Stephen Fry - the master of stylish putdowns :D

[AshtonPhoto]

I've yet to hear a better appraisal of 'The Da Vinci Code' (sic) since it was released.

[macnos]

Arse Gravy, mark my words! That will catch on.

[1001orpheus]

@macnos Arse gravy? Like among the British?

[WoodymanTHEJ]

@macnos Way ahead of you :D

[YellowStyx]

If any ones interested, i'm pretty sure he's talking about the davinci code

[figbat1]

i had lunch with stephen fry yesterday and showed him my theory. he was very impressed an said it was mindblowing. i have posted what was said on you-tube site "un urges syria to investigate".

[leavetheherbitalone]

Every jolly ole englishman knows that Stephen Fry is their country's foremost authority on loose stool water and ass gravy.

[najhoant]

I can't even hear what he's saying?

[donepearce]

@najhoant He is reviewing "The Da Vinci Code". His words - "Complete loose stool water. It is arse gravy of the worst kind".

[MsDDiddy]

can someone tell me what episode this is?

[JoeLaTurkeyIII]

My opinion on Rick Perry's 'Strong'

[jackiejackie44]

@SnMPictures90 Agreed. I was about to type the same thing, I'm an Aussie and I never use 'Ass', always 'Arse'.

[Leowen2]

Thats very naught words.

[commanderkruge]

@Leowen2 Yah, well - but with style.

[Eric101point101]

@Leowen2 OH NO D: naughty words, I'm so afraid -_-

[qwertypluss]

he's saying that about da vinci? that book was fantstic

[Leowen2]

Do you want arse gravy with those chips, I just hate that thought and will never eats chips again.

[commanderkruge]

@Leowen2 Hahaha, awww - you're right, not a pleasant thought at all! *shudder*

[commanderkruge]

@lightandbeautiful Oh my, a crazy person! Byeee!

[superhamzah85]

/watch?v=BUKOebCbINc

This is Stephen Fry using "ass" instead of arsein a sketch with Hugh Laurie.

[superhamzah85]

And they say the English don't pronounce their arse.

[adrianeaglrck]

he talks like he smelled his bengay between his thighs and thought its time for some more topical...

[adrianeaglrck]

please no more responses....all this attention is getting to my head....the shallow front of logical responders from across the world is a flattering ...like the battle of britain a strong front of supporters

[adrianeaglrck]

avid watchers beware i'm besmirching your leader

[commanderkruge]

@adrianeaglrck You evil fiend! How will we ever get past the trauma inflicted on us by a cowboy punk pop art moderate conservative nobody not liking Stephen Fry? Oh the humanity!

:P

[adrianeaglrck]

tehe..

[sbishopMTL]

@commanderkruge freak

[commanderkruge]

@sbishopMTL Michael. Pleased to meet you! :)

[sbishopMTL]

@commanderkruge don't try and be clever you aren't

[commanderkruge]

@sbishopMTL I know. And what's your excuse?

[sbishopMTL]

@commanderkruge for what

[commanderkruge]

@sbishopMTL You really don't know?

[sbishopMTL]

@commanderkruge not a clue mate

[adrianeaglrck]

ignorant duchebag trying desperately to sound smart because he's unsure of his own intelligence ...seriously your brilliant and ignorant just admit that first then your audience can move on from that is he? or isn't he? intelligent because i know he's brilliant but he's trying too hard to sound smart ...then the audience can say oh yeah he's dumb but brilliant now that he has admitted it...i feel i can watch honestly...HONESTLY

[commanderkruge]

@adrianeaglrck Calling Stephen Fry "ignorant douchebag" is quite brave, coming from an American.

[Seanze329]

@commanderkruge I'm American and I love Stephen Fry. Isn't it ignorant to call all Americans ignorant douchebags?

[commanderkruge]

@Seanze329 Yes, it is. What a good thing I didn't do it. :)

[greeneyesmax]

@commanderkruge ha, the irony.

