That last paragraph is my way of looking at things. Or, y'know, it's the justification I use because of my dangerous addiction to commas (and parentheses).

I think it's fair to say that people can get a bit overexcited when a public figure seems to be a hypocrite, but at the same time I find that private behaviour is a better signal of someone's character than their public statements.

Actually, I think you'll find that "the kingdom of God" was the name of an old gate into Jerusalem, and that was the one that Christ thought that poor people should use, so they wouldn't make the nice gates all dirty.

Oh, who isn't a narcissistic asshole these days? Aside from myself, of course.

But the goalposts for bigoted language are always changing! Describing someone as "hysterical" is now apparently sexist, as is calling them a bunch of nagging battle-axe shrews. Where is the line?!

We get a fair number of transport strikes were I live (London (England)), and the public reaction is always so frustrating. It might just be the Evening Standard trying to stir up trouble, but every strike brings with it a bunch of, "I don't see why I, the noble commuter, have to be punished by these dastardly…

It was all the masturbation, wasn't it?

I'd add Jesse Pinkman to the Spike and Boyd list. Not sure if there are any other hugely notable examples, but those would be the Big Three on my list.

I know there's a thrill in rushing to correct someone, but that was my whole point. If the Bond franchise had started today, when audiences are more precious about the actors playing certain characters, I think there'd be a whole Thing about him only being played by Brits.

Yeah, Top Chef conspiracy theories are super annoying, what with the subjectivity of the judging and the fact the audience can't taste the dishes. I'm sure you find all the people who talk about the show being biased towards Brooke as annoying as I do.

I've heard, and this was just from an interview with some guy one time, that part of the problem is the way drama is seen by young people one American high schools. For women, it's dandy, but if a guy does it then he's presumably some sort of weirdo or homosexual. So your more rugged and insecure jockish types avoid…

It's weird, the way audiences preciousness has evolved when it comes to actors playing characters. I feel that if the James Bond franchise had only started ten or fifteen years ago, there would be a big to-do about the character only ever being played by British people. As is, there seems to be an informal rule that…

There are plenty of characters and roles where it's fair to designate that they should be played by a certain nationality or race (and this might be one of them, I really don't have an opinion on this film/character specifically). But I think that it's usually to do with something external to the film, rather than…

UKIP is more like the Tea Party if it had broken away from the Republicans, rather than becoming it's parasitic tumour.

It's just the way things work. If you want to hire Benedict, there's a 'batch of like 11 other posh RADA dudes you have to take too.

They just didn't include the accent, they meant to say that we're rosé. We're not the worst in the world, but there's really no point to us, and nobody is happy when we're around.

That is the whole point behind me arguing that the character should have been played by a white man. Well, I have a lot of other points, but they're all a lot less defendable.

Careful Sam, don't let Kevin Feige hear you talking like that. American actors are expensive, ol' Nick Fury's not going to be around much longer if they stop hiring Brits and Aussies.

Could be worse. My mum has a thing for Lee Mack. It's proper ruined Would I Lie To You for me whenever I'm home.

That's why British families in the 1980s would sit around the telly to thrill to the latest episode of CRiSPs.