Annette Badland Puns

Now, before I start I must say one thing – I have nothing, absolutely nothing, against the actress Annette Badland. She is one of the actresses I admire the most, and I do actually use one of her techniques whenever I act (which is quite rare), which is to not just put yourself in the shoes of the character, and think 'Would I do this if I was this character?'

However, I do think that her character, Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen AKA Margaret Blaine (I will be calling her by the latter's surname due to obvious reasons) is a blithering pillock, as I said in the title.

Let's go chronologically according to Blaine, starting with the ending of the two-parter "Aliens of London"/"World War Three", episodes four and five respectively.

She emergency teleported out of the exploding Downing Street, which is reasonable in itself. However, she later revealed that her teleport only carries one, meaning that she could not carry others, i.e. her brothers.

Now, this is where the first bit where she is evidently being an idiot. During her conversation in the bathroom with Salt in episode 11, "Boom Town", Blaine talks about her brothers fondly and idolises them. If she loves and admires her brothers so much, why not get more teleports and give them to her brothers? In the case that a teleport is expensive, why doesn't she splash out a tiny bit more and get one that can carry more than one? Fool.

Anyway, she teleports out of the fireball that used to be 10 Downing Street and ends up in the Isle of Dogs. Six months later, she ends up being the Mayor of Cardiff, the capital of Wales.

In all honesty, I do have a VERY strong fondness for Cardiff, Wales even more so, as I did spend what seems like half of my childhood there. However, politically, isn't it a bit stupid? Sure if you want the beauty and glamour of a city but without the hustle and bustle, go to Cardiff. But if I am right, the Isle of Dogs is in London, which is the capital of the United Kingdom, which is an even more major population centre? If you wanted to cause mass disruption (Which Blaine would want to do as she is being painted here as a crazy bitch) and wanted more energy for her 'pan-dimensional surfboard', whatever that means, you would want to be in a city like London, which is at least thrice the size of Cardiff. Again, what a fool.

I also have issues with the placing of the proposed nuclear power station. In the model, it looks like she wants to build it in the area of Butetown, which is

Ted Lasso just got 5 SAG nominations: Ensemble, Jason, Brett (both in comedy actor- there's no supporting category at SAG), Hannah and Juno (both in comedy actress, Juno is a very lovely surprise as the other 3 were expected).

Hopefully the cast takes the ensemble award this year (as it goes to the whole cast and even guest stars who meet the SAG criteria who the show opts to submit on the cast list), as I know actors most appreciate this award and nomination as it comes from their peers.

SAG Awards 2022: The Full List of Nominees (Updating Live) (thewrap.com)

Haven't seen much discussion of Lost Warriors going around; anybody else have any thoughts? Mine below..

The Hunting Season:

• solid if not spectacular. As expected, putting Eccleston in a Downton Abbey/Upstairs, Downstairs milieu is a great move: you can hear his distaste and contempt for the Lord of the Manor, the bullying butler, and the bloodthirstiness of His Lordship’s daughter who’s so keen on hearing war stories. This isn’t James Kettle in funny mode (his usual comedy work for BBC Radio, the River Song story Barrister to the Stars etc) so much as the angry one that infused his Main Range story The Blazing Hour. In fact, it’s instructive to compare it with The Chimes of Midnight (which also has a butler, a cook, a very sympathetic scullery maid, and general anger at the inequalities of this country's class system…), where 8 fits in rather better as a ‘gentleman’ (9 gets by here, but mostly because of the upper class acknowledging his war record, a nod to war as class leveller). Alex Jennings, Annette Badland, and Tilly Steele (Willa from The Witchfinders) all give rather lovely performances. The Fleshkin creatures are a bit bleh though, and I would’ve much preferred it if >!Lord Hawthorn hadn’t been the genocidal tyrant they were seeking as was briefly teased, but just… an awful human being instead. !<Nice ending however (>!always pro burning down an aristocratic manor!<), and there’s a fun structural device that plays with the whole Lone Ranger thing this Doctor has got going on.

The Curse of Lady Macbeth:

• I liked this a fair bit more than Hopley’s other stories (see e.g. her underwhelming & cluttered contributions to The Eleven, Time Lord Victorious and Dalek Universe - the latter in particular takes far too long umming and ahhing over whether River is a Movellan or not, which just isn't that interesting). Whereas here there's an atmospheric setting, interesting historical figures, cool Celtic folklore (Eaters of Light vibes), and fun in-jokes nodding to the play. The main attraction is a powerhouse performance from Neve McIntosh as the compelling Gruach (the real 'Lady Macbeth'); she and Eccleston bounce off each other wonderfully. But also I enjoyed the heart of the thing - from>! the plight of the women whose infants have been replaced by changelings to the poor little boy Lulach, afflicted by selective mutism and turning to drawing to cope with his fears!< , even if once again the monster/th

I signed up for the Britbox Black Friday deal, and what do I find but Bergerac, the series that put Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) on the map? The video quality is pretty poor, but it's fun to see this series. I've heard about it but never watched it.

As a bonus, the first episode also features a very young Fleur Perkins (Annette Badland) in a small part.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

I just saw her on "Whitstable Pearl" and just know she was a major character in one of the British series I've watched, but I've image searched Google, and can't find her. She's not listed in the cast list for the show. I'd love to know who she is. She looks almost exactly like my deceased aunt, which is why I originally noticed her.

Thanks!

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They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "