oh no sir please don't leave us and take all the money that you don't pay any tax on with you, whatever will we do without you
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:39 (three weeks ago) link
good that the Guardian's "Wealth Correspondent" is asking all the tough questions to our feckless playboy billionaire overlords
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:45 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet-review-proto-punk-star-comic-at-his-70s-peak
At the Dublin show, a heckler shouts “IRA!” and Connolly replies acidly: “I’d love to hear you say that at Ibrox [Rangers’ stadium in Glasgow] …!” It’s amazing, from this modern perspective, to experience again how sectarianism was a violent and normalised fact of life in the 70s.
Talk about living in a London media bubble!
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:11 (two weeks ago) link
that is actually insane, even for the guardian.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:57 (two weeks ago) link
In Belfast, Connolly prudently drops any material about the Troubles, perhaps because he simply and understandably doesn’t want to take the risk.
Or it could possibly be because he didn't have any, except maybe the song about when he was in the Terries.
When he arrives at Belfast airport, Connolly chats amiably to soldiers from 15th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, which he was once with as a Terrritorial Army reserve, and we hear his melancholy song about this on stage, Weekend Soldier‚ easily the best part of his show.
Oh look, that one.
Yeah because there's no way that would be interpreted as taking sides.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:45 (two weeks ago) link
or his long, well documented history of sycophantic royal brownnosing
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:48 (two weeks ago) link
LOL like any comedian from Glasgow was going to have "material" about the Troubles. You'd may as well paint a target on your forehead.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:55 (two weeks ago) link
Ok, can't get past the name
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/family-events-why-i-quit-step-children-accept-me
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 12:45 (three days ago) link
I'm a total a-hole and quite shockingly my stepchildren don't like me, nor want to know me and I don't care - seems to be the gist of it
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:51 (three days ago) link
"Lucretia Grindle Lutyens" lol
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:56 (three days ago) link
she literally had no choice but to be an evil stepmother with that name
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:58 (three days ago) link
“It is extremely difficult to take on board the reality that the people we love deeply have pasts in which we play no role.”is it though???
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 13:16 (three days ago) link
Very bizarre.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 13:31 (three days ago) link
Guardian op ed writers do tend to have issues with understanding the existence of human consciousnesses other than their own, it must be something in their water supply
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 20 May 2024 14:11 (three days ago) link
It seems odd that the article doesn't mention that her husband died in January.
― trishyb, Monday, 20 May 2024 14:13 (three days ago) link
xp lol just came here to post that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 14:18 (three days ago) link
So odd, what does she want to achieve by writing this piece.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 14:20 (three days ago) link
xpost At 97!
So if she was 38 when they married, he would have been... 71!
His kids would likely have been around her own age.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 14:22 (three days ago) link
Gee, I wonder why it didn't work out?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:27 (three days ago) link
Look the heart wants what the heart wants. And that guy's 71 year old heart wanted 38 year old Lucretia van Grundlesnuff
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:30 (three days ago) link
Hopefully there's a Grundlesnuff out there for everybody
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:43 (three days ago) link
You can’t complain about the results! 97!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:45 (three days ago) link