Friends: The Poll

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Fucking English people can't work out my accent, Americans would have no chance. Like Estuary English backed in on itself.

I have a horrible accent. Born in Plaistow then out to Essex - best friend a Liverpudlian who I copied all the time - then to the midlands - where I was forced to have speech training because I said "gull" for "girl". I sound a bit like Jools Holland if he less articulate. I probably sound like someone from Spinal Tap.

Fuck alone knows how I sound. Posh northern, I think, with increasing Scotticisms. A "good radio voice", apparently (which I'd hope, given that I used to work in radio). Best summary was probably at the end of a tutorial last year when a fellow (much younger) student said: "OK, I've been wanting to ask you this for ages. Are you really posh, or just English?"

I'm also aware that I assimilate very quickly, especially when talking to people with pronounced regional accents, so ... really, I've no idea.

(Dom: FWIW, you sounded exactly like I thought you would.)

Dom's voice is disappointingly bland in real life. Not the heady mix of Alan Moore and Super Mario I had been hoping for.

― blueski, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 14:28 (11 months ago)

i imagine dom sounding like a british version of necro

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oh monicapaws...

I'm stunned and disappointed that Phoebe even got one vote.

this is bs. real headz voted ross.

Fat, greying and struggling for work - would you be Friends with them now?

Me!

Am loving this show more now than I ever did when it was on, it's ridiculous. Am actually excited that there might be a film. Really, I'm pathetic.

Or rather my answer to the stupid question would be "Yes!". Christ, I can't even read any more.

friends is still better, as a rerun, than any american sitcom since.

and though i didn't think so that much at the time,- wow, aniston before she stopped eating was some kinda perfect mix of funny and gorgeous that maybe only sandra bullock could even approach during the same time span.

she was and is hotter than sandy imo.

and friends was and is funny as balls.

she's hotter, not funnier imo

tbqh i haven't seen the bulls in anything since 'speed'. not even that one where she plays the undercover agent with chandler.

Some day, when the pricepoint drops really low, I'm going to buy the complete dvd series on ebay. It's still as funny to me when I catch it in reruns as it was when it originally aired.

re: Aniston. In the years since, via various tv and print interviews, I've decided she's absolutely the coolest member of the cast by far. She's funny and gorgeous, yeah, but I'd jump at the opportunity to just go eat pizza and talk with her for a couple hours. A totally engaging way about her, that one.

This...
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... would seriously be my answer to...
It's the 1p3 What Do You WISH You Looked Like Thread

great daily mail article "man gets older", written by discredited former ilxor acrobat, no less.

matt leblanc should really open up a can on george clooney for stealing of all his good film roles tbh.

would watch him in a police movie, tbh

friends is still better, as a rerun, than any american sitcom since.

friends is also so much better - funnier, better written, and much better performed - than the woeful how i met your mother, its insance.

*insane

also that daily mail feature is crazy badly written.

friends is well written and expertly performed yet i hate it

^^^^^^^^^ otm

respectfully, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlMrGgpwXE

lolling hard @

Exception: Only Jennifer Aniston has managed to have a successful film career and hasn't aged since her time on Friends

hasnt aged

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the portrait of jennifer a

friends is also so much better - funnier, better written, and much better performed - than the woeful how i met your mother, its insance.

― anyways when I'm chopped, dip always kicks my ass lol (stevie), Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:43 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i love friends but... *smh*

anyway yes friends seasons 1-4 is one of the best sitcom runs in history--seasons 5-10 are still consistently funny and engaging though not great--but is it surprising to anyone that jennifer aniston is the only one who had a career? she and kudrow are by a long shot the two best comic actors on the show

no ross

^^^ ross

i think it was funnier after the first few seasons.

I was reading about the episode in which Brooke Shields plays a stalker. Andre Agassi apparently ran off cause he couldn't face Joey (?) licking Brooke's hand. lol

This is something I'd love to hate and, honestly, I come quite close to it, But I can't fully hate it. It's terribly dated but also there's something really feelgood about this. I hate most of the actors on it (especially Anniston - what an annoying person, godalmighty) but fuck it I can't help liking it in a fucked up masochistic way. And this is why I can't fucking pick a fave cause they are all my least fave. lol

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the really early seasons like 1-3 are enjoyable in a different way - stories are genuinely relatable - tone and pacing are warm and slow and the characters are the main reason to watch. jokes mostly serve them.

s1-3 = they all have really weird hair

also stupid shit like ross pet monkey

the last few seasons have better jokes tho - sharper and better timed - but i kinda disliked them becoming brittle, selfish yuppie terrors

i have opinions abt friends idk

I think they evolved alongside the actors. I can't express how much I detest Anniston. lol

chandler's character was totally destroyed and neutered the minute he hooked up w/monica tho

I'm kinda terrified my future wife is gonna have a personality like monicas

I think my mom in law resembles Monica in some weird way.

ross/chandler better than phoebe definitely and rachel probably.

ross series 1-3 great, then awful awful for a few years then last 2 seasons schwimmer just kills tbh.

monica would be found in a bin liner outside day 2 of my own personal friends timeline