[commanderkruge]

@greeneyesmax That means "kinda like iron" - right?

[greeneyesmax]

@commanderkruge no.

[MrEdLoop]

@commanderkruge Making a sweeping comment about the incredibly diverse population of an entire nation containing more than two-hundred million people is quite brave, when commenting about "ignorant douchebag[s]".

I'm growing tired of Anti-Americanism. Listen. I understand there are sects of any culture that are less than desirable, but the statement "all Americans are fat/ stupid/ lazy/ bigoted" is incredibly moronic, hypocritical, and empirically false.

Love Stephen Fry, by the by.

[commanderkruge]

@MrEdLoop I'm rather busy right now, just imagine I replied with something incredibly witty.

[MrEdLoop]

@commanderkruge Will do.

Wait...

Ouch, that stings.

[commanderkruge]

@MrEdLoop :) Okay, but now seriously: I don't really think that all Americans are like this or that. And you were quite correct with your reply. It was a silly comeback to a silly post, nothing else. :)

[MrEdLoop]

@commanderkruge That's good to know. Sorry for the rather vitriolic retort, but oftentimes I encounter people who really do feel that way, and I can get a bit touchy. Good to know you weren't serious, though.

[commanderkruge]

@MrEdLoop :) I know enough people from all over the world to know that, basically, evereywhere has douchebags and really nice and bright people. :)

[SingularNinjular]

@MrEdLoop You realise people that stereotype you guys like that are our equivalent of your gun-toting, buck-toothed, pick-up-driving rednecks? That is to say, we aren't proud of them.

[MrEdLoop]

@SingularNinjular No, I actually didn't realize that, but it's good to know. Thanks.

(In America it's spelled "realize", for some reason.)

[Janusha]

@commanderkruge

"douchebag" is a uniquely american concept based on their limited view of how certain foreigners and their personal hygiene. Somehow its become americas nr1 swear word for some weird reason.

[lildice200]

@commanderkruge Generalizing one of the worlds most populous countries as utterly ignorant and writing them off as such is totally irrational on your part. While I completely disagree with adrian's unfounded proposition, he doesn't try to hide his stupidity, you do.

Sincerely, an Australian.

[commanderkruge]

@lildice200 Go back to Salzburg and Yodel, but don't forget your Lederhosen - silly Australians! Arnold Schwarzenegger sucks. There!

[Lilithly]

@commanderkruge did you actually confuse austria with australia? o.O men you sure showed him...

[commanderkruge]

@Lilithly Yah, I pwned him good, didn't I? :)

[Spacecakexx]

@commanderkruge Bwahhhahhhaaahhhaaaa.....



[Preeemo]

@commanderkruge ...you're insinuating someone is ignorant through a xenophobic stereotype... and this is the highest rated comment.

[manhunt48]

@Preeemo Clearly you fail to understand what he's doing. . .

[BanalBoxberry]

@Preeemo To be fair, the internet-using majority of America hardly makes us think twice about stereotypes.

[Lairdesangfroid]

@commanderkruge oh give us a break... we elected the new awesome guy, how long will it be until the rest of the world forgets about George

[shinymcshineshine]

@commanderkruge Someone called Stephen Fry ignorant? He really has no idea who the man is obviously.

[cashxm]

@adrianeaglrck First of all, learn to write properly and convey your thoughts in a remotely coherent manner. To call someone like Stephen Fry ignorant makes you just that: an ignorant ass. Also, it's "YOU'RE brilliant" not YOUR.

[adrianeaglrck]

petty coward its youtube....not spell check tube and i'm right that's why you respond like an angry child ....did i hurt your ignorant pride....did you think you were smart along side him by watching....you're the worst kind of ignorant...the poor kind

[cashxm]

@adrianeaglrck Not angry, just amused. My intellect and self-confidence isn't measured by watching a movie on youtube. Feel free to look up the meaning of the word ignorant since I'm now convinced you don't actually know it. The fact you can't spell correctly or form proper sentences using "it's youtube" as an excuse just attests to everyone's comments here and your idiocy. Keep it up ! :)

[commanderkruge]

@adrianeaglrck Projecting much?

