You’re blaming the “English”? Idiot.

The UK isn’t monolithic either. It’s literally made up of four different countries. Yet nobody seems to worry about treating British people as monolithic when it comes to myths and traditions. British people would look askance at you if you did worry about it, frankly.

As I recall, The Da Vinci Code did exactly that. I guess there must have been some degree of shit-fitting going on, but I don’t recall it. In any case, liberals weren’t up in arms about it.

How is an English woman encorporating European mythology into her stories “using her own culture” any more than using native American mythology is? Europe isn’t a “culture”. Rowling has no more connection to Greek mythology than she does to any other mythology other than any that are specifically British. Even a lot…

Permissions from whom?

The land stealing was done by descendants of North Americans. My descendants stayed home and worked in mines and mills and in particular did not steal land off anybody. Not that I think people should be held responsible for the actions of their ancestors, but it’s Americans who are benefitting from these actions, not…

You’d have to go back far enough in time to ensure your parents were so rich you never had to worry about working.

Yeah, I’m going for a little lie down too.

It was a satirical remark.

Jeez can we all be a little less literal today please.

I don’t know anybody but Hampstead Mums who talk about state schools, except when talking in the context of state vs public schools.

This is important to note. Division in the UK is less about race than it is about class.

It’s “the UK”, not Great Britain. Great Britain is a geographical entity, i.e. an island. The political entity is the United Kingdom.

Because before them, in the middle-ages, you could only be privately educated. Then, they opened schools that were open to the public (although you had to pay). The “public” means open to anybody with the means to pay for it, not as in the modern sense. Free schools in the UK are just called “schools”.

You know it’s going to turn out to be the janitor who’s trying to get the store closed down so he can buy the site cheap because of a real-estate deal. Now gimme my goddamn scooby-snack.

Scooby-doo never had any real ghosts in it. It was a completely rationalist show. The ‘ghost’ was always the janitor, or the bloke from the theatre or some such scam. In not one single episode of the classic episodes were there any genuine supernatural phenomena.

It doesn’t have a ghost. Ghosts don’t exist.

It’s such a fucking bleak world-view. Seems anti-life to me.

Not to quibble, but 150 years is not “very old”.

The winner’s idea was for a games controller which harnesses kinetic energy from thumb action using wind-up triggers.