I imagine people in the 70s would find today’s obsessions pretty strange too.

Wait...what? CAs age of consent is 18?? How is that even morally defensible when you can join up when you’re 17?

Nope.

The annexation of Britain ran from 55BC to 410BC, so it wasn’t a short period by any means. Constantine III was emperor of Rome in Britain, although considered a usurper. But these Romano British were Celts (originally from the middle east), so not that far away from middle easterners today. The Anglo-Saxon-Jute…

Speaking for the Brodiesque women among us, long may it continue.

It’s also where the monkeys are under the table.

You might be right. He did appear to literally jet in from London when he first started.

The association is actually a fairly recent thing. Pink used to be considered a boy’s colour and blue a girl’s.

There’s something to be said for having an outsider’s view of things. I think that’s why John Oliver killed it so well when Stewart was away off making his movie. Haven’t seen Noah’s effort (it’s not on TV here at the moment), so I don’t know, maybe TOO much of an outsider?

Totally mis-read that.

Elbow, who were a much better band than Coldplay, suffered from not breaking in the US.

His ostentatious religiosity put me right off him as a person, as well as the whole Glop thing (or whatever they call her).

Actually, I saw them live in a stadum gig about 4 years ago, and it was the most impressive show I’d seen to that point - not so much the band themselves, but all the other insane stuff they had going on. I used to be quite the fan, but the last 3 albums left me stone cold, so I’ll stick to the back-catalog from now…

I was lucky my daughter didn’t start her period until quite late, so she was mature enough to understand. Turns out the (English) school had already given them a pretty good intro to periods, and taken a decent stab at the sex ed. I filled in the blanks and gave it a sex-positive spin. I’ll have to ask her if there…

Who wants somebody who’s stingy with their cupcake??

The people saying it probably had only had sex with one person, so how would they know any different?

You know Detroit is in the US, right?

Yeah, but then it was the same BS with “why Roy has to go away again”, even though the woman he loves is dying.

It’s true, I do have way too much “bored at work” time :0