[adrianeaglrck]

no

[adrianeaglrck]

i'm going to ask the little countries to be quiet now daddy has a headache

[bububububak]

@adrianeaglrck oh my... i was desperately trying to find a single logic sentence, read it like 3 times, but i just don't see any sense apart from the ugly insult at the beginning...

[27FreddyG]

@adrianeaglrck What you've written doen't make any sense. From what I can tell you are trying to say that Stephen Fry is ignorant? Or perhaps unintelligent? Either way, judging by your ability to write I wouldn't say you were a very competent judge.

[rmcdaniel423]

"Arse Gravy" . . . always seems to leave a bad taste in my mouth.

[DanielTempleUK]

Erm, doesn't he say this when one of the panelists mentions some saint that helps when you lose things?

[commanderkruge]

@DanielTempleUK If I remember correctly then this is Mr.Fry's short review of "The Da-Vinci Code"... :)

[DanielTempleUK]

@commanderkruge watch?v=F1YMmZRsw88

about the 12 minute mark. I was close :)

[commanderkruge]

@DanielTempleUK Heheh. The other day in another episode I saw him refer to something as "Bottywater"... :D Seriously - I so envy you English people! I believe no one else can make diarrhoea sound as charming as you guys. XD

[Toadsanime]

@commanderkruge Thing is, we find this funny because we'd never use words like this ourselves. Don't go thinking we all walk around using words in the way Fry does.

[commanderkruge]

@Toadsanime Poppycock!

[MajikkaniHand]

@mousleyj I'm perfectly aware of that meaning, but it IS possible for a word to have more than one, and ass does.

[MajikkaniHand]

Why is it that every time I hear some British comedian say 'arse', everyone talks, with an air of finality and self-righteousness, about how much more elegant it is compared to the American 'ass'? Don't you folks understand that to the American ear, 'arse' tends to sound like somebody childishly afraid to swear, saying 'darn' instead of 'damn'? It's all relative, you silly things!

I don't know why this is so big a deal (or if you're simply being drier than I can detect in written language.)

[commanderkruge]

@MajikkaniHand "Don't you folks understand that to the American ear, 'arse' tends to sound like somebody childishly afraid to swear" - that's funny when actually it's the other way around. "Arse" is the original word for the lower back portion of one's anatomy, an "ass" was a donkey for most of the time. But then some ppl in America stopped using "naughty words" like arse and soon "ass" was used instead - because it sounds almost the same. :)

[commanderkruge]

@MajikkaniHand -> I think that was about the same time when people in the Americas stopped using "legs" or "breast" for parts of their chicken and started calling them "drumsticks" or "white meat" instead - lest some innocent soul got sexually aroused by the thought of chicken having *gasp* legs! XD

[MajikkaniHand]

@commanderkruge Heh, I can see that, the Puritan bastards. Still, though, the END result is that our swearword can be used as a pun, whilst yours can be rolled off the tongue lasciviously. I think everybody wins. ^^

[commanderkruge]

@MajikkaniHand Well spoken, Sir! It isn't truly important whether you call someone "Ass" or "Arse" - it's the thought that counts. :)

btw - I'm German myself and while I do like "English" English a little more than US English (just by the sound of it, including most of the accents) I know I use a lot of American phrasings myself - I simply pick up what I like and don't care too much about where it's from, no worries. :)

[commanderkruge]

@MajikkaniHand Mind you - I am not certain of the Arse->Ass story at all, I basically just made it up ad hoc, because it kind of fits with other things I know happened (like the "drumsticks") and would fit perfectly with other changes like that that happened in the English language over time. (I just read an interesting book about it).

