I've never 'got'

The Suicide Boys.

Are they like the suicide girls?

But they are all still alive?

Actually yes

The adulation for Ricky Gervais as a stand-up and wit. He's written and performed in some impressive TV shows, but put him on a stage with a microphone and he just seems to be a creepy, self-loving edgelord.

I kept hearing from his fans that his time hosting the Golden Globes was not just peak Gervais but peak awards-show wit and satire. I finally went and found those on Youtube.

Jesus.

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, when it was their turn, did some razor-sharp and funny jokes about older celebs only dating younger women. Gervais, referring to Hugh Hefner's marriage (an easy shot, compared to Fey and Poehler who were cracking jokes about actors in the audience), advises the young bride "Don't touch it or it'll fall off" and then spends a couple of minutes miming doing just that, while gagging. Truly he is the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde. Oh, wait, he isn't; all three of the performances were amateurish, puerile and reeked of the socially inept guy in the pub that everybody tries to keep away from while he tells a story about that time he saw a snake trying to mate with a garden hose. Making jokes about Mel Gibson is great in principle, but maybe they could also have been funny.

What I've seen of his more recent stage material is no better. Maybe I missed some gold, because I don't have the patience to watch it for long. What I have seen is juvenile edgelord shit from a guy who's stand-up talent is nowhere near his massive self-estimation, convinced that his genius is being cancelled by the libs. (Reader, he hasn't been cancelled).

Can we wish his cancellation for just not being funny. Same as badiel, don't like me so you are anti Semitic.

Also Gervais stand on animal treatment, but not on the Karl pilkington show.

The Office was superb
everything else he's done has been somewhere between mediocre and dire
stuff like After Life just seems to trade on him being able to play himself / someone that's a twat

It's weird how much Gervais there is in Brent, while he's ripping the piss out of such folks.

There are some decent bits in the first series of Extras. I still can't stand him though.

I couldn’t stand the painfully smug celebrity cameos in Extras.

I liked the early Radio X shows with Karl Pilkington before it all became an act and the Office obviously but apart from that he is a deeply awful man.

Yeah I didn't particularly like the office at first but then it really grew on me. Decided Brent was a masterful character study and was quite impressed. Ever since then more and more evidence had shown that Gervais sand Brent are pretty much the same person and it wasn't much of an act at all. Now he's just edgelording about and it's cringe as fuck

But he loves animals sooo much :)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2FToyZil3I

Needs a nsfw.
Wasn't expecting Lord Faw Faw.

You're right. It's not safe for wanking.

Still managed one.

These days he has a large alt-fash fanbase. The more intelligent ones like him for being a (notional) lib "owning the libs", which they see as extra "owning the libs", while the dumber ones just like the nastiness.

Can that cameo be okay? Were they somehow taking the piss out of him on the sly? (Not being a Pom I missed at least half of what was going on.)

People who pure rush to board a plane at the airport. Flight I’m waiting for has been delayed about 90 minutes. Plane we’ll be getting on still hasn’t landed yet but the ‘boarding’ is open. So all the priority folk and other eager people who jumped up to be front of the queue have now been standing in a holding pen for about 15 minutes with longer to go with the plane needing to land, taxi, unload and then get sorted for the next flight. Instead why wouldn’t you just sit down and wait more comfortably? I can only assume it’s on the premise that they can ensure their bags will get on the plane? Do they still overbook flights and I’m gambling with being booted off my flight by not being so keen at this point?

It's overhead locker space primarily.

When I fly alone I'm like, fuck it, I'm sitting on my arse for as long as I can avoid standing in the dumb queue. I expect there to be sufficient overhead storage if I'm last on the plane, because what the fuck else is the carry-on size restriction for. They try to tell me it's going under the seat in front and I'm like hell no, it can fit in here, see?

cram, rearrange, jam, shuffle, shove

See, toldya

More that if you've got a wheelie bag they'll make you check it at the gate and you'll need to wait at the other end. Part of the reason I stopped using a cabin sized wheelie.

Anyone noticed how these new ‘tooth whitening’ toothpastes less white than the normal toothpastes they are replacing?

i thought they used a load of blue colouring to give the effect of being more white, plus abrasive stuff

I’ve never got why people can’t open our gate. It has a simple latch which you turn to open.

I have seen countless of this type in my 44years. It isn’t locked. It isn’t stiff.

The odd Waitrose lad can’t get in and this morning - waiting for an Olio collection - get a text “hi I was there 10mins ago but couldn’t open the gate”…

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