Pere Lachaise is one of Paris' premier cemeteries (like Highgate or Arlington), so it seems the name is a wicked pun.

Dusters are notoriously small, even in Europe. They’re also something like half the price of other crossovers in the same class.

Nah, Americans eat anything and everything, hence the waistlines.

It’s from the days when people had more time. You’re supposed to put the plug in, fill the sink with water that is mixed to the correct temperature, then wash your hands in it.

Automatics still have a bad reputation in the UK from the bad old days of the 70s and 80s when you had clunky, slow and inefficient automatics. Traditionally, automatics were basically a disability aid for people who couldn’t shift, rather than a labour saving device.

I mean, you have a DS9 avatar - do you think that series is bigoted trash that should be cancelled because of the way more blatant Jewish stereotype that the Ferengi represent? (All played by Jewish actors, no less?)

Eh, ‘Irish’ isn’t exactly a minority in Britain. 1/4 of the population is eligible for an Irish passport.

Remember though that the UK doesn’t have the same slavery baggage that the US does (we have our own special kind, thanks) so the whole ‘black guy > shackle > slavery’ thing isn’t a natural thought process. It’s probably just a weird sounding name.

The books say they have thin, clever faces and long fingers and toes. That's about it in terms of description. 

It’s fun to blame everything on Brexit, but the economic fallout has been fairly minor in the grand scheme of things. Certainly not enough to be slashing unrelated programmes when there is hundreds of billions in the bank for Europe’s most generous furlough scheme.

Yeesh, that’s too close to the bone for Milhouse

Thank goodness for that, it’s a story that needed to be told. Loser pines for unattainable girl only to discover his true love was his best girl friend all along? Who's ever done THAT before?

It's also a pretty wired take given that the Scots were pretty staunchly imperialist at the time, and the country's economy was reliant on selling ships and trains to the Empire. If the First World War had caused the collapse of the British Empire, the Scots would have been invading London to start it back up again.

Someone at the FIA is making a pitch for a job as a WWE scriptwriter.

I, too have drunk so much cider that I shouted at a tree

I disagree, purely because the Philosophers Stone is a ‘real’ thing that Harry has an encounter with. By changing it to Sorcerer you’re no longer referencing the legendary item, just a nonsense phrase that was made up.

Philosopher means exactly the same thing in British English as American English. We refer to Plato and Nietzsche as philosophers too, and philosopher hasn’t had anything to do with magic for hundreds of years.

But Sweden isn’t even socialist! Volvo is a global megacorp making phat cash like any good old capitalist should!

I guess the problem there is that it’s not clear what he’s arguing against. If he’s arguing that communist, former USSR states made shitty cars then he’s absolutely correct. But it’s OK, because I don’t think any mainstream politician in America is arguing for a system with a planned industrial economy and ownership…

I think freight is the real application here. Using the UK as an example, these air ships compare badly to trains for passengers because they hold much fewer and go slower. A train can carry 700 people from London to Edinburgh in five hours, while the balloon would carry a dozen and take eight.