These things are way too strange for me. I'm out.

Enjoy Juliette Binoche's Yorkshire accent...

Like you say, I'm sure some of this is a symptom of under-funded trusts trying to offload some of the burden a bit. It turned out that our son had tongue-tie that was making nursing very difficult, rather than anything some woo could have cured.

Christ, we were suckered into this with our first child by a well-meaning nurse. The woman we went to barely touched our baby and ended the session saying 'I really sense that you should come back for at least two more sessions'. 75 quid a pop. More fool us.

You have to pay to enter pretty much every industry award in marketing. The 'prestigious' ones at least.

Have you heard of The Adventures of TinTin: Breaking Free? It reimagines TinTin as a working class English lad during the Thatcher years. It's amazing and on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/tint...

Just normal Bond, but he's naked the whole time. No one questions where he's pulling all these gadgets from.

And why does this never happen the other way around? Tories being threatened by Labour never go 'oh, we need to be more left wing to stop them.'

We all have our crosses to bear.

Why is he an otter though?

No one is asking you to get on board with anything. Christ man, just let people have fun.

Ringo isn't dead.

Presumably they've seen how AI slop has become some of the best performing stuff on Facebook, tricking boomers into interacting with fake imagery and they want a slice of that sloppy pie.

Just whack a beak on whatever you've got in there at the moment. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Cor, I hope it's got ducks in it.