Using more words than necessary is very much in the spirit of this comic strip. Citizen Kane might be too modern a reference though.
Using more words than necessary is very much in the spirit of this comic strip. Citizen Kane might be too modern a reference though.
"I did not ask my editor at the time (not to be confused with my editor now or my editor previously)" Like, we know what "at the time" means, Brooke. Why are you like this?
That post feels like it was fed through Google Translate multiple times. I'm actually curious to hear what this guy sounds like speaking out loud. I bet it's insufferable.
I think it'll be loaded enough that people might try and come up with another term. But I imagine we'll see if England carries on with its weird flag humping.
True, but if Scotland did get independence I guarantee that they would not want to be called "British". And it would probably increase the chance of the term "British Isles" (which is already a bit controversial) being definitely renamed.
The geographical location is the "British Isles". "Great Britain" is a political entity. If Scotland left the UK they would not be British because that refers to the political part, the same way that you'd never call someone from Dublin "British".
He's already tried to prove that almost half of Scottish people aren't British by showing a poll about whether someone would vote for independence.
It reminds me a bit of that guy who was criticising Americans for being racist by saying "don't import stuff from the shithole European countries you escaped from". Weird right-wing opinions that the person thinks are left wing.
Yes, we would probably call a Tikka Masala "Indian food" because it's a convenient shorthand for a type of food. That doesn’t mean that Chicken Tikka Masala isn’t British.
Thank god there are no black citizens of the USA who might be there because horrible things happened to their ancestors.
Mate, you keep trying to make the point that the British Government has historically done some pretty awful things as if people are disagreeing, and no-one is. We all know that.
Yes? Are you feeling okay?
That is due to the fact that there isn't a commonly used term for people from the US aside from "American" which is also the name of the continent. So if you say that you're American people are going to assume you're from the US.
In a hypothetical future situation where Scoland wasn't part of the UK then no, they would not be British (although geographically they would still be part of the British Isles). But that's a hypothetical. At the moment they are legally British. What point are you even trying to make here?
Great Britain is also a country descriptor. The full name of the UK is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland" So Britain = Scotland, England, Wales UK = Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland
Weirdly enough, most people don't actually introduce themselves by giving a breakdown of their ancestral history.
Americans with great great great great grandparents from Glasgow: "Hey, I'm actually Scottish!" Americans when they see a non-white British person: "So where are you REALLY from?"
"I'm just double checking to see if the non-white person living in Britain is actually British. No, I'm not racist."
Do you check to see if everyone living in the UK considers themselves British before you consider them British, or do you just reserve that for non-white people?
American trying not to be racist keeps being extremely racist.
I think Robin is great, but I also don't think he's powerful enough that the Scottish Government would do something just because he's got a show at the Fringe.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
I also like how the next film bookends it by being a straightforward "Bond vs a crazy supervillian" movie, the sort the original films did all the time.
I mean, SHIELD were entitled to play around with it. It's not like they ring up the Galactic Lost and Found department and ask if anyone had dropped an extremely powerful cosmic artifact on Earth.
Eh, other countries are perfectly capable of creating arseholes without America's help.
I think blaming the proto-Avengers for Thanos using Loki to attack Earth is probably a bit unfair.
They had Terry Farrell in a swimsuit on the planet of horny sex and the episode was awful.
80s/90s Trek NEVER did "sexy" well. You had some absolutely gorgeous people in the various casts and the closest we get to genuinly sexy is Riker giving one of his big cheeky smiles.
Someone pointed out that more people turned up to the Snowdon Ultra Marathon than the multiple "protests" that happened at the same time, which means that running for 57km up a mountain was more popular than shouting at a hotel.
This is the one I was thinking of. That's a much better Dragon Shield than was used in MMPR. I dunno if there were any potential other "Tommys" in the background (maybe a White Ranger?)
I think when he plays the Green Ranger again in one of the future anniversary episodes it's the "proper" design. From what I understand here the Dragon Shield got damaged in transit between Japan and the US so they had to make a replacement in a hurry.
Aside from that we got, what? Bashir hanging around with Data whilst he took a nap? Riker pressuring Quark for information over a viewscreen?
Although I was always amazed at how little the 90s Treks crossed over. The only real thread that requires you to watch things in order is the withdrawl of the Cardassians from Bajor and the setting up of the Maquis. That went from TNG to DS9 back to TNG then VOY then back to DS9.
Let us have a little fun.
Hey, Troi had to wait 4 seasons before getting meaty stuff like "she likes chocolate".
(And to be fair to Pulaski, the thing people forget is that by the end of season 2 she's basically Data's biggest fan. I'm curous how that could have developed if she'd stayed.)
Yeah. Data is slightly autism-coded (potentially accidentally) in a way Spock isn't. Spock made jabs against humans all the time. Data would never do that.
He also said "gay lesbian" so he seems to like being redundant.
This is like complaining to the Daily Express that you can't make jokes about Diana anymore.
I'm also wondering if Palin realises that Telegraph readers, who are reading the paper who are actually interviewing him, would be one of the most outraged groups? Like, it's not the left that would be objecting...
Okay, I'm going for a run, so no-one say or do anything interesting until I get back.
Frank Welker was basically every animal voice in everything forever.
One issue at a time.
And to be fair, a lot of the comments in TOS could be considered racist, but you do also have to consider that it was written 60 years ago, and also that only his two best friends were "allowed" to do it, and Spock bantered back quite happily.
