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Sep. 10th, 2009 @ 09:01 am 
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You know, I'm really looking forward to this trip to Britain I'm planning.
However, it does occur to me that there are some cultural conceptual gaps I'm going to struggle to bridge.
Listening to a certain BBC podcast, I just realised: I'm planning to visit a country where Peter Andre is still famous.
In Australia, Peter Andre was a one-hit wonder in the early 90s or so. The only reason I remember his existence at all is that he's on a Ten Years of ARIA Awards compilation CD I was given for my birthday a couple of years later. With that one hit.
In Britain, he's paparazzi famous.
What the hell, seriously.
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Heh. Not actually for his music, though, just his marriage to Jordan.
Yeah, I'd never have heard of him if it wasn't for unavoidable celeb rubbish tabloid gossip stuff that won't stay put in the damn tabloids.
*whispers* It's a comparatively recent development?
In our - not much of one, really - defence, he only became famous again for eating animal anuses or something on a 'Reality' TV show and shacking up with (and now divorcing from) our first ever glamour model. I remember him vaguely from primary school - that 'mysterious girl' song was all the rage (along with his abs) - so was equally surprised to find him on celebrity magazine covers.
And frankly, you've seen what our government's like, are you surprised?
Am I having a freakout, or did you delete a comment that I posted on this entry?
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September 18th, 2009 09:36 am (UTC) |
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uh, I can't say about freakouts but I haven't deleted any comments on this entry, and have onoly ever deleted anonymous trollings fro any post.
On, no, it was on your LJ. Just crossposting doing my head in - getting déjà vu about things I've actually seen before!
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