I will forever love Elvis Costello for writing, in 1982, one of the most sublime songs ever: Shipbuilding. His version is good, but Robert Wyatt's version is the definitive one. The Falklands War is the backdrop to the song, and it's a subtle and devastating protest song. It's genius.

Does anyone think this premise rips of the 1971 Dr Who series The Daemons?  There a village is under an invisible dome heat barrier, 10 miles in diameter and 1 mile high.  A helicopter inside the dome flies into it and is destroyed.

Yesss!  Giant's my favourite track on that.  I didn't discover the album til 87 though, for some weird reason.  Mind Bomb is my favourite The The album though. No, hang on, Infected.  No hang on …

So happy to see The Chameleons' Script of the Bridge there.  The Swamp Thing track is the most epic thing, ever:
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Countdown was the first programme shown when Channel 4 started up in 1982.  I watched it to see what all the fuss about the new channel was - our fourth! (we didn't have cable or satellite tv stations back then, just the three terrestrial channels).  I thought Countdown was so crap I didn't watch again for years.

Or just use fewer words to make your point.

Oh, That Knife got what I meant.  I obviously didn't phrase it very well.

"Is This Desire?" is a monstrously good album.  Pop magpie Madonna obviously thought so because her next album after ITD?s release contained a couple of total PJ Harvey knock-off tracks.  Thinking about it, "Ray of Light" also has a few heavily-indebted-to-PJ tracks on it, so Madge was obviously a fan from an early…

They were a very coy F Buttons in the official programme and in the press pack for the journos reporting on it.

The Jurassic Coast a UNESCO World Heritage Site, no less, so yes, a very official name. 
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Wheat was called corn from the 11th century onwards, long before maize was called corn.  It's the original, proper corn.  And plus, in the UK we get to call them 'Maize mazes', which is way cooler.

I think you meant 'turdis'.

"I think that a lot of the humor in this film can seem pretty exclusionary or be lost completely if you don't know much about English pop culture and don't take the step back to look at not only the guns inherent in action films from the 80s and 90s but how those films would appear to another culture."
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But cunt is a term of endearment here!  You know you've been accepted by an Englishman when he playfully calls you a fucking cunt and tells you to get a round in.

Off topic @avclub-500e75a036dc2d7d2fec5da1b71d36cc:disqus  - random connection between NWA and Adam Buxton, the guy who plays the newspaper reporter:

Did you watch the one he wrote and directed, Tyrannosaur, with Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan and Eddie Marsan?  Not a barrel of laughs but god, he's as good a director as an actor.  Is there no limit to the man's talents?

Fanny Batter is one of my favourite phrases from Roger's Profanisaurus.  That, and Urine Shroud, and Terry Waite's Allotment, and John Wayne's Hairy Saddlebags.  I could go on …

Plus, maybe also not so obvious to non-UK viewers, is that we never see policemen with guns on the streets here - only in London (occasionally) and at airports, and people aren't allowed to own guns apart from the odd farmer/pheasant murderer with a shotgun licence.  So the whole masturbatory gun fetishism in Hot Fuzz…

I can outnerd you.  I remember watching the 1971 BBC adaptation with Philip Madoc as Magua. Mr Madoc in a loincloth did quite a lot for my mum, I remember, as well ….

I am assuming you are deaf.