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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.
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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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?
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