[commanderkruge]

Hm - interesting. I looked around a little bit and it's actually possible that the first use of "ass" as "arse" goes back to a wordplay by Shakespeare in one of his plays (he actually *invented* hundreds of new words in his plays, many that are in use to this day - without him, it seems modern English would be extremely different from what we know). Also it seems in the 17th or 18th century in the US some words pronunciations were changed from "rs" to "ss"...

[MajikkaniHand]

@commanderkruge That makes even more sense. Huh. Actually, that's sort of an interesting idea.

[tehmaninblack]

Thanks to him, our noun to verb conversion has expanded to include a robust gallery of new things to 'do'

[jackamatyus]

@MajikkaniHand You...you think 'damn' is a swear word. You poor, dear thing.

[MajikkaniHand]

@jackamatyus It depends on what region you're speaking it in, but it can be. Not ever a particularly bad one, but it counts, especially if it's got all the force of Bible-thumping belief behind it.

[jeneshisugakuto]

@MajikkaniHand I'm guessing regions of the USA? I believe jackamatyus like myself is from the UK. The only Bible-thumping bit which matches up to the USA's level is in Northern Ireland. the USA are rather champions of it. I used to think things like "stupid" were swearwords, but I was 6 back then.

[MajikkaniHand]

@jeneshisugakuto Yeah, regions of the USA. It's also more prevalent amongst the elderly. It is legitimately a swearword, though, not just a childish misunderstanding--I'm under the impression that we take 'obscene' language a bit harder here, although that could be off.

[jeneshisugakuto]

@MajikkaniHand Interesting. Well, among people who are not overly religious in USA compared to similar in the UK (which is understood to be the majority) I don't know if people in the USA take it harder. I always thought a lot of you were very good at swearing. I can map out my ages and what words were offensive. by the time i was 15 f*** was normal and I'm 20 now, recently c*** has seemed ordinary. But not everyone's the same. The year a person is born also changes this.

[FoobyZeeky]

@MajikkaniHand I think "ass" sounds hilarious in an American accent, and dumb in an English accent. And I'm English.

[Janusha]

@FoobyZeeky

The actual word is "Arse" the whole "ass" thing is of much more recent origin. Thought to have come from naval officers that "nicified" the word to sound more posh than their crew.

[commanderkruge]

@Janusha Not correct - the ass/arse thing goes back to Shakespeare's days. In one of his plays he already made a wordplay in which the harmless one (donkey) is used while the other one (asshole) is meant.

[Janusha]

@commanderkruge

The word "ass" in relation to donkeys probably stretches far back. Different thing.

[commanderkruge]

@Janusha Well, he did give a character named "Bottom" an ass-head in Midsummernight's dream... So even if he himself didn't intend to do so I guess a point can be made that he possibly influenced the later development. But I re-checked and indeed the first documented definite ass=arse goes back to the 18hundreds and not Shakespeare. So: Well met. :)

[Janusha]

@commanderkruge

Well I certainly havent done any research on the matter but "Arse" is the original word and the word I prefer to use still. Its so much more versatile than the "ass" they use in america, canada, australia. "Couldnt be arsed" is a perfect example. Also hasnt shakespeare been re-written a number of times throughout history.

[SnMPictures90]

@Janusha I would like to correct you as an Australian and say we, generally, prefer to use the term arse not ass 

[Janusha]

@SnMPictures90

Good, good. Keep doing that. It shows character.

[Someloke8895]

@Janusha I don't think the words "ass" and "stretches far back" should be seen in the same sentence, other than in this context.

[commanderkruge]

@Someloke8895 Hahahaha! :D

[Janusha]

@Someloke8895

A fair point.

[Janusha]

@Someloke8895

yes Ive seen some pictures on the net... That once seen, cannot be un-seen.

[ArchhereticK]

It sounds weird when a non-Irish person says "arse". It sounds more like aaawwws, or ah-s.

