If it helps, the last person to have picked me up back then (18+ years ago) is now Mrs periscopes. We started out just having fun.
We started dating because we were becoming friends, but there was a huge sexual tension between us.

Louis Malle's "Zazie Dans le Metro" had that exact vibe for me. Some of the scenes were so close to my actual dreams, it was weird.

I had a strange attraction, even as a kid, to the Cadbury's Caramel bunny:
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It was all just arson.

Get a Maserati full of week-old puppies. Your problem is lack of planning. You can't get a pram in a Maserati, unless it's the Quattroporte. So skip the pram, and use both effects at once.

You're right. I'm a bit insecure like that, and love it that one of my gay friends has made no secret of the fact that he'd totally go to bed with me if I let him. I never would. I'm not sure whether I'm totally hetero, or if I just don't fancy him - but it's irrelevant as I am monogamous to Mrs periscopes. But it is…

It's a great idea. Just because she tends bar, doesn't mean she's not a human being. I was a part-time bartender/full-time student when I was at university. If no-one had picked up this bartender, I would have been seriously under-sexed.

I just think of the Steven Seagal movie "Above the Law", which was released here as "Nico". I was given it in a VHS boxset in the 90s, and have seen it just the once.

Hell yes. Why hasn't it been done already?

I've been enjoying this season of Rev. so much, especially Archdeacon Robert's description of childbirth in the taxi. Such glee.

Or Tim - he'd have loads of stories.

Solve a fiendish-level sudoku puzzle?

Right…. You drink paint thinner behind a fat-rendering plant? You are luckeh. I have to get high by sniffing the puke off a dead tramp's urine-stained trousers. And I'm only allowed to do that on Boxing Day after me fatha's beat us wi'a shit-covered belt that's bin discarded by a leper.

Have you ever tried playing the drink-along-with-Withnail game?
I do not recommend it.

Shiny.

If we're going with classic sitcoms from this side of the pond, I'd go for a drink with Father Jack. Then I'd always look sober by comparison.

.. probably by Raylan himself.

She fainted dead away before even getting this far down.

Explore Asia with the Holidays? Fine, but first I need to complete my relaxation in Piedmont whilst listening to Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian. Turin breaks with Turin Brakes, if you will.

Thank you! As someone who was a British kid in the 1980s, I am unapologetically excited about this news.