An area group of Dr. Who fans is trying to organize a Boston BritCon in 2019 to celebrate British pop culture:
Boston BritCon aims to be the first and best fan event in Boston focused on all things British, including television, film, literature, and culture!
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Didn't we fight a war
By baustin
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:48am
Didn't we fight a war specifically to avoid things like this?
Shhh
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:52am
Don't tell them who won the war.
In fairness, we've had over
By Steeve
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:14am
In fairness, we've had over 200 years to create a culture and failed.
We failed?
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:16am
"Huh huh, wood, heh heh, boooooiiiinnngggggg" isn't cultured?
As someone who both
By Steeve
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:11pm
As someone who both absolutely loved Beavis and Butt-head as a kid, but also hates the seeming dumbing down of the country, this has been a real roller coaster. Certainly plays into my generation's love for irony, though.
No culture?
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:28am
Do you also believe that most Americans have no accent?
Or that a lot don't wear
By Steeve
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:09pm
Or that a lot don't wear shoes? Or that some dogs are different colors than others? I figured I'd get a few more non-sequiturs out of the way along with you.
But do you really equate stupid accents with culture? Does pronouncing your Dunks (khed!) as "coffee", and not the way that those damn New Yorkers say it, make it "culture"?
Well said!
By Subway Rob
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 1:32pm
I think much of this country has lost its identity...in large part because of societal dramatics and focus on insignificant things like social media interactions, that have been relentlessly spotlighted by media (on all levels) and spun as "important". (FYI, they're not.)
On the entertainment aspect alone, British media is AGES ahead of American media offerings. Television & radio are very respectably presented & executed, unlike the domestic offerings of 10 hours of "local" news repeated & terrible "pop" music rotations that predictably air on multiple stations at multiple times per day.
British TV is awesome
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 2:26pm
With quality programming such as Geordie Shore and of course all the American programmes that appear on Channel 4.
Appropriate
By FirstTimeCaller
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:01am
Very appropriate Faulty Towers reference. You are a master.
Fawlty Towers
By roadman
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:06pm
My nominee for "most overrated British comedy series".
And I generally enjoy British comedy.
Cool story
By Scratchie
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 1:58pm
Bro.
(No subject)
By mseskin
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:03am
Plenty of British culture
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:53am
In the bottom of Boston Harbor!
Boston needs to be more international.
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:18am
This is a start. Hopefully something like this happens for other countries.
Oh, come on ...
By adamg
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:46am
As a Man About Town (tm), surely you know about stuff like the Bastille Day celebration, the Caribbean Carnival, etc., etc.
touché
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:08am
but we are not at the level of London, LA, DC, SF, NYC.....yet.
All of those cities are shitholes
By Doug1001
Sun, 08/19/2018 - 2:39pm
Good talk.
So you have heard
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/19/2018 - 8:14pm
Not that you ever leave your basement, let alone travel and see them for yourself.
"Omg cities are SCARY BROWN PEOPLE PLACES!!!!" is not a valid assessment of urban quality of life, education, resources, etc.
Scary Brown people?
By Waquiot
Sun, 08/19/2018 - 8:46pm
London? Not so much.
I give Doug this, ask enough disgruntled locals and everywhere is a shithole. Meanwhile, somehow millions of international tourists think Boston is one of the most cultured cities in the nation.
In a weird aside, somehow YouTube/google thinks I like watching videos discussing how much of a shithole downtown San Francisco is. Mostly local news clips. I have no reason why these are recommended to me.
I want more British culture
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 1:09pm
And by that I mean chav culture.
Im so chuffed.
By King of Quincy
Thu, 08/16/2018 - 4:56pm
Im so chuffed.
I need a translator
By tachometer
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:20am
What's "weeaboo" in the British vernacular?
"teaboo" is the the preferred
By Pref Anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:26am
"teaboo" is the the preferred insult
Tea-aboo
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:57am
Tea-aboo
Just don't ask me
By RichM
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:28am
to celebrate by cracking open a warm beer.
British culture?
By Parkwayne
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:02pm
Why can't we be happy with greek yogurt and regular yogurt? Seems like enough options.
Careful now...
By tcf098
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:15pm
Before you know it, they'll be taxing our tea.
Be careful
By Arnold Rimmer
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:51pm
I have just been to Dunkin Donuts (far superior tea to Starbuck’s) and they indeed tax my tea.
The reason for the superior label is due to the Hot water they use, Starbuck’s has tepid water, TEPID I SAY!
Welcome
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 3:22pm
To Taxachusetts! We also taxed the money used by buy the tea, before we taxed for for the tea.....
I'd go
By scollaysq
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 2:40pm
I can be from Boston and enjoy Doctor Who stuff too. But yes, I'll be clutching my Dunks cup throughout.
I'm not a cultcha snaaaab!
"British" or "English"?
By Essteess
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 3:44pm
While it might seem like hair-splitting, "British" typically refers not only to England proper but Wales and Scotland (we'll leave out the Northern Irish question in this instance).
With that qualification, Boston has quite a bit of British culture when it comes to folk music and dance traditions: regularly occurring English country dance events, for instance, and a number of groups that perform morris and sword dancing -- all of which is featured at the annual May Day gathering by the Weeks Footbridge. In fact, until the Arnold Arboretum saw fit to change the format, the Lilac Sunday celebration was the setting for one of the largest morris/sword dance festivals in New England.
Boston's also got a wealth of Scottish music and dance, vis-a-vis the local branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (one of oldest and largest outside Scotland) and a sizeable and multi-generational Scottish music community.
Yes, I know not everyone particularly likes folk/traditional music, and that's fine. But it _is_ a part of culture.
Live culture yogurt and unfiltered beer
By anon
Thu, 08/16/2018 - 9:28am
We have loads of culture in New England!
All England has is clotted cream and some very suspect banger ingredients.
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