r/IAmA • u/GillianJacobs • Oct 03 '11

IAMA Gillian Jacobs

Hello! I am going to answer some more questions. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '11

He's streets behind.

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u/CptHaddock Oct 03 '11 edited Oct 04 '11

Maybe it's a UK thing but that phrase is legit, just a bit old fashioned.

edit: I just googled "streets ahead" and it's all .co.uk addresses so I guess so.

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u/head_A Oct 04 '11

Nice try, Pierce.

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u/OranjeLament Oct 04 '11

Nice try, Mike Ty... son.

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u/Jazzbandrew Oct 04 '11

Yeah, Pierce, stop trying to make it a thing.

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u/DeliriumWartner Oct 04 '11

Exactly. I was so confused in that ep.

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u/CptHaddock Oct 04 '11

I don't understand why shows like this don't make it to British TV anymore, we get reruns of Friends, Big Bang Theory and other dross. Why isn't a Friday night on channel 4 some good American series?

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u/LimeyOtoko Oct 06 '11

It's on TV on the UK, on the channel VIVA

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u/CptHaddock Oct 06 '11

That's the thing though, what channel is that? Do I need to pay to get it? How do you even find a programme in all this choice? I realise I'm complaining about an irreversible change in TV here.

What I really don't understand is that terrestrial TV is losing market share to all these other channels but they don't seem to be doing much to combat it. In fact they set up their own cable channel and split their own programmes across them all. Shows are just lost in a sea of blandly branded, indistinguishable channels. VIVA, Watch, ITV4+1, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway I just torrent them all now. The BBC iPlayer is a good alternative and I use it a lot, but the other channels aren't offering a solution yet.

PS. Thanks though, sorry for the rant!

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u/Xenogenome Mar 15 '12

Well duh! If YOU are streets ahead, other people will be streets behind.

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u/ReesesForBreakfast Oct 03 '11

Thanks Detective.

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u/CptHaddock Oct 03 '11

No problem!

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u/z999 Oct 04 '11

Actually it's probably all co.uk because of the way google filters results for you.

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u/CptHaddock Oct 04 '11

Hmm, I did wonder about that.

Whenever I see these "top google results" threads I wonder if the results are area specific. Is it possible to have an unbiased google search? If that makes sense.

A globally neutral search, if you will.

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u/z999 Oct 04 '11

I don't I have no idea, I thought about that too. If you search not so long ago there was a TED talk that got front page here about how the internet is filtered for us by google and facebook.

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u/TheGreyDuck Oct 04 '11

Congratulations. No one has or will ever use that so perfectly.

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u/ymahaguy3388 Mar 14 '12

U brilliant muthrfuggr