Is he the same Mickey Thomas who used to present a show on Century 105? I used to listen to that despite at the time the footballers they would mention were roughly as familiar to me as the members of the Albanian government
Jellied eels and spotted dick, 2-1 to the Tottenham Hotspurs, pip pip cheerio mummyfuckers!
See also: the release of A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood, where a beloved children's personality just came across as creepy if you didn't grow up with them as part of your cultural landscape (and I'm sure the reverse would be true for, IDK, the Chuckle Brothers)
Actually the American reaction to the UK having our own absolutely massive popstars that they knew nothing about, until they released a movie where he was played by a monkey for some reason, is also very hilarious.
Honestly, not even once. Feels like something I should have done, but no.
In my early days of the internet I found Americans couldn't believe that I was a massive fan of Max Headroom as a small child, and that's how I found out that the American version of Max Headroom was very, very different to the wacky robot continuity announcer guy we got here.
This has spiked my cortisol
TBF I would be unsurprised to learn that anything kids could watch was sponsored by cigarette companies back then
I think because it was so hyped and looked like great fun that the record was a way to enjoy it by proxy? I have no idea.
As with the Nickelodeon shows that seem to have been millennial touchstones for Americans but barely anyone watched here, mad to think it was just on....normal telly there
Oh that can just fuck off. I need NOBODY'S permission to treat myself to a muffin
It was a request for clarification, not a debate!
Oh god I thought it was me who was out of touch!
Got a "sorry you're not suitable" email response to a job application the other day....with fucking emojis in it
I see the bots have learned Dunning-Kruger now
I got a video out of our local video shop with three episodes on it and was surprised to learn it was an actual family sitcom and not just a sort of animated American version of Dennis The Menace starring Bart
I was seven when it came out and *desperate* to watch The Simpsons, mainly because it was written about in magazines a lot.
Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.
Wildflowers love dead people.
What is "snowflake"
Which generation is this?
It baffles me that YA books are so popular with adult readers, because I feel like it's a similar thing, but then again teen angst is preferable to books about a literary Midwestern man having a midlife/existential crisis that can only be resolved by a quirky yet hot 22yr old blonde
Hahahahhahah this actually makes me want to read it
It's so fucking boring
Didn't do it for me at all, and I'm someone who really loves 80s period pieces.
Isn't their target audience children, and for that film particularly ones who are young enough to not yet understand their feelings? So it would make sense that it wouldn't necessarily resonate with you as an adult.
Liza Minneli is so charming in it though!
My copy of it went mouldy
The quoters ruined Python for me, honestly. No point watching it when I already have heard every gag performed badly.
People made a big thing about The Irishman having so few lines for women in it but I thought the way Anna Chlumsky was used sparingly made her character more powerful, that's my hot Scorcese take
Also The Diceman, but I think gender plays a role there too - reading it as not a 15 yr old boy just made me feel like someone had put the longform "I had an experience" pieces from FHM and Maxim into a blender and buttered the pages with it
Feel like FBDO is like The Smiths - there's a narrow window of your life where experiencing it for the first time is a formative thing, a revelation, a lifelong fondness...but if you come across it too young or too old, it's just massively irritating
See also: The Breakfast Club, Catcher In The Rye
