TBH, it started during the Blair era, when PM's Questions became little more than a broad, low rent pantomime. There was a shift about 01 or 02, where parliament ceased to look like government, and resembled more Hogarth grotesques.
Out of context comment (Plague Year Edition)
"Looking at that, one loud bang would result in something that resembles the opening of Saving Private Ryan"
Out of Context Comment (Plague Year Edition)
"Maybe if someone had called the police to say a brown chap in a Bulls top was kicking off there'd have been a SWAT team and air support, rather than not a single uniform in that Zip Code"
Domestic vignette
"No, he wasn't WWE, I know him from my mother's Jean Claude Van Damme collection"
Out of context comment
"The best evil genius is the one who's been dead a decade before you know their name."
Out of context comment
"I'm always impressed at how frayed his genes are."
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"We'll always be the filthy, destructive contagion we are now. The fact you brought economics into the discussion basically proves that."
Out of context comment (I think)
"This was in the fifties, so medical practices not involving leeches had only just started to percolate into Idaho. "
Out of context comment (Plague year edition)
"There would be a very different police response if they were black, or in full drag."
Out of context comment
"An old friend has a twin sister... people forever asked him if they were identical. I suggested he answered 'yes, but she wears more gingham'"
Domestic vignette
"That's surprisingly good - usually a Pinot Blush is a Pinot Spoiled...."
Out of context comment
"I am shocked - SHOCKED - you would think I'd want them dead. Cold, maggot ridden, in a ditch, with just enough left in them to be able to flop impotently and moan "I can feel them burrowing"."
Out of context comment
"You should see what sits in there. It's like snot had wild monkey sex with cephalopod."
Out of context comment
"The REM/Chumbawamba mashup as they crucify Tony Stark is surprisingly good"
Out of context comment
"I've been looking forward to the rock from space with our name on it since 1970"
Out of context comment (plague year edition)
" I can think of a few, but they are all variations on Peterloo"
Out of Context comment (plague year edition)
"Try 'feel' or 'believe' as the verb... something less concrete than 'think'."
Out of context comment (plague year edition)
"Do you think the God Emperor finds Orthocoronavirinae Johnsonii a catchy name for a new strain?"
Out of context comment
"I enjoyed Watchmen, and my mother enjoyed almost anything with automatic weaponry"
Out of context comment
"We all need Mel Brooks running interference."
Out of context comment
"That is so far into Poe's Law, it should beware men offering Amontillado."
Out of context comment (plague year edition)
"I used the verb 'believe' since I couldn't apply the verb 'think' to their mental process. At least not with a clear conscience, nor without snort laughing."
Out of context comment
"I have never got over the vicarious embarrassment of that day, and probably never will"
I made this comment well over a decade ago - context doesn't matter.
"I have no respect. Death is nothing special - we all do it. If you weren't worth my respect alive, being dead doesn't cut any slack with me. Death isn't going to improve you, merely halt any chance of redemption."
Out of Context Comment
"From memory, school was only slightly less Darwinian than a Russian Supermax. "
Out of context comment
"It's a heady mix of Augean and Sisyphean. It's like pushing horse shit uphill"
Out of context comment
"It was often irate... and equally often appeared to be wearing a Viking helmet"
An "Out of context comment" that is its own context
"I thought Musk's pronouns were monstrous / twat"
Out of context comment
"If you're offended by something I say, please don't mistake me for a man in an 'I give a SHIT!' white baggy t-shirt of the sort WHAM! made so de rigeur in the 1980s...
Out of context comment
"He signed up for the malmsey and babes... this isn't malmsey and babes."