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Like a great many people, I have Python quotes deeply wired in and ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. You make a good point there, and I wonder, if I was to revisit the shows* today, what would I make of it all?<br /> <br /> *Holy Grail gets a watch every five years or so, Brian less frequently.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.3&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.3"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">19 Aug 08:51</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 19 Aug 09:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.4">43052.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.1">43052.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I remember finding Monty Python *very* funny as a kid and young teen watching re-runs. And I shared that enjoyment with my dad who'd watched it first time round of course.<br /> <br /> Then in mid-late teens, watching the films with my friends and we'd all enjoy them and say the lines and all that.<br /> <br /> They were obviously good. And hugely influential. It says a lot that their comedy remained *actually funny* for a second generation, I don't think that happens often. I remember my dad telling me how funny Morcombe and Wise were (more the former of course) and we'd sit and watch it and I'd be like *is it though?*.<br /> <br /> By uni my tastes had moved on. But there'd be a few kids who'd still repeat the lines and I found that very embarassing. There's a particular kind of hatred I have for things which aren't *bad* but do not deserve their acclaim. I don't think it's a healthy thing but it's there. It's snobbery really.<br /> <br /> More recently I started to realise that, as you say, they were just a bunch of upper-middle class oxbridge students and, while their stuff was *formally* very 'subversive' it was otherwise quite conservative and even reactionary. No surprise that Cleeves has gone on to become one of these bitter old reactionary twitter misers.<br /> <br /> Then I started to notice just how many popular TV comedians have that smug, comfortable, oxbridge things going on. Which doesn't make them *not funny*, of course, but does limit what they're likely to say and what kind of things are likely to be the butt of their humour. It's all very safe.<br /> <br /> A couple of weeks ago, Youtube wanted me to watch some Monty Python clip. And I'd not seen anything by them for *years* so I was like yeah, fine, let's have a look, see if I still hate it. It was set in a northern 'working class' household but there was some kinda role-reversal where the mum and dad were actors and their effete son wanted to run away to London to become a miner. And that's a funny idea, and the presentation was funny. But there was this kinda smug, condescending, BBC attitude to the north and the working class that's still very much present and increasingly rubs me up the wrong way.<br /> <br /> I don't really have a point with this I realise.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.4&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Monsoir (PILOTDAN)<span class="message_time">29 Aug 12:06</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Aug 23:45"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.5">43052.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_4" target="_self">43052.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> "I don't really have a point with this I realise."<br /> <br /> You know your other thread about missing the internet -this is why. this is what's lacking. There's no room for just pondering and musing now</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.5&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.5"> <span class="rating">+2/2</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">30 Aug 19:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Monsoir (PILOTDAN) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Sep 18:38"></span></span> <span class="message_count">6 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.6">43052.6</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_5" target="_self">43052.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> True. One of the great things about this place is when we used to go off, usually very quickly, on *huuuge* tangents.<br /> <br /> These days you'd be told to take it to the appropriate channel.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.6&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_7"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_7"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time">30 Aug 21:02</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Aug 22:56"></span></span> <span class="message_count">7 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.7">43052.7</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_6" target="_self">43052.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Yeah!!!! That is sooo annoying. You have this really average discussion (as in everybody basically agrees. Not necessarily bad, but...) and somebody raises a tangential point. In leaps a mod, or some forum member who is furious because HE (always) was just about to post an incredibly subtle variation on a boring reply. 'I've moved your post to "impossible-to-find-ends-of-the-earth"' says the mod, or the roused member (nj) complains bitterly, draining all impetus from the tangent.<br /> <br /> Whatever happened to Racoon and Jay? And Steve? Is fucksocks still a thing? And Simon and stytchkytty for that matter? There's a couple of names on the tip of my proverbial, that I can't remember. Some pretty smart, articulate posters. I've a feeling that they never posted in this incarnation of teh. Help me out.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.7&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.7"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_8"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_8"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">30 Aug 23:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 31 Aug 07:50"></span></span> <span class="message_count">8 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.8">43052.8</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_7" target="_self">43052.7</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I'd forgotten about (nj)!!!<br /> <br /> And yeah, exactly. Even if the conversation moves, that's not how it works. You've just sapped all the energy out of it.<br /> <br /> Jay's around. I got a DM from him. He can't post until he's verified his email, but he can't do that, so he's contacting Matt I believe.<br /> <br /> I actually happened across Simon on fedi the other month. He seems happy, still doing his furry art successfully.<br /> <br /> Patch. Izziwizzi. Sinkywinky. Edd. Kara. Darren. JonCooper. JohnGTI. Sulkpot. Kriv. Mouse. LP (though he posted in the "I miss you guys" thread I think). Boff. Ally. Voltane. Jaowon. Mal. Radio. Ricardo. Evstar. <br /> <br /> I cheated and went and looked at some old threads. I may have repeated some who posted in the "miss you guys" thread and omitted others I mistakenly think did. I'd love to know how they're all doing.<br /> <br /> I think I've still got Sinky as a Steam friend. I should message him.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 30 Aug 23:29 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.8&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.8"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_9"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_9"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">30 Aug 23:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Aug 23:25"></span></span> <span class="message_count">9 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.9">43052.9</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_8" target="_self">43052.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Also various Chrises.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.9&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_10"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_10"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">30 Aug 23:34</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 31 Aug 04:56"></span></span> <span class="message_count">10 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.10">43052.10</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_8" target="_self">43052.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Aww, no, the only ones who've remained my Steam friend for all these years are Linn and PsychoGeezer. Gawd bless 'em.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.10&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.10"> <span class="rating">+1/1</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_11"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_11"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Some call me... (PSYCHO_GEEZER)<span class="message_time">31 Aug 01:52</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 31 Aug 04:56"></span></span> <span class="message_count">11 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.11">43052.11</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_9" target="_self">43052.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Voltane, JonCooper and Ricardo posted in "I miss you guys", though only Voltane gave us an update from a quick re-read (I may have missed something from the others).<br /> <br /> Ricardo was in fairly regular contact through the WhatsApp that spawned from the google hangout some of us were in (you included, it was supposed to close down as a service so we moved on, but for some reason it's still going even now), but he decided to leave the WhatsApp after a bit.<br /> <br /> You didn't ask, but Ken was in WhatsApp with us until he decided it was EVIL and left for Signal. Most of us are in there too, but we barely speak there.<br /> <br /> Mouse is still in the WhatsApp, I don't know what he'd want me to tell you as we're all at the point where we know detailed stuff about each other's lives. He's happy and doing well in his career. I'll ask him to come and say hello.<br /> <br /> The last time I tried to stalk Boff, he was doing clever things as a Uni lecturer.<br /> <br /> I always found the Chrises hard to keep track of mentally, the one called Chrisssssss is in the WhatsApp and I think he's the same one I used to speak with on MSN the most. Aside from you and Jay that is.<br /> <br /> Izziwizzi is one of the people that I merge into other people too, did he come back as truffy, or was that someone else? If the latter, who was it that changed their name? Was Izzi called James?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.11&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.11"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43052_12"></a><div class="message" id="message_43052_12"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Some call me... (PSYCHO_GEEZER)<span class="message_time">31 Aug 01:54</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 31 Aug 04:56"></span></span> <span class="message_count">12 of 30</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.12">43052.12</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43052.3#a43052_10" target="_self">43052.10</a></div> <div class="message_body"> You should buy us both everything from our wishlists.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43052.12&return_msg=43052.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43052.12"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="43052.13" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>