[commanderkruge]

@ArchhereticK :) I was in Ireland for a week some years ago and after a while started rolling the "r"s like everyone else - and I must have been quite good at it too, when I flew back I was chatting with some guy at the airport and he asked me how long I've been living in Germany now - so he thought my Irish/German mix-Accent was original Irish. :) Let's see... "Feck! Drrrink! Grrrrls!" - there, I still can do it! :D

[PhilWithCoffee]

@commanderkruge You know what that reminds me of? NUNS!?!?!?!?! REVERSE, REVERSE!!!!!

[commanderkruge]

@PhilWithCoffee Where is that Quote from? While I do what I can to keep up there still is some English comedy I yet haven't seen... ;)

[PhilWithCoffee]

@commanderkruge It's from Father Ted, with quote courtesy of Father Jack :-P

[Ezhuks]

They develop it even further. "Please welcome, Loose Stool Waters."

[AnonPluto]

wut?

[makesmewonder007]

@AnonPluto complete loose stool water is arse gravy.

[AnonPluto]

@makesmewonder007 i still dont understand what he said tought. i think he played a role in the movie v for vendetta

[commanderkruge]

He said "(the book "The Da Vinci Code") is complete loose stool water, arse gravy of the worst kind".

Or in other words: Diarrhoea.

Yes, he's in "V for Vendetta", he's a constant face in British TV, a very funny man. If you like Doctor House check for Clips from "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", a show he did together with the Actor who now is House.

[AnonPluto]

thanks. i think that the v for vendetta movie is like a cinema bible and a brave production of all involved in it. Stephen Fry looks also like a man with no fear and as the movie shows we must not fear death or anyone who stands in the peoples freedom way

[DeeDemonwitch]

@AnonPluto He also has played a psychiatrist in Bones, and is in a very funny though extremely English series called 'Jeeves and Wooster'. He plays Jeeves, and Hugh Laurie (House) plays Wooster. The contrast between House and Wooster is immense.

[Christheatheist1]

"Ass gravy" LOL!

[commanderkruge]

Nonono, "Arse gravy" - huuuuge difference! Try it:

"Ass!" - a banale insult.

"Arse!" - on the other hand has a certain je ne sais quois, a flair of gentleman's club, hasn't it? :)

A lazy sunday afternoon, a nice Vodka Martini on the rocks, perhaps a cigar and a bowls of fresh arse gravy - hmmmmm!

[mooncowtube]

Furthemore, "arse" in indisputably British, unlike the brash American "ass".

There was a young lady from Madras

Who had a very fine ass! No, not what you think -- Round, dimpled, and pink --

It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass.

[commanderkruge]

Cool limerick!

[WhiteTiger225]

@mooncowtube Psssst, lil' secret!

Ass and Arse are purely preference, if you are debating whose pronunciation of a crude word for the hindquarters of a human is then you need help!

[mooncowtube]

@WhiteTiger225 Psst, li'l secret! (NB spellings)

We know.

[SirrSnowman]

@WhiteTiger225 if you think it's crude you need to get the stick out your ARSE

[UPANDCOMINGGSI]

@WhiteTiger225 ASS:- Noun: A hoofed mammal (genus Equus) of the horse family with a braying call, typically smaller than a horse and with longer ears. The two species are E. africanus of Africa, which is the ancestor of the domestic ass or donkey, and E. hemionus of Asia.

there is a difference between an ass and an arse!!

[commanderkruge]

@UPANDCOMINGGSI From what I know about how these things work, I *assume* the story goes something like this (similar things happened all the time in English): Initially Arse was Arse and Ass was a Donkey. Then, at some point, people started avoiding "arse" as it was a rude word. But as things go and people are someone simply came up with "well, then I say Ass instead - completely harmless, not rude at all, you see? Hurrhurrhurr!". Something like that, I'm almost certain. :)

[danstormer]

@commanderkruge Well said sir!

[IoEstasCedonta]

@commanderkruge ...a martini on the rocks?

[fredwilma1000]

@commanderkruge Well said sir.