What Do You Think About...

[Lips_Pearls]

The Americanisation of the UK?
I (Mr) found out this morning through HRH @Pearls that the American fast food restaurant Denny's Diners, (who knew!?) is coming to Swansea at some point in the very near future.
Another American Diner for the city.

So what do you think about the Americanisation of our culture, language (English..) and even down to restaurants and food chains?
Is it good for us? Bad for us? Is our own way of life being lost?
Does it grate you when someone says Airplane, or movie.. instead of aeroplane/film etc or types for example traveling not travelling - fantasize not fantasise, or are you okay with all of it?

As always a healthy debate is encouraged without flaming. x

 

[Pearls]

Fancy taking me

 

[Vanezza]

The Americanisation of the UK?
I (Mr) found out this morning through HRH @Pearls that the American fast food restaurant Denny's Diners, (who knew!?) is coming to Swansea at some point in the very near future.
Another American Diner for the city.

So what do you think about the Americanisation of our culture, language (English..) and even down to restaurants and food chains?
Is it good for us? Bad for us? Is our own way of life being lost?
Does it grate you when someone says Airplane, or movie.. instead of aeroplane/film etc or types for example traveling not travelling - fantasize not fantasise, or are you okay with all of it?

As always a healthy debate is encouraged without flaming. x

The Americanisation of English spelling is almost inevitable as people don't realise they are using American dictionaries on their devices so we have an abundance of Zee's where only the rare Zed was there before. Yes it bloody annoys me but it will happen as language evolves to fit the place it's used most and now of course that's online and in text in all its forms.
American companies buying all the land they can is how they work too so basically only local planning can stop that.... Damn grim outlook for the English language really.
Pull up a triple cheeseburger with bacon and enjoy the fuming ride

N xxx

 

[Lovernotfighter]

Taco bells and Krusty kreme donuts are also popping up all over Yorkshire (both of which are disgusting by the way).

I tend to dislike Americanisation because it tends to be brash, commercial, and let's face it a let's face it a bit shit. That before you get to the weird American culture of acting all open about sex while being deeply conservative about it. Ohhhhhhh it's pronounced Jam by Jelly, Jelly is a totally different thing.

 

[Deleted member 6485]

Mac n cheese?
Its macaroni cheese!!x

 

[DiamondJoe]

Fuckin' shit

 

[DiamondJoe]

Fuckin' shit

* McFuckin' Shit

 

[DiamondJoe]

It's not the American's fault, per se, it owes more to globalisation and a creeping homogenisation of culture. You can go to Singapore, Melbourne, Canary Wharf, Dublin or Boston and aside from the weather or a few other cues the architecture, dress, food, language, dominant mode of civilisation is identical

 

[Lovernotfighter]

It's not the American's fault, per se, it owes more to globalisation and a creeping homogenisation of culture. You can go to Singapore, Melbourne, Canary Wharf, Dublin or Boston and aside from the weather or a few other cues the architecture, dress, food, language, dominant mode of civilisation is identical

This is sadly true, though I blame town planners willing to bend over backwards for big multinationals as much as anything else.

 

[Vanezza]

It's not the American's fault, per se, it owes more to globalisation and a creeping homogenisation of culture. You can go to Singapore, Melbourne, Canary Wharf, Dublin or Boston and aside from the weather or a few other cues the architecture, dress, food, language, dominant mode of civilisation is indistinguishable

Is that a good thing?
It means that us tribal people (yes all of us) lose our sense of belonging to somewhere unique if the place we travel to is the same as the place we grew up in and also loses some of what makes us all different. I love the differences between all of us and our different cultures so to have a homogenised lump is distasteful at best, dangerous at worst.

N xxx

 

[Vanezza]

One word Cadbury another word kraft = the worlds best chocolate gone to shit it tastes nothing like the original and yet they claim its not changed, yeah right sorry but that is a lie and was proven a lie and they still defend it. It was my favourite choc bar not now.

Vxxx

 

[DiamondJoe]

Is that a good thing?
It means that us tribal people (yes all of us) lose our sense of belonging to somewhere unique if the place we travel to is the same as the place we grew up in and also loses some of what makes us all different. I love the differences between all of us and our different cultures so to have a homogenised lump is distasteful at best, dangerous at worst.

