The words that spring to mind all seem to start with a C: on the NYT side, craven, cowardly, capitulation. On Tangerine Nightmare’s slate is crass, cretinous and....the other one.

The new series was unwatchable. I tried, but Prue Leith is too “nasty” a la Hollywood. There’s no real balance with the judges. Sandi Toksvig is always fun but Noel Fielding is about as funny as Hansen’s Disease and demonstrated that amply.

YES! I tried to find a clip on youtube, but sadly failed..

+1 from an Irishman who saw them do this at the Brixton Academy one 23rd December about ten years ago. Not a dry eye in the house...

Holy moses, that’s outstanding.... especially the reviews: “Join-the-dots Mein Kampf”. I did indeed literally LOL.

I’ll tell you all what, though: whenever this relentlessly shit year got me so down I was ready to dig a hole in the garden and live there until it’s all over, I put the words “Ted” and “Cruz” into the search function on Deadspin and find things to make me smile again.

What idiot called this Mogwai song “Christmas steps” and not “Slint-A Claus is coming to Town”?

*edit*: Smethwick 1964 General Election...

Good lord. Can I suggest looking up the Smethwick by-election and even watching the movie The Dambusters to see the error of that assumption.

I want to start a religion based around Cam Newton.

This sort of horseshit is why ratings are down. The euphoria of the Patriots eating shit suddenly becomes a lengthy limbo of replays to see if the receiver’s pinky was at the correct degree of deflection. Someone might remind the NFL that sport is about the thrill of the moment rather than a dull physics lesson.

Dom, didn’t Savage also have to be led away by a coach when he tried to return to the game... or am I confusing that with someone else from last Sunday?

I’m only surprised that it’s taken this long for a famous chef to be taken to task over sexual harassment/misconduct. If ever there was an industry dominated by testosterone and egomania...

Did Burneko not get any hate mail this month? I do so enjoy his interaction with dickheads.

I do believe that the big problem for this teenager may be the DMCA counterclaim. IIRC, filing one of those is legally binding to either a) being the copyright holder or b) claiming Fair Use (which can only be dealt with in court and clearly would have no chance in this case). This is under pain of Perjury.

I am as anti-monarchy as they come (ideal wedding gift: a guillotine) but I found a Charles & Di souvenir pint mug in a charity shop in Barking ten years ago and it’s survived a lot of beer and several house (and country) moves. I’m not entirely sure it wouldn’t be the first thing I grabbed in a fire. What this means,…

I talked my GF into getting me the Yellow Submarine LEGO set last Christmas and it has pride-of-place on the living room mantel. I’m going to drop some hints about this one but I don’t fancy my chances..

I talked my GF into getting me the Yellow Submarine LEGO set last Christmas and it has pride-of-place on the living…

I really believe that hockey journalists are the most thin-skinned, neurotic, anti-anyone who doesn’t have a press pass saying a damn word about the sport bunch of whining babies in all of sprotz takedom. And the Canadian ones are the worst.

Of course, compared to this bit of genius weirdness (that I guarantee will remain burrowed into your ear for the rest of the week), the Who theme sounds like Burl Ives.

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