Webster “Americanising” English in the early 20th century was surprisingly recent. I get caught out quite often writing code at work by accidentally using the British spellings I’m used to instead of American English (which is the de facto language of code regardless of how I feel about it).
just Bing it bro!
for real though if you ever want to watch a movie for free online it is by far the best for finding copywrited material (due to not filtering it out and letting you search for videos > 20 mins in length)
Yeah my bad there. Not sure what the collective noun for North Americans is… Basically the context is struggling crossing the Atlantic.
It was a different writer and director for 28 Weeks and they retcon it in the 28 Years series so they can do commentary about Brexit, etc.
There is a cult in the movie whose adherents dress like an infamous paedophile Jimmy Saville. I guess the US equivalent would be Bill Cosby. People in NA are not getting the connotations and are cosplaying as this person at screenings.
It’s as representative of Scotland as Fort Boyard is of France
Infiltration phase 1 completed
The legacy sequel, bafflingly titled T2 Trainspotting, is a decent commentary on the nature of sequels and being middle aged. There’s also more of actual Edinburgh in it; original movie was primarily filmed in Glasgow.
This romanticisation of Scotland has been going on since Sir Walter Scott, it’s not a new phenomenon. It’s actually fairly apposite that the castle was paid for by the proceeds of empire because Scotland was an enthusiastic participant in the empire with much of Edinburgh and Glasgow being financed by the proceeds of “sugar” (read: the triangular slave trade route).
Unfortunately my fellow Scots can sometimes have a hard time grappling with our historical participation in empire and have a tendency to whitewash it. One of the reasons we had the unification of parliaments was that Scotland bankrupted itself by putting all of its money into an overseas colony which ultimately failed. Hard to see participation in empire as an English corruption if we were already trying to establish our own empire.
Didn’t know that about telegrams.
I think I sounded grumpier there than I meant to. It’s a relatively small adjustment!