What are they going to do?

@avclub-fec1b8d3fbc08f27a84e5a334d45bb5a:disqus: our politicians tend not to (publicly) take sides in US political disputes, but in that particular case we did kind of have a stake in the issue under discussion (Obama's plans for a troop drawdown in Iraq, IIRC); and also, as uselessbeauty mentioned up top, our idiot…

Agreed, more or less. I don't like "Little Drummer Boy" at all (and I like Bing Crosby even less than that), but this does work in some odd way, and it's the only version of the song I'll not actively avoid whenever I encounter it.

On the other hand, is any of that worse than you lazily recycling one of your Metafilter comments without bothering to change a word?

So @avclub-17fc821acf8201df4d32d05fb05d0d4a:disqus is a teacher, then? Crikey.

Is SMG on record as having a deep, abiding (and somewhat peculiar) love for some type of tree-dwelling mammal? Because that's surely one of the necessary prerequisites.

I'm willing to entertain the idea that she's not exactly the world's best actress, but even so, she was very good in BTVS. (Although I guess that argument wouldn't hold much sway with someone who uses the phrase "Buffy wank".)

If the rabbit in 14 Up counts, then, sadly, we're already one down.

"… just an easy method for someone to completely invalidate a movie, or anyone else's opinion on a movie" - yep.
"… (the viewer) doesn't have to show any other opinion about it or reason why they didn't like it" - yep.

This is a detail that's reflected quite nicely in Call the Midwife, just by the by - the war's been over for a decade or more when the series takes place, but you still see the occasional bombed-out or bomb-damaged building in the background.

I feel I should respond somehow ("Bodgie" was me, thanks to some Disqus weirdness that wouldn't let me log in properly), but I'm not really sure if I'm supposed to be offended, or just agreeing with you…

I feel I should respond somehow ("Bodgie" was me, thanks to some Disqus weirdness that wouldn't let me log in properly), but I'm not really sure if I'm supposed to be offended, or just agreeing with you…

Apropos of nothing, here's a contemporary opinion of Alec Guinness' performance in TTSS - from Clive James's TV column in The Observer, September 30 1979:

I only know it as a kind of chocolate ice cream from Cadbury, but I guess they must be related somehow, to judge by that photo.

I only know it as a kind of chocolate ice cream from Cadbury, but I guess they must be related somehow, to judge by that photo.

Come on, @avclub-4ffb0d2ba92f664c2281970110a2e071:disqus - those ideas from back in the Tom Pertwee days or whatever are just boring stuff for old people. Why can't you accept how much better it is that our new manic pixie dream-boy Doctor saves every situation with magic and the power of love? And also, this: the new…

Come on, @avclub-4ffb0d2ba92f664c2281970110a2e071:disqus - those ideas from back in the Tom Pertwee days or whatever are just boring stuff for old people. Why can't you accept how much better it is that our new manic pixie dream-boy Doctor saves every situation with magic and the power of love? And also, this: the new…

Elephant Man?

Elephant Man?

Well, they have to fill in the time between Patton Oswalt interviews with something.