Does Bravo think that we’re all morons? Their broadcasts of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy UK” now feature subtitles for people who can’t understand English. They don’t subtitle the whole show, just seemingly random utterances, which makes no sense.
This is in addition to the already annoying “translations” they overlay on the picture, helpfully telling us, for example, that “blokes” = “guys.” DUH.
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