anybody who knows about Centaurs - which you have to assume JK does.

Also, although the books don’t tell us anything about what happened after she was carried off, afterwards she’s in the hospital wing for weeks - because even though she’s okay physically, she’s horrifically traumatised by whatever happened.

Ha! And I appreciate the enlightenment!

Does the Hill family live there?

Yeah, my first thought was “I wonder if anyone told her she just killed those lobsters.” If you have too much lobster (this is not a thing) the appropriate thing to do is cook them today and eat lobster salad tomorrow.

Damn, you just made me really want a vehicle with a Cumbrian green interior. I prefer Le Chameau to Hunter when it comes to wellies, but that’s neither here nor there.

Well, yes, the nuclear waste and the bleak postindustrial towns and the remote 5-acre farms that keep elderly farmers on the brink of poverty. But mostly the nuclear waste. :-)

What, the biggest nuclear waste facility in the world bit? Glow in the dark orange.

I thought Cumbria might have been a type of cucumber, but no, it’s a place in England. That makes more sense I guess.

I’d take just about any odds that Irish reunification happens before Welsh independence. Anyway Wales is not represented in the Union Flag in any way so that wouldn’t necessitate much of a redesign (though it would be funny if England ceded the left arm of the St. George’s Cross to Wales).

It might be counter-intuitive for me to take this out of the greys, but I couldn’t sit there and let you say that American beer is better than German beer. It really depends on if you’re talking about craft beer or mass-produced beer or even mass-produced “craft” beer.

Like it or not, a lot of the styles we drink as…

I respect the idea but does Kate Pierson even want to become a robot? That's a massive change just to hear Love Shack forever 

There are many people who consider that the washing machine literally started women’s liberation. Doing laundry by hand, particularly for a whole family, is difficult, time-consuming labour. It could take days out of a woman’s week (a day for laundry, part of a day for ironing. Add mending to that—because laundering…

Had you heard of Clarkson, Hammond or May before TG? The world does not revolve around murrica, get over it.

The “you’re not a real Trekkie” argument is unbearably childish bullshit.

Yeah of all the criticisms I’ve heard of this show the one that registers with me least is “this isn’t the Federation!” Especially when the vast majority of Trek was told from the rarified perspective of Starfleet’s upper echelons. I keep saying, does no one remember the root beer scene? Whatever the show’s problems,…

Let’s face it though, Roddenberry’s “vision” was unsustainable and the franchise has been poking cracks in it from DS9 on, if not The Drumhead. And I’m skeptical that anyone working on this show has ever even heard of Mass Effect.

i am astounded, much as with discovery, how many people are just determined not to like it unless it gives them the genre/nostalgia equivalent of a full body deep tissue massage. like, it isn’t therapy - that costs real money! it’s an hour of star trek. sometimes it makes me groan - just like all the other shows did…

I didn’t know that, so thanks for the info, I’m from the UK (England) so I tend to view the term as purely geographical but I can fully understand that the Irish might view it differently and respect their right and reasons to do so.

I love this show. While people are entitled to their own opinions, my fear is that the critical voices talk more, thus creating a misrepresentative image of the show’s popularity. And if the CBS network sees that, it could mean less shows like this and another by the book trek clone.

I’ve always though the universe of…