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This is very much an /r/TheAmericans Shower Thought but with the Emmys coverage there are so many people that are only realising now that Matthew Rhys is Welsh and that his accent is a lot different than the American one they presumed he had.

Given his role on the show required him to live for decades in the USA and go completely undetected that he was a foreigner I find it very funny that this is the case.

Mission accomplished, comrade.

I've listened to The Rewatchables for about six years now but I specifically listen to podcasts only on Spotify when I'm driving/commuting as part of a varied pod mix.

I'm in Europe and the move to Netflix isn't available for us but I heard it referenced loads.

As a result I realised this week that I have no idea what any of The Rewatchables hosts look like in real life.

Which is weird given the countless hours I've listened but I never have the urge to watch podcasts in video format so this is not uncommon for me.

So I thought it would be fun to describe what I *think* they look like before going off and googling.

- Bill - I picture him as an American jock type but older than the stereotype. Actor comparison would be: an American Mel Gibson?

- Greg - younger obviously, I see him as a standard millennial man, possibly with glasses and a baseball cap. I'm thinking of a young Martin Starr or Seth Rogan when he speaks

- Sean - I see him as a kind of Bill Hader looking guy. This gets confusing when Bill Hader is actually on as himself

- Chris Ryan - absolutely no read on what Chris looks like but I picture him as a Rob Lowe type, maybe shorter and possibly not as good looking as that's a high bar

- Van - I get the sense he's the same age as Bill which would put him in his 40s/50s. Lookswise I see him as a Don Cheadle, this could be way off

- Mallory - huge Aubrey Plaza vision in my head

- Juliette - host or contributor to some of my fave ever episodes, I see her as a Laura Linney

I'm definitely missing a bunch of hosts but those are the ones I can remember without googling the names.

Now, to go and see the reveal for myself!

I was sitting in the car park of a Centra in the south east and witnessed eight consecutive customers leaving the shop with 99s.

I was eating a 99 in the car while this happened.

Are we, as a nation, more obsessed with whipped ice cream in the summer than others or is this normal behaviour?

This is not just "20 people are more likely to have arguments than 10 people are".

Last night's episode reminded me of similar pinch points in previous seasons where the villa is at max capacity.

It's a pattern for many seasons that the villa gets so packed at times you can see everyone getting irritable and arguments blowing up left and right.

Imagine how claustrophobic it is in there. We need a big clear out asap.

They're pro-bono.

I never really see this mentioned - certainly not on the show itself - but Fitzy plays intercounty Gaelic Football in Ireland, which means:

- he's played an All Ireland final in front of a crowd of 80,000

- he's considered an elite athlete by playing for a big county like Galway, Gaelic is pretty much the most popular sport here

- all his games would be televised nationally and the big ones watched by millions, even though it's an amateur sport

The amount of guys who go on the show who say they're footballers and make it their whole personality - but then it turns out they play in like the 20th tier of English football.

Just interesting but given it's a different sport - only really played in Ireland - I think it's getting lost in translation and not easily accessible to bring up.

I live in the South East/Leinster but when I'm scrolling the internet I see non stop competitions being promoted to win cars, trucks, agricultural machinery etc. Mad big prizes from a few different "competition" sites.

They all seem to be based in NI and I'm wondering:

- is there some tax advantage to running them from there, or just cheaper to get the prizes? Or less gambling regulations?

-is it legal to be targeting ROI consumers with this stuff?

-how many people are actually entering these? The prizes would cost tens of thousands so they must have a serious customer base for what is essentially gambling

We added 16 solar panels to our new build last year. In the last month or so export to the grid has ramped up with the good weather.

I've just discovered that after you reach €400 exported back to the grid, you have to pay the full rate of tax on it like it's additional income?!

We installed the solar panels to try and future proof our energy costs from spiralling and build credits for the winter season. Am I understanding it right that these credits I build up (when my bill goes into minus figures) don't just come straight off the winter bills but I have to pay 40% tax back on the total?

I'm trying to work out how bad this will be but instantly feels like a huge downside to what I'd planned.