But one thing has been bothering me: why do his ties have squared-off ends!? I’ve never seen one like that...

“we may as well include Gus, Mike, Nacho, Hector, and everyone else connected with the cartel.” - well yes. I have no problem blaming drug cartel members engaging in a cartel war for the innocent people who get killed as a result of that war. I don’t know why anybody wouldn’t?

Jimmy and Kim are effectively radioactive and they know it (well, Kim does). So they do bear responsibility when they insist on getting close to somebody who then gets cancer.

Absolutely - from a sociopolitical point of view, Howard is the one on the right side of this. Companies like Sandpiper will only change their actions if the legal system can make them pay for their crimes fully. Howard is trying to actually punish Sandpiper (whatever his motivations), and Jimmy and Kim are trying to…

Something will get along - but if it’s not racing at Monaco, I’m not sure people will really consider it F1.

Good point on the microphone, actually, which I hadn’t heard people bring up. It would still have been a little controversial (do we really want to start a trend where any audience member even slightly offended by an awards host gets to come up and give a speech? If nothing else, we could be there all night...), but…

You asked how many men were killed, so I told you (for my country).

It was Prince Harry’s second-worst costume choice that decade...

To pontificate a little: it often seems worryingly as though people really believe that if someone is a Bad Person, they can’t be a victim, and therefore the abuse was not only justified but wasn’t even abuse at all. The same thing happened with Will Smith, where the internet immediately divided between “Rock said…

That’s not the only thing about Heard that matters when the question is whether she should be starring in a major Hollywood blockbuster. When people say she shouldn’t be given those jobs anymore, their problem isn’t whether she lied, it’s whether she was abusive.

And just to complete the other side of your point: just because there are more female victims also doesn’t mean female abusers aren’t an issue - and not just for their male victims. Above, I’ve quoted that 83 men were murdered by a partner in 2020 in the UK... but there were also 11 women murdered by female partners…

In the UK in 2020, 83 men were murdered by their partners - around 23% of all people murdered by their partners. In total around 27% of violent crimes occuring within a context of domestic abuse had male victims. 32% of people who experienced domestic abuse in 2020 were male. That’s around 1 in every 7 men…

If you’re interested, there’s a document out there somewhere - in the public domain - that lays out all the rules. Can’t remember which one off hand, though.

He did - his engineer warned him that if he didn’t slow down there was a DNF risk. Same as Hamilton, and at almost the same time.

But again, you’re doing the same thing of pretending that the world didn’t exist before 2006 or whenever. Robin Williams wasn’t beloved because of what he did in the last decade of his life. He was beloved because of what he did in the quarter-of-a-century leading up to that. Because of Good Will Hunting, and Dead…

Incredibly unlikely it would be accepted - the track is a big ‘no way’ for F1. You’d have to rebuild all the run-offs, which apparently may not be possible in some places. You’d have to widen the whole track - much of Laguna Seca is 9m wide, going up to 15m in places, whereas F1 tracks have to be 12m at minimum, and…

I’m always surprised Barber doesn’t get mentioned in these discussions, either from the F1 side or from the fan “why don’t they just go to [random circuit that would have to be massively upgraded]” side. It’s basically an F1 track already - I know it’s only Grade Two, but iirc that’s only because of the facilities (no…

I recommend his short, understated but powerful article for the Guardian about partygate, “On the day of No 10's lockdown party, I buried my sister”:

“Most of my comments are directed to the douche who said “if you say so” which (let’s be honest) is an invitation to an argument. At least, I see it that way. Gimme something in the way of a conversation, you know?”

Unfortunately, I outgrew it a few years BEFORE goldmember...