The thing with AG is that he did represent a combination of real people and attitudes. To me, he’s the obvious Labour-voting Brit. Which is another reason it was funny. I did see a couple of episodes of TDUDP and it was getting sad, but still true to life.
Ironic as the character was staunchly Tory.
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I had forgotten, but then it seems the series was prescient.
No, he was a conservative, one of the millions that that vote for them and are despised by them at the same time.
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I couldn’t have said either way, but today he’d be a red wall Tory
He would have popped up on one of those Night of the Living Dead pro Brexit vox pops, like Vince from Hull.
Loved TDUDP in the Sixties, but always identified with the SiL (aka ‘idle Scouse git’.)
Meanwhile here’s a topical cartoon:-
“Son, we won’t see this many eclipse glasses returned to Amazon for another twenty years.”
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Once again, thanks to Barry Cryer:
Fanny and Johnny Cradock used to do a very popular TV show, where they’d do a recipe every week. You could write in to get the recipe.
I’ve just seen a real clip from the show.
One week they did doughnuts. Johnny finished the show by saying, ‘Here’s the address if you want your doughnuts to look like Fanny’s.’
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Mmmm…
“People no longer feel they need to smell good to be loved or accepted,” says La Chimia, whose followers are mostly between 18 and 20 years old.”
Says everything you need to know about that.
My dog likes sniffing foul smells too.
Pissed as usual no doubt 
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The wonderful Benny Hill, and the irreplaceable Bob Todd. 
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@DrMarkH
Literally hoist by his own petard ( ‘pétard’ being French for spliff for those who don’t know).
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Todays new word
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Interesting - is that current usage?
It’s a word I thought I knew well, but with a different meaning. Petard Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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