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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8490704" data-attributes="member: 18">Arrrgh Snarf I absolutely did look it up before that - look I'll quote myself:This is from the post before that post.I'm sorry I didn't say specifically say "Googled it", but I did, in fact I assumed you were correct, and I'd find some some random shows or loads of episodes had been pulled that I didn't know about. For some reason Happy Days came to mind in fact lol.So I was surprised when I couldn't find any. Hence me asking you.Wait... is "I had a look to see" maybe a weird Anglicism I'm using?Do Americans not say "I had a look"? Now I'm wondering if this is "two nations divided by a common language". Just to be clear - "I had a look to see" means "I attempted to find out" or "I went looking for" or similar. I think of this because I remember an argument decades ago on RPG.net, where multiple people got suspended, because a mod insisted on repeatedly using a weird Americanism than even some Americans didn't understand, and that didn't make sense in context, and he just banned or suspended anyone who didn't get it lol. I'm hoping I'm not "that guy" lol. I'm struggling to think of an American saying "I had a look to see" I admit.Your specific example was an undergraduate thesis.And yes, I am saying that you have access to research libraries if you are a student. I thought it was a weird example to pick because of that. I did a bit of film studies stuff myself in one of my many unfinished degrees, and I had to use a research library to get hold of some stuff, because it just wasn't available elsewhere (or not practicably).What I'm pointing out is this is an extremely weak argument.Pulled is pulled. Unavailable is unavailable. It doesn't actually matter why.I'm not seeing how it's "let them eat cake" for me to point out that I can't watch my show (The Amazing Race) any more than you can't watch your show (The Mighty Boosh). If anything, it's "let us eat bread together". We're both in the same situation. "Let them eat cake" implies I don't care if you get it, but if you don't care I can't watch The Amazing Race, that's equally "let them eat cake" of you!Why can't we be bread-brothers, moaning together that we don't get to watch everything we want on streaming, and some things always have to be sourced more elaborately?</blockquote>

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