Patrick also serves that function too in Schitt's Creek.

Hatred is not ambivalence, though.

Eric and Feeny

Newman & David Puddy in Seinfeld.

I hope that I live to see a free and independent Scotland.

To add a different one in the mix from what I've seen so far on the thread, I think "Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose" from Schitt's Creek, while not "the best" Christmas episode, should make a shortlist.

Yeah, the stuff with Red and his job, the money troubles, the tension between Kitty and Red's mother, the general "feel" of the family life and the day-to-day hanging with friends, it just all was done so much better in those first three seasons.

After that, in my opinion, the show progressively gets worse. While everyone says it's bad when Eric leaves (and I agree), it was still pretty damn bad even prior to his departure. The characters become caricatures to me and get stuck in a really boring narrative loop - which, when you think of it, makes some sense considering it takes place from May 1976 (I think) to December 31, 1979 but in real life the show was on air for what? 8 seasons? If I recall correctly, the show had more Christmas episodes than should have been possible. I think they did one a season which...?

It starts to drop around season 4, in my opinion. The first three seasons were grounded, had some working-class grit to it, and after that it just gets lazier and lazier in its writing.

Seasons 1 and 2 of that show are some of the best that sitcom as a genre has to offer, as far as I am concerned.

Pfft...we'll count it ;)

Shocked you didn't post this to the MA Politics sub-reddit. I'll do that.

I recently came across Lake Street Dive's cover of "Automatic" and it is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqNuXcP0hI

How this band is not bigger in popularity is beyond me.

"I can't get monkeypox because I am not a monkey!"

Scientists: "See? This is why we need to rebrand this. People are idiots."

Disturbing lack of the cook off episode between SpongeBob and king Neptune

A girl has many names on her list. Names to offer up to the red god…

I need Kumail Nanjiani in more of the things. He's so great. Really digging this show so far.

Better Call Saul is on Netflix seasons 1-5. I think the last season you'd need AMC+ for, but that show is incredible. Enjoy.

Haha fair

Good fucking lord. Guardian is like that too for me sometimes now that I think of it. I swear there are at least a couple of paragraphs sometimes that I truly don't even see, so I comment on something and I must come off like I didn't even read the thing at all.

Ah gotcha. I must have missed that. Sometimes the way BBC loads on my phone, it doesn't make for the best end-user experience. Thanks for highlighting that. I see what you were saying now.

Sure but this article, unless I am misunderstanding something here, seemed to indicate that London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have these skulls and are willing to cooperate in their return.

The authorities in Zimbabwe suspect that they were brought back to the UK in the first place as trophies.

> You may as well list most of Europe in there really.

No argument there.

But yeah, again, anyone who knows anything about the behavior and mentality of the colonizers back then would say that there is a very strong likelihood that the authorities in Zimbabwe are far and away likely to be correct in their assumption.

> The authorities in Zimbabwe have long suspected that the remains of some of the leaders of an uprising against British rule in the 1890s - known as the First Chimurenga - were taken to the UK as trophies.

> The most significant among them was a woman who became known as Mbuya Nehanda. She was executed in what is now the capital, Harare and is revered as a national heroine.

Anyone who knows anything about the behavior of the colonialists (UK, France, Belgium, etc.) back then would absolutely suspect the very same thing that the authorities in Zimbabwe suspect. There is very little chance that they are wrong.