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Why are Python fans so arrogant?

posted 13 years ago by SpaceGhost93
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I love MP, but my god, the fans on here kind of suck. If someone doesn't like a Python movie, the first response from the fans is "you're not smart enough for British humor, (usually spelt humour to seem more intelligent) go watch the Hangover/Pineapple Express/Super Bad/Family Guy like most stupid Americans". Why do you have to put it that way? Maybe some people don't like this type of humor; it doesn't make them inferior or unintelligent. Would you call someone stupid for preferring pizza over duck l'orange? Well, some of you on here probably would, but everyone's mind works differently and responds to things in different ways. You can't flame someone because they don't like something you do. I honestly think a lot of the users on here posting that they didn't like the movie are just curious as to why they didn't like it, and if they might be misinterpreting the movie itself. But not all British humor is great. Go watch Jeremy Clarkson do his bits on The Stig if you need proof (Some say it's impossible for him to wear socks. And he can open a beer bottle with his testes. All we know is he's called the Stig.) And by the way, just because you watch BBC America doesn't make you a better person than those that watch NBC/CBS/ABC etc..

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[–] Herzeleiduk 11 years ago

Why are Python fans so arrogant?

I don't know, maybe it's because we are smarter and just generally better than everyone else.

[–] Lester_Burnham_Risen 10 years ago

If someone doesn't like a Python movie, the first response from the fans is "you're not smart enough for British humor, (usually spelt humour to seem more intelligent)

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so why BE here in first place as there is no way in the world that J Doe could understand satire

and as for how ENGLISH is SPELT remember you guys spelt aluminium as aluminum and to save embarrassment simply pronked it into the Umurikin "language"

see below for pronking - WARNING it IS satire

http://ottosnotebook.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/about-pronking.html

[–] residentevil6901 10 years ago

There are arrogant fans for every movie and everything else in life lol I run into them all over the place for all sorts of random things. Lots of idiots in the world especially online

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[–] sam-bishop-1 10 years ago

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.

[–] monsterkil 10 years ago

Arrogance is the word that we use to describe people we cannot understand.

[–] drystyx 10 years ago

What that mean, you arrogant English type?

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time

[–] saragooner-86-130769 10 years ago

Um...just 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.

[–] tseybert 9 years ago

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.

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."

Janet! Donkeys!

[–] moonglum9 8 years ago

Well I speel it "hughmer" cuz I'm smartist of all.

[–] tseybert 9 years ago

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.

Janet! Donkeys!