No need to apologise, you've pretty much nailed it. The only unrealistic part is that you've got two complete sentences of dialogue but only mention tea once - we'd never go that long without it coming up in conversation. So to speak*.

Definitely more of a goofus, even on my good days !

Not just a good line well delivered but totally speaks to the character with its combination of the Victorian era imperial British attitudes William was born and raised with alongside the punkish disregard for social niceties he assumed later on as Spike.

Xander always felt the most real to me for the reasons you mention. When the other characters wobbled a bit it was high stakes or even world changing but for the most part Xander wobbled the same way the rest of us do - one day he's a dick to someone when he shouldn't have been, the next he's being kind when he…

They're way more likely to do that than ask themselves if they're the baddies.

"And Amanda Waller's respect for Batman doesn't come from his ability to fight or know things or defeat villains, but in his moral capacity for actual good in refusing to kill someone."

And then every once in a while, they're not:

Have you met people ?

It's the "kicking K" sound combined with the hard 't' I think, got some bite. That's why I use it fairly sparingly - it's good to have something that still feels like a proper swear word.

'Berk' is also much milder and suitable for pretty much any company. As you say above, though we do use "c*nt" a lot more than in the US, it's still not something you'd just drop into casual conversation unless you're _very_ sure it's not going to cause offence (or really don't care).

Well now you're just repeating yourself. Enjoy the rest of your day, random person from the internet.

Well, sadly you seem to be what's becoming typical for the right wing in that you deny facts as well as the basic elements of a well established body of knowledge like statistics while simplistically misapplying evidence you clearly don't fully understand in order to perpetuate your view of the world.

My point is that despite what you seem to think the verified statistics you quote _actually_ demonstrate what is better seen as a "We don't know" conclusion rather than a "These are confirmed false" conclusion - absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence right ? All the "No reasonable cause" harrassment claims may…

Hmm, couple of things. That quote appears to be from this Guardian article (please do correct me if i'm wrong on this):

Agreed. For me in travelling around you discover two things, 1) People are all different, with incredibly varied histories, cultural identities and regional idiosyncracies, everyone has a story and there is, as they say, no such thing as an ordinary life and 2) People are basically the same the world over and mostly…

Yeah we're not overfond of that either. Most mistakes of that nature from foreigners will lead to a conversation and/or lively pub debate about the countries of the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man etc. but calling a Scot English will likely only lead to a (hopefully) polite but definitely firm correction, with how firm…

I didn't know that about the kinda sorta dual citizenship, that's interesting. But yeah, I think that could be true about the levels of independence and something I often forget - from the UK it's all just "America" but in fact as you say in some ways the US is closer to a bunch of separate countries which have a lot…

Scotland and England are countries, not regions ("constituent countries of the UK" if you prefer).

I think the best figures put the incidence of false accusations at around 1.5 - 3% in fact although the data are slightly unclear (the waters are muddied partly by research on the topic from the 70s and 80s being pretty redolent of, being extremely charitable, "attitudes of their time" AKA profound sexism).

He's clearly got a lot more than that since he's built a private space enterprise virtually from scratch in about a decade but I do think he overpromises. I'd be pretty amazed if this happens by the end of next year for the reasons Simon DelMonte states (they haven't even orbited a human yet, nevermind left LEO in a…