Charles becoming King feels a bit like when Ed Helms took over from Steve Carrell as manager in The Office, in that it technically makes sense from a story perspective but in the back of your mind you're thinking "it would probably make more sense to end it here to be honest"
Just FYI if a DJ or children's entertainer tells you to "make some noise", never make the most amount of noise you can the first time, because chances are they'll tell you that they can't hear you and you'll have to make even more noise
My favourite aspect of Halloween is the playlists, where people clearly add songs like Zombie by the Cranberries on name alone, so at parties it goes Monster Mash, Rocky Horror, Beautiful Elegy About Intergenerational Trauma of English Violence Against Ireland, then Thriller
As someone who really likes trains, Trainspotting (1996) was a real disappointment. How would YOU like it if I took you to see a film called "Scottish Men Taking Lots Of Drugs" and it was just real time footage of the 15.28 from Didcot Parkway
EGGS: Tee hee! You may look, fair customer, but you will never find me! Am I next to the bread? Or perchance by the milk?
ME: *goes to the milk*
EGGS: No! I'm by the binliners, inexplicably!
ME: Goddammit
ME: Now I'm by the coffee! All hail Eggs, The Scoundrel of the Supermarket!
I run down the stairs, tears in my eyes, clutching this tweet in my hand. "WIFE! WIFE! THEY'VE DONE IT! They've stopped a Chinese student from bringing their mother over to the UK! They've delivered for the British people! All of our many, many problems are over now I assume!"
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
I think it's the fact that we've all been making these sacrifices and steadily wrecking our mental health for 10 months because we were told it would get better, but now things are just getting so much worse and we're told it's our fault. It just makes it all feel pointless
Manic Street Preachers: If you tolerate this, your children will be next
Boomers: hmm. But *I'll* be ok?
Manic Street Preachers: Well, yes, but your children-
Boomers: *tolerates this*
There's an argument to be had that Series 4 of Peep Show, where Mark and Sophie trudge joylessly towards a miserable and doomed marriage, is the grimmest series of any conventional sitcom ever, and that's before you get to the episode where they eat the dog
Me near tourists in London: oh you child, riding on the Tube is not exciting. It is my commute. Stop treating my city like a theme park. This is not a game, this is My Life
Me as a tourist in Manchester: oh my god tram tram tram TRAM TRAM TRAM TRAM TRAAAM
the way Dominic Cummings is being treated right now is truly terrifying, it sickens me to my core, what kind of a world is this where a white man has to tolerate questions and suffer consequences for his actions
Netflix cashing in on the success of Squid Game by turning it into a reality show is like Paramount cashing in on the success of Apocalypse Now by invading Vietnam
Stop whitewashing history and let me enjoy this lovely contextless statue of a British trader who somehow became fabulously wealthy in the eighteenth century for absolutely no reason whatsoever
In Plantagenet England there was a rule that said that if bishops grew their herbs to excessive sizes, they would be stripped of their diocese
Hence where we get the phrase "long thyme no see"
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@AdrianXpression
Hi no you've very much missed the point, it is about how black people's history was entirely destroyed by slavery, but thanks for playing
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@AdrianXpression
"How do you have any culture other than slavery if born into a slave culture?" That is literally the point. The history has been destroyed.
in my head the letter Y is secretly really bitter that it's stuck next to all the bullshit letters at the end of the alphabet, while Q, the most bullshit letter of them all, is inexplicably living it up next to proper megastars P, R and S
if this was genuinely the conclusion you came to, you have fundamentally misunderstood the role of Channel 4. Channel 4 does not compete with Netflix and Amazon. Channel 4 will not become Netflix and Amazon with privatisation. It will be swallowed alive and stripped for parts.
Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. 1/3
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The modern countries have been created more by colonialism than natives. A black history, without European interference, barely exists
I just remembered the time Anthony Horowitz gave a talk at my school when I was 10 and I was so excited as I loved his books
I plucked up the courage to ask if he wanted to write books that weren't for kids, and he looked me right in the eye and said "what a stupid question"
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@AdrianXpression
Black people were slaves in America but they had identities and cultures before they were kidnapped. Those cultures have been lost.
I love April Fools, the one day a year when the UK media makes up a series of outrageous and unbelievable stories and tricks their audience into believing them
the biggest problem in MY day was all the fake slim shadies. you'd see a slim shady out & think "hey the real slim shady" but nope, it was another slim shady just imitating. we tried to fix it by getting the real slim shady to stand up but if anything that just made things worse
Now in fairness, people in the entertainment industry brought this on themselves by causing the global pandemic. It's not like finance people caused the banking crisis so OH HANG ON A MINUTE I'VE GOT THAT WRONG
The moment King Charles appoints the new Prime Minister will be a momentous occasion, it'll be the first time Rishi Sunak has ever met someone living off the welfare state
I think of myself as relatively timid when it comes to politics: I believe that consistent incremental change within a failing system can achieve more than a scorched earth revolution
That being said, we need to rise up and burn this chaotic fucking government to the ground now
Let's be very clear what's happening now: Boris Johnson is cosplaying at grief. He's doing it because this is what is required at this bit of the Churchill biopic that he thinks he's starring in. He is a hateful vain man whose incompetence and cruelty has killed 100,000 people.
it's amazing that Frasier has some of the greatest sitcom characters ever invented, and one of them is a dog and another one of them is never seen nor heard
What I've never understood about Bake Off casting is why they had to have two presenters after Mel and Sue. Those two worked because they're a great double act but the show fundamentally doesn't need two presenters! Either give it to preexisting double acts or just one comedian!
Is there any other show that sets up a Great Romance between two characters in its first two series and takes away all obstacles in the third series so they discover they were a horrible couple destined to have horrible lives together, and then FORCES them to stay together
all coffee adverts: we have been DEVOTED to creating the PERFECT CUP OF COFFEE since 1872. EVERY FIBRE of our BEING obsesses over EVERY BEAN. if our coffee EVER fell below our IMPOSSIBLY HIGH STANDARDS we would EXPLODE IMMEDIATELY
all tea adverts: oooh tea's nice isn't it
This is extremely boring and also borderline obsessive on my part but I'm pretty sure I've just spotted the special location from
@taskmaster
S13 in an episode of Midsomer Murders from 10 years ago...
Look Captain Tom seems like a smashing bloke but every time the government champions him they normalise the idea that vital social services should be paid for by acts of charity and it's all rather disgusting
well here's a dumb project I've been working on since the most recent series of
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ended - a visualisation of the horse race of the series showing how close (or not close) it was! why? who knows! but it was mildly satisfying to put together!
ever since The Office Gervais has been almost pathologically obsessed with ensuring he's Not The Butt of the Joke - in every subsequent project, his perspective has either been the "right" one and everyone else is comically wrong (Extras, the Karl Pilkington stuff, his standup)..
"gosh there's so many good new TV shows, how does anyone find the time to watch them" Jack says as he puts on series 7 of Taskmaster for the 10th time this year