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mike wendling's avatar

I am the annoying American who’s going around telling everyone that “soccer” is actually a British term look it up it’s true

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Robert Machin's avatar

Which is true, but we don’t care…

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mike wendling's avatar

No, nobody does, given the chance to mock a so-called Americanism that also ends in -er

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Tom Moriarty's avatar

The Chatsworth fountain funding is scandalous, but the NHLF is not the taxpayer (although it probably still counts as public funding).

But but but check out Susannah Walker's Recent Acquisitions (https://susannahwalker.substack.com/) for plenty more blood-curdling tales of grift in the country house ecosystem like https://susannahwalker.substack.com/p/follow-the-money - along with a general long, hard look at the role country houses play in our culture.

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Kieran Morris's avatar

Good spot! Amended for clarification.

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AVM's avatar

Cor, that was a blinder x

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David James's avatar

Out of interest (and I won't tell any Americans) what are your favourite London pubs?

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