Here's an extreme (Pretoria) version of the South African Afrikaans accent. They're actually speaking Afrikaans, but it sounds the same when they speak English, frankly: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Being taken by the wind might also refer to a lethal case of flatulence.

The South African accent is waht wuhnged dahv. "Park your car by the bar" becomes "pawk yaw caw bah the baw".

As a rule, I only enjoy the twinklier McVie/Nicks songs like Gypsy, Seven Wonders, Sweet Little Lies and so on.

Well, the broader American accents tend to turn a lot of vowels to "ah" and soften consonants , to the point that "I caught a cod" becomes "Ah cahd a cahd".

I'm just glad The Thin Blu Line got a mention. It's one of those truly silly British shows that is funnier that it has any right to be.

"Your cock-up, my arse."

I love the show, and I've enjoyed every episode since it came back. I think what's actually changed more than the show is how much darker humour in media has gotten. Futurama almost feels gentle now.

I think it's funnier to imagine they'll still be making Shrek movies in a thousand years.

5 is actually a pretty fun time, in an incredibly stupid way.

She really is. She seems driven by the same basic impulses of those teenage girls who paste nothing but indie songs and moody photographs of pouts and feet on Tumblr.

I always enjoy Laurie Anderson's music more than her kindergarten-teacher vocal technique, which is fortunately suppressed in O Superman.

Whatsoever little thing you're vaguely interested in is being done as a a perfect little artform in Japan. Look at that lighting and those sets!

My older brother. 4 years older than me, his opinions were objective fact to me before my mid teens. He ran the high school record library and he made me cynical of mainstream pop, but now his taste is quite light and mine just got darker and darker to the point that he find my recommendations impossible to follow.

Well, the contents of this discussion just yielded a fun few minutes of googling. Who dismisses or condemns porn actresses? Don't we use and enjoy porn anymore? Many a night's cold bed has been gratefully warmed by their profession, ungrateful sods.

Maybe if you remove the Y, Tywin becomes Twin, Prestige-style.

Yeah, Pycelle's feeble old man schtick needs to be called out during a small council meeting. Good grief, what a slimy motherfucker he is.

You kill one mad king and then incestuously sire another? Got to feel like divine retribution.

His heart does seem to be made of obsidian.

It looked to me like Melisandre realised (as she did after seeing resurrection) that her powers were maybe not as amazing as she thought, and that much of it may be mere genuinely magical trickery. Her about-face on saving Davos sounded to me like she was out of her depth.