“use it as a crutch”

He’s literally our Donald Trump. God forbid he should ever be in charge over here. I wouldn’t trust him to to negotiate with a plastic bag, nevermind anywhere else.

There’s a big move among the celtic countries to bring back our old languages which were usually banned at one point or another by the English rather than them trying to learn them. As a result a lot of the Scottish signage for train stations has got Scots Gaelic and English on them, with a plan to develop more…

Typical that our national animal is imaginary.

Boris is POSH though, and that bumbling English statesman persona is something that appeals to a certain subset of people. Eighty years ago he would have been considered good at his job, and that same subset of people still hanker after the days of the British Empire. But he remains a white upper class man with a good…

A lot of it has to do with the people writing it ie teenage girls. If something is liked or enjoyed by that particular demographic you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be ridiculed.

... You do know Scots, Welsh and Irish are also official languages? Peace. ✌️

Wow, only one of those things is like the other, and only barely since we are in a legal, political union with each other in the UK and none of those countries/continents are.

Torchwood isn’t in England. It’s in Cardiff, which is the capital city of Wales. #boom

Well, as a Scot, yeah it does erase the non-English, and in particular non-Londoners. It is a real pet peeve of mine. The last Queen of England was Queen Elizabeth and that was hundreds of years ago. Oor Betty is Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Commonwealth and Overseas Territories.

I reckon after the entertainment industry’s reckoning that parliament may be next. Fingers. Crossed.

omfg seriously

Milano’s response articulated exactly how I’ve been feeling since this all came out. People tried to report their abusers/harrasers/rapists to the police/Human Resources/executives etc and do everything the right way and NOTHING HAPPENED. Instead the survivors were maligned, blacklisted and ultimately silenced.

“Smaller countries like... England...” again, England is not what should be used in this instance. The UK is the country that would oversee this, it isn’t devolved to the separate parliaments and it isn’t an English-only issue or excluding Northern Ireland.

I would have no problem with this. Also gets around the fetus/foetus issue in American/British English.

Oh, don’t worry RE: Duke of Windsor, they don’t miss him and hit the wall in this season. It’s so good, this season has been really quite brilliant, with some really stand out episodes.

Can I just say I’m pretty fucking insulted no one has tried to copy me yet?! I’ve been here for years, YEARS.

I am so waiting for him to go down, let it happen.

... Father?

We once had a troll on this esoteric/modern folk music board who was called, I kid you not, Trevor. He was “a time traveller from the future” and tried (half heartedly) to wind us up. He became a sort of mascot for a while, and we really liked the effort he put into this alternate persona. He ended up going to gigs…