It isn’t just you, we have a lot of centre-right governments across Europe now and a growing extreme right. Abortion is being “modified” in places like Spain too. It is still banned in Malta too. Usually the focus is on Ireland (North and South) but that is just one part. Lots of your states are the same rhetoric.

And why people ungrey this kind of sad MRA bullshit is beyond me.

Yeah, that is true. My dad thought they look more like large dogs with antlers. They are basically european caribou so look very similar. They have very short legs and thick bodies. Not at all disney ideal.

Yep. Caribou is North American reindeer. Same way Lynx is European bobcat and elk is a European moose. As you say, kissing cousins or sister species.

Have you tried reindeer jerky? It is like chewing on bark. I only assume people in the Nordic Arctic have teeth made from granite.

Yeah “vittu” as the most awful swear and it is more the force of “cunt” really. Pussy is a lighter version. It is kind of used like we use fuck or cunt in Scotland - not always meant as insult, sometimes just a word to express extremes. And mostly almost entirely divorced from the negative female body part…

Yes, I know this but in comparison to me who grew up near Manchester I said “much in the way” as meaning a very small one. As meaning “never more than 6000 at one time”. I never said “Ireland has no Jewish community” though many politicians in the 1930s and 40s wished that was true. You had to be confirmed Catholic…

Yes, great books.

My mistake. So many Batmans, hard to tell.

assumptions American Anglophiles make about the UK

Not just vikings. SPACE VIKINGS.

Aye. This is what gets me. Tis utter bollocks too. How the Irish chauffeur gets a leg up by the medium of love? When did that EVER HAPPEN? Even now lol. In truth, he would be beaten and sent home or to a Sinn Fein holding camp and Lady Syb would be sent to an asylum. Baby would be sent to Australia.

Related factoid - archaeologists just found someone of Chinese ancestry in a Roman era grave in London. Not sure offhand what tests they did so I can’t say if it was someone who had lived in China or someone of Chinese descent.

Burton has been a hack for a while. His Alice is Wonderland films are a crock of shit. Also he usually makes a weird white person (not from UK) do this kind of silly sub-Zellweger accent that sounds very made-up. It is dull. It is boring. Dark Shadows is one the the most terrible films I have ever seen. I only…

There are non-white characters and/or references to slavery in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights too. For good and for bad. Heathcliff was not white and this is well documented, see Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights. A good example is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which modern and is set in Regency era and features…

doubt most British viewers would know what Amritsar was.

They even look like they are doing the same noise “eeeeeee”

Downton Abbey is not social comment. it is pantomine nonsense. Sure they have the odd “aside” but it is for people who love hats and not history. And yes, I am British and working class. I see it as about historically accruate as Outlander. :)

The Jane Austen fantasy did exist but under certain conditions. Hell, she doesn’t even feature anyone working class. The problem is that ONE view is shown as all. There were defo non-white people in my home city of Liverpool 200 years ago. But they were mostly on the poorest end of the scale socially and…

Not just England, the UK. Pretty sure they get the accents all mixed up esp in Lord of the Rings where Pippin was Scottish for no reason. Because foreigners can’t tell the difference. This is what happens with British culture is called “English” by non-British film makers and sold to an international audience. If…