The current conservative PM is particularly dudebroish, but NZ was the first country to allow women the vote (1893), and one of the first to allow marriage equality. It also was the first country to have women in all the top positions (between March 2005 and August 2006: the Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II of New…

It stems from the fact that in it’s early European settlement, their were hardly any women, hence a very blokey culture overall. But let’s not forget that NZ was the first democracy to acceed women the vote.

Are you sure you’re in New Zealand?

NZ doesn’t have anything non-human that can kill you, apart from one extremely rare spider. It didn’t even have any mammals until human beings came here 800 years ago (apart from one bat). NZ and Aus are very different. Though everybody does talk kind of funny.

Question: is it privelege if you earned it doing an actual job?

See now that’s proper dismissive. A+.

I’m never going there. It sounds like a dystopian nightmare.

Really good. Reminds of the coda in Stephen Baxter’s novel “Evolution”.

Francis Pope, no less.

Get back to work, you’ve got tomorrow’s edition of the Daily Mail to put out.

No they call something that is not Quidditch “Quidditch” (something that uses rocket-propelled vacuum cleaners and keeps stopping for adverts), while the rest of the world goes on calling actual Quidditch “Quidditch”. Nobody else wants to play their form of Quidditch, and they don’t care about actual Quidditch, even…

Presumably Supes knows about it...?

How about Hugh Laurie for Steed? Right mix of gravitas and puckishness.

That would work.

Yeah that’s what I mean, do they commit entirely to nu-trek, or do they stick with old trek (which would make the movies a bit of a nonsense) or subtly try to merge the two somehow. I suppose in theory both Vulcan and Romulus could be destroyed (the event that destroyed Romulus were natural, iirc), but an entire…

Is Vulcan also destroyed or not? I suppose it would be a brave decision to go back to original universe Trek, given that nu-Trek is now established.

No, they’re definitely not Swedish.

Cool. Naomie Harris to play 355?

Yes, he did in the end. It was mumbo-jumbo, but it was an explanation of sorts.

Your husband’s an asshole. Get rid.