It strikes me as extremely stereotypically american and to be honest I’ve never really understood it. To me a name seems such a big part of being an individual that to have the same as a parent seems a little odd - and it always seems to be for men and not women. It also makes me think of rich white oil barons, like Dallas, a very nouveau riche thing to do and maybe a little pretentious.

The main thing i would be concerned of is if there or may be two sons, will the non-inherited name child think they are somehow lesser? Would it create some resentment?

Sharing generational middle names is a thing here but I can’t say I’m personally a fan of doing it for first names.

Thats not to say I don’t find it quite impressive you have already got the counter to 4 or that it is some awful thing like calling your child something stupid or unpronounceable, you know better than an internet stranger in that regard.

I hear its all about the Labubus these days and for the life of me I cannot understand why

I’d say outside the US there is generally less of that macho psuedo military ‘alpha male’ vibe and it is generally less tribal with internal protection, but there will always inherently be something problematic with a job that places people above their peers in power and the people that apply for it. Whilst many may do it entirely for good reasons there will always be bad actors. I dont really see ACAB as entirely true, even in america, but i think the role itself as a job will always be a problem in society.

Parafilm representation! I love that stuff. I totally, absolutely didn’t used to completely mummify samples we sent away to the miserable dicks at our sister lab…

I met one for the first time ever on a work trip to NC and can confim i nearly died overnight…

A UK pancake is very much that same large like a crepe but more substantial as well. Enjoyed almost exclusively on pancake day with sugar and lemon (we did blood orange juice because fancy).

And Larry Ellison puts money into his charity looking into how to live forever…

Teapigs - https://www.teapigs.co.uk/pages/about-us

Because the community is called “Buy European”?

Based in Connecticut apparently

My experience is tainted from an incident at uni involving my flatmate and his friends, nakedly encircling poor Henry… I can only imagine what horrors those eyes saw…

Indeed and what I also love about federation is it is also within your rights to not give people a platform or be forced to listen to them. If people don’t like what they have to say then they will still be able to shout but only into the void and echo chambers.

Both are just classifieds type sites aren’t they?

I’ve just found Create which is a British company and has a few different payment gateways so could be a viable option for me.

Those all look like classified sites though, rather than dedicated e-commerce platforms to build a brand on.

I don’t think that it answers the DRM requirement but BritBox is a British service for British tv programmes and films owned by the BBC and ITV. Internationally it serves the US, Canada, Aus, SA and the continental Nordics.

NPS/Solovair - British leather (and some vegan) shoes and boots, including ‘doc marten’ style Derby boots (they used to manufacture ‘Dr. Martens by Solovair’ boots).

It looks like they don’t distribute via an open format and you are locked to their apps.

Not sure where it came from but you can see it here under S - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_British_military_slang_and_expressions#S

As for other words, I don’t think we do quite so many as the Aussies but there are words like aggro, cheapo, wino, preggo used in every day speech.

Seppo is pretty common in the UK too, particularly in families with people in the forces.