Saying he is a small town boy is a ploy to inspire trust. Same for constantly stating his age. It is part of the act.

i saw Derren live too and he makes a lot of these claims void. Man in a very lovable smart cookie. He does good work.

They should at least tackle it in the show. If Outlander stans get all zealous about the “historical truth” wiki side of the show (which we both know is pure guff) then they should feature non-fluffy matter.

Yes I come from a council estate near Liverpool UK. Dead charmed, like. I actually do BTW.

That movie broke me in several places. Also, this promo picture.

The French film 2014 with Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel is flawed but visually spectacular. A hard one to top really.

A UK supermarket would have almost exclusively instant coffee. Many stores wouldn’t even stock beans.

Kettles are to boil hot water. You pour the water into a tea pot. They are made of china usually and not fire proof. This kettle water can also be used to make coffee or other consumables that require hot water like noodles. If you don’t have one form of kettle (electric or otherwise) in the UK and Ireland, you are…

Don’t forget Felix the Huddersfield Station cat. Not just high powered bureaucats hehe.

I love your Wonderlandian refs. Quite, indeed.

Bob being the most famous ginger out of Tottenham since Adele, innit.

His mother was a conservative Free Presbyterian from Stornoway in Scotland. Amongst the most religious you can get for a Christian in Western Europe really. Her religion is notoriously anti-liquor and pro-temperance. So possibly that too.

I met a guy who went to expensive college USA - we will call him Chad - came to my university in Scotland and lived in our flat. His psychopath father was one of the US top corporate executives and they had a house in the Hamptons or Martha’s Vineyard or some other place. The son was so full of despair and hate for…

She is clearly out of her depth with public speaking. Mr Trump may have another 4 years of speeches she doesn’t quite get. Written by another person. It is like hiring an actor to play “Hot First Lady”.

Sure. Harmless nonsense fiction - each to their own. The books are written for a very specific foreign audience. Naturally, people here prefer culture representation as home grown but insular work probably doesn’t always travel well. Diana makes some truly daft mistakes too, which do alter most peoples interests…

Fucking hell. I hope she doesn’t bother much with slavery. Unlike, you know, Scottish people who went to America in the 18th century. Boom boom. :)

Ugh i just looked at that. Bloody hell. A character from Asia whose name is a rude joke in another language (according to the crib sheets it is, though I wouldn’t trust that personally) how trope and tropey. Mind you, it isn’t like she does much better with the Europeans lol.

*enters stage left*

When I tell people in Scotland (where I am in my life) that North Americans write porn about Scots, many do this face.

I dunno if our British Royals themselves think they are superior to their cousins in Europes (Prince Andrew probably does) but people across the the world seem to put them above in the ranking. For whatever reasons. In Europe people talk just as much about the Monagese family as Cote D’Azur is far more glamourous…