If the thread had been titled “how do I make a bahn mi” then I’d have upvoted you to the moon. But it wasn’t. It was asking how to make that most English (not British, but English) of foods, a cucumber sandwich. And in case that wasn’t a clue enough, the community is Ask UK. Not Ask Vietnam or Ask America.

If you went into an English tea room for afternoon tea and they served you that monstrosity and claimed it was a cucumber sandwich, you’d be perfectly within your rights to burn the entire place to the ground and not a single judge in the country would convict you.

If it has cheese or ham then it’s not a cucumber sandwich. It’s a cheese sandwich, or a ham sandwich.

Looking at that screenshot, even though I’ve been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.

Well like it says in the sidebar, we’re the Meh Generation so, I suppose, meh!

Seriously though, I’m not bothered. If anything it’s to our credit that we’ve never done anything bad enough to make us despised by the young’uns.

I’ve not seen any of the previous series (I think I’m right that this isn’t the first series) but I accidentally caught the first episode this time round and now I’m avidly watching each week. I’m really enjoying it.

Also, I want to go travelling again (although on maybe more than 20 quid a day!)

And now, my mind being what it is, I’ve immediately started wondering if Doctor Legg ever got a glimpse of Ethel’s little willy.

Nothing changed. I’m not sure what you were expecting would change - the only difference was that instead of driving to Dover, putting your car on a ferry and then getting off in France, you’d drive to Dover, put your car on a train and then get off in France.

The Eurostar passenger services started a year or so later iirc, but again although it was fun to be able to take the train to Paris rather than taking the plane or boat, it didn’t really affect anyone who wasn’t travelling to Paris anyway.

I enjoy Sara Cox’s evening drivetime show. I sometimes wish I didn’t, but when you’re doing yet another 4-hour slog up the M1/M6 in evening rush hour traffic it’s perfect company.

And Zoe Ball can be OK in the mornings, although I’ll often tune into something with a bit less chatter unless I’m feeling particularly enthusiastic. Other than those two shows, R2 doesn’t really do it for me. And yes, Jeremy Vine is utterly off-putting.

Maybe a controversial one but I much prefer the US version of Shameless to the British one.

Ooh thank you for this. Hannah Fry is an excellent presenter and brings enthusiasm and clear explanations even to complex subjects. I’m looking forward to this new series.

Edit: for those who can’t be bothered clicking through to the Grauniad article, the programme’s called “The Secret Genius of Modern Life” and it’s on BBC2 at 8pm.