to think Matthew Crawley is a right misery as a romantic lead?

[SomersetONeil]

...give me a rogue-ish Rhett Butler type any day of the week.

I don't think yer man even knows how to crack a bloody smile. Which would be OK if he was Colin Firth Mr Darcy, but he's not, is he?

By the way, we're a few episodes behind you down here in the Southern hemisphere. Feel free to reveal spoilers if it means he extracts the carrot from his nethers.

I love (or love to hate) Matthew's facial expressions. He did a particularly memorable grimace down the business end while Sybil was in her death throes. He is creepy as fuck when he gets sleazy though- telling Mary's dad that "Well, my eyes have certainly been opened" after getting back from honeymoon was a bit of a cringefest...apart from anything else, aiming for a bit of sexual camaraderie with Lord Fatty when the actor is known for taking vegetables up the arse in brothels tends to conjure up images of Matthew and Mary which I don't really want to dwell on.

"aiming for a bit of sexual camaraderie with Lord Fatty when the actor is known for taking vegetables up the arse in brothels"

WHAT?!

What? What?! Vegetables?

No, O'bi kept it to herself with the soap.

He is creepy as fuck when he gets sleazy though- telling Mary's dad that "Well, my eyes have certainly been opened" after getting back from honeymoon was a bit of a cringefest...

Cringe-o-rama... :-/

apart from anything else, aiming for a bit of sexual camaraderie with Lord Fatty when the actor is known for taking vegetables up the arse in brothels tends to conjure up images of Matthew and Mary which I don't really want to dwell on.

What the actual??!

Vegetables, really? Are you watching the same Downton as me?

Vegetables?!! WHAT?! Which actor anyway, HB or DS?

That's the gossip equivalent of bitch-plopping, I reckon. Goss-plop.

I assumed the venerable lord

Yes, that was what the super injunction was all about. The Mail kept writing knowing articles about knocking shops, and then just happening to put them next to any old guff which mentioned the bonny-hued one. I thought everyone knew this?

Waaaaahahahahahahah!

I knew nothing of this.

What a turn-ip for the books.

(Bada Boo)

Oh yes, Lord G was the super injunction man, I'd forgotten about that, but I hadnt heard about his fondness for veg, but then again Cora does come over as a bit of a cold fish