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The cutting of overseas aid is Right-wing virtue-signalling and faux-patriotism - it panders to the Gammonazis and Daily Mail readers. What is so nauseating is the sheer hypocrisy of those who claim "We should cut overseas aid and look after our own instead", because many of them equally resent...

Excellent parenting too :)

True story - back in 1992, when John Major's Government allowed polytechnics to become universities, Newcastle Poly was deciding on a new name. but obviously, there was already a Newcastle Uni. Some management big-wig suggested the Central University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, until someone...

One of my fave bands. Adore their mid-1980s' Goth stuff especially, and still listen to it on a regular basis. Apparently, Robert Smith lives on Bognor seafront - very rock'n'roll. Has also been quietly and faithfully married throughout to his childhood sweetheart, which makes a refreshing...

0-3 (Liverpool) - never expect anything against a team of this calibre (especially as we won't have Lamptey for this game), but just hope we can avoid conceding a humiliating, confidence-damaging, 7 or 8 goals, and keep it down to a respectable 2 or 3 goal defeat.

Scientists? Bah, Humbug - we're sick of experts :mad:

Thoughts and prayers, Jurgen. NOT!

Way, way, too much information. :wrong: You do realise that over-sharing is a thing? :lolol:

One of my biggest regrets is going to see The Buzzcocks at the London Lyceum (I think it was called), but deciding to give the support band a miss in favour of a beer or two - the support band were Joy Division :facepalm:

I was there :bowdown::bigwave:

First: Hawkind, Assembly Hall Worthing 1975 (still a schoolboy at Boundstone Comp, Lancing) Worst: The Birthday Party, Leeds Polytechnic, mid-1980s (I love Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but this gig by his previous band was a deafening racket, with a violent atmosphere too - I left after the...

Totally agree - one of the very best 'gritty' crime dramas ever, and some great characters. Set in Paris, but not the parts of Paris that tourists ever see, or would want to! I think the final series is being shown on BBC 4 in January.

Crunchy peanut butter :)

Agree - it's become the first thread I look for every time I log-on.

More Fawlty Towers comedy gold: "Basil, if you're going to grope a girl, have the gallantry to stay in the room with her while your doing it."

"He's rather highly strung" "Yes, yes, he should be" :lolol:

As Frutos has already posted the hilarious 'That is Torquay, madam' sketch from Fawlty Towers, I'll contribute this compilation from Angus Deayton's final appearance as presenter of Have I Got News For You. Having just been exposed in the tabloids for sex-and-drugs-with-a-prostitute, Deayton...

You beat me to it - after all these years, Basil's sledgehammer sarcasm in this sketch still cracks me up. For me, this is the most hilarious three minutes of comedy ever.

Made me nostalgic for this - Tim Gudgin was a Fall fan apparently :)

I'd have thought most 'Momemtum Islington Hard Left' types rather admire Obama. Seriously, most of these barking mad QAnon conspiracy theorists (who also tend to be COVID-deniers, anti-maskers, and anti-vaxxers) are on the Hard Right; people who admire the 'honesty' and 'courage' of...