One for the poolroom
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381739)
Rockingham, Australia
November 15, 2023 5:04pm CST
We watched The Castle the other night. It’s become a classic Australian comedy and several quotes from the film have been absorbed into our everyday language. The title comes from the main character's belief that his home is his castle.
The house-owner has four kids and when he is given a gift, he invariably says ‘That’s going straight in the pool room’ or ‘that’s one for the pool room’, the pool referring to billiards rather than a swimming pool. The photo is the sort of off-beat thing that I guess this guy might have put in a poolroom.
I don’t ‘get’ a lot of American humour and I can’t help thinking other cultures wouldn’t ‘get’ The Castle. I guess it’s Aussies sending themselves up but outsiders might wonder what’s so funny. Whatever – it was fun to watch it again.
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
17 Nov 23
@JudyEv I never saw an episode of Seinfeld. Yeah, Friends may have just been a United States thing, although weirdly, foreign basketball players, I kid you not, talk about how they all want to meet Jennifer Aniston because they fell in love with her as Rachel in Friends. The white foreign players, that is.
I could be wrong, but I think Seinfeld was supposed to be a Jewish perspective of a New Yorker. I used to listen to a Jewish sportscaster who grew up in New York, and he said that was his life too.
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
17 Nov 23
@Orson_Kart The Big Bang Theory was also one of my absolute favorites.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
16 Nov 23
I get this humor though, but I would, wouldn't I Judy?
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
15 Nov 23
Dad made chairs for the yard like that It's a tractor seat from one of the tractors we used on the farm over the fifty years we lived there. We had two of them that we kept either under the maple tree that was by the back door or they were taken to the front yard when everyone gathered around the huge (30 feet x 10 feet) picnic table in the front yard. We also carried the kitchen chairs out to that table as well as yard chairs. Some of us kids sat in the grass if we didn't have enough chairs to go around.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
17 Nov 23
@JudyEv They're solid steel construction and heavy for kids to move around. I didn't know they were all the rage, though.
And yes, for chairs made of metal, they're very comfortable. Dad always had a pillow in his chair. Everybody else made do with the bare chair.
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@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Nov 23
Those are great memories. These tractor seat chairs were very popular for a while. They're surprisingly comfortable although nowadays I need a back to my chair.
@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
16 Nov 23
Comedy does vary by country it seems. That doesn't look like a comfortable seat
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Nov 23
The only Australian show I have ever watched was The Eastenders I kind of liked that,
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Nov 23
@JudyEv sorry about that got my English and Australian mixed up
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@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Nov 23
@RasmaSandra No problem at all.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
16 Nov 23
We have a series called The Castle here. I'm assuming that's something different?
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
16 Nov 23
Indeed, I guess each country has its own humor. We also have some comedy movies and shows which are quite funny.
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