If only their clinging wives understood. 

When it says ‘bouillon’ cube, what does that mean? Because - yet more transatlantic food name confusion - that appears to mean a stock cube, but there are different common types of stock (veg/chicken/beef) and it doesn’t specify which? Does it matter? My immediate inclination would be to go for chicken unless I was…

The Mail Online is basically a crash course in internalised misogyny.

There was some Nickelodeon cartoon short about a cartoon Zucchini when I was a kid. I was confused by the strange exotic vegetable people referred to on TV for many years. Was very disappointed the first time I actually got around to googling it and found out it was just another word for courgette. 

Its a tricky one - on one hand, in that episode, Tim is supposed to be ridiculous and unable to function in the world, as opposed to a reasonable and aspirational character. It seems that the joke is ‘When you just got fired for being a ridiculous fantasist who can’t chill out about fictional characters and screams at…

I once went to this meal out that was the social celebration of a long+small academic conference type thing that my boyfriend was involved in.

This is 100% it. The reason Brock Turner is still Brock Turner is because he is legally mandated to be. Otherwise he’d be Rich McFuckface and living somewhere else with a nose job having left all this ‘unpleasantness’ behind him. But he can’t, because it turns out that the idea of having a list of sex offenders is…

Indeed. Its the ‘obviously aimed at kids’ bit that really gets me wondering here.

I once went out with a guy who used to not only claim it was artistically scandalous that DJs would cut off the last few minutes of Stone Roses ‘I Am the Resurrection’ (first few minutes of it are the actual song, popular indie club stuff, the last are basically just wanky guitar noodling you can’t dance to.....…

Yeah. Some of Chris Pratt’s stuff is Chris Pratt being Chris Pratt (eugh), but they’re in general measured fair enough responses to a situation (of this level of bad) regarding a colleague, so...

Truth.

Yeah, Sophie was a great character.

True, I think that is was kind of a ‘for the sake of film drama’ addition, no idea how Zuckerberg himself felt about it. There are plenty of things to criticise about the real Zuckerberg, but there isn’t really any reason to believe he fits that quote irl.

Ah sorry. I was being kind of hyperbolic, but what I meant is that Scotland is politically left leaning and has historically been a large portion of the Labour vote (before SNP had a surge in popularity, hence a string of Conservative leaders in Westminster). Generally, without Scotland, no one other than the Tories…

It always reminds me of that bit at the beginning of The Social Network where Zuckerberg’s girlfriend is breaking up with him, and she says something like “You’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd, and I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that it won’t be the…

I don’t have the link right now but the Donnie tweeted about how Scotland ‘took their country back’. That was the phrasing that he used. About Brexit. Which they voted against.

Its fucking insanity. I just don’t understand his thought process..... well at all ever, really.

I think I get what you mean - I think I thought that was a more ‘some americans’ thing.... I even googled to try and find videos where americans say France but maybe I think I’m just used to it from years of TV/films and don’t really hear it.

I think thats just the vowel thing in general though, which is regional. I say it more like ‘Frants’, but then its the same with ‘bath’, ‘grass’ etc. - in the north we generally pronounce the ‘a’ in a similar way to the US.  

How do Americans say France differently?