For a non-American, that seems like such a gross way to show appreciation. We don’t even have tipping in my country. We have a decent minimum wage instead.

Tell her about Flight 98.

Maybe they thought it was too on-the-nose.

Jesus Christ, Americans are so fucking puritan these days.

Cultural appropriation! Brian Cox is not an American.

Because Michael Jackson was a figure who’s public identity was somewhat absurd. That’s the joke in the casting.

It’s no worse than photos of actual Michael Jackson

John Pertwee

“It’s shocking to me personally therefore it must be wrong”

At least Chewy would have got a medal.

I think that’s “high treason” (?)

This is a British show, they don’t have Avatar money.

She can only beat the guy who runs.

I agree with that actually. It really turned me off from “organised” atheism, which I loved being involved with. It became doctrinal and petty, once it started trying to be inter-sectional.

I took a look through your posting history and quickly realized that almost all your posts are confrontational and aggressive, so jog on pal.

Okay, but there aren’t any leftist going around shooting climate-change deniers. It’s not apples-v-apples.

Oh totally agree. It’s something that I don’t feel would have occurred in a person-to-person group debate, where people are more interested in hearing other views.

There, were you?

I live in NZ, a pretty socialist state by most measures, and I have a friend who moved here from the States 10 years ago now. He was an arch Republican - hated any social services, thought leftists were lazy takers (apart from the actual ones he knew who worked hard, naturally), the lot. Even watched Fox News on Sky.…