Comments on: Video post: Cultural differences

By: Mike in NJ

Mike in NJ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:20:37 +0000

So, here’s the thing, ok?

Nice vid. Keep ‘em coming. Hair looks great, nevermind pdub Love to hear about your NYC experiences, your “NE US vs Aussie” observations of wierdness.

By: Phill (@psych4)

Phill (@psych4) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:27:45 +0000

luved the video… Good that I found your phunky self again… (was sad when couldn’t find you on CNET.com.au) Found this blog thanks to @natalidelconte twitter page. Big fan!!

By: Ella

Ella — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:39:25 +0000

Jessie: I find British civility so endearing! I delighted in the heightened social decency that seems to shroud your average London encounter. There’s something so deliciously Jane Austen about using phrases like “I’m terribly sorry” and “Do bear with me for a spell while I extract this bandsaw from the gaping wound in my torso”. Such considerate language denotes respect and a certain reserved approach that’s most alluring.

pdub: So I’m bringing back the bedhead, last seen on Meg Ryan in the late 90s. Okay?

By: pdub

pdub — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:35:01 +0000

P.s. Not so sure I agree with the binge drinking image. it could only be called binge drinking if we stopped in between…

By: pdub

pdub — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:32:04 +0000

Babe,
You just literally made me laugh out loud with the reference to Americans starting everything with SO. One of my very close girl friends does it all the time, plus she ends everything with “ok?”. It always makes me feel as though she needs confirmation that she can continue into the next sentence and I find myself randomly nodding a lot when I talk to her! ha ha ha!

Face it, verbal regurgitational is THE format of the future. I think you may just have dipped your toe into the realms of ghetto fabulousness. Don’t get too scripted cause you are beautiful like this. Just do your hair next time! HA!

Love you and miss you.
Pen
xxx

By: Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:31:50 +0000

Loved the ’so’ thing! I don’t know if you noticed during your time here in the UK, but since watching this I’ve noticed that over here we tend to start every sentence with the word ‘well’/'well, I think…’

‘Well, I don’t suppose you…’

‘Well, I think I’m going to shoot off now’

‘Well, I think I’ll have a cup of tea now’.

Seriously, are we all just thinking about it or are we going to do it?!?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:45:07 +0000

…with regards to the whole drunk-accent-change-thing:

Peter Van Vliet doesn’t drink, but I think if he did, he’d probably sound appropriately foppish!

…something to think about on those hot, restless, New York nights, no?

By: techdribble

techdribble — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:02:54 +0000

I enjoyed this. It made my early Sunday morning and put a smile on my face. I mainly gain awesome singing and dancing skills when I am drunk but speaking clearer in accents isn’t one unless there is a place called Gibberr or Bull . Now listening to Kate Miller-Hiedke’s facebook song and could just imagine you singing this but now I can smell coffee need to track it and take is prisoner.

By: Ella

Ella — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:47:20 +0000

Anonymous: I'm intoxicated by life. There's a difference, I swear. davemeetsworld: Thank you! From now on I'm going to intersperse articles and stories with video posts, for variety is the spice of life. And ginger is a spice! And this is... Sprinkle of Ginger. QED.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:29:11 +0000

I totally enunciate everything and am more coherent when I’m drunk, so you’re not alone there. I guess it’s because I put a lot more thought into what I say in an effort to avoid sounding too drunk/stupid.