Mr Blobby was a character on Noel Edmonds' Saturday night variety television show Noel's House Party, portrayed by Barry Killerby. A bulbous pink figure covered with yellow spots, he sported a permanent toothy grin and jiggling eyes, and communicated only by saying the word "blobby" in an electronically altered voice, expressing his moods through tone of voice and repetition.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I don't think Mr. Blobby came to America
You Brits seem a little lacking on your end of the cultural exchange but maybe that's just because American media people have a drive to take over the world
Mr Blobby was a character on Noel Edmonds' Saturday night variety television show Noel's House Party, portrayed by Barry Killerby. A bulbous pink figure covered with yellow spots, he sported a permanent toothy grin and jiggling eyes, and communicated only by saying the word "blobby" in an electronically altered voice, expressing his moods through tone of voice and repetition.
i remember a lot of merchandise pertaining to the Teletubbies, and a minor moral panic over the purple one's purse, and a talking doll of the red one that allegedly said 'faggot'.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So while stopped at a red light earlier, I glanced around and saw a gas station whose sign proudly said "PIE" instead of a gas price.
It took me a moment to realize that I was seeing "319" (as in $3.19) reflected in my rear-view mirror.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also I find it interesting that despite growing up in the same time period (there's only a few months age difference, IIRC), Bobby and I grew up in very different cultures.
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That sounds so Captain Obvious now that I've typed it out. *shrug*
Also I find it interesting that despite growing up in the same time period (there's only a few months age difference, IIRC), Bobby and I grew up in very different cultures.
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That sounds so Captain Obvious now that I've typed it out. *shrug*
i guess it doesn't automatically follow. We're both in Anglophone cultures and i did watch a lot of US media as a kid.
i'm curious. What in particular struck you as different?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Mainly just the fact that we grew up with different "staples" of children's television. I guess it's not that drastic a difference, but...you know, I still get that autistic thing where it kinda blows my mind to think about how points of view other than my own exist.
"Locked into a crimethink gulag, their every thought, step and action are controlled by the nigh-omniscient surveillance loudspeakers which tell them everything they must do — such as watch "educational" propaganda films, exercise in the yard, or eat the disgusting rations of nutritional paste — that is, "Tubby Custard" — or waferlike "Tubby Toast." Any attempt to hide from the surveillance causes an immediate alert — "Where have all the Teletubbies gone?" Is it any wonder the prisoners have covered all of this by replacing it in their minds with a sunny, bucolic landscape of bright cheerful colors, even unto the all-seeing infant "sun"?"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Cul de Sac is neither French nor English, but somewhere in between, with speakers of one language trying to sound like speakers of the other.
According to Tolkien, it is Frenchified Nonsense, and according to Orwell, it is pretentious and ugly.
The same applies to Status Quo, and other such foreign stuff that is supposed to be used in English.
English words with Germanic, Scandinavian, Wels, Anglo-Saxon, or otherwise non-Latin, non-French, non-Greek roots and origin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> English words with a Latin, French, or greek route.
Use eam instead of uncle Use leod instead of people. Use wlitig instead of beautiful. Use stow instead of place. Use firen instead of crime. Use raign instead of question.
The following are ideas that the leod at Antimoon Forums have come up with.
A company town, where everybody works for the company, where people buy and sell using company scrip and nothing else, and are mandated to own a gun by the age of 13.
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But still, Mr. Blobby. He was like everywhere when i was a kid.
i remember a lot of merchandise pertaining to the Teletubbies, and a minor moral panic over the purple one's purse, and a talking doll of the red one that allegedly said 'faggot'.
pie
i'm curious. What in particular struck you as different?
Honestly i was never really into Mr. Blobby, and i think he was aimed at slightly older viewers than i was at the time. He was just everywhere.
The things i remember most about British children's entertainment growing up were the arts and crafts shows. That and 'gunging'.
Seeing it mentioned always throws me for a moment.
According to Tolkien, it is Frenchified Nonsense, and according to Orwell, it is pretentious and ugly.
The same applies to Status Quo, and other such foreign stuff that is supposed to be used in English.
English words with Germanic, Scandinavian, Wels, Anglo-Saxon, or otherwise non-Latin, non-French, non-Greek roots and origin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> English words with a Latin, French, or greek route.
Use eam instead of uncle Use leod instead of people. Use wlitig instead of beautiful. Use stow instead of place. Use firen instead of crime. Use raign instead of question.
The following are ideas that the leod at Antimoon Forums have come up with.
Tenwich = decade.
rainshade = umbrella
selfstanding = independet
songcraft = poetry
speechlore = linguistics
Yeartide = season, anniversary
i wonder how 'wlitig' is pronounced.
so yeah