That really bothered me in an episode of The Walking Dead where the characters visited a church in rural Georgia, explicitly identified as Baptist on it’s signage, that had a crucifix on the altar. :smack: And the show is actually filmed in Georgia too.
It always thought it was really telling that the Gileadean authorities allow male gynaecologists to be alone with the Handmaids; the Aunt chaperone sits in the waiting room. It’s obvious that as long as a Handmaid is very discrete and manages to give birth to a healthy baby nobody really cares how she did it.
A casket and a coffin are two different things. Coffins have 6 sides that widen toward the torso, then narrow towards the feet (sometimes morticians call them “toe pinchers”). Caskets have 4 sides, rectangular.
Not saying that you’re wrong about what an English woman would say, just pointing out the terms aren’t completely interchangeable.
Suddenly that summer job I had in 1988 where I went around taking samples of masonry for Wayne Corp makes sense. We were told it was something to do with testing an experimental chemical for retarding pollution related breakdown of building materials in historic architectural features. Good paying gig, if you didn’t mind heights.
They aren’t in the US, but if the distinction exists in the UK, it’s restricted to the funeral director community: as Peter Morris says, it’s not a word likely to come up in conversation.
In any case, my experience is that the “toe pincher” style is by far the most common here, so even if Daphne’s mother was aware of the distinction, she’d be much more likely to imagine herself in a coffin than a casket.
Not quite. IIRC, when gametes (sperm or eggs) are created, their chromosome pairs are broken into lengths of DNA and the lengths switched randomly between the paired chromosomes, then only one of the pair is kept and used. This is why different gametes produce genetically different offspring, instead of every brother or sister being genetically identical, born of identical sperm & eggs.
So the process you describe is kind of in-between true cloning and normal sexual reproduction. There’s more than one parent, but the genes haven’t been scrambled like they normally are.
The episode of Family Guy where Peter becomes a football player. Then he gets fired, and ends up playing for a British team. I don’t mind that the British are represented as sissies who spontaneously break out in Gilbert & Sullivan routines. Rule of funny, they don’t intend that to be realistic. No, I object to the notion that American rules football is a thing over here. We have Ruby, which is similar, except the players don’t dress up in helmets and padding.
