I don’t have any real feeling on Rihanna - don’t love her, don’t hate her. But her reaction to that girl who made the dress for her prom in the style of Rih’s batsuit thing still pops into my head whenever there’s a Jez article on her. Because she ticks some ‘bad bitch’ box she was allowed a free pass to flat out…

Common with the older population, definitely. Beverley or variations are probably just as common but I’ve yet to meet a ‘Bev’ in the US and I knew of several back home. I don’t know anyone under 40 with it, though.

Another English person confirming that it’d be a supervisor or boss of some kind named Bev. I’m 26 and I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone abbreviate beverage in a serious sentence.

I can only speak for myself, but the ways in which abusive men hide and then slowly reveal themselves is a horrific art form. In my experience, they were all polite, chivalrous, fun to be around... the perfect guy. Very, VERY slowly it erodes. They test boundaries, physical or mental, with comments passed off as…

His PR did a great job because no matter what I Google I can’t find a damn thing about the cheating and it was in every newspaper back home. Here’s a snippet of knobjockiness, though:

UK expat in the US here. I don’t like him because he cheated on his wife (and appears to have had the internet scrubbed of it, now I search), isn’t funny on his own steam and is just a bit of a twat, really.

Agreed. And one of the things I always liked about Ciara was she was/is SO DAMN SEXY, but in baggy jeans doing crunk moves. As a teenage tomboy, she was my kind of sexy. I can see how some people get vibes that she’s boring, but I’d rather have an artist be boring in their personal life than downright rude (why…

As soon as I stopped focusing on the modern history montage it became apparent what a phenomenally boring song this is. More BBHMM less this, Rih.