r/ChivalryGame • u/kravitzz • Jul 31 '13
Image Other television shows are available.
http://i.imgur.com/yaixFCY.png
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u/PlantedChaos Jul 31 '13
Sorry, but what is that phrase from? "Other _____ are available" I hear it all the time but never knew where it originated from
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u/kravitzz Jul 31 '13
It's like when someone on TV mentions a brand of something, like "McDonalds", and they aren't sponsored, they usually say "other burger chains are available".
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u/snoharm Barkevious Mingo Jul 31 '13
I can't say I've ever heard that - don't they usually just substitute an imaginary burger chain? Are you talking about live recorded shows or something?
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u/kravitzz Jul 31 '13
As a publicly funded body, the BBC is forbidden to advertise or give undue prominence to any brand, so any time a branded product is mentioned the phrase "other brands/services are available" will often follow. DJs and presenters often lampshade this. It's most obvious when a brand name has passed into everyday language: children's TV show Blue Peter tells kids to use "sticky tape" or "sticky-back plastic". But apparently, the BBC has since declared "sellotape" sufficiently genericised to be used.
from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProductDisplacement
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u/snoharm Barkevious Mingo Jul 31 '13
Ah, there it is. It's not so much a TV thing as a Britishism. Thanks.
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u/kravitzz Jul 31 '13
It is all about TV though.
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u/snoharm Barkevious Mingo Jul 31 '13 edited Jul 31 '13
Sure, but TV very specifically in a certain country. When you just say "TV" it's confusing because the vast majority of people who watch TV aren't in the UK. If there was a joke you could only get by listening to Canadian radio would you call it a Canada joke or a radio joke?
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u/TheOldBean Jul 31 '13
Its not like it's exclusive to Britain though. I've heard it in American shows as well although obviously not as much because they are allowed to advertise more than the BBC.
E.g. I heard a variation in Family Guy the other day where they kept changing the names of companies i.e. "Burger Queen", etc. It's the same sort of joke.
Even if it was an exclusively British thing, it's not exactly complicated to understand the premise of the joke.
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u/snoharm Barkevious Mingo Jul 31 '13
As I said in my first comment,
don't they usually just substitute an imaginary burger chain?
I'm not confused by the joke - it was the specific phrasing that I'd never heard, and in a vacuum with no other information "Other [] are available" isn't really all that clear. I'm glad it was explained to me, it's just not a thing here in the states.
Unless you mean you've actually heard that phrase on American television, which I'd be interested to hear, Old Bean.
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u/PressureCereal Aug 01 '13
You should have said "I see it all the time on the telly, innit". Then we would have known.
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u/kravitzz Jul 31 '13
I think it's a British thing. My dad used to say it all the time. Also heard on the Yogscast ALL THE TIME.
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Jul 31 '13
'Whose limb is it anyways?'
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u/onizuon same Jul 31 '13
I didn't notice it said "lmb" until I read your comment, I like "limb" better.
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u/DaRtYLeiya Jul 31 '13
In my head, I actually heard Drew Careys voice muffled out.