Here in the UK, the superclub was still lumbering around the landscape, emitting the boneheaded burps of unreconstructed laddishness.
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The hit programme, which appeals to petrol heads and the nation's inner laddishness, was not an obvious fit for Gallic sensibilities.
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Despite the success of the Kay campaign, the perceived "laddishness" of the advertisements were criticised by rival brewer Interbrew as hindering sales of beer among women.
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9 At a time when "men saw themselves as battered by feminism", one could also consider that "laddishness is a response to humiliation and indignity ... the girl-power! girl-power! female triumphalism which echoes through the land".Weldon, p.
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61 Lad culture grew beyond men's magazines to movies such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and to the TV sitcom Men Behaving Badly. Bottom, Al Murray's Happy Hour and They Think It's All Over are television programmes that present images of laddishness that are dominated by the male pastimes of drinking, watching football, and sex. These are presented as being ironic and "knowing" (the masthead of Loaded is "for men who should know better").
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The 2007 relaunch was aimed at reversing this criticism, but glamour shoots were later reintroduced. The perceived laddishness of the magazine meant it was also seen as non-serious by car enthusiasts who wished to focus on the engine/handling modification side of car tuning. However, Max Power was for a long time the biggest-selling motoring magazine in Europe, and was therefore courted by motor manufacturers and auto industry PR teams, who provided them with test cars, exposure to new products, and opportunities for the magazine to cover their brands.
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The song explains the grief that vocalist Gary Stringer felt following the death of his grandfather, and easing the pain of death. It established the band's popularity, appealing both to the then-current tendency for "laddishness" and to older rock fans. In the USA, it owed much of its success to young cable music channel M2, which played the video heavily and led to it becoming a "Buzz Clip" on the main MTV channel. In turn, the song provided a major boost for their second album Glow, which entered the UK Albums Chart at number 1.
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The feature received multiple accolades, including two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction, and Downey won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2011, Ritchie directed the sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Released on 16 December, the film was a commercial success, grossing more than $545 million worldwide. A. O. Scott of The New York Times, praises Ritchie for "taking liberties" with the characters, and writes that both films depict "a smoky, overcast Victorian world, infuses it with an air of jocular, hairy laddishness and stages a lot of fights in fussy and tiresome slow motion".
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"ERIC GREIF INTERVIEW, Sleaze Roxx Magazine (28 April 2007) , (retrieved 24 February 2013) Suede's laurels would remain intact through their early career until Butler's departure, which the press signalled as the end of Suede. As new rock bands were arriving on the scene, British pop culture was in the midst of a shift towards lad culture and the same critics who championed Suede were now plotting to extinguish them. In February 1995, music critic J.D. Considine said the band "quickly fell victim to the build-'em-up-then-knock-'em-down mentality of the English music press." On the eve of the release of Coming Up, Neil McCormick of The Telegraph wrote: "Cast in the classic mould of the androgynous rock star, Anderson appears curiously anachronistic in a British rock scene polarised between the laddishness of Oasis and the suburbiana of Blur and Pulp.
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