I think it’s not so much that we’re aware of 90s Billy Ray Cyrus, I think that’s just the stereotype we have for anyone south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Definitely. From my reading as a teen fantasy nerd I get the impression that angels are messengers between the divine and humans, so have to look relatively humanoid, enough to blend in and talk to people without incinerating them. Whereas the orders of angel above archangels serve some other purpose beyond our…

While the BBC is most famous for being publicly funded, Channel 4 also is to a lesser extent, and there’s always been a taboo around chucking tons of public money at game show winners when it could be better spent on documentaries about castles and nature shows.

I also see the rather baffling ‘Lazer’ all the time, as if that’s the American variant of a British word spelled with an S.

We’re experiencing a fun variant of this phenomenon in the UK right now.

I think even in Christianity the Cherubim and Seraphim are pretty horrifying. The chubby winged babies we call Cherubs are usually Putti from Renaissance paintings, and Biblical Cherubs are a mass of wings and eyes. I believe Seraphim are supposed to look the same, except that they reflect the holy light of God off…

I do wonder how much of the backlash S2 has had has been caused by its lack of engagement with the football related issues. I imagine a lot of the viewers thought they were watching a football show and are now disappointed.

I think it would be too much of a shark jump to have Richmond win the PL immediately after getting promoted, something which has certainly never been done in the Premier League era and I believe has only ever happened once before - when Ipswich Town did it in the 60s.

A relative of mine lived in Headlingley in Leeds where Saville had his flat, and apparently it was well known in the area that anybody who had a bad word to say about him would get a visit from his heavies, who would ask politely that they cease and desist.

It’s also maybe worth noting that the Rowling backlash is a pretty America-centric thing. She has faced little to no backlash in the UK, for example, where her views on trans issues are closer to those of mainstream feminism than they are in the US.

I get you. As someone with extensive dealings with the immigration process for my partner, it’s always super immersion breaking for me when you see stuff like that. Can you even get a visa to be a cop?

Agnostic Atheism and Gnostic Atheism are two separate things - the belief that there is no god without knowledge vs the claim to know for certain that there is no god. The vast majority of people who are atheists are the first one, as well as a lot of people who say they’re agnostic. It’s no more a religion than the…

Having watched Don’t F*ck With Cats and various Cecil Hotel documentaries, I’m firmly of the opinion that the nutty e-vigilantes are scarier than the crimes they’re attempting to investigate.

Allegedly that's the origin of the song as a Man City favourite, because there was a joke going round in the late 80s that City only won once in a blue moon, so the fans took it to heart.

Ha, I mean they’re all songs the fans sing when they’re excited. Or emotional. Or drunk. Or fighty.

Blue Moon is Man City’s anthem, like You’ll Never Walk Alone for Liverpool or I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles for West Ham. Beard probably saw it as a horrible portent sent by the gods.

They let Thomas Paine in too, so it seems fair.

Winning the top division immediately after getting promoted would make Ted a legendary manager remembered through the ages. It’s only happened twice as far as I know, Nottingham Forest in 1978 and Ipswich Town in 1962, when none other than Brian Clough and Sir Alf Ramsey were in charge, respectively.

Is the next series going to cover multiple seasons in that case? Because it’s pretty much impossible for them to get promoted this season if their current form continues (and even if they started winning, to be honest), and the idea of a newly promoted team winning the Premiership in their first season back is pretty…

Possibly related to that good guy Pelican in London that ate a pigeon, the rats of the sky?