Ozzy Regrets making "The Osbournes".

[Vehicle]

^^According to various 'rumours' Ozzy was upset Sharon arranged that, he indicated he was not responsible for what happened to those remastered/re-recorded Ozzy albums until it was too late.

I reckon there are lots of things Ozzy didn't realize until it was too late.


As far as the show, I'm with the 'watched a couple times' crowd. I remember him opening the trash compactor, and then just standing there for a minute, staring at it. Like he either couldn't remember why he opened it, or didn't know what it was.

 

[Big Ears]

He started the slurring in the eighties and never stopped. Presumably the drugs and booze scrambled his brain. Syd Barrett, Peter Green and Brian Connolly were also never the same again. At least Osbourne is still alive.

I know a person from California and I really love her accent, but she is becoming Anglicised. Still, St. Ambrose said, 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do!'

 

[LG]

^^There are times I wonder if Ozzy is alive...

It is sad to see the damage so many have done to themselves but that's been going on in the artistic community from the dawn of civilization.

Anglicised??? You mean she's picking up your accent?

 

[Big Ears]

^ Yes, she drinks tea and uses all the English swear words. Swearing is the sort of thing people copy isn't it?

 

[LG]

^^It is, so many people think the English talking "pish" is cool and try to imitate it. I've picked up a lot of English slang over the years watching BBC programs, so when Sox, Sweaty, LOU, Tray and yourself use certain words I have a good idea what they mean.

My Swedish accent is better than my English one, but both are fun when I've had a couple of drinks in the right company.

 

[Big Ears]

I suppose if you live in another country, you cannot help but pick up the accent, because it would be all around you - on the bus, the radio, TV, everything. If British rockstars who spend a lot of time in the US come back with an English accent they've done well.

In this country, we seem to imitate eveything from the US. There is nothing new in it as GIs, who were posted here in WWII, had a strong infuence on young British women. We also had an influx from the Caribbean, which has had an insidious effect. The term 'guys' is used all the time here, but it is not English. Our syntax is very different, which is why it seems incongruous to me. For example, Americans would say, 'on the weekend', whereas we would say 'at the weekend'.

They say regional accents are fading here, so it could be just a matter of time.

 

[LG]

^^The Clash wrote a great song about what's happened to England over the years in the 20th century.

Many people copy the Americans, it comes as a shock to them that a small country north of them actually has a different culture and wants to try and keep it that way.

Nothing stays the same, in a hundred years Australia will be like New York city, a melting pot of all kinds of different cultures. We are going through that now ourselves.

Still I love messing about with foreign languages and slang.

 

[Big Ears]

Australians seem to have the same slang and syntax as us. They also seem Americanised like us. I really liked the way Paul Hogan showed the culture clash, although I do not know if Australians saw him as selling out by then.

Much was made here a few years ago about how Canada wanted to be seen as a distinct culture.

It makes me wonder about the overlap between people in northen Montana, Dakota, Minnesota and those in the southern part of the southern Canadian territories. Also, Ontario and a number of American states are very close around the Great Lakes.

It must be like continental Europe, where we are geographically close, but culturally different.

 

[Tray73]

I knew there would come a day when Ozzy would say he regretted that show. But hey, would his kids have had the TV work and fame they've enjoyed without it? I watched the show when it first started and have to admit enjoyed it, it was damned funny at times, although I did feel a bit guilty laughing at Ozzy's buffoonery.

I use to watch The Osbournes....and you know what I remember the most from the show????

Dogs shitting all over the house!!!!!


They got paid millions to film dog shit, whodda thunkit.

The dogs crapping in the house are the scenes that stand out the most to me too, well those along with Ozzy and his colouring books!

 

[LG]

Australians seem to have the same slang and syntax as us. They also seem Americanised like us. I really liked the way Paul Hogan showed the culture clash, although I do not know if Australians saw him as selling out by then.

Much was made here a few years ago about how Canada wanted to be seen as a distinct culture.

It makes me wonder about the overlap between people in northen Montana, Dakota, Minnesota and those in the southern part of the southern Canadian territories. Also, Ontario and a number of American states are very close around the Great Lakes.

It must be like continental Europe, where we are geographically close, but culturally different.

We do have a lot of differences culturally than our southern neighbours, but there are also a lot of similarities too.

Northern US states are very close to us in many ways, they share similar climate and know quite a bit about Canada.