British and living in the UK - my experience is quite the opposite actually, never read HG Wells but have read 20,000 Leagues, Around the World, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth multiple times, though I come from quite a francophone family so that might have had an influence.

Obviously I’m aware of Wells and his works, but I’d say Verne is just as culturally familiar here as Wells is

FYI it’s possible to create duplicate keys from pictures of them, so I wouldn’t recommend posting pictures of your keys online

How do you fare in airport scanners?

I was about to say

-Roz probably

There are several rivers in England called the Derwent.

One of them flows into the Ouse in Yorkshire, another flows into the Trent in Derbyshire, both of which later combine to form the Humber estuary, so the Humber has two Derwents in it

My favourite part of this was when he showed up with several guys wearing these things TO COURT, yknow that place you’re absolutely not allowed to record stuff?

Bienvenue dans le presse-papiers Gboard. Le texte que vous copiez est enregistré ici.

I’m sure it can’t possibly go wrong

This was something I didn’t expect to find weird when I visited the US - you guys have giant billboards for lawyers everywhere

(The one that stuck out was always “the attorney that rocks!” with a picture of a dreadlocks metalhead lawyer, loved that one)

And it’s always really person-focussed, not the business - elsewhere you might get an advert saying “Call XYZ Associates”, there it’s “CALL TODD at XYZ”