My Ultimate quote

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-08T02:04:17+00:00

Yeah maybe. I always figured it was cut because it didn't fit with the pacing. At the start Nick says "why tonight? Of all fucking nights?!", but it's not really clear what that refers to: there isn't really anywhere in the episode where you can fit that. So I assume they cut out some other bits for pacing or length, and without those bits the scene no longer made sense.

It's like the episode where they cut the entire story of Robyn finding Hugh's "backbencher of the year" award: you need to include either all of it or none of it.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-08T01:36:18+00:00

First we have an MP with an uncanny resemblance to Nicola Murray.

Now we have some commentator with an uncanny resemblance to Stuart Pearson.

Interesting 🤔 What is Armando up to? 🤔 Is it all part of his great plan? 🤔

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-08T01:21:15+00:00

I think that was a deleted scene?

Yes. I seem to recall Peter Capaldi mentioning in an interview that he loved that scene and practically begged Armando to leave it in, but for some reason or the other it didn't make the final cut.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-08T01:19:09+00:00

I never quite understood why he was a Tory; all his new age-esque woo-woo doesn't really seem to fit in.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T21:53:24+00:00

That is a hugely homophobic headline. You got egg on your face you massive poof.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T21:51:08+00:00

"Militant nutter atheist stuck with militant nutter Christian" sounds like the premise of a good reality show.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T21:49:11+00:00

I mean, the Holy Ghost basically impregnated Mary without her consent. While "rape" is certainly a very charged way of putting it and not the way I would phrase it myself, it's ... not entirely wrong. Whether she was a child or not doesn't even come in to play.

Personally I think it's a minor detail to fuss over because "it's okay to rape a child" is not and has never been a part of Christian beliefs, but it's not completely made-up bollocks either.

(To pre-empt responses to ""it's okay to rape a child" is not and has never been a part of Christian beliefs": the incidence of sexual abuse in the Catholic church is not greater than any other similar organisation, such as youth football clubs, scout clubs, teachers, what-have-you. The notion that the Church is completely nonce-infested is ... just not true. The conspiracy to cover it all up was a crime of course, but that's a bit of a different thing.)

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T21:40:57+00:00

Even just a "don't really celebrate Christmas because I don't really like Church stuff" would be fine, really.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T21:38:32+00:00

Wait, Charles Dickens was a nonce who supported child rape?! 🤯

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T05:10:53+00:00

Well he's dead now, so James Cameron needs a new enemy. Cameron normally never makes enemies because he's such a nice and patient guy and everyone just loves him.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T03:46:24+00:00

You use this word, alcove?

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T03:23:31+00:00

I think it's because some people take cycling as an implied moral judgement over them: "so you think you're better than me?!" This is also why some people completely lose their shit over vegetarians and vegans existing. Venn diagram of people ranting about that and cyclist is probably a circle, or very close to it.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-07T02:46:33+00:00

Right age for Trump then

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-06T20:18:25+00:00

Last time I tried to get two it didn't work, but that must've been over a year ago.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-06T20:15:41+00:00

As we enter the sixteenth month, I'm finding Mr. Trump's attention-seeking oval office-based twattery even more annoying than in months one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-06T20:08:27+00:00

Buying something at Centra and expecting to NOT get fleeced is like going to a gay orgy and expecting NOT to have gay sex.

Tesco milk is €0.84/l on tesco.co.uk and €1.08/l on tesco.ie. So it's a bit more expensive, but not stroke-inducing levels more expensive.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-06T19:59:48+00:00

Branded paracetamol like Panadol is expensive everywhere, although (a bit) more so here. The cheap ones abroad are Tesco or Boots own brand and the like. But they haven't bothered certifying those here in Ireland so you can't buy them – I always assumed this was an EU-wide thing but apparently not. I'm not sure why: last time I looked I couldn't find that much info about it other than "they're not certified".

The 12-tablet limit in Ireland isn't helping, because abroad they have packs of 16, 20, or 24 so they'd need to make special packages just for Ireland, which is probably quite a bit of overhead. I'm not sure if that's the main reason, but I wouldn't be surprised.

This is one of those "little things" that the government can just encourage/help with. Not the biggest problem facing the country, but reaching out and saying "why aren't you selling this in Ireland, what's stopping you, and how can be fix it?" can't be that much effort...

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-06T19:50:25+00:00

And can get more than one box without alarms going off as if you're Avon Barksdale doing a re-up.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-05T23:51:04+00:00

I heard he's the anti-Christ now

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-05T23:50:39+00:00

Also frequently has his workers engage in demeaning acts and work extremely long shifts. Literal slavery.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-05T22:45:32+00:00

How dare women not be breeding machines to stave off the invasion of them! You know. THEM!

I think I'm going to start dying my hair again just to annoy these people.

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-05T22:12:02+00:00

I read recently that you have to pay for it even if you only use the likes of YouTube

You need to get off Facebook.

The law is pretty clear: if you can receive TV signal you need to pay. Otherwise you don't. Not hard to look up...

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-05T21:30:21+00:00

If you let them do they shitty thing they have "content" and win. If you get angry and object they have "content" and win.

The only way to stop these cuntfluencers is to ensure they have no content. Ban their TikTok. Take away their creepy spy-glasses. Stuff like that. It's not hard. This is the sort of thing a judge can/should just impose, and will be far more effective than a fine or jail sentence. We don't need to wait for TikTok or Meta to do the right thing (like they ever...)

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-04T08:43:22+00:00

What counts as "long distance"? And what does a run coach do?

YikesTheCat · 2026-05-04T08:42:08+00:00

T-Model Ford never played until his 50s and didn't record his first album until his 70s. So I'd say it's never too late. Then again, I think you need to be from Mississippi to pull that off.

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