We could swap wine mom Minions memes as we grow old together

Royal Enfield has a background as an arms and military manufacturer, and British military kit tends to get named after birds or weather events, so I guess they’re keeping with the naming convention. Though this bike in particular is named after a famous predecessor from the 60s

‘Tis but a flesh wound!

TIL failing to invade Canada and having your capital burned down is ‘winning’

Have we forgotten that Typhoo Tea is Two Thumbs Fresh? Two!

I hadn’t even considered the possibility that you could... just bite into all four segments at once. Do people do that? Can a person survive such an orgy of flavour? There’s something disturbingly un-British about that much fun at once.

I don’t think anything’s changed, it’s just that Trans issues have got much more exposure in recent years and people are talking about them a lot more.

Similar!? It’s bloody identical! Half the brands mentioned are also British as well! And half the comments are about the Famine or the Troubles, all while waxing lyrical about a load of English snacks!

Calling it Irish is how you make British things cool in the US. This entire article including every concept and product mentioned applies equally in Britain and Ireland

Clearly the mistake the English made was leaving too many witnesses. Turns out if you virtually wipe out a population and their culture like the Yanks did with the Native Americans you get to act all holier than thou about other countries’ crimes forevermore without a hint of irony.

Sadly I don’t have the right mouth parts to speak scouse

Well they’re scousers, so it’s ‘foockhen’

Pish posh. My wife's hand has been stuck under the oven for years and it was the best thing that ever happened to us. Saved our marriage!

Maybe it’s just because in other countries people don't have to be told not to marry their cousins?

The period we’re looking at is 1300 - 1900 more or less, so not much in terms of sacrifice. Though the village does have Saxon and Roman remains, as well as Neolithic stuff so its occupation goes back to the retreat of the glaciers in that region.

Did I say that? I was talking specifically about Pride and Prejudice, but it would apply equally to a show about ancient China or the court of Mansa Musa.

Food shortages were sadly very common until quite recently. I'm on a team conducting an archaeological survey of a village in the North of England, and the archive guys established that the harvest failed at least once every five years, or once every three in a particularly bad decade. 

I think there’s a difference between the types of stories you’re telling too. Hamlet is a play about the human condition that applies to anyone in any time, it just happened to be set in Denmark.

“How I miss... cock”

“Even if the reader isn’t particularly familiar with the history of the Golden Age of Piracy”