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Blimey, and you recognised her?

Who else remembers this amazing moment? This storyline and the final line in particular has stayed with me ever since - I remember it clear as day even 30 years on.

They definitely wouldn't be able to get away with it now, probably quite rightly, though it was possibly the fist moment in my young life when I went "Yes!".

Link: http://www.grangehillfans.co.uk/vidvault/villains/stewpothicks1981.rm" target="_blank">Slipped on the wet floor did you?

Could he look any more like an evil Bond villain?

"What do we want?

More comic-related merchandise!

When do we want it?..." etc

It looks fun, and considering the intimidation tactics of Scientology a sensible precaution,   though the problem with this kind of thing is every religion benefits from having an nemesis or evil force of unbelievers/sinners to oppose them to make their members more fearful. The best tactic is humiliation and satire i.e. dressing as aliens rather than anarchists, that seems to be where their members get most embarassed.

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"One of the more fun Episodes on New Who, that, even allowing for the inappropriate paving-slab blow-job"

No, it was terrible.

Looking forward to a repeat: It has to better than Lily Allen and Friends, one of the worst pieces of television I've ever seen. Every few minutes they begged the viewers to send in something...ANYTHING to help them fill the time.

Call me old-fashioned in my view of Lego but I can only count 16 'flanges' on all the lego bricks featured on the above image. I don't fancy anyone's chances of making anything other than a nazi truck with it.

Wise to avoid swastikas on the uniforms though.

To be fair to Steve, though one might not like his style (I'm not just into Clint Langley's style myself) but I don't reckon there are any panels on that original page that were done with photo-ref, it's too 'actiony'.

"What happened to the hole in the Ozone Layer?"

When we found out about it the Earth 'clenched'.

"Interesting to note that as soon as Alan Grant didn't just provide amusing comments and started to make some original observations on our country he was cut off pretty quickly!"

Conspiracy!

Because the evidence isn't conclusive doesn't mean there's no evidence. There is evidence though as yet no absolute proof.

Similarly, there isn't, as far as I know, absolute proof of evolution, though only a twat would say there's absolutely no evidence of it.

Because fascism can vary doesn't mean one can associate anything they don't like with it:
Wikipedia describes fascism as a drive to forge a "type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, religious attributes". At the moment there's just as much outrage that government allows for too much multiculturalism.

I don't know how far Alan Grant's tongue is pushed into his cheek when he says things like: "There is absolutely no scientific evidence that global warming is man-made", but if I didn't know who was saying it I would have attributed some of these comments to the kind of MP who gets kicked out of the Tory party for being too right-wing, some self-righteous tabloid columnist or shock jock.

It's fun to be outspoken but the fact that Alan can go on the BBC and express his anti-government views is hardly the kind of thing that would be tolerated in anything like a fascist state. Polititians are scrutinised far more now than at any time in the past. What's more, there's other things that USED to be banned which now aren't, such as being gay.

The Nazis were not the Nazis by banning smacking smoking near others. Ironically, the world of Judge Dredd came about from environmental ruin through war, with much of the Earth turned to desert, in much the same way global warming might effect the Earth... except there's no evidence for that whatsoever.  

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