On the openly gay point - and I'm not thinking of anyone in particular, because this is something that is a few years old now at least - it would once have been cutting one's own throat to … (View Post)

Wasn't one of us telling the tale of a US pastor having a hard time from some of his congregation for preaching the teachings of JC in that well known parlour pinko woke compilation the New Test… (View Post)

No helicopters, though. Definitely a bonus five for that. (View Post)

And at social inferiors, esp. non-gentlemen trying to be orficers. One thinks of Trimmer in the Sword of Honour. (View Post)

You mean, like pulling the emergency release for the ballast in a bathyscaphe at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? (View Post)