I guess I'll throw this out for the commentariat. You seem like fairly smart people.

I still remember the day one of my sixth-grade classmates wet her pants in the middle of class. I don't think I could forget it if I tried.

Yeah, I had to look away during that scene. Brutal.

I'm 5'6" and fairly trim, and I have 15 pounds on you. How are you alive?

Quite a few British soldiers died in the Easter Rising, which would have been the perfect if the will-they-or-won't-they plot had been resolved by then (the Rising was in 1916, when Matthew was in the army, so he would have even had a plausible reason to be there).

Touche.

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus Do the servants drink with dinner, though? During the Christmas special last year Daisy (I think) comments that they are allowed a glass of wine at midnight. I had gotten the impression that the servants only got licit alcohol (as opposed to Thomas's wine stealing, for…

Not according to the French.

@avclub-8583cd7c50cc85d47a8db2dae972cd72:disqus Based on one of the few times we actually see an "important conversation" scene - when Clarkson tells Cora and Robert that Sybil probably would have died no matter what - I can understand why Fellowes doesn't write them often. That scene was clunky as hell.

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus "dictated but not read"

Eh, it can and does stand for either.

It's definitely considered dated. I work in property management and when I started in 2008, our elevators were wired for music (it was classical, purchased through Muzak) but it was notably old-fashioned and three years later we pulled it out. 

It's actually not an especially modern phenomenon. I have no idea how often this happened compared to, say, giving the kids to a married relative. But it wasn't at all unheard of for a widowed or divorced man (men were typically granted custody of any children) to hire a nurse/governess or press an unmarried female…

Yeah, David Angell and his wife were on one of the planes. I think they dedicated an episode to him a few weeks later, and Niles and Daphne's son is named David.

Doesn't Branson tell Matthew he'll hire a woman or get a cousin to come live with him? I didn't get the sense it ever occurred to him to physically care for his child.

Doesn't Branson tell Matthew he'll hire a woman or get a cousin to come live with him? I didn't get the sense it ever occurred to him to physically care for his child.

@avclub-4cfbc51c4d39c53146a0064ca373ddef:disqus

So, they finally started listening to the lyrics?

So, they finally started listening to the lyrics?

Nathan Lane's delivery on "you call those fist names!?" kills me every time.