I watched the first eight or so eps when my mom was visiting in March - she’s the one who got me into books so it was fun to watch together (except for the sex scenes, that’s still a little awkward). TM as a Frank is definitely eye candy.

Well, in that case I take back giving her the benefit of the doubt as a relatively short-termed VC! I haven’t been the most involved alumna so I wasn’t aware of all the Hall upgrades - only New Hall was out-of-term/”hotel” accommodation in my time (although having spent my first year in glorious old Smellville, a…

No! We only have a roku and my husband is not into it, so I've fallen sadly behind. I've read almost all the books multiple times so I really want to make time to watch this.

Yeah, didn’t Blair’s son go there? Not that he is massively posh but certainly not like the rest of us hoi-polloi ;)

That’s better than it was when I was at St Andrews (graduated 2004), and I believe she’s only been there for about five years.

ILY <3

Yeah, I wondered if that was the intent, but men competently holding pets and babies are kinda sexy, so I was confused!

A silver fox can be a lovely thing.

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard “vehement" said out loud and live in constant fear that the way I say it in my head when I read it is wrong and I'll unavoidably have to say it some day.

Why did I have to read all the way down to find out which one to use (being another garbage human who didn’t know). I was on fucking tenterhooks here, Moore.

I moved to the south ten years ago after growing up in the northeast and going to university in the UK, and spent a lot of time confused about religious terminology here. In this part of the county, “Protestants” does refer to non-Catholics as it does elsewhere. Here, the most common “Protestants” are the…

I know what you mean (having studied a few languages with gendered nouns), “the man-gleanders and the woman gleaner” seems kinda redundant and weirdly sexist. But on the other hand, using just “les glaneurs” runs into that male-as-default thing you get in English with “man/mankind” used to refer to humanity in…

Reminds me of the French film The Gleaners & I/Les glaneurs et la glaneuse. I’m glad this woman is bringing at least some of her haul to food pantries.

I just checked and he’s not listed on current staff, so I’ll tell you it was David Jones and he was THE BEST. My thesis advisor on the other hand, who is still there, was The Wooooooorst.gif

Either we are actually friends IRL, or he almost fell off his bike a lot, because I remember this exact scene down to the finger wagging bodyguard. I started in ‘99 so I remember that sudden influx of princess wannabes too.

Pretty much.

Fellow St A’s alum! I went along to the Dunhill with friends one year and they literally squeed so loudly that Michael Douglas did gun hands at us.

Yeah, I know what you’re saying - I’m definitely of the “get out of the house and entertain yourself and don’t come back until dark” generation. I have a feeling this might be one of those “Kids these days reading their books, when I was young we kept ourselves busy by pulling weeds all day” things though.

I need to learn your ways. The huz has asked me to send him sexy pics before, and I’m like “Welp, here are my boobs. The same ones you see every day, so....yeah.”