How are your family vs How's your family?

[Tdol]

"U2 are the best!"

In BrE, it would be U2 are rubbish.

[BobSmith]

Apparently I'm full of crap, because I just sent this in an work (formal) email:

The group has more changes to check in, but don’t want to complicate matters.

I think this is perhaps I'm dropping the plural pronoun they, and not it. Anyway, I laughed when I read that