[Youngian]

Yesterday's Parliament saw the government benches mostly un-masked.

They're following the republicans in turning masks into a wedge issue.

Curious to know if Johnson ordered the cabinet not to wear them. There was a small group of masked Tories sitting around Peter Bottomley. I guess they're the One Nation rump.

They're not the only ones maskless but God will save good Protestants.

[davidjay]

Yesterday's Parliament saw the government benches mostly un-masked.

They're following the republicans in turning masks into a wedge issue.

Everything. Every single bloody thing they do is aimed directly at blokes leaning on bars and saying they might all be a shower of crooks but Boris has got the right idea.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Or, as I heard in the vox pop from Hartlepool, "At least he's a character".

[Boiler]

I don't want 'characters'.

I want competence.

Is that too much to ask? Too often (I've seen this at work in the past) people hide their professional incompetence behind being a 'character'.

[MisterMuncher]

I remember when character was something to have, not something to be

[RedSparrows]

I remember when character was something to have, not something to be

Bang on.

Character, in the best sense: dignity, honour, integrity. You might not agree with them, or even like them, but respect is there.
Character, in this sense: foolish, superficial, transitory. The point is to notice them; anything else is immaterial.

[Andy McDandy]

As Winston Wolf put it in Pulp Fiction, just because you are a character doesn't mean that you have character.

[Watchman]

I cannot believe what those snowflakes at the National Trust have done now; just been reading the latest magazine, they've only gone and renamed a meadow on top of the White Cliffs of Dover, Dame Vera Lynn Down. Surprised the Heil hasn't had anything to say

[Youngian]

Can’t add to that. Well put

[Bones McCoy]

Is there any better standard bearer for

I preferred his earlier work.

Than John "I preferred his earlier work" Cleese

[Youngian]

Nice bit of trolling from Romney and Democrat Senator Krysten Sinema. Most normal people understand the concept of working together to get shit done. But Kryponite for the culture war social media cesspool.

[Cyclist]

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[Boiler]

Unintentional I'm sure, from a supermarket shortly to become US-owned.

Morrisons sorry for 'non-EU salt and pepper' chicken label

[mattomac]

Unintentional I'm sure, from a supermarket shortly to become US-owned.

Morrisons sorry for 'non-EU salt and pepper' chicken label

Seemed to suggest it was the guidance given by the Government….

[Youngian]

From the dark days of the 80s, a young Mr O’Grady keeping his end up

[Abernathy]

This is very good, and genuinely interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014twx

The Scots comedian Karen Dunbar examines the issue of “cancel culture” in humour particularly. She covers all the bases : Major Gowen talking about niggers and wogs on Fawlty Towers, and so on.

Have a shufti.

[mattomac]

Thing is John Cleese I noted was bleating again, his rant which he said was a joke was effectively a Littlejohn article.

Morrissey did a song called “get off the stage” which is about old rockers who have gone past their sell by date, ironically he is now the perfect example of that but there are countless others.

[Boiler]

Morrissey did a song called “get off the stage” which is about old rockers who have gone past their sell by date

I think I preferred Duchess by Genesis...

[MisterMuncher]

When asked about other musicians or music in general, it's quite difficult to see how Stephen arrived at his career as a musician given he appears to have no affection for the art whatsoever.

He also has a consistent, vocal and troubling particular dislike for those forms of music that are obviously mostly the preference of black artists, from historical to the present.

[Nigredo]

Basically, he liked it when confessional poetry of white wilting wallflowers was in vogue and got him attention from girls at art school and didn't when tastes shifted and said girls preferred to go out with black and Asian lads because they were more exciting.