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Using Roseanne Barr to put out his version of the story is so... him.

We are but temporary stewards

Field marshals?

Which is what the party membership will think, certainly. This probably boosts her chances.

If you were hunting for a successor to Boyfriend Dungeon... "Do you identify more as a bottom floor or a rooftop?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wezvIRC7INg

Tortie is skinny and beautifully friendly and inquisitive.

Celia Hammond barking

I haven't had enough sleep. I read this as you having nicknamed the friendly one "Tortie" and the odd one "Celia Hammond".

In one of the several Mesopotamian versions of the Great Flood myth (the one from the Epic of Gilgamesh), the god Enlil sends the flood because humans had become so noisy that he couldn't get a good night's sleep. Most relatable religious myth ever.

9 volumes, though. Who's doing the words betweent the pictures?

I was going to say "Bridges ride" but that works.

I've been helping one of my clients research his family tree

Much rep

Shame the forum embed won't start from 3:38
but the whole video is a hoot, so no matter.

You lot was conquered by the Normans innit. Who spoke French. So there's a totally reasonable association of Frenchness with poshness in Britain.

It's more complicated than that. French surnames like Dujardin and Dupont aren't at all aristratic; they're emphatically plebeian in origin. Nobody with a surname like that can trace direct (and "legitimate") male line descent back to a Norman aristo. On the other hand, if the family surname survived a few centuries in Britain without being anglicised (rather than tracing back to a more recent arrival), the original immigrant family probably climbed a bit up the social ladder, before or after they arrived here. Demlin? French immigrants who stayed pleb. De Moleyns? Posh.

Living, breathing proof that nominative determinism isn't a thing.

It is. Michael Mann and Alan Cox did different, subtler things with Hannibal Lecter than the later films. I think it was underrated for some time because of the almost overpowering 80s aesthetic; people were thinking "This looks like Miami Vice, not an intelligent film".

#rep

I don't think in 4 years he's gone from ok-ish to a decrepit incoherent mess.

Some of us can testify to that being entirely possible in the older generation.

He's not in that bad a state, but that's not even the point. He failed under pressure in a critical situation, causing enough people to worry that he wouldn't be up to other critical situations. Add to that the people who don't care about the details of politics but want their elected leader to look strong and make them feel proud. I'd guess the latter group is larger.

I think you've overly crediting President Sharpie, there. He doesn't have to think much about his dumbest statements, surrounded by lackeys who are afraid to contradict him and a fanbase who worship anti-intellectualism. Some of the shit he says is carefully calculated, but he could name Terence Howard as the new head of the Department of Education and the MAGA hats would start calling "1 x 1 = 1" fake math.

everyone who's spent time with her says the opposite.

Which would be fine if she were running for a parish council seat in Pittenweem.

Strongly disagree. Politicians mostly want to be re-elected, not to be blamed for bad events, not to be kicked out by their own party for becoming an electoral liability... gaining some trust/confidence from the public can make all the difference to whether a politician is seen as coping with a difficult situation or blamed for it. Some of them even want to achieve more than just being in power, and trying anything new/bold also requires some faith from the voters.

If competence were key

Where did I say that? Persuading voters to believe in you and being worthy of that belief is not the same thing.

"Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft."

"That's because the HR system is down."

They're still fucked though

Trump doesn't think so. He wanted Biden to stay on, confident he could beat him but calculating that his chances would be much more uncertain against a younger candidate. Don't forget that a lot of the U.S. public on both sides has been disappointed that this election was the same two old guys as last time. Now Trump is going to be the old guy from last time.

It's hard to predict how this will play out, but for a time the Democrats are going to be news in a process where Trump has no participation or control. On the other hand, if the selection process runs as it normally does, the winning Democrat candidate is going to have been trash-talked by their opponents from their own party much closer to the election date than is usually the case.

He didn't just do his old fumbling for words thing in the debate, he wasn't able to participate coherently in the debate at all. It was a disaster. Persuading the electorate to have confidence in you is a large part of a politician's job and he failed.

While I misread the first of J0nathan's as "Tory London Serial Killer". Also disappointed now.

One that I'm surprised he didn't sue over.

Those About To Die, it hasn’t got great reviews but I’m enjoying it so far

Does it get better as it goes? The first episode was more than a bit shit, with story telling and dialogue like some bad Hollywood bread-and-circuses film from the 1950s. Do they stop doing all the exposition and hammy posturing after episode 1?