I’m prepared to allow potato to be an honourary pastry for the purposes of Shepherd’s, Cottage and Fisherman’s pies, all of which I love. But as far as I’m concerned, in all other cases, if you can’t pick it up it’s not a pie.

You’ve stumbled across the biggest debate in Britain after Brexit, which is ‘can you really call something a pie if it’s just a casserole with a pastry lid?’

As a white person I have no right to comment on the experience of minorities in Britain so I shall defer to your expertise, but at the same time I don’t think you can compare UK and US racism. Most Britons just don’t have the opportunity to be racist in the same way as Americans do because there just aren’t enough…

As strange as it seems I believe we are in fact less racist than the U.K

Brexit wasn’t really a far right phenomenon. It had pretty broad support among left leaning voters as well, and the real divide was rural vs urban voters.

I’d check out Lakeside though ...

It’s one of those things invented purely for the purpose of demonstrating that you’re rich enough to be able to afford the ingredients. A WHOLE lemon you say? Good lord!

Sure, but for the average Briton it’s financially better for one person to get taxed a lot than it is for lots of people to get taxed a little (or not at all). The way farming works these days it would all likely end up in the hands of a few people, or one big company, anyway.

It’s only going to get worse in these parts given how many Americans sincerely believe they are Irish because of the intense ancestral connection their great-great-great-great granny’s hairdresser’s friend’s uncle’s proctologist gives them to the Old Country. I hope you’re ready for lots of half formed but deeply held…

I find it hilarious if that commenter is actually Irish, given that Ireland’s entire economy is based on being a tax haven where the well off companies can protect their huge assets in exchange for the crumbs from the table.

And regardless, if they did take back their property, it’d get taxed just like any other private property.

Come on, man! I love DS9, my wife and I went to con last year dressed as Dax and Bashir. We chatted with Alexander Siddig and Terry Farrell while dressed as them, like normal people do.

I have a very similar story re: my in-laws and Turkey.

Silverstone it is then!

Maybe for you. For me it’s more of a raging riptide of terror!

I lost my virginity to Hulk Hogan, I’m calling it a Rumblebrag

I wonder if Cookie Puss has a Native American cousin....

Yeah, AC is still seen as a luxury in the UK. To be fair, it genuinely is only recently that we’ve started getting two months of 70F+ weather a year (thanks global warming), but it’s very rare in homes and only marginally more common in offices on the basis that it’s hardly ever necessary most of the year.

While you’re entirely right, I think the problem is the optics of: colonising imperialists invade country, but it’s ok because the locals were corrupt and disorganised and the Vikings really helped them out.

Sounds like a pretty ham handed way of handling the morality of a pro-imperialism protagonist.