“I think you meant MAGA-City One. “

No, but there will be a Mega-City One.  I’m sure Judge Dredd will take a dim view of electoral tampering, but elections in the Big Meg are fairly meaningless anyway.  Pretty sure the mayor is an orang-utan in 2106.

The aristocracy, and especially royalty, would have had distinct accents from commoners, even more so than today. As it was Cummings sounded like very refined Edinburgh to me, which is probably as close as anyone knows to the real James I / VI.

Indeed, there certainly were. I suspect they might be slightly less unusual in or around northern port cities like Liverpool at the time. In the arse end of Lancashire, less so.

The assumption with seeing a black man might be that he was a slave/servant for someone of means (if you wanted a general dogsbody, you’d recruit a local). That might actually help the perception of the group as exotic, wealthy experts in a subject no-one else understands.

If you buy them from a charity (in the UK, which I assume JKR’s assistant was), they are neutered, chipped, vaccinated and so on. Normal procedure is to basically cover the charity’s costs which might be £100-200 or so.

I can add an appendix to exspleen myself.

But her entrails!

It gets better and better. However I’d suggest skipping the very final episode, and only that one.

Came here to post the exact same thing. Well done, madam or sir.

Horrible, and very, very cute!

Yes sir.

“Also, since “Tim Shaw” cheated and exploded so won’t Stanza send another prospective leader to hunt another random human (or poor Karl again)? Doctor said they are to stop but how the rest of them is to know or care? I hope that once the Doctor gets her TARDIS back she’ll remember about it. “

That was the part I hated the most (the rest was mostly boring). Superman is fundamentally a childrens’ character. I was watching a scene that fell out of Romper Stomper, with Superman being stabbed and having the shit kicked out of him in a scene that dragged on for ages.

“BECAUSE THE EVIL PATRIARCHI DEMANDS IT!”

With a tele-gram to Pinkertons.  That’ll soon fix ‘em.

The incident you are referring to was horrible, however he absolutely did NOT blind the man.

The Nancy Sinatra but “These Boots Are Made For Walking” was originally written for a man to sing (Lee Hazelwood), which makes it a very different song. Nancy told him “Er, a man shouldn’t be singing this” for what should have been obvious reasons.

Yeah. Also I’ve played card games and board games where people say “hit me” when they want you to deal them another card or whatever.

Yeah, it’s a retcon. Vader can’t get promoted because he hasn’t actually achieved anything (he successfully survives the Death Star whilst simultaneously failing to stop the guy who blows it up).