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- Obviously this is exceptionally well-handled by Mamdani, but also plays into the fact there are few things funnier than someone trying to hold it together when they desperately want to just burst out laughing.
- As we all know
- Genuinely one of the purest experiences that the human condition has to offer is watching someone try not to lose their shit because you know you already would have.
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View full threadI love how you can see in Palin's eyes that he knows he's in trouble, and Cleese sees it too.
- They're really pushing the "Mandelson, the dark svengali was the malign influence corrupting the Labour party" line, huh? Just him, he's the baddie, don't look any closer, if it weren't for him everything would have been fine.
- Probably doesn't need saying that had this line been used in the period 2015-19 the word "trope" would rapidly have been hoving into view.
- My kid was playing Girl Singing In The Wreckage by Black Box Recorder the other day, so I went to eBay to send her a copy of the album. Man, that Billie Eilish endorsement has really seen their stock soar, hasn't it?
- Got her the Facts of Life for under a fiver, so that'll have to do for now.
- I know they're in dispute with their label so I guess reissues are off the cards for now but here's hoping.
- Related: if anyone has the 2010 single and Dropbox, I have been unable to get hold of it.
- Really, Jon? Was it, really? Reeeealllyy? Was it? You think? Really?
- I would favour somewhere really fucking weird (in both the "unexpected" and "psychogeographically fucked" senses) so I am proposing Penrith, or maybe Barnstaple.
- Basically wherever ley lines and socio-economic decline converge in a town that leaves you deeply bored and with a distinct sense of unease, there is the place.
- Whole Lotta Lube
- I had always assumed this to be the case but according to the replies, seemingly not.
- He's good, it's true. I don't think my Ian McKellen anecdote has made it over from Twitter, so:
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- My dad taught secondary English in Huddersfield in the 70s and 80s, and arranged to take a class to see McKellen in a play (I think Macbeth at the West Yorkshire Playhouse but I can't be sure). This included an afternoon workshop with the cast before the play.
- Anyway, my dad was sat in the staff room one lunchtime, having a cup of tea and probably a cigarette, and the phone rang. Another teacher picked it up, spoke for a moment, then called across the staffroom: "Colin, it's for you. It's Ian McKellen."
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View full threadOf course, teachers being teachers, every time phone rang in the staff room for years after, someone would pipe up with "Colin, Sir Larry for you"; "Colin, Peter O'Toole on line one"; "I bet that's bloody Noel Coward for Colin again".
- Going "whhaaayyyyyyy" when someone drops a tray in a canteen.
- Yeah, that's the sort of vague empty guff guff that the moment calls for, should put any leadership questions to bed.
