I’m from the same town as him. Hearing him use our accent in Gone in 60 Seconds was so meaningful and encouraging after a few years in my late teens of being told I would never get anywhere in life without voice training to get rid of my accent.  Whenever people slag off that film I take it very personally.  

They were certainly doing this in clubs in Edinburgh, Scotland when I was a young (in the mid-90s).

I know it’s not *that* recent but every major city in the UK was complicit in slavery. Are you familiar with the sugar trade, tobacco trade and cotton trade of the 1700s to 1900s? The wealth acquired through colonialism? All made Britain “Great” and all founded on race-based exploitation. We may not have had…

How is her sweater staying where it’s supposed to in the last video? I can’t do a pilates class in actual sportswear without the constant fear of accidentally exposing myself to the room.

I remember when we used to blame Ryan Seacrest for everything. Those were the days.

Are nurses even allowed to be carrying around fingerprinty/sneezed on phones in clinical areas where people are so sick they’re unconscious anyway? I’m not a nurse either but I’ve heard the expression ‘infection control’ once or twice.

Hard questions <snurk>.

UK correspondent here, reporting that the English and Scottish ones are also tiny adorable escapologists.