Very sad.

Commiserations to Jezebel. Way back when, Deadspin was banned from “political” articles. Splinter was closed. Root’s comments were shut off, and now Jezebel’s gone. Pretty shitty pattern emerging.

I’ve yet to recover from Splinter’s closure. Shocking that Jez is gone now too.

It’s an effortlessly cool 60s classic with a host of instantly familiar British faces and more than a couple of eminently quotable lines, in my opinion. But so long as we both agree the remake is dogshit, let's be pals.

You’re recommending the 2003 Italian Job starring charisma-vacuum Mark Wahlberg? I thought the U.S. and U.K. were supposed to be allies but you’ve just declared war.

‘Now and Then’ (b-side of ‘Centre of the Universe’) is one of my favourite Built To Spill songs. Tangentially relevant at best, I know.

And Brad Pitt couldn't have beaten him up either.

You hit the (toe)nail on the head.

A mannerism like... stroking a bushy beard or suggestively winking?

Yes, it's so full of murderers here in the U.K. I'm thinking of moving to America. I hear a place called Cabot Cove is nice.

I was thinking the same thing, only switch out Spin Doctors for Katy Perry.

I’m not a Metallica fan, nor of Lou Reed and I was desperate to hear this album when it was released. It didn’t disappoint (by being often hilarious).

He was just like Union Jack Jackson, fighting in the US Marines.

Fair enough. Hopefully you can forgive my misinterpreting your honest question since the OP I was responding to...

No. What’s especially tiresome is when people castigate an attempt to take the feelings of other folk into account in a perfectly reasonable way. In as much as perspectives beyond those of heterosexual, white, western males are now occasionally considered, “progressive,” might be an appropriate adjective, since doing…

Shuffle banana philosophy.

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Use of the word “woke”.

“Katy Perry is a creative visionary.”

Bollocks. The royals have money but virtually no other power at all. There are literal millions of anti-royalists including, Johnny Marr, Phillip Pullman, me, the Proclaimers, Jeremy Corbyn, all the protesters who attended the new King’s coronation etc. Nobody silenced the Sex Pistols.