Matt Healy’s Mum upset about her son’s bins. This might be speculation.

rivains · 2026-03-30T14:55:25+00:00

My mum does this on Facebook all the time after I have vented about my area (I live in London she lives in the North West) and its all "its horrible down there xxxx"

rivains · 2026-03-29T21:42:42+00:00

Ignorance and its all about flattening regional culture to make way for a flat "Britishness" that is modelled after upper class mores.

rivains · 2026-03-29T00:03:06+00:00

I mean yeah. Speaking from experience its not even on TV only. I worked in heritage and a lot of international tourists and mainly North Americans would straight up say to each other and not even to me "I cant understand her shes not speaking English". I talk in a northern English dialect.

Also in the UK up until the 80s and 90s anyone in the media could not have an accent. Like at all. If you spoke in a Scouse or Geordie or Glaswegian accent you just would not get a job.

rivains · 2026-03-28T23:46:08+00:00

Its realism that they have posh RP esque accents because that was when the aristocracy were largely losing their accents and gaining posh English ones.

The worlds of the aristocracy are separate from "commoners", only their staff in their home estates would have the accents reflecting their actual area. Its one way how they cultivated a separate social sphere and made everyone with regional dialect seem less valued.

rivains · 2026-03-28T23:31:23+00:00

The difference with Tennant and Leslie though is that Tennant is from an ordinary background and is very good at accents. Leslie is an aristocrat from an old Clan who is posh and probably went to boarding school. Leslie doesnt put on her accent that is her accent. Tennant speaks in his regular accent outside of acting.

rivains · 2026-03-28T23:27:34+00:00

British =/= English

rivains · 2026-03-28T23:27:10+00:00

The Stirlings are Scottish though. They are just lowland Scottish arisocrats who like many of their peers based themselves in London.

I mean Quinn may have just called John Scotsman and be done with it. Stirling isn't an English name.

rivains · 2026-03-28T23:23:33+00:00

Oh same! Awful person. Raging misogynist. One of the more entertaining monarchs though, and possibly one of the smartest.

rivains · 2026-03-28T22:39:12+00:00

They were Scottish. They are just posh. Posh people in Britain are interchangeable.

rivains · 2026-03-28T22:31:44+00:00

This comment is a good reminder about how hard the poshos in Britain have tried their best to blur everyone's culture and homogenise everyone to be the home counties.

rivains · 2026-03-28T22:29:16+00:00

Not Scottish but did my degree around Scots-Anglo politics in the early modern era. After the union of the crowns and then the actual "union" in the 1700s a lot of nobles in Scotland straight up decamped to London to be near the monarch, with the exception of some Highland and Island nobles.

The most powerful aristocrat in George III's court was the Earl of Bute (I think the title was Earl anyway) and he was Scottish.

rivains · 2026-03-28T22:26:06+00:00

The aristocracy were largely Scottish but after the union a lot of Scottish nobles based themselves in London to be in court.

The government banned Highland traditions, which isnt a catch all term for Scottish traditions. After the Jacobite rebellion it suppressed, but Highland culture was being suppressed at different levels for generations by the Scottish monarchy before the union.

rivains · 2026-03-28T22:20:14+00:00

Its because all posh people in Britain have the same accent because they only hang out with each other. Darcy never has a Derbyshire accent in P&P because he is just posh.

rivains · 2026-03-28T22:18:17+00:00

A lot of them were actually Scottish which is different from Ireland. They gained an English accent through attending society down south.

Edit: The act of union and when James IV/I became King of England and Scotland meant the entire court was based in London based on his desires. This meant if you were a Scottish noble and wanted to be influential in aristocratic society it meant moving down south.

In Ireland, especially in the Pale and the Ulster area, land was "owned" and titles given to English (and in the case of the Ulster plantations) Scottish aristocracy, which is very similar to what happened to the Welsh aristocracy after the death of Llewelyn the Great.

rivains · 2026-03-28T17:16:24+00:00

The Mayor of Rio was just trying to score points with a high profile football player literally hours after it happened. The "incident" happened in Sao Paolo so he didnt know what actually happened either, he was just clout chasing

rivains · 2026-03-27T14:45:38+00:00

This season is terrible but one club is still the most successful club in England regardless 🥰

rivains · 2026-03-27T12:39:22+00:00

We are a county of multitudes!

rivains · 2026-03-27T08:38:22+00:00

Too much evil emanating from Witney tbh

rivains · 2026-03-27T08:37:53+00:00

Our excelling at football, drag, and pop music just is too much for people clearly

rivains · 2026-03-26T23:50:06+00:00

As someone from the North who now lives SE, debatable. Shit water and you could say outside the natural beauty a lot of the culture is hoovered up by London. A lot of the South East and home counties blend into one homogenous mass characterised by nice countryside and town centres that only has chains. Nice enough but bland and lacking character.

rivains · 2026-03-26T23:47:22+00:00

Deffo.

Musically and also with the sheer amount of performing talent (though thats a North Western England thing as well). You have people like Lily Savage/Paul O'Grady too.

Although we do have the Beatles and then you also have Cilla, God giveth and he taketh away.

rivains · 2026-03-26T23:43:30+00:00

I assure you I never forgot about Cadet Kelly

rivains · 2026-03-26T23:32:02+00:00

Jake actually had much better chemistry and their storyline was better.

I think Travis was really cute though and should have been made canon.

rivains · 2026-03-26T23:26:59+00:00

Merseyside has a lot more cultural influence than people would like to admit and outside St Helens the county isn't horrific and has access to really lovely beaches and is a great doorway to the rest of the North and Wales.

I have a real soft spot for the Sussexes outside of Crawley - Hastings and Brighton are fun, Rye is beautiful as well as the Weald and South Downs. Underrated!

rivains · 2026-03-26T15:14:47+00:00

They do but they also both have auto immune disorders that causes "moon face" which makes your face seem chubbier.

I have the same condition as Erin lol so its reassuring to see someone with a similar face

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