I'm a foreigner across the border in Newcastle for a similar reason (funded doctoral research) and whilst I love my adopted home, I have to admit I'm tempted to move to Scotland at some point just for the Scottish brogue :)

I suspect not old enough. He's only 55, and this list seems to take 60 as minimum. Though what is old anyway?

Once he turns 60 in February (I'm assuming 60 is the low end of this list) I most definitely expect this man on the list.

He and Jonathan Franzen should get together. Then we'd be able to do a two-for-one on who to not have sex with.

Yeah, good on him for actually finishing it.

There is no depression in New Zealand, there are no sheep on our fields….

Er, New Zealand doesn't have a gun culture. Certainly death threats are taken seriously, but there just isn't access to guns unless you're living out in the country.

I was more a BSB or Five fan, but if you were able to get them to sing I'll Never Stop…

I wonder if Kirpatrick's wedding was probably more low key since his wife isn't an entertainer so they could get away with it. I'm assuming that Timberlake-Biel is enough to set off the paparazzi alarms, and getting all of NSync there would push it up to fever pitch: about the band, not about the bride.

You may be being ironic, but there is a series that does this…

Ha, I thought you meant everyone should move to NZ ala all those people who said they would if Obama was re-elected.

Yep, the type of action that I had imagined Michael Hutchence had done leading to his death until I found out what the actual meaning of 'autoerotic asphyxiation' meant.

OMG I loved Amy! I also liked that she was a proto-Hermione in that she got it the good old fashioned way of working her butt off!

Forgot to add Willow to my commentary, I was actually kinda sad when Wheldon pushed her away from her nerdy side to the Wicca one (also, as nice as it was that she quietly became lesbian, that was also a bit of a pain. Why not make Xander gay?). She had been pretty relatable in that regard.

The only problem with Garcia is that she's written as some wunderkind hacker who got into it in her teens, got into loads of trouble and was then bailed out by the feds in order to work at the BAU. Which means she's not entirely relatable.

Yeah, there's a study that says that biologically the most fertile woman (and thus most desirable) is the 14 year old girl, and therefore the signals from that age (woman but still some child features) are what are aspired to in society. (Note, this does not mean men are somehow programmed to do this, it's just the…

When I was at uni, a colleague called Shonn had a similar story: his mum made it up, but as it turned out it wasn't so unique.

I've known of a few Jewish men that have taken on their wives names, which is kinda cool.

I think Jez is all like surprised that actors can do degrees too. As much as I'm not impressed with Natalie Portman as an actress, good on her for doing well in science. And of course, god bless Mayim Bialik for being actually qualified to play Amy Farrah Fowler (though yes, let's ignore the attachment parenting…