Newky Brown

[HatterDon]

Does Newcastle Brown run this commercial in England? I was wondering because the "No Bollocks" might be a bit close to the edge over there.

Newcastle Brown Ale: "Miners"

[finnster01]

Thats a great ad Mr Hatter. Where did you find it? I've never seen it actually. Surprised the no bollocks survived  even here. Must be because there is absolutely no sniff of a tit anywhere to be seen.

Always find it amazing that it is OK to show 24 different ways to scalp someone in graphic detail on TV here, but the minute the slightest hint of a nipple appears we have a reenactment of the Cuban missile crisis. What is so terribly wrong with showing a bit of Bristol City's on the telly in the US?  :032:

[Rupert]

Thats a great ad Mr Hatter. Where did you find it? I've never seen it actually. Surprised the no bollocks survived  even here. Must be because there is absolutely no sniff of a tit anywhere to be seen.

Always find it amazing that it is OK to show 24 different ways to scalp someone in graphic detail on TV here, but the minute the slightest hint of a nipple appears we have a reenactment of the Cuban missile crisis. What is so terribly wrong with showing a bit of Bristol City's on the telly in the US?  :032:

You have the Bible belt to contend with, don't you?

I remember, as a youngster, I used to love watching "Soap" on Friday nights (after getting home from Scouts), my first indication that Americans really had developed a good sense of humour. It was a pretty irreverant look at the sort of pap churned out by US daytime TV, a series of very unlikely stories involving two families, one rich, the other trailer trash, the mothers were sisters.
It had things like murder, alien abduction, one character thinking he could make himself go invisible (with eveyone else playing along), characters suddenly being revealed as long lost sons/brothers, often two or three of these happening to the same character within a single episode. Much like modern day soaps, in fact.
Anyway, after several years it suddenly went off air. Some of the stories had upset the Bible belt, and pressure was brought to bear on the network to cancel the programme. They buckled.

They probably don't object to people getting scalped because that is native American culture.

The fact that we taught it to the locals (to verify that they really were killing the numbers of Frenchmen that they claimed) is neither here nor there...

[The Rock]

Now that you mention it I have seen this on FSC and I think it's pretty safe to say the majority of the viewers over here have little clue what the word means.

[HatterDon]

It was sort of like the movie: Austin Powers -- The Spy Who Shagged Me. If "Shag" meant over here what it means in England, they probably wouldn't have used that title.

Over here "shag" is either a dance popular in the south 40 years ago, or a baseball term meaning to catch fly balls [an expression which, I concede, could have double entendre possibilities as well].