I had a flatmate in uni who did not sound at all childlike ordinarily, but whenever she was on the phone to her boyfriend or dad went spectacularly babytalk-y. The rest of us were killing ourselves laughing at it, but it was also a bit disturbing. After a while we asked her about it and she swore she didn't speak any…

Oh wow; I've never actually thought about this before but when I read your comment I realised that I absolutely do that when I do a fake SoCal accent.

I liked it enough to watch the whole series, but for some reason I felt like I didn't enjoy it as much as I really, really wanted to. I can't put my finger on why.

For a split second I thought that was Feliciano Lopez, but then I realised that Feliciano Lopez is prettier than Pettyfer.

Yes. YES.

Bands/singers do this *all the time*. It's super annoying at festivals, when no one knows which acts you're allowed to shoot and which you aren't. And then sometimes you're one of the lucky ones given permission to shoot an act but then security doesn't know that and won't let you in, etc. And then there are concerts…

My mum's in a choir and she has a fantastically terrible choir leader: the woman is tone deaf, very loud and thinks she's the 50-something, English Catholic version of Mariah Carey. It's hilarious. I'm not sure if being in that particular choir would be more of less stressful.

SERIOUSLY.

I have a friend whose boyfriend was involved in the local music scene — not famous, just involved behind the scenes. She *frequently* got things free because she would say "I'm XX XX's girlfriend". We made fun of her for it all the time but then she would get *us* what we wanted sometimes, too, so we let it slide……

My department gets bacon sandwiches for a mid-morning snack at least twice a week.

I once saw her dancing with her husband at a party and they were SO CUTE that I was all "aww, look at that insanely cute couple having so much fun" for ages before I recognised them.

My last name rhymes with Sánchez. One of the few things that makes me want to have a kid is knowing that I would get to give it a great name.

One of the captions in the photo essay on him as a boxer says that he didn't like kickboxing, because "when you start kicking, it gets dirty".

Exactly. There's nothing wrong with "master" meaning "biggest, best"… like in masterpiece or masterplan. "Owner" is actually way weirder and has a lot more going on with it, I think.

It does! It just means the best and biggest bedroom, just like a masterpiece or a master plan or whatevs.

This is wondrous.

Yes! I hate her goals but I love her methods.

I just read that entire email aloud and now I feel magnificent.

Oh yes, if my kid were like the quiet girl, either accent would be fine. I think I'm just assuming the worst of any child I could create, and trying to guess whether my bratty spawn would sound worse if it were from Essex or Los Angeles.

I was cringing too. I'm English and am married to an American and now I'm wondering which country we should have kids in, based on which accent would be less annoying in a little 'un.