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Tory tosspot Tobias Ellwood thinks we should send our children to fight for Ukraine. The same Tobias who praised The Taliban. Send your kids first, Tobias.

Why is it that scifi artists on TV shows and films think that alien foreheads evolved in the same way as you would expect to see a drunk, fanny obsessed, cosmetic surgeon "fixing" someone's face after a road accident.

Partridge began as a considerably older man than Coogan but now appears as a considerably younger man than Coogan. "Comic book time".

I'll probably drop dead before I draw my state pension.

Apparently this mid 1970s song was produced to intentionally mimic the style of music a decade earlier, despite the fact that music a decade earlier was substantially better. This song is a turd in a list of turds - not necessarily because of the lyrics or meaning - just the melody and arrangement:

President Sturgeon?

Who'll take Camilla if HM goes?

That's right, you've just won this 24 silver piece, teenage-friendly cutlery set!

I'd like a spicy Tikka. Just drain away excess oil.

In the old days we didn't care if there were nuts, e-numbers, MSG or gluten. We weren't rabid vegetarians or vegans and we knew how much we could spend. Gen-Z can look up menus before reaching the restaurant and find out prices, using the interweb. They are weak. Let them stress themselves into early graves. Let their morbid Goth-like features dissolve into obscurity and become pale as their bodies are denied proteins; their bodies filled only with the gruel of their ideologies. Alternatively, don't go to a restaurant.

And the award for the most Chemistry related comment goes to...

Perhaps the cunning police think a reward of £20k will entice any potential harbourer of said alkaline thrower to give him up, thus providing the police with both Mr. Abdul and the person assisting him, whilst saving £20k.

Interesting. Innovative people, the Dutch. Although I'm not so keen on their Dutch ovens.

How about historical tropes due to TV technologies/fashions/sensibilities? 1. People moving their faces together, when angry, so that the camera can zoom in for the 4:3 format to capture the moment. 2. The romantic transition of two people kissing, camera panning away, fading then the two waking up in bed (smoking a cigarette being optional). 3. Jaunty camera angles in late 1960s 35mm TV shows (think The Avengers or Batman)

Toni is a legendary choreographer who made it not so big in the 60s before she made it very big in the 80s with her cover of Hey Mickey. She also appeared in the film Head (with the Monkees) - dancing with Davy Jones in the "Daddy's Song" sequence, which she also choregraphed: Look out for her in a number of Elvis Presley films too.

It's like watching a lighter version of Out of Town. Which is a nice thing.

So I liked the post McCoy format for Doctor Who because 7-10 episode stories (that's going back a bit) were never my thing. Firstly I was worried that 1 or 2 episode stories may be too short, but the RTD & SM combination proved me wrong. Now I'm worried that RTD with Disney pulling the strings with the BBC is making this show too childish (based on the Christmas special) And the woke level was laughable in the specials: it's telling that this popular show didn't spark a national conversation about incorrect use of pronouns (presumably because the writers think those who do misapply pronouns should be criminalised, as was attempted in Canada), unlike the way Mr Bates vs The Post Office basically kick-started Parliament into doing something (compensation pending). It doesn't bode well that RTD seems to have cast an actress who can't get beyond one series.

Does anyone else feel like there have been more UK comedies with fewer filler episodes, such as The Office, at the beginning of this century than anything produced last century? I'm thinking of The Inbetweeners and The IT Crowd.

Aren't the Tories already obliterated in Scotland?