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Volvo has been Chinese owned for many years now
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Volvo has been Chinese owned for many years now
No, not the same at all. Alf Garnett's atagonists in the show confound his stereotypes of them. Fawlty's antagonists generally confirm them. But this does illustrate sharply that it is not necessary to succomb to stereotypes to find the comedy.
September 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
No, not the same at all. Alf Garnett's atagonists in the show confound his stereotypes of them. Fawlty's antagonists generally confirm them. But this does illustrate sharply that it is not necessary to succomb to stereotypes to find the comedy.
Of course; but that neither explains nor excuses so many secondary characters written as lazy racist and misogynistic (Sybil, the shrill harridan...) stereotypes. This undermined the genuinely comedic moments, even back then. It was always overrated, well before utterly failing the test of time.
September 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Of course; but that neither explains nor excuses so many secondary characters written as lazy racist and misogynistic (Sybil, the shrill harridan...) stereotypes. This undermined the genuinely comedic moments, even back then. It was always overrated, well before utterly failing the test of time.
Not a popular opinion, but I view this as the most over-rated show in British broadcasting history. Even at the time the regular racist tropes were cringe inducing - as an Irish kid, I was diagusted by the awful Irish builder stereotype and consistently bewildered by the hateful portrayal of Mañuel
September 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Not a popular opinion, but I view this as the most over-rated show in British broadcasting history. Even at the time the regular racist tropes were cringe inducing - as an Irish kid, I was diagusted by the awful Irish builder stereotype and consistently bewildered by the hateful portrayal of Mañuel
I think they did last weekend
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I think they did last weekend
While I love Eurovision and the idea that it was set up to foster peace etc, actually it was established for much more banal technical reasons to test new broadcasting capabilities by the EBU. Obviously it outgrew that fairly quickly.
September 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
While I love Eurovision and the idea that it was set up to foster peace etc, actually it was established for much more banal technical reasons to test new broadcasting capabilities by the EBU. Obviously it outgrew that fairly quickly.
Missing the point: simply pursuing these costly resource-consuming apparently frivolous suits (which will probably end up being settled) is a very effective way of ensuring media are defanged as, from a business perspective, they will attempt to avoid future hassle
September 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Missing the point: simply pursuing these costly resource-consuming apparently frivolous suits (which will probably end up being settled) is a very effective way of ensuring media are defanged as, from a business perspective, they will attempt to avoid future hassle
Does your ex-wife know?
September 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Does your ex-wife know?
Do they wilfully ignore that the ECHR underpinning is in the GFA precisely because no other party to the agreement (including most of the Unionists) trusts the British government? What do they think that even having this discussion is doing to that trust?
September 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Do they wilfully ignore that the ECHR underpinning is in the GFA precisely because no other party to the agreement (including most of the Unionists) trusts the British government? What do they think that even having this discussion is doing to that trust?
Xenophobic? Why not just plain racist...
August 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Xenophobic? Why not just plain racist...
And he was actually Puerto Rican....
August 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
And he was actually Puerto Rican....
It's straight peoples' idea of gay choreography. That's the only explanation. Though I do recall enjoying this immensely as a deeply closeted teenager in 1982
August 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's straight peoples' idea of gay choreography. That's the only explanation. Though I do recall enjoying this immensely as a deeply closeted teenager in 1982
Except they keep saying it wrong 🙉
July 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Except they keep saying it wrong 🙉
Wait now, shouldn't this be posted in the Very British Problems site?
July 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Wait now, shouldn't this be posted in the Very British Problems site?
The balance of probablity (not overwhelming), in my view, supports that a messianic preacher in 1st century Palestine called Jesus (Yeshua) encountered another preacher called John and was crucified by the Romans. The rest requires far more supposition.
July 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The balance of probablity (not overwhelming), in my view, supports that a messianic preacher in 1st century Palestine called Jesus (Yeshua) encountered another preacher called John and was crucified by the Romans. The rest requires far more supposition.
But you seem to have accepted the christianist (or judaeo-christianist) argument on the "uniqueness' of christian thought when in fact it was rebranded versions of philosphical strands already bouncing around the ancient world for a couple of centuries. And no evidence Jesus actually said any of it
July 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
But you seem to have accepted the christianist (or judaeo-christianist) argument on the "uniqueness' of christian thought when in fact it was rebranded versions of philosphical strands already bouncing around the ancient world for a couple of centuries. And no evidence Jesus actually said any of it
Except how you phrased it is patently not that.
July 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Except how you phrased it is patently not that.
Where did I say this? Of course it's probabilistic, hence it is not accurate to characterise the evidence that Jesus said any of the stuff attributed to him as "overwhelming" from a historical analysis perspective
July 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Where did I say this? Of course it's probabilistic, hence it is not accurate to characterise the evidence that Jesus said any of the stuff attributed to him as "overwhelming" from a historical analysis perspective
I already mentioned that those two points were the only broadly agreed historical facts about Jesus. This all started about his "thinking" which is reported in the gospel but has no other accepted historical attestation (later "expanded" copies of Josephus' Histories don't count)
July 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I already mentioned that those two points were the only broadly agreed historical facts about Jesus. This all started about his "thinking" which is reported in the gospel but has no other accepted historical attestation (later "expanded" copies of Josephus' Histories don't count)
It has been useful to learn how personal insults are such a keybpart of your "debating" style. And really, calling me pompous? After all those thunderous unsupported pronouncements from the mountain-top to cow me into submission?
July 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It has been useful to learn how personal insults are such a keybpart of your "debating" style. And really, calling me pompous? After all those thunderous unsupported pronouncements from the mountain-top to cow me into submission?
To the original point, wikipedia actually has a good well-referenced article on the subject which fairly represents the position including this: "Beyond this, there is no scholarly consensus concerning most elements of Jesus's life as described in the Bible" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...
Historicity of Jesus - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
To the original point, wikipedia actually has a good well-referenced article on the subject which fairly represents the position including this: "Beyond this, there is no scholarly consensus concerning most elements of Jesus's life as described in the Bible" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...