Houellebecq “Col that whole post to Bronwyn had me laughing out loud:-) Sorry Bronwyn. I'm sure you can see the humour too though.”

Well that is a good thing, personally I try never to take myself too seriously either : - )

“Does anyone else picture Col looking like Kramer off Seinfeld?”

Sadly, I lack the physical height and physical ticks…

In terms of comedial personas and my physical image, I might modestly suggest more along the lines of the thinner of the Two Ronnies

Houellebecq: << Does anyone else picture Col looking like Kramer off Seinfeld? >>

Nah - Kramer's nice as well as funny. As I've said before, I picture Col as a kind of cross between Alf Garnett and Victor Meldrew - both odious Poms who are good to laugh at.

Damn, Houellebecq, am I in trouble?

Col,
The two Ronnies are hilarious. I like the “Fork Handles” episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ
in where the little Ronnie needs steps to be able to reach the shelf to get to the “O’s” - interesting.
Kramer would’ve been able to reach it without a ladder. Kramers don’t need ladders, but little Ronnies do.

As Victor Meldrew says, I don’t believe it- that it would be beneficial for society (or for families, or individuals like little Ronnies) to hand the higher ladders to the Kramers and the shorter ladders to the Ronnies.

Seems fair to me that if there is a supply of ladders to be handed out, that the short are given the higher ladders because the tall can reach high enough with only low ladders.
More fairly distributing the ladders will make a huge difference to little Ronnies’ circumstances but not so much to tall Kramers’ lives. They’ll just have one less tall ladder standing in their shed.

If Thatcher had distributed the ladders she had available a bit more evenly, there wouldn’t have been as many children living in the UK below the poverty line at that time.
It’s not like children have a choice about the height of their ladder, is it? Some are born with a whole supply of steady ladders stashed away in the shed, while others are born into a family who stack up wobbly milk crates to stand on, if they have any at all.

Wobbly milk-crate owners hardly have a network of high-ladder owners as friends and families. It's not like they can tell family to drop by and give them a tall ladder to stand on.
That way nobody in that household will ever be able to get to the O's and P's until someone drops by a ladder.

Not that Alf Garnet would care about safety and risks.
After all, he said, “We'll never have a proper democracy here until we start shooting a few people!"

"Nah - Kramer's nice as well as funny"

Didn't Kramer get into big trouble about a year ago because of a racist rant? Not making any other point, BTW.

Rob P “Didn't Kramer get into big trouble about a year ago “

Yes he did

celivia
I too enjoy a lot of work of the Two Ronnies both together and when acting separately

you have opened up a whole new world for me, I did not realize UTube had all those sketches on them,… thanks for that :- )

but we might do best to leave the jokes to them :- )

Regarding your own analogy of ladders, I always thought people had more important things to do with their lives than fixate upon ensuring “all are equal”, especially when “equality” works against the benefits of diversity and

humanity, like every other species, relies on genetic diversity, which produces the natural difference in heights (and other attributes), to ensure the continuation of the species.

“If Thatcher had distributed the ladders she had available a bit more evenly, there wouldn’t have been as many children living in the UK below the poverty line at that time.”

Bob Hawke failed in that respect and he actually promised to achieve it.. so who is at greater fault,

The politician who recognized the stupidity of pursuing the pointless and focused on doing practical good?

Or

The politician who prioritized the pointless, at the expense of real issues and failed?

That choice is a slam-dunk and I am not drawn to any oersonal gender bias.

“Not that Alf Garnet would care about safety and risks After all, he said, “We'll never have a proper democracy here until we start shooting a few people!"”

I am less amused by the Alf Garnet’s of the world.

Victor Meldrew and Alf Garnet appear on OLO more as the fetish objects of one less gifted poster, both characters were hirsute challenged (aka ‘the glimmer domes’), maybe that is the source of empathy which draws the talent challenged to them. ...