The Office (US Version)

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    jankren said: January 18, 2008 05:58 PM

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    I love this sitvom so much. What makes it unique is that it is extremely politically incorrect which is rare to see in any shows these days.

    Some people say the original British version is funnier but I think it is gay but then again I think it is probably more because I dont understand what they are saying most of the time. LOL
    Last edited by pannonian; January 19, 2008 at 01:31 AM. Reason: Inappropriate language.


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    Dayman said: January 18, 2008 06:00 PM

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    Erm...ok.
     

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    God said: January 18, 2008 06:03 PM

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    Being British, I thought I'd hate the US version, but it really is very good. I can't really compare them though as I haven't seen the British version in ages (they're basically the same though)

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  4. Exarch said: January 18, 2008 06:03 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by jankren View Post
    This sitcom makes me cum all over the place. I love it so much. What makes it unique is that it is extremely politically incorrect which is rare to see in any shows these days.

    Some people say the original British version is funnier but I think it is gay but then again I think it is probably more because I dont understand what they are saying most of the time. LOL
    i had no idea 'the office' was pornography
    cumming all over the place
     

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    jankren said: January 18, 2008 06:19 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    i had no idea 'the office' was pornography
    cumming all over the place
    I think it is what they call figure of speech taken to a new level.


    "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." -- Robert Pirsig

    "Feminists are silent when the bills arrive." -- Aetius

    "Women have made a pact with the devil — in return for the promise of exquisite beauty, their window to this world of lavish male attention is woefully brief." -- Some Guy
     

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    Rapax said: January 18, 2008 06:22 PM

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    First he discovers Star Wars, now "The Office" makes him cum. That's amazing.
    Political incorrectness isn't something new or special though, I believe the Bundy's started it in the late '80s and fare like south park and family guy are certainly not pc in any way.
    There's also a german version of "The Office" btw. though I doubt many people here can compare all three.
     

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    jankren said: January 18, 2008 06:25 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rapax View Post
    Political incorrectness isn't something new or special though, I believe the Bundy's started it in the late '80s and fare like south park and family guy are
    I think I just discovered South Park and Family Guy too.


    "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." -- Robert Pirsig

    "Feminists are silent when the bills arrive." -- Aetius

    "Women have made a pact with the devil — in return for the promise of exquisite beauty, their window to this world of lavish male attention is woefully brief." -- Some Guy
     

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    Juno said: January 19, 2008 01:24 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rapax View Post
    First he discovers Star Wars, now "The Office" makes him cum. That's amazing.
    Political incorrectness isn't something new or special though, I believe the Bundy's started it in the late '80s and fare like south park and family guy are certainly not pc in any way.
    There's also a german version of "The Office" btw. though I doubt many people here can compare all three.
    Al Bundy is a man's man.


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  9. Medicus said: January 19, 2008 12:39 AM

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    This sitcom makes me cum all over the place.
    Really? It's usually the ministrations of nubile young women that make me cum. But to each his own.

    Quote Originally Posted by jankren View Post
    I think I just discovered South Park and Family Guy too.
    I guess Indonesia is pretty culturally isolated, then.
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    Magic Man said: January 19, 2008 04:53 PM

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    Really? It's usually the ministrations of nubile young women that make me cum. But to each his own.


    Having described young women as 'nubile'.

    You destroy any credibility to the above statement.
     

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    Racer X said: January 19, 2008 03:14 AM

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    Both versions of the Office are awful and, if anything, show how poor comedy has been as a whole this decade.
     

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    Last Roman said: January 19, 2008 10:17 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Racer X View Post
    Both versions of the Office are awful and, if anything, show how poor comedy has been as a whole this decade.
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    jankren said: January 19, 2008 11:31 AM

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    Im just starting to watch Season 4 and God its really bad. I think the screenwriters have run outta ideas.


    "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." -- Robert Pirsig

    "Feminists are silent when the bills arrive." -- Aetius

    "Women have made a pact with the devil — in return for the promise of exquisite beauty, their window to this world of lavish male attention is woefully brief." -- Some Guy
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: January 19, 2008 11:34 AM

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    It really sucks. The humour is bad and resorts to one-liners instead. The camera is shaky and the acting is bad (they almost always look at the camera). It doesn't hold a candle to good ones like Teachers and CCN.
    Quote Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    jankren said: January 19, 2008 11:36 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer View Post
    It really sucks. The humour is bad and resorts to one-liners instead. The camera is shaky and the acting is bad (they almost always look at the camera).
    I think we are not friends anymore.


    "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." -- Robert Pirsig

    "Feminists are silent when the bills arrive." -- Aetius

    "Women have made a pact with the devil — in return for the promise of exquisite beauty, their window to this world of lavish male attention is woefully brief." -- Some Guy
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: January 19, 2008 11:46 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by jankren View Post
    I think we are not friends anymore.
    You like that show? I point and laugh at you my good sir. The only good actor is the guy that appears in Bruce Almighty as well.
    Quote Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    Rapax said: January 19, 2008 01:43 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer View Post
    It really sucks. The humour is bad and resorts to one-liners instead. The camera is shaky and the acting is bad (they almost always look at the camera). It doesn't hold a candle to good ones like Teachers and CCN.
    Haha, I laugh at you for, as MrMofo pointed out, not even realizing the concept of the show.

    With "The Office" I have noticed though, you will have your fair share of people who don't find it funny at all which I think is due to most of them "not getting it". I know that sounds condescending but I feel that's how it is, especially if you have people like croccer remarking that the camera is shaky and that actors look into the camera which I find a hilariously past the point critique of the series.

    The german version is pretty popular here as well, so much even that a comedy show made a hilarious parody of it with Hitler as the office manager.
     

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    MrMofo said: January 19, 2008 11:49 AM

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    the actors are supposed to look at the camera. It's mockumentary style show.
     

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    Justice and Mercy said: January 19, 2008 11:58 AM

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    How can you watch The Office? It's not even mildly interesting.

    EDIT: Oh yeah, I thought I'd throw this in there: British television... ewwwww.

    Granted, my favorite actor is British. That one's easy to figure out.
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  20. Medicus said: January 19, 2008 03:40 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justice and Mercy View Post
    EDIT: Oh yeah, I thought I'd throw this in there: British television... ewwwww.






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