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Whoosh, right over your head. ‘They may be more typo’s’ is some fine grade sarcasm. I guess tone doesn’t translate so easily to the written word.

You’d better hurry up. It’ll only be on the BBC iPlayer for 28 days from transmission, and it went out on Saturday night (11 Feb).

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Ben Miller. As in comedy duo Armstrong and Miller:

The Arthur story was published in 1940. It Follows immediately reminded me of some of the ghost stories of MR James, specifically Oh Whistle My Lad and I’ll Come to You (1904) and Casting the Runes (1911). Doubtless there are still older versions of the trope.

Yess, but he gets to slap those wrinkled balls against Abby Clancy .....

Sigh. The Welsh are British. A lot of Welsh people don’t like that fact, but a fact it is.

Sigh. The Welsh are British. A lot of Welsh people don’t like that fact, but a fact it is.

No, you were right. He’s Scottish and he’s also British.

He’s Scottish, but he’s also British. Dominic is English, but also British. Do you see how it works?

The meeting might not happen: 1.6 million British citizens have signed a petition to the UK government to ban Trump’s state visit:

When you get your US citizenship you don’t lose your UK one. You get dual citizenship. Neither has primacy over the other. So he’s good.

God that film was shit.

Johnson!

oooh yes. She’s a brilliant actress and can do quirky and funny as easily as she does heartbreaking and amazing. Tyrannosaur tore my heart out thanks to her performance in it.

Ben Whishaw. He’d be a great choice. He’s a fantastic actor.

Use it and explain to anyone who questions you the non-racist origin of the phrase. A little education never hurt anyone. The more we allow falsehoods to abound unchallenged, the deeper shit we are in.

It’s not racist. If people bothered to learn about the origin of the phrase, ie from the times when pots and kettles were suspended over open fires and became blackened by soots, then you can clearly see it’s not racist. The ignorance is what gets me: people are so keen to find and take offence. Sometimes black is