Love - You have 4 minutes to choose your perfect mate

[Darwin]

I wanted to get this in yesterday, for Valentine's Day, but missed it. Better late than never!

Researchers at Northwestern University are studying speed dating in an effort to uncover the secret to finding the right partner:



Source: Nature News

[tomos]

saw a good (german) film here last year called
Shopping - I've done a google search but not a chance with a title like that 

all about a session with about 10 couples and they move down the line to the next person when the bell goes..
quite funny at times

[Darwin]

The movie Hitch features a pretty funny speed-dating scene. Although I know it's not the only movie/tv show to have featured speed-dating, it's the only one that I can clearly remember!

Found this reference to Shoppen - a German movie on speed dating (2007)

EDIT: added link to Wikipedia entry for Shoppen...

[tomos]

Found this reference to Shoppen - a German movie on speed dating (2007)

-Darwin (February 15, 2008, 09:04 AM)

hah, they couldnt find the link for it either

[Darwin]

Ha ha - there's even an English language IMDB entry for Shoppen here: http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0805613/

[tomos]

there you go YouTube trailer
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=xEFjZKf0dF8
it's probably quite entertaining even without a word of german

[Darwin]

Looks interesting - not what I expected. I should watch out for a dubbed version to run on Showcase here in Canada or on A&E in the States!

[f0dder]

Dubbed
Subbed ftw!

[Darwin]

Sorry, fodder - I don't speak German! However, I'm not sure what prompted me to write "dubbed" as normally Showcase subtitles foreign movies...

[f0dder]

Sorry, fodder - I don't speak German! However, I'm not sure what prompted me to write "dubbed" as normally Showcase subtitles foreign movies...

-Darwin (February 15, 2008, 10:51 AM)

I don't do German either, I only know a few phrases like "Arbeit macht frei!" (my boss says that sometimes ), and "Wir mussen die juden ausroten!" (from a soutpark episode where cartman goes nuts) - apart from that I can understand a tiny bit of it, but that's it. I just tend to hate dubbing, and even for japanase I would prefer subs any day. I think my dislike for dubbing approaches pure-breed hate, probably because of all the really really bad german dubbing I saw back in my preteen days when we had satellite TV. Ugly.