Just checking: Weird Al Yankovic has done a cover of APT as ‘A Potato’, yes?
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Fred Armisen always looks to me like he’s wearing a Fred Armisen mask. But why would they make such a mask?
I understand he’s not fluent, but it would HAVE to be Michael Sheen as C3PO, surely?
MAY S4C BE WITH YOU
I believe I sort of have a legitimate editorial reason for using AI as a tool. Could probably do several weeks/months of arduous formatting slog in an afternoon. Not going to, though. No quick fix is worth adding to such a desperate problem.
You have no right to healthcare if you believe your care requirements involve the skin colour of the carer. Your options are to change your addled head, or to suffer and/or die.
Imagine being the SMILING FACE of so much unnecessary pain and suffering for so many innocent people.
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It’s just such a tragedy that now forever more Monty Python will have to be officially remembered as at least a 17% fascist-supporting, racist, bigoted comedy outfit. Right down there with Bernard Manning and Andrew Dice Clay. Chapman and Jones will never, ever stop spinning.
Nobody loves Liz Truss more than Kemi Badenoch. Thanks to her, Kemi is only the second most stupid person alive in Britain.
My dream job is to be The Green Man, Robin Goodfellow, the spirit of the Greenwood. So few openings these days though.
It's another damning spot of clear evidence of the sheer malignity of our media and society: tributes to the genuinely despicable negative presence on the planet Rod Liddle have already lingered longer in the news than several wonderful, talented people who recently passed on.
Did anyone find out what it was that actually did manage to stop Starship in the end?
I dropped acid once, it was terrible. Burned right through the lino.
Due to inflation, it's now 25 for the money, 42 for the show, and you're unlikely to be able to get ready and go cat go without a mortgage.
Anyone else occasionally get dizzy turns when you reflect that for most of your whole life it was a joke to call things/people ‘fascist’ – a self-mocking leftie exaggeration… until the actual fascists slipped out from under their rocks? It’s tantamount to ghosts suddenly existing.
If you’re not in some way opposing fascism and zionism and capitalism, however you choose to do so, you’re just chasing fake-throw imaginary balls.
Many independent extra terrestrials, if given snapshots of the British people in 2005 and 2026, might well draw the conclusion that public smoking brings happiness.
What's the difference between a search for a guillotine and Elon Musk? One is a cutter hunt...
From a distance, God is watching us. You can't see where his hands are though. Call the Police.
I think it was Jon Oliver who pointed out that every single AI bot and chat interface was created by techbros who have never had a real friend in their lives, and don't know the first thing about real human interaction.
The problem with ghost stories is ghosts don't exist. It's an especially annoying fact when trying to write one.
I don't like to brag, so I'm very careful not to have any outstanding qualities or achievements.
Democracy is a mirage, like privacy at a campsite.
‘The blood of Dawn Walker’ sounds like a line from an accident claim form about an unfortunate HR manager.
Discovering that Michael Sheen performed a passionate poem about Radstock, the nowhere-much not-quite-town where Bathonians can afford mortgages, seems as incongruous as… well, that bit of Al Pacino’s Richard III film where he mentions Ludlow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I like The Supremes song ‘Lovechild’, but I know I would enjoy it even more if it was called 'Bastard'.
Turns out Whitney was lying to us: The Greatest Love of All has been proven to be Badger's love for mashed potato.
"I just saw this hilarious musical comedian." "Isy Suttie?" "No, she was definitely female and not a mute bear."