Downton Abbey

[missmogwi]

Bloody mum rang to ask me about how much Internet she can use before it's full. Don't ask.

Why did bates have to leave?? Aaargh missed crucial bit!

Oh I think Matthew is lovverrly. But then I have a thing for Bates, in common with half the female population it seems. I was watching the boxed set with my mum and she piped up "I think Bates is rather, um, nice, isn't he?" Christ yes mother. I would.

Mr Darcy described more as dark and brooding (and arrogant) in the book though. It's just the films that have him as a hotty

Matthew rather pretty - but then i'm a sucker for blue eyes....

bleurgh and heh at CLIMAX. What a word.

Oh I'll have the book Darcey or Colin Firth Darcey I'm not fussy me.

And while I'm at it I'll have Mr Rochester too. Sans wife in attic though.

It's rather retro isn't it? Like 80's.

But then I am from the US. Did you not have that word here?!

Oh did they? Sorry then. I must have deleted that from my delicate memory bank

Let's get this thread really really dirty. Someone will eventually find it.

I adore Downton but there is too much goody goodiness out there about it.

Matthew is better-looking this season because he's lost a bit of timber. Still a bit jowly from the side though.

He's too dishwater-coloured for me and the pale eyes make me think of goats.

I don't mind the chauffeur and one day I'll care enough to remember his name.

Hugh Bonneville has been given some interesting lines about ghastly newspapers and scandal. I wonder if they'll continue? I can't imagine what Julian Fellowes is getting at. Nothing mischievous, surely?

I think the chauffeur is called Branson or Branston.

There are no good words for that particular physical phenomenon, they are all boaksome (CLIMAX is in usage yes but it is still bleurgh).

He'll get Sybil in a pickle sooner or later

Yes limited - i noticed the pointed comments about newspaper scandals too...

I'm sure Pamouk was face down.

Which episode was it in? I have just remembered that it is still on Virgin Medias TV in demand service. In the interests of Mumsnetters, I am prepared to ignore my chores qnd sit on the sofa with a bag of pombears popcorn and watch it.

Yes, I can't imagine why there is so much talk of newspaper scandals

He was face down but I think she moved him off her or had already attempted to move him and realised she wasn't going to manage it on her own.

I can only imagine Lord G is a man of the most upright moral character and therefore appalled by having a pedlar of gossip and unfounded rumour in the house.

These people just don´t communicate, do they?

Lord G told by Carson that there is some "scandal"-but didn´t ask his wife?

Prefer "Matthew" with <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.com/imgres?q=dan+stevens&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=7h3&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1366&bih=596&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=n6aB2REJzOnCnM:&imgrefurl=www.qpicture.com/artist/dan-stevens&docid=EsZitbXdUPOUXM&w=377&h=450&ei=0iR7TvrfO6eQ4gTt1aTXDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=870&vpy=150&dur=56&hovh=245&hovw=205&tx=93&ty=130&page=1&tbnh=115&tbnw=99&start=0&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dark hair

Bring out the Branston! No I can't imagine calling out that at the peak of ecstacy. And I don't even want to think about doing it with anyone called Branson.

Does the chauffeur have a first name? I might be more comfortable with that so long as it's not Declan.

His hopes will be dashed. I can't imagine Lady Sybil addressing a servant by his first name.

In one of the series one eps Lady G told Mary that Lord G had heard the scandalous rumours but was ignoring them because "unlike me he thinks they are not true". Seems remarkably laid back attitude for an Earl about his unmarried daughter's reputation.

blimey to diddl's pic link. He's a bit of a hotty in his airbrushed publicity stills.

Pamuk was face down, utterly naked, and lying diagonally across the bed. Later somebody says he died of a heart attack. Erm, orgasm massively accelerates the heart, so if he died of heart FAILURE this wd be the most likely moment for it. But very bluntly, because I think you lovely ladies are all much too reticent, he might not have erm withdrawn from Lady M if he'd died inside her... so despite his position and racial stereotyping, I think oral joys more likely. It may be that the scene where he turns down Thomas was in part to show he wasn't a Troubled Soul, as Mrs P later has it, and thus to offer a clue on his likely act/s.

Gritty enough for you? If not try Margaret Powell's memoir Below Stairs, which has lots fruitier scandal and dirty joking than this thread, and is a giant slap in the face for the series tho plainly a source for it.

A slap in the face with a wet cock?

Would he have got stuck then?

Blimey sieglinde you've really looked into this.

The Telegraph had a Downton Abbey quiz on Saturday and it didn't require anything like as much in-depth knowledge as that.

Would it be a bit like in Car Trouble?

I still confused though.

Was he receiving the oral joys or giving them? If the first, wasn't he the wrong way up (unless you're talking about rimming - I shuddered at typing that word but I'm trying to shake off my reticence).

If the second, given his position, how far up the bed and to the edge was Lady Mary? She must have clung on like a mountaineer.

She must have clung on like a mountaineer.

Well, just because he said she would still be a virgin doesn´t mean she would have been.

Doesn´t strike me as a guy who would necessarily have kept his word.