I sometimes feel like writers want to do the McCoy/Spock banter stuff but don't know how to do it without it just coming across as racist so they make it "acceptable" by making Vulcans in to arseholes.
Has anyone ever written about how amazingly inefficient it is that each Transformer has their own unique gun? Does Kup have hundreds of musket lasers, or does he have to get a new one built every time he drops it?
I always liked the look of this guy, but I was getting the Mech Invasion set at the same time and didn’t want too many Devastators. How is he/they?
I drove up the M6 a couple of days ago and there were a lot of flags there as well.
Both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 came out in the 80s (1984 and 1989), and it's weird once you notice it that everyone is basically chain smoking throughout the first one and then not at all in the second.
From this week’s Beano.
I more meant evergreen as in "the original cartoon version". But I guess this would have been the cool "Optimus Prime but realistic!" version at the time.
Oh yes, you're right! It's been ages since I've seen MP-1 but I remember those joints at the knees and those comm panels on the forearms.
It's funny how that is specifically MP-10 rather than an "Evergreen" design.
Capitalism is bad, but what Trump (and other authoritarian leaders) is replacing it with is worse.
He might have said that he was going to make an announcement at a festival maybe about that at some point in the future possibly.
See, now, I know Cheers.
We don't know what a Denny's is either!
For some reason her face makes me think of Vic Reeves holding a handbag and going "ooooh"
Oh, 100% agree. And for Transformers there's the added hassle of all the bits. Like, I don't especially want to keep Energon Demolisher, but I feel that if I'm gonna sell or donate it I should find the missiles, and at that point all energy escapes me.
I want to argue but you are objectively right. Although I have a soft spot for the Japanese flag for being a nice simple design that also means it. The tricolour flag can get in the bin though. No way am I telling them apart.
Shh, or Rowling will try and cancel the Muppets.
Also, the "V for Victory" sign doesn’t really lend itself to being misunderstood as it's LITERALLY DOING A V WITH YOUR FINGERS.
I think David Willis gets blamed for everything that ever happens in TF fandom.
Oh no, I can't watch this until Monday. My deapest appologies.
Silence on trans rights and a complete lack of understanding of how SEO works.
I guess considering some of the things that were reported about William Russel at the 60th, maybe it was for the best.
Did you know they did a miniseries where Paul Robinson travels back in time and accidentally creates an alternative present where Susan is in a sexually frustrating relationship with Phillip Martin and Karl is a washed up old rock star?
You could have published that exact same article 30 years ago from a straight author complaining about how they shouldn't by criticised for their "perfectly legal" views on how gay people should be banned from public life.
Genuinely yes in some cases. It's that whole "if you like a character who does a bad thing that means you also want to do that bad thing".
www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
It was a great gift!
Midnight Pals is beginning to seem more and more like a documentary.
A friend of mine got Jack Lawrence to do me a piece and asked which Optimus to go for and I said this one, because split chest windows FTW:
Repeats of Masterchef oh no...
I bet he paused the movie every 10 minutes to explain the backstory and/easter eggs occurring on screen.
I know. Apparently I've still got to feed him! In this economy! Hope yours is settling in okay.
Dropped the boy off for his first day of school, so I think that's parenting completed. ...there's more?!
Someone needs to do an Overlord + Pipes cosplay so that they can hang out.
And they keep changing so keeping up is a full time job. You definitely want this option though.
There's an option in Facebook which basically says "we have access to everything on your phone". I know lots know about it but some people dont.
If we're doing IDW1, which one was Trump? Was that Nova Prime?
You say that, but the Decepticons had control of Cybertron when he was in charge. Once Rodimus was running things the 'Cons were kicked off planet and had to live on a miserable floating piece of rock. Also Rodimus killed Satan. And yet he thinks he doesn't live up to Optimus. Pssh.
Yeah. Like, on some level we know that the Cyber-brig isn't really the Brig because he can't be... the guy who played the Brig is dead.
Probably, and Jack Kirby was almost definitely a good one.
Very much how the First Doctor could have gone out on the absolute banger of "it's far from being all over" if only he'd stopped talking 20 seconds sooner.
Because he's somehow managed to not be associated with it. Any failures of Brexit are due to everyone else but not him. He's just a smol boy who likes our fishermen.
Even in the Marvel UK stuff they only interact in Target: 2006, I think? I don't believe they're in any stories together after that.
Hey, it's still 80% more characters in full colour than we'd have got in G1!
I am constantly amazed that American parties think that the best way to get people to vote for them is to spend two years talking about how the other people in the party are rubbish.
Apparently when Moffat wrote that line he didn't understand that "sandshoes" was primarily a Scottish term, and neither did Tennant.
Y'know, I hate how modern politics means I have to double check what's being referenced with that number.
Mary's just worried that Olive's running form will cause her to fall over. Alternate arms and legs, Olive!
I guess that's better than "I refuse to believe that you're a man until you show me your feet!"
Ah, fair enough.
What's the buyer's remorse for?
Wait, they were asking to see their feet as "proof" that the light fell on them, or "proof" of their gender? (Not that it makes sense either way, I guess)
I keep reading breathless posts about how Colbert/Stewart delivered a monologue so shocking that executives were furious and phones were left unanswered. Which kinda ignores the fact that the show was on again the next day with no issue.
"Is science good or bad for humanity?" "Yes" Amazing work there, whoever wrote that slide.
That's a criticism we could use daily with this strip.
I was confused and thought you were talking about the guy who was in Remebrance of the Daleks.