If someone doesn't like a Python movie, the first response from the fans is "you're not smart enough for British humor,
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sam-bishop-1 — 12 years ago(November 25, 2013 01:38 PM)
for the most part non-british people that dont find it as funny is because python is very culture specific.. on another note.. spelling humour like that or like humor is only stating your likely geographical location. humour is the english spelling humor is the US English spelling it has nothing to do with sounding more intelligent.
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saragooner-86-130769 — 11 years ago(August 21, 2014 09:39 AM)
Umjust one thing. People don't spell it "humour" to seem more intelligent. They spell it like that because that's the way they spell it. That's how Brits spell it. That's how Australians spell it. Nothing to do with wanting to seem intelligent.
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tseybert — 11 years ago(January 30, 2015 11:54 AM)
A few words on spelling
Until the end of the 1700s, there was no standard spelling for the English language. You could spell any word most any way you wanted to. This is why, just for an example, "queen" is spelled three different ways in a single sentence in the earliest printed editions of Thomas Malory's
Le Morte D'Arthur
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Then Samuel Johnson published his famous dictionary in the 1750s, and it became the go-to source for spelling. For British English. Spellings like "humour" and "colour" became popular and standard because of Johnson's dictionary.
Which brings us to Noah Webster. When he was working on his American dictionary in the early years of the 1800s, he purposefully wanted to distinguish between American and British English because the Revolution and the War of 1812 were still somewhat recent events. So he purposefully chose spellings like "humor" and "color." Webster's first dictionary was published in 1828 as "An American Dictionary of the English Language."
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tseybert — 11 years ago(January 30, 2015 12:11 PM)
I don't really think it's arrogance.
Look at the facts: People who don't like Monty Python come to the message boards at IMDB with a thread bravely announcing that they don't think Monty Python is that funny. And - BIG SURPRISE!! - Monty Python fans, and there are probably quite a few looking at the Monty Python message boards, respond by disagreeing with the Python-hater.
Some of them are a bit rude, but none of them are spelling "humour" with two u's just because they want to seem intelligent - that's the standard spelling in much of the English-speaking world.
It's not that hard to find fans that are a lot worse than the Monty Python fans. Just try leaving a discouraging word on any thread related to Christopher Nolan and his so-called films. And the members of the Nolan cult are adamant about haunting threads related to other popular filmmakers so they can disparage and bully and harass the dissenters.
Monty Python fans can't even begin to compete with the fans of Dear Leader.
The moral is: When you go to somebody else's sandbox and leave a poo, nobody's going to be sympathetic with your whingeing when you get called out for it.
You daft wankers.
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Kruleworld — 10 years ago(February 26, 2016 02:39 PM)
You're not smart enough for British humour.
don't be silly. humour is not based on intelligence. it's an emotion.
A lot of British humour tends to be more word based, which results in a lot of their comedies end up being rather verbose. It means you sometimes will need to pay attention to what is being said and have a long attention span.
"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok"