightable bit: it's because one is about love for both parties, while the other is about pure lust for one of the people involved.

[BigV]

You are right. I was wrong. DanaC was responsible for that MASSIVE, JUST MASSIVE SPOILER, not Clodfobble.

I apologize for my mistake.

[DanaC]

I'm soooo sorry!

[BigV]

make it up to me by helping understand "owt".

[Happy Monkey]

If that happened on the American version, I'd stop watching like a flash. I'm a fan of William H. Macy, but his character can't hold up the show on his own.

[DanaC]

owt = 'aught' = anything :P


It's often paired with 'nowt'

What's up?owt or nowt? = what's up? aught or naught?

[Clodfobble]

I think of it as "aught," the opposite of "naught."

[DanaC]

Edited to correct :p You're right it's aught.

[BigV]

thank you. you're forgiven.

[Sundae]

Neither nowt nor summat, as Barbara of Bab's Cabs says.

BTW my colleague was going through word recognition today and marked as incorrect a pupil who said "Are" for "Our". I pointed out to her afterwards that most of the children in our class do this, it's not confusion but accent. You can hear it when they say the Lord's Prayer.

[wolf]

Newer Roku units have subtitling, the older ones don't.