N xxx

No, it's a very bad thing

 

[Miss-Sexy-Legs]

I'm lucky our nearest crapdonalds is 30 miles away , we dont have a starbucks but did last year get a costa ,

 

[Baldrick]

I'm lucky our nearest crapdonalds is 30 miles away , we dont have a starbucks but did last year get a costa ,

Kaz I sense a gap in the market in Whitby. Fancy starting a francise

B x

 

[MP386]

An Arse is an Arse and not an Ass that’s a Donkey...

 

[Baldrick]

Meh it is what it is. The world is a smaller place now thanks to phones, satellite TV and the internet. We have all the American channels promoting American phrases and language which to be fair is an improvement on the five channels we had (anybody remember a naked Keith Chegwin on Channel 5's premiere broadcast?).
American fast food joints are...... well...... fast.
Their service culture means that everybody wants to help you in an American store e.g
TGI Fridays = "Hey there. Good afternoon. what can I do for you?"
Greasy Spoon in Yorkshire = "Fuck do you want?"

Yeah they're a bit bonkers with their stoopid Gun Laws and their "Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry" chanting.

In retrospect if we'd just lowered their taxes to begin with, all them years ago, they'd still be British and we could all benefit from cheap oil prices :hmm:

B x

 

[Vanezza]

Drama queen @Baldricknkaz


Vxxx

 

[Deleted member 3411]

Hmmm. Liking other cultures is in itself ok, but I do cringe when I see couples who dress up in country n western style, listen to endless country music, drive a yank car, and of course adorn their home with all that USA clutter and without fail a Texas flag. Ask yourself, have you ever seen an American who dresses like a pearly king or queen, listens to nothing but skiffle music, the house has cross of st George flags and London nic-nacks and a Austin Princess outside.....
It's like... we are expected to embrace anything other than being British...

 

[Lips_Pearls]

Hmmm. Liking other cultures is in itself ok, but I do cringe when I see couples who dress up in country n western style, listen to endless country music, drive a yank car, and of course adorn their home with all that USA clutter and without fail a Texas flag. Ask yourself, have you ever seen an American who dresses like a pearly king or queen, listens to nothing but skiffle music, the house has cross of st George flags and London nic-nacks and a Austin Princess outside.....
It's like... we are expected to embrace anything other than being British...

Absolutely! I specifically agree with the latter sentence.
I'm getting extremely irked by the whole - stuffing Thanksgiving and Black Friday down our throats everywhere we go right now to be frank.

 

[DiamondJoe]

Absolutely! I specifically agree with the latter sentence.
I'm getting extremely irked by the whole - stuffing Thanksgiving and Black Friday down our throats everywhere we go right now to be frank.

You missed Halloween - but the common factor is that they're commercial festivals - ie, you're expected to buy stuff/spend money to participate. Not that you have to but that is the corporate slight-of-hand of taking culture and tradition, standardising it and flogging it for every penny. Or cent.

 

[Lips_Pearls]

You missed Halloween - but the common factor is that they're commercial festivals - ie, you're expected to buy stuff/spend money to participate. Not that you have to but that is the corporate slight-of-hand of taking culture and tradition, standardising it and flogging it for every penny. Or cent.

Agreed, I did rant about Halloween somewhere. It's the commercialisation of ALL of it that royally pissed me off... As you say, the fact we're expected to spend as much as we can stretch to, even get into debt for, just to become the "norm".
Really, really annoys me.

 

[Deleted member 3411]

No one was interested in Halloween here.....until they suddenly saw an angle on getting free stuff...

 

[DiamondJoe]

No one was interested in Halloween here.....until they suddenly saw an angle on getting free stuff...

No, it's the genius of marketing - create a fun kiddie festival that requires the buying of costumes, sweeties and pumpkins as standard.

I mean, what use do you have for a pumpkin at any other time of the year? They taste vile!

 

[Lips_Pearls]

Thing is, Halloween is of course a traditional thing that we took over... but then was commercialised the hell out of and now is botched. I get it for the kiddies - they're the innocent ones, but it's as if we have to do it and year after year it gets bigger.. Surely, we're slowly starting to very much so lose ourselves here?

 

[Deleted member 6485]

what use do you have for a pumpkin

Seeds came in handy to feed the hamster