Dude, the internet was at least 20 years old in 2003. What, were you born in 2000?

An art piece doesn’t have to involve much effort. 4'33" is just silence. Recoding The Matrix as green ASCII and putting up as an eternal torrent qualifies.

Brilliant, you’re right, there are very particular West Country references which make it all the richer me luvver.

“An ‘edge is an ‘edge innit? I only chopped it down cos I coul’nt see the view no more, what’s he moaning ‘bout?”

After my marriage ended about 5 years ago, I embarked on the road of finding my next long term relationship. Since I have a problem with dating at the workplace, the only logical choice was to go online. For 2 years of unsuccessful attempts at meeting women who mostly misrepresent themselves, I met my current…

On that second one, I think maybe we try actually saying "no" one time first. It sounds like that guy is a bit of a doormat, and he’s expecting the worst case scenario immediately. “I make my displeasure clear subtly” is a great way of saying “I am annoyingly passive aggressive”.

I am more of a peace keeper personality and avoid conflict at all costs.

Ditto. The whole thing is made even more hilarious if you’re familiar with the, erm, peculiarities of small West Country towns.

People speak like that with each other because plenty of people in the region speak like that. It’s just a regional thing, like how people have no idea what a lot of yanks from the South are talking about as they talk so fast and excitedly it’s easier just to go ‘yeah sure’ and nod.

It’s usually “no more than 2 school children at a time” cause kids are little buggers, crowd the place blocking other customers, and because shoplifting sweets is easy if you have a few friend’s distract the cashier while one fills their pockets with sugary goodness. Damn kids.

This happens in Hot Fuzz too. When Butterman is questioning Angel about all the crazy cop stuff and Angel keeps saying no. Eventually they do all those things in the movie.

The signs are to discourage shoplifting. In my neck of the woods at least, at convenience stores near schools, there are frequently signs saying ‘no more than X students’, because they don’t have enough staff to keep an eye on more people than that. In the movie, my interpretation is the kids ran upstairs and mobbed…

World’s End did the same thing with the name of the pubs. SPOILERS!

It’s been a while since I have watched it but I live in the UK and there has been a few shops I have been to when I was younger where there was a limit on how many school kids were allowed entry to a store at one time.

Mainly because at lunch hour the High School would empty and a flood of “young adults” would descend…

The “no more than x customers” is a British thing - it’s a response to a period where a ton of school kids would mob a store, distract the shopkeeper and rob it blind.

Yeah the South West accent has a tendency to lop letters off of words (‘edge rather than hedge) and mumble so all the words stick together rather than being clearly separated from each other. By the standards I’ve heard Webley is a articulate speaker compared to some others.

Seriously come to the South West. Most of the old people here (and nearly everyone else for that matter) would probably do everything up to and including murder to get rid of travelers seeing as they have a tendency to destroy the places near where they decided to park up.

School kids nick things from corner shops. Well-known UK thing, along with the “No more than x schoolchildren” sign.

I adore the fact that in all the insane diving around and guns fired in the finale not a SINGLE person dies. That’s a gag in of itself. Even Skinner, after what happens to him! (“It really huuuuurts!”)

I actually liked Hot Fuzz a lot better than Shaun of the Dead. Shaun of the Dead is great, but ... Hot Fuzz!