Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Kaz is IRISH?!!?!?!?!?!?! Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:48:21 +0900 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3F2DE595.3090704@hotmail.com> References: <52210046.0307311747.6b604a90@posting.google.com> <3F2AA335.8020809@hotmail.com> <3F2AB243.5050606@hotmail.com> <3F2AB868.5090900@hotmail.com> <3F2BD315.9090606@hotmail.com> <3F2BED95.8050803@hotmail.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1059972414 26785764 202.215.53.66 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3947 Jim wrote: > Declan Murphy wrote: > >> Jim wrote: >> >>> I'm still waiting for the BBC to spit out a region-1 NTSC DVD of >>> "The League of Gentlemen Series 2". All of the British to whom I've >>> shown >>> my Series 1 dvd have found the humor uncomfortable. I guess it hits >>> a bit too close to home for some. >> >> Really? I don't know any poms who haven't found it achingly funny - >> perhaps I just don't know enough poms. > > You have described it perfectly. "achingly" covers the range of > "hurts me I'm laughing so hard" to "it's too painful to watch but I > have to". Aye - but "aching", "hurts" and "painful" doesn't in this context imply "uncomfortable". Strangely enuff. -- "Actually, the US accounts for over 1/3 of the global GDP" "I have to go against straight monetary comparisons in favor of PPP" gowenomics 101