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I think that the figure in the picture is definitely a red herring, but in a different way. Unless that toilet door is really small then she is presumably standing a notable distance in front of it (stock Fr. Ted joke etc)

She’s a fair distance away thinking about an entirely unrelated toilet/ankle mishap, while the child in the toilet’s quiet “Uh oh” goes unheard. We’ll never know what befell the poor kid.

On a separate note, I like the way that she’s used the bits cut off her mullet to line the ankles of her booties.

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I love that the flashback to the Aigburth Arms shows some kind of futuristic pub whilst when they go back to see 17 year old Lister in Timeslides and it’s just a normal contemporary 1980s pub.

I know it would have been done for budget reasons in Series III but I quite liked that the earlier parts of the show kind of gave the impression that the world hadn’t actually changed all that much
In the future, pool will be shit because the tables are suspended on chains.
I can only really think of one sport/game where the flatness and immovability of the playing surface is absolutely fundamental, has to be out no more than half a millimetre end to end, a quarter of a millimetre across the width, and that’s the one they hung from chains.
Suppose you could explain it away with GRAV POOL but good luck with any shot you need to approach from the corner when there’s a massive chain in the way.

Zero G Pool.

Apart from the Gs that make it necessary to suspend it with chains. They’re not important Gs.

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I ain’t even Betty Boop.

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YOLOSHIP

Rimmer attempts to justify erratic behaviour by pointing out that “you only live once”. Kryten points out the flaw in this reasoning.

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I CAN MAKE IT THROUGH WAR, BOYS

Alternative title for Meltdown that will appear on the 4K boxset.

I CAN MAKE IT THROUGH WARHAMMER, BOYS

Alternative title for Meltdown that will appear on the 40k boxset.

[Russ L]

BUTTSKI

The Dwarfers encounter yet another planet that is shaped by Rimmer’s brain, but this time he can’t stop thinking about his own arse. Lister uses the opportunity to try to teach Kryten the rudiments of downhill slalom.

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WE WANT READ DWARF FLYING OUT OF OUR MUTTSKI

In an Adamsian twist, some sort of accident of scale across alternate realities leads to Red Dwarf being swallowed by the Dog from “Parallel Universe”. Our plucky heroes escape.

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I think I remember the episode where Alan was visited by the Outland Revenue. He had his receipts on a spike.

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They should do one were everything is backwards.

[Russ L]

These explanations are not mutually exclusive. The more capable he is of defending himself, the less likely he is to be forced to learn where “Thicky” Holden’s nickname came from.

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In other news, I spit on your HTML and will insist on using BBcode even where it doesn’t work.

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Russ, you need to buy food and yes, some of the revenue will go to advertisements but you have a choice in what products you buy and from that, the consumer will always have a relative amount of control in how much can be spent on ad-breaks between Corrie by any one company. There’s no option in that regard with funding the BBC. I don’t have a choice in the matter, regardless of whether I watch or do not watch their programmes.

‘Relative’? My choice would be ‘I don’t want to pay anything at all towards ITV’. This isn’t an option, regardless (as you put it of) of whether I watch or do not watch their programmes.

If my choice was ‘I don’t want to pay anything at all towards the BBC’, I could simply not have a television. It is an option, albeit (for most of us) probably a drastic one, and one that would leave me still having to pay for the commercial channels that I wasn’t watching. The license fee is the only one you can actually avoid.

That’ll do from me now, anyway. No point repeating ourselves any more.

[Russ L]

I don’t accept your atomised view of the world. I am obliged to buy food and such. A certain amount of my outgoings necessarily ends up funding commercial channels, whosever’s hands it might pass through on the way. I can’t issue an end-use certificate and so I have no control over the matter.

(I could subsist entirely on stolen goods bought from that bloke at the pub, I suppose, but that would be a criminal offence of greater magnitude. Or entirely from farmer’s markets and that sort of thing, but that would be an insufferable-middle-class-cunt offence).

This would all remain the case even if I didn’t have a TV set and never watched any television programmes. I wouldn’t have to pay for a telly license then, though.

All this said, I can’t see this disagreement going anywhere other than around in circles at this point.

[Russ L]

The thing that always baffles me about this sort of argument is that you can actually avoid paying the license fee, either by being naughty or by not having a telly at all.

You can’t avoid paying for ‘every single advertising-funded channel’ every single time you go shopping, even if you don’t have/don’t watch the telly.

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Well, y’know. Sometimes you need to remind these telly programmes about who is boss.

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I too agree that “Queeg” is definitely the 7th best.

Top:

1 – Back to Reality
2 – Marooned
3 – Thanks for the Memory
4 – Me2
5 – White Hole
6 – Out of Time
7 – Queeg
8 – The Inquisitor
9 – Meltdown
10 – Justice

Bottom:

52 – Entangled
53 – Back in the Red – Part 2
54 – Emohawk: Polymorph II
55 – Nanarchy
56 – Pete – Part 1
57 – Back in the Red – Part 3
58 – Pete – Part 2
59 – Demons & Angels
60 – Krytie TV
61 – Parallel Universe

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