Especially if you talk to people who don’t have to talk for a living. I’m Somerset born and bred, but since I seem to spend half my life with a phone glued to my ear shouting at people in other countries I have to tone it down a little. But certainly my Grandparents (who died around 10 years ago) were really not that…

Don’t forget the grammar.

Except in Southern England the barren wasteland is three acres. In Northern Oklahoma the barren wasteland is...Northern Oklahoma.

That sounds to be more like Cumbrian sheep stuff, at least for the most part. You can tell by the way they go baa. Also the roadsigns said Cumbria.

He’s a plumber from Brooklyn who falls down a sewer into a magical kingdom populated by anthropomorphised mushrooms and dinosaurs, with a turtle on a cloud that sometimes throws armadillos at him, there are leaves he can eat that turn him into a flying raccoon and sometimes he sits in a giant clockwork shoe, and it’s…

Seriously? All you need to do is hit the thing with a rock.

He had elbow pads on his shirt. That guy knew what he was doing.

Blame Jeremy Clarkson for that.

Au Contraire; It’s the Japanese Mercedes.

Even without your opening sentence, I think I would have guessed that you were a recent graduate. BURN THE OLD STUFF and all that.

Two questions.

I think it's more likely that not eating before the race would result in an unfair advantage. Important distinction.

It really does work both ways though, manmoaning though it may be. A previous office where I was the only full time worker, for example, so I ended up having to cover five different jobs at varying times of the week. Or picking up copier paper. Or moving furniture around. Or changing co-worker’s tyres. Or shoo-ing…

Yup, I don’t think it was so sudden either - all decisions happen, and what we’ve seen for the last ten weeks has been Jimmy trying to work out whether to listen to the devil or the angel on his shoulders. Even if he had taken that job he would still have been Slippin’ Jimmy in his brother’s eyes, and after that week…

They put Jimmy Stewart in an asylum for this.

The drive home reminded me of this.

IIRC (and I was only about seven at the time) there was something about throwing stars; maybe a kid lost an eye or something.

Clearly a horn. Here’s the bit that Toad from Wind in the Willows toots when he wants the poors to get out of the way.

It was the law. Chances are that Ford planned for the aero lights but then the change to the law to allow them took longer than they expected.