At last, a challenger to Glenda Slagg's throne, and with comparable standards of intellectual probity, radical thought, and awareness of contemporary reality:
"I speak from bitter experience. How well I remember the last time I had the mischance to view the vile outpourings of that citadel of aristocratic hegemony at White City.
There was some sort of awful royal coronation going on, I recall, and all filmed in the most hideously obsequious manner. Luckily just then Mum called through from the Uncut Quags of the South, telling me tea was ready.
Nowadays, it's CNN or nothing. Although the nurses do insist on watching Corrie."
Posted by: undercurrent at February 7, 2004 09:19 AM> its tedious bourgeois entertainment programming
Knowing Nick to be an huge fan of British comedy, I’ve got to admit this had me puzzled.
But that was until I chanced upon this, from St Ignatius Loyola’s Exercitia spiritualia;
When the consolation is without cause, although there be no deceit in it, as being of God our Lord alone, as was said; still the spiritual person to whom God gives such consolation, ought, with much vigilance and attention, to look at and distinguish the time itself of such actual consolation from the following, in which the soul remains warm and favored with the favor and remnants of the consolation past; for often in this second time, through one's own course of habits and the consequences of the concepts and judgments, or through the good spirit or through the bad, he forms various resolutions and opinions which are not given immediately by God our Lord, and therefore they have need to be very well examined before entire credit is given them, or they are put into effect.
In summary, then, renounce Blackadder The Third and Ever Decreasing Circles, and tell everyone you like Friends instead.
Posted by: sphaleotas at February 7, 2004 12:38 PM