I love the idea that these people would have welcomed Italian and French Protestant immigrants with open arms.

(I suspect a lot of why Bluesky far-left Yanks are particularly angry are because they're the ones who either didn't vote to avoid the fucking problem this time last year or at best did so in such a grudgingly bad-faith bothsidesy way that their low-engagement friends and relations didn't bother)

I wish I could Like this in a more emphatic way.

I think the only man who gets away with it is Mike Wozniak, and that's because everything about him feels like he's somehow been transported here from a sitcom office in the early 1980s.

Your mum's favourite crooner from the 1960s. Big pal of Jack Jones.

People with memories are freaks.

It sort of coincides with fans having access to video recordings of previous series, I suspect.

Come to think of it, that just makes him *worse*.

I suppose the thing about those guys is they did other things as well as observational comedy on TV. Billy Connolly, Harding, and Carrott sang, Carrott, Allen, and Sayle did sketches, etc.

Needles About.