Hee; it's the best. It just means "wow", really — it's very old fashioned and nowadays unusual, but it's like "well, blow me down!" or "knock me down with a feather!" or "slap my ass and call me Sally" or however that one goes. It's just an expression of surprise/amazement/delight: "well, pickle my walnuts!"

I forgot about the 4th of July — I wasn't able to work that one, either! When I was new in America and didn't really have anyone much to spend holidays with, they were depressing because I had to hang out alone on days that everyone kept telling me were super happy, AND I was losing money.

It's been around for a million years and I still try to sub it out every time I see it! I have a problem. (That, and insisting that "an" goes before "historic".)

I lived in the US for most of my 20s but never had a TV so this is the first time I've ever known how much the delay is! I definitely knew better than to go on social media, because obviously people don't have any sort of responsibility to not post spoilers on their personal stuff, but I just sort of assumed that any…

I would've loved to have been allowed to work on Thanksgiving when I lived in America. When I was hourly I was basically just not being allowed to make my normal amount of wages, and that was hard. I realise one day might not be much for most people, but it made a big difference to me.

I'm in America for Thanksgiving (hence suddenly watching the US version) and I'm missing TWO WEEKS of Strictly and trying really hard to not find out what happens (which is odd, because ordinarily I always check who goes home every Saturday night).

It is odd, though, because the picture's from New York.

Yep, I was stunned when I arrived in London and saw how pricey McDonald's is there.

Totally tangential memory — when I was hourly and lived in America I hated that I couldn't work on Thanksgiving! I would've loved those hours.

I don't think "pickle my walnuts" means anything!

I read it before it happened on TV and was expecting it to be all moving… but by the time I saw her say it it'd been a bit overhyped and left me cold. Oh well!

Does he mention pickling his walnuts here, too? He says it on Strictly from time to time, and I always wonder what Americans make of it!

Ha! I'm really trying to think of if anyone could say "sausage" in an offensive way at home and I can only think of someone being really oddly specific, like "this person is meaty like a sausage" or something, which I can't imagine anyone would ever bother with! My favourite sausage usage is "silly sausage!" which is…

I read people questioning this on here and didn't understand the problem because it's just something cute to call someone of whom you're fond, but then we got to that part on the tv here and my American in-laws were shocked! So now I know that it means "fat" here, and they know that it doesn't where I'm from and…

Yes! I generally agree with the judges (because I know nothing about dancing at all other than watching Strictly) but whenever they seem to be encouraging people to make sillier faces I should at the TV.

I've never watched it before until last night, but yep, she's fantastic! (The only thing that puts me off her is the "dance faces" where they either look like something smells wretched, or that something suddenly delightful has happened, but lots of 'em do them!)

Because why not? (I'm probably missing something like she's vegan and offended by sausages.)
ETA: We just got to that part (I'm in Los Angeles) and everyone I'm watching with exploded with amazement that he would say that, and now I'm finding out that in America that's considered offensive. Oh well; I've learnt…

I've never watched it before last night (I'm foreign) but I do unabashedly love Strictly. I cry at it regularly, too.

…and also, how many bloody advert breaks can you have in one programme? Is it always like this?

I'm not from this country; foolishly I figured that in countries where there are different time zones people would hold off on publishing headlines for the hour or however long… and now I've found out that apparently that's far too sensible!