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Originally Posted by Roxy ->
I also know all about Harry Potter..
It's ok to also know about Harry Potter.
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28-05-2019, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by AnnieS ->
How do you pronounce Baddiel? I wouldn't have a clue either if it's one of those weird posh names without logical phonetic rules. ["It's bouquet!!"]

Game of Thrones? Seriously.
Us posh folk know that Baddiel is pronounced "Bladdy 'ell)

He was christened, with that name,after slipping through his mother's fingers at his Christening!

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28-05-2019, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Roxy ->
I also know all about Harry Potter..
But are you sure you know everything? (there will be a test!)
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28-05-2019, 12:17 PM
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Bad eel.
Aha! I would have said bad ee 'ell philistine that i am 😊
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28-05-2019, 12:39 PM
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When l think of David Baddiel, Satirist immediately comes to my mind, a man with black hair and black glasses.
When l hear the name Danny Baker, l think Cockney market trader or London taxi driver! He’s neither but he looks like one of them. I remember, he first turned up on a television show many years ago and has risen ever since.

The presenter, Maajid Nawaz? The name doesn’t ring a bell. I don’t watch Pointless, so l can’t comment on that.

I like Romesh Ranganathan, he’s funny.
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28-05-2019, 02:27 PM
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Re: British Asians' Knowledge of Our "Popular Culture".

Originally Posted by Tedc ->
Us posh folk know that Baddiel is pronounced "Bladdy 'ell)

He was christened, with that name,after slipping through his mother's fingers at his Christening!

Doubt it mate. He's Jewish.
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28-05-2019, 02:34 PM
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Re: British Asians' Knowledge of Our "Popular Culture".

Originally Posted by Cold Feet ->
I thought Game of Thrones was a video game but I now know its a TV show on satellite TV. I didn't know it was classed as British culture.
That IS weird. Not knowing Game of Thrones is a TV show.

But if you shut yourself off from the media and internet it clearly would be possible not to know.
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28-05-2019, 03:26 PM
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Re: British Asians' Knowledge of Our "Popular Culture".

Originally Posted by Gravitas ->
That IS weird. Not knowing Game of Thrones is a TV show.

But if you shut yourself off from the media and internet it clearly would be possible not to know.
I found out about game of thrones in 2013 by word of mouth. It's on a subscription channel many don't have. If you don't watch it then you won't be interested in media reports. It's not accessible to all because there is a cost for each season.
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28-05-2019, 03:37 PM
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If knowing about British culture is determined by knowing about such people then something has gone seriously wrong.
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28-05-2019, 04:49 PM
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Re: British Asians' Knowledge of Our "Popular Culture".

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Oh yeah, I forgot to add I was listening to a Muslim on an LBC phone-in this morning and he said he had never heard of Noel Edmonds.
I wish I had never heard of him either!!
 
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