[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Grrr, they've done it again! How can the Yanks get it so wrong EVERY time! They taken a reasonably well crafted UK programme and fucked it up.

Watching 'Kitchen nightmares USA' last night had me reeling, it's completely unwatchable.

Admittedly it's not the highest brow programme over here, but it's well made, and has a darn sight more point to it than 99% of 'reality crap' on currently.

But they taken a very simple concept and made it unwatchable. Why do they think we all have the memory of a goldfish? This takes the current plague of pre/post ad padding and repeats and 'so far on...'s'' to a ridiculous extreme. I know we still have several ad breaks less than the yanks (only just) but they hadn't edited the programme at all, so at one point you got deja vue as they did a 'coming up' segment for something that happened 4 seconds later! Some of the clips were repeated 8-10 times in hour long programme. Add far too much emotional 'talking to camera' by everyone involved except Ramsey, throw in some cringe worthy 'and they all lived happily ever after and were bessy buddies with their new found celebrity friends..' at the end and they have comprehensively fucked it up. There's even a statement that gets flashed on screen for a fraction of a second that probably says it's all faked anyway.

[chicane]

Agree totally also hated how Ramsey used American word's like 'drapes' and 'the dollar shop' even when he was ranting at that idiot restaurant manager.

[grumpycrumpy]

Ramsey is a foul mouthed , bullying cry baby tosser , who should be beaten like a red-headed stepchild ...... I personally give not a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut as to whether his shite programs get any shiter .....

[GCW]

I am always amused by US shows.  They tell you a summary of what you watched 2 minutes ago.  They always have shit music to highlight the tension.  They have musical hits to highlight the action (like LazyTown but far, far shitter).  Bloke walks into the kitchen- bam, bam, bam.  Fucking trumpet blasts to let you know he's done something.  WTF?
Ever watched those Cop Chase things on Five?  Utter drivel.  "This man was driving at nearly 57miles per hour!!!  He is a danger to everyone within a five mile radius, is gonna crush some kids and must be shot dead stopped before he causes a holocaust."

I don't mind Ramsay, foul mouthed though he may be.  I saw a bit of the American one.  By far the most irritating c*nt was that fat, lazy manager.  And Ramsay gave him lurve.

[dave]

what always amazes me about US telly is they always mispronounce words which aught to be impossible to get wrong. like "lever" and "process", and many more so unimaginable i can't even recall them. just pick a word at random in the dictionary and theres a good chance the yanks say it wrong.

[slackline]

Just pick a word at random in the dictionary and theres a good chance the yanks say it wrong.

..and no doubt spell it their own idiosyncratic way as well.

I can't for the life of me get my browser to support the en_GB linguas as opposed to the en_US linguas, so I'm perpetually informed that things should end with 'ize' as opposied to 'ise'.

[GCW]

Missile= Missell
Aluminium= Alluminum  It's not even spelled the same, fools

They generally accentuate the wrong syllable.  Like proSESS.  But levver is just wrong.

101 here we come

[dave]

I'm sure there used to be a hilarious comedy sketch from the 80's (can't remember if it was NTNON or rik mayall etc) about americans mispronouncing words like memo ("meemow"), it was spot on. These days i can't watch an american documentary and keep a straight face anymore.

I was told apparently aluminium was originally called aluminum by the yanks but this went against the existing naming conventions for metals (have to end in "ium"), so it got renamed to aluminium. But typically the yanks forgot that theres a world outside of their shores and chose to ignore this and kept calling it aluminum.

The way they say "garage" also goes through me.

[Houdini]

G A - R A J

[Plattsy]

I didn't see last nights episode but I really enjoy the UK version. Seen some snippets and theres an episode when Ramsay is chased down a road in LA by a former actor turned chef with a knife in his hand. Good luck to the chef, Ramsay can run. Read he trains in an altitude chamber with a rucksack of spuds on his back for an hour then drops the rucksack and continues for another hour!

Side note on Americans and our language. Imagine the horror me and most of my colleagues had when we were asked to fill out an employee survey (created by an american third party company) all about staff engagement. The first question asked which language we wanted the survey in. The only option for English was "American English". WTF!