The defensive one is the one on the right, in case you need a reminder.

No-one should watch The Grand Tour. I know a number of people in the UK TV industry who were appalled by Amazon’s decision to give Clarkson a series, because it implicitly condones his behaviour. I know, £ and everything, and someone was going to give him a series, even if it was Netflix or Dave or what have you, but…

I love Ming-Na Wen, but to most Japanese viewers she would be no more suitable racially than Johansson; she may be of Asian ethnicity, but that ethnicity is Chinese, not Japanese. Those that care about it (as seen in the comments above, not everyone) would find it just as offensive with a non-Japanese Asian actress as…

This is ridiculously cathartic. Thanks.

I’m going to go ahead and disagree with points 1 and 2 - it was better to get the reveal out in the open rather than save it and do a repeat of ‘I am your- wait - You are my father’ (standard rule for writing; don’t have your audience know less than your protagonists. It’s cheap and makes it harder to engage with…

Guns are banned in the UK. Criminals still get them (as they do drugs and other prohibited materials). But we don’t have fucking mass shootings every day. Even ineffectively banning guns would be something, maybe drop it to a mass shooting every week instead of every day.

Nice vid. I’ve started using semicolons more, as much to relieve the monotony of commas (commonotony?) as to improve the sentence flow; it’s good to get some clarification and confirmation that I’m on the right track.

I identify as a 14 year old but I still got arrested when they caught me in the school gym.

Well, I don’t actually own a Twitter account, so I’d say you’re thinking of a group of people to which I do not belong. I also was not trying to manufacture outrage, I was trying to bring to someone’s attention that they had said something hurtful and failed to apologise for it. Which remains true. Saying it’s a ‘term…

You and I have a very different understanding of an ‘apologetic tone’. The tweet is more accusatory than apologetic, suggesting that Quangel was in the wrong. ‘That wasn’t what I meant’ is not an apology, and ‘OK’ is not forgiveness.

Do you actually know what an apology is? What I said remains entirely accurate.

It may have been, but she clearly didn’t take it as such (and you must see that it’s not immediately obvious as such), and when she made it clear she didn’t like the term you didn’t actually apologise.

I so badly want to get into their Whole.

Nah, it’s a soundalike, I think the same person used as Princess Kenny’s internal monologue during the Black Friday trilogy.

Frosties was easily the best Snow, although Pantene was great at the range of them. Not sure why Real Estate was there, though.

Almost, but it needed to get more Irish and (coincidentally?) more grating and cartoonish as the impression went on.

No, you can see his cheek and ear.

Yeah, seeing it in action really did nothing for me. I don’t know that I want GTA to interrupt my Batman game.

Quite. Maybe it’s just the sites I visit, but I don’t recall seeing any complaints that he was black, just confusion over the fact that he was black while Sue wasn’t. Stopping them being biological siblings seemed to be the thing most people disagreed with.

I watched all of the first season, half of the second season, and a scattering of later (acclaimed) episodes. And, no. Still don’t see the appeal. It really just looks crappy, sounds crappy, has random shit for the sake of random shit, goes with weird rather than funny (instead of combining the two)... It’s like it’s…