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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2007 18:55:50 GMT -4
I like your avatar, Yossarian. Bring him home.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2007 20:18:42 GMT -4
Hi y'all, dumb American here. The Sundance Channel is now showing "Kath and Kim" and I just don't know what to think. Some of the humor I get, I think. The family's supposed to be a satire of lower-class folks who've jumped up economically to middle-class suburbia, but are still kind of tacky, right? But what's with the two ladies who work at the housewares store in the mall? Why are their accents so strange? Do I have to be Australian to get all the jokes?
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Post by Yossarian on Jan 9, 2007 20:31:12 GMT -4
There is a particular type of woman in Australia who, stereotypically, marries well, gets bored in middle-age and needs a *hobby* and so works in a cool store, cafe etc and somewhere along the line develops this hybrid Aussie-British accent. Elle Macpherson also speaks like that. It's actually quite an accurate portrayal of the harridans who inhabit Mosman and Toorak (expensive suburbs).
A lot of the jokes are ultra Australian - the names, the Barina (the car), the food talk - but I think the tackiness of them can transcend borders! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2007 20:39:46 GMT -4
Ah, that explains the flash-forward where they're reduced to washing car windshields at intersections because their husbands have left them for younger women!
As for the tackiness, yes, that transcends all national borders!
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Post by Yossarian on Jan 9, 2007 22:23:01 GMT -4
David Gulpilil has been found not guilty of carrying an offensive weapon over the machete incident in Darwin last year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2007 1:22:40 GMT -4
Well if you can't carry a machete in Darwin, where can you carry one?
Seriously, I grew up in Darwin, that place is like the Wild West.
ETA: fernbeau, you're right about Kath and Kim being lower class who have jumped to middle class. Because (up until recently) housing was so affordable in suburbia it was possible for anyone to buy a relatively large house. The ready availability of credit creates a large group of people who may have the trappings of wealth/economic success, without the actual financial security. I assume this is the same in the US. Not to sound like a snob, but I currently live in a city full of Kaths and Kims- there's a lot of money in the area, and a lot of people pretending to have money, but not much class.
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Post by elmo8 on Jan 10, 2007 7:32:52 GMT -4
I'm certainly not defending Lara Bingle and especially not what she did but shouldn't Mrs Fevola be directly some blame towards her own husband and father of her children about his part in the affair?
It's very easy to go to the media and bitch about the 'other woman' but surely a 25 year old husband with 2 children should not be having an affair with a 19 year old. He's the one with responsibilities and also older than Lara.
I thin kLara deserves all the abuse if she did ave an affair with him but Mrs Fevola might want to save some of the name calling for her own husband as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2007 9:16:53 GMT -4
I thin kLara deserves all the abuse if she did ave an affair with him but Mrs Fevola might want to save some of the name calling for her own husband as well. I guess because she has access to Mr F, she's probably told him off plenty - I mean they've split and it seems she's not taking him back. Lara, however, is probably less accessible so mouthing off to the press may be her only outlet to vent her anger at La Bingle. What was the phone message??
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2007 10:00:10 GMT -4
Fernbeau, do you get Bravo? Because if you do, think of Kath and Kim as sort of the Aussie, non-reality version of The Real Housewives of Orange County. I only watched that show once (I swear!), but I didn't get any of it and had to get one of my Yankee mates to explain it to me. Kath and Kim, as Yossarian so eloquently explained, is basically a satirical take on Australian women who marry wealthy guys and spend the rest of their lives trying to fake that they are old money types. Unfortunately, quite a few of the jokes will be lost in translation, though. Oh, and don't call yourself dumb! We don't think you Yanks are dumb...what do you think we are, Brits? **ducking**
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Post by marywebgirl on Jan 10, 2007 11:49:22 GMT -4
If we do end up moving to Australia I will be so lost with celebrity gossip and sports. It's like you're speaking a different language!
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