I dunno about kilt boy - he could've been Scottish and I didn't notice though I feel like I would've. I will return when we have watched it again and report on that! But everyone else was definitely Northern English, like, had proper Northern English accents, definitely not Scottish ones, was what I meant. I know 'cause after misreading Cumbernauld I was all ready to be offended at them treating part of Scotland like England (and also calling it England!) so I was listening out during the post depot scene and there wasn't a single Scottish accent among 'em! :-)
I loved this movie. And this recap. But those weren't Scottish accents, they were Northern English. Though I did initially read 'Cumberland' as 'Cumbernauld' in the on-screen text, which IS in Scotland and had me going WHAT WHY DO THEY KEEP SAYING ENGLAND. But later they said Cumberland pretty consistently and I realised I must've misread. ~mo
They're vaults, technically, rather than catacombs, as they were never for storing dead bodies.
Fun fact: no one ever baked to death in that vault. The fire did spread down the mile that far, but not into those vaults. Nevertheless I had fellow guides when I worked those tours who swear up and down that they had stones thrown at them from the empty vault behind the one where they end the tour. Most of the guides though were much more scared of the 'old coven' - the one with the stone circle in it and the damp down one wall. Those who claimed to be 'sensitive' said that room was much worse than 'the Haunted Vault' where we lied about the fire.
Haha, they might tout themselves as all drama students, but having worked for them I can confirm they definitely aren't (I'm not, for a start, and nor were a good half dozen other current/former CotD guides with them I can think of). What they do have though is practice a pretty good line in psychological torture - scaring tourists for fun and profit - oh, the lies I told!
The big secret: that 'most haunted tomb' at the end? We used a different tomb depending how big the tour group was.
Not enough people have liked this joke. I think it is because they do not know who Ruth Davidson is. Everybody: go and read about Ruth Davidson. Then come back and upvote this comment for its SHEER GENIUS.
(EDIT: To clarify: I am not a Tory (like obvs) but I actually quite like Ruth Davidson. All teasing meant fondly and in the spirit of sisterhood.)
I don't mince with words but didn't feel I said anything unfair. However, I'm sorry to have caused offence. x
Okay, so I feel like it's probably not very productive to discuss this, but I too was a little disappointed by Mallory's 'tude in this article so I'm gonna. I think it's patently clear that those things are being compared unfavourably due to their context, and to claim otherwise seems to me to be deeply disingenuous, particularly when the author herself describes herself as 'sneering' above and clearly 100% accepts erindubitably's premise that her characterisation was meant to be negative. So I have to wonder why you would want to push this point. Are you just trying to start a derailing semantic argument 'cause you're bored in school? 'Cause I mean, I can do those, but it's not really something I expect on the Toast comment threads; I kinda thought they were better than that.
Pretty sure the premise of the above comment is that those AREN'T necessarily bad, and shouldn't be castigated or compared unfavourably with eagle-hunting. Crossed wires, perhaps?
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