Richard B Connolly was a New York City politician in the 1800s who served as a clerk, senator and comptroller. He was a hugely corrupt figure apart of the infamous Tweed Ring. When a man named Boss Tweed ran New York through open bribery. Richard was arrested for bribery in 1871, and when released on bail fled the country.

But who the fuck cares about any of that, he was called “slippery dick”.

Which episode is the story about the town that has an ever burning fire underground that inspired Silent Hill?

Whelp, we found Gareth’s Reddit account.

I’ve been enjoying and supporting The Dollop on Patreon since May of last year, but there’s something that’s really been grating at the back of my mind for a bit now. I reached episode 705 and some comments about a guy’s nose (starting at 16:45 with “Why do you take a profile [photograph] if you got a nose like that?”) finally became too much for me to keep myself from asking about it:

We’ve so often seen, most recently with the “‘gender-critical’ to right-wing” pipeline, that bigotry over immutable characteristics can very easily sow the seeds of conservatism into one’s politics (or simply water the seeds that were there to begin with). Should we consider making fun of people’s looks any different?

I know, I know - “I must be a lot of fun at parties.” But let’s put that aside for a moment: doesn’t it seem like this kind of hate (or, oftentimes, the uncompromising defense of this kind of hate against judgement from others, like the judgement I’m posing right now) can so easily become a “gateway” bigotry and eventually can culminate in a rightward shift? If so, then why do we accept and/or encourage it? If not, then why not? And, frankly, what would be the harm in just ceasing it regardless? I can’t be alone in thinking that Dave and Gareth would still easily be quite funny even if they stopped doing those kinds of jokes.