Imagine lumping all of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam together as ‘Indochina’. That’s like glancing at a map of Europe and going “Fuck it, let’s call it ‘Amerussia’”
“Alexa find me an example of a football hit with the unforgiving force of a thousand suns.”
“Your search returned Cyrille Regis vs Norwich 44 years ago today.”
“Outstanding work, Alexa. That will be all.”
American GIs in Italy 1943: “These Espressos are real swell, Giuseppe, but hey, you know what would be even better? Water them down and name them after us!
It’s now 40 years since this quite brilliant episode of Yes, Prime Minister was broadcast but somehow it still seems remarkably appropriate after all this time! One of the best comedy series ever and superbly acted.
@RevRichardColes Not quite as dim as traditionally believed either. He was multilingual, a musician and kept an insightful diary. Just very much not up to the times he lived in and his health conditions exacerbated that
Made my periodic visit to KFC for a Bland Poultrycide Bucket for One, fried in 11 secret dusts and atoms, with a pot of boiling Brown Cornflour Mystery to dip it in. Why do I do this?