Zombie Pitt Stop in Glasgow

[KWD]

I'm not sure I have ever seen a Hollywood movie stay close to to the original book form

How I can mostly agree, this movie has really gone off the path the book was on.

[kc8ufv]

I'm not sure I have ever seen a Hollywood movie stay close to to the original book form

I think there's a rule in Hollywood that filmmakers must start with a good book or foreign film, take the main charecters, and plug them into a standard movie plot/storyline, completely destroying the story.

[McClef]

Glasgow City Chambers masquerading as Philadelphia City Hall? I don't see that as being convincing...

[Mike_Oettle]

kc8ufv wrote of the word Yankee: “Doesn’t really cause any ambiguity around the area I’m from. Around here, the word is either A) a baseball team from New York, B) Olde, or C) (relatively) foreign.”

Interesting. I am aware that Southerners, especially, are riled when non-Americans refer to them as Yankees.
And while the term originated in the Dutch colony of Nieuw Nederland (it is apparently taken from the name of a colonist named Jan Kees), I have come across it used of New Englanders just as much as of New Yorkers.
And when you say that it means “relatively foreign” I take it you mean “not from my part of the US”?
Regards,
Mike

[kc8ufv]

kc8ufv wrote of the word Yankee: “Doesn’t really cause any ambiguity around the area I’m from. Around here, the word is either A) a baseball team from New York, B) Olde, or C) (relatively) foreign.”

Interesting. I am aware that Southerners, especially, are riled when non-Americans refer to them as Yankees.
And while the term originated in the Dutch colony of Nieuw Nederland (it is apparently taken from the name of a colonist named Jan Kees), I have come across it used of New Englanders just as much as of New Yorkers.
And when you say that it means “relatively foreign” I take it you mean “not from my part of the US”?
Regards,
Mike

Yes, pretty much unused by those around here, but intended meaning rapidly inferred when the word is used.

[Galician]

kc8ufv wrote of the word Yankee: “Doesn’t really cause any ambiguity around the area I’m from. Around here, the word is either A) a baseball team from New York, B) Olde, or C) (relatively) foreign.”

Interesting. I am aware that Southerners, especially, are riled when non-Americans refer to them as Yankees.
And while the term originated in the Dutch colony of Nieuw Nederland (it is apparently taken from the name of a colonist named Jan Kees), I have come across it used of New Englanders just as much as of New Yorkers.
And when you say that it means “relatively foreign” I take it you mean “not from my part of the US”?
Regards,
Mike

As a native of the former New Amsterdam, I always took the term to refer most closely to New Englanders. Perhaps that was the Dutch colonists' way of referring to them, just as the Amish here call all outsiders "English".

[Jimmy]

So far Brad has'nt donned a kilt yet, he is still too busy fighting zombies in the centre of Glasgow. The filming is almost making Glasgow city centre as busy as Edinburgh just now with hordes of curious people or fans flocking to the city centre to see it disguised as Philly

But he and Angelina and family did visit the House on the Hill in Helensburgh as they are admirers of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, apparently Brad had visited this location several years ago when filming Interview with the Vampire

[starbkjrus]

Don't ask me. I pronounce it either way, depending on which set of relatives (American or Canadian) I am talking with.

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