batou wrote:
I thought that was
elephant running around the floor in cool all-stars

I can't take part in your poll, RA, because there aren't enough options. It's rigged . I'm a mature, unbitter eye-roller.

I am a mature, semi-bitter eye-roller. I have a newly teen daughter who does nothing but roll her eyes at everything I do and say from morning till night and I don't see why I shouldn't pass that on to everyone else.

(Oh, and have a tongue-stick-out for good measure: )

And one of these too...

And one of these and these

i-baster wrote:
Anything would be superior to something that has Ricky Gervais in it. He's not funny.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/guystagg/1...as-he-finds-himself/

The guy sucks.

British humour would be stuff like red dwarf, blackadder, the detectives (or just jasper carrot on his own).

andyh wrote:
I think it is very difficult to pin down British humour. Red Dwarf up to season V was really great but I think it deteroriated. The guys making Blackadder after Goes Forth made the right decision to finish on a high.

I have to say I thought the Office was brilliant satire as was Extras. But then he was writing with Stephen Merchant. They were also helped enourmously by the great skills of actors like Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook and Ashley Jensen. As a person gervais is obnoxious, I agree there. And his Hollywood career has been dismal. Just awful.

I think there are all sorts of British humour.

My fave sitcoms: Blackadder, Red dwarf, Fawlty Tower, Yes Minister, Porridge, The Office, Phoenix Nights, Thick of it.

May fave comedy shows other than sitcoms: The League Of Gentlemen, Dark Mirror, Alexie sayle's Stuff, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Spitting Image, Charlie Brooker's How TV Ruined your Life, QI

Any of those are fine but not the office or ricky gervais, I find it distasteful obnoxious crap.
Even chubby brown is funnier than gervais and thats saying something. He's just not a comedian.
He's like Simon Cowell IMHO, just another plastic face, a modern media creation.

viz.. that magazine

batou wrote:
from my town

cantata wrote:
I knew feather would typically vote on the side of immaturity.

But not you cantata i thought better of you.

.......... wrote:

I've never equated emoticon use with maturity level. I tend to use rather than type 'oh ffs' or as a sarcastic means of showing disbelief with a news story and as an expression of exasperation.

JJ does a classic.

vizier wrote:

cantata wrote:
Ditto that

It rubs off on you

8 votes....fuck

You're lucky anyone took you on at all, being as how it's a senseless poll to start with - not to mention biased in the options available, linking the rolling of the eyes illogically to bitterness.

Should anyone over the age of 30 use a face-palm?

Should anyone over the age of 27 tut?

Should there be maximum & minimum ages to use any kind of facial expression or body language to convey a reaction?

Surely it's better than just calling someone a cunt, except when Sketty does it,, 'cos then it's funny.