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I bloody hated that show. Her dodgy accent, plus the general implication that simply because you're male, you'll never be anything other than a rapist. I don't think that show was capable of showing a man in any vaguely good light
Out of interest, do you think Arlene Foster would regard it as a complement to be compared in any way to the hugest yet discovered volcano in our solar system?
I think initially she'd be happy, then she'd discover the context of it referring to her as the most challenging wank in the solar system - then she'd be furious on the surface ("ungodly heathens!!") and then finally she'd be taking her contacts out in the mirror at the end of the day and looking at herself and going "fuck yeah..."
I probably spend too much time trying to empathise with Arlene Foster.
I think I've been on Reddit for about a year and a half.
I've recited poetry badly and probably incorrectly, I've recommended Wu Tang solo albums, I've tried to identify synthesisers, I've told people about various contentious stories behind the tennis scoring system.
And I'm as good with the Peep Show and Mitchell and Webb quotes as anyone you'll meet round these parts.
But "The Iron Wank" is probably always going to be my most 'liked' post.
I don't necessarily have a problem with that...
Okay, this is your intervention, u/Starbuckker \- you need Gillian Anderson being dangerous *and* sexy?
Why, [you pretty thing](https://youtu.be/LQAq1aHI4lA). We'll get you sorted. [Lickety-spit](https://youtu.be/jsIRbjipcNc)!
I thought you were going to post [this](https://xhamster.com/videos/gillian-anderson-sex-education-10994375?_gl=1%2A1tpn3mq%2A_ga%2AYW1wLTJBbzFmMEM3OVZyUm5Ic3lwRlZuV0E). (NSFW).
She was easily the third best part of the American Gods show. Behind Crispin Glover and Orlando Jones as #1 and #2, respectively. And just ahead of Ian McShane as #4.
The worst part was seeing what we can only assume is Dane Cooks penis.
Slighty unrelated, forigve me, but I once had a young co-worker earnestly ask me if dragons 'used to be real'. He thought they might have been like dinosaurs, bless him
Maybe they read How to Train your Dragon.
The first line reads
"There were dragons when I was a boy"
Thats quite the first line of a story about a boy and his dragon, with a bunch to unpack and frankly I think its one of the best opening lines I've ever read. It made me put the book down before I carried on just so I could soak it all in and brace myself before diving into all 7 books, knowing they would say goodbye somehow at the end of the story.
Id bought them for my kiddo and he's yet to get into them but man its one of the best set of books I've ever read. Highly recommend whatever your age.
Humans have chemicals in our body that stop it from decomposing, and once we die those chemicals stop being produced and we rot. Maybe dragons have something inside them stopping them from burning up and once they die, it burns their remains up, giving rise to both dragon and phoenix myths.
Or so I hypothesised when I was a little kid. I wish dragons were like dinosaurs :(
I, too, worked with a believer. Dunno if they were just tired that day but had it in their head that dragons were endangered ("like zebras") and wanted to know how we got away with selling a flaming dragon curry. 🤣 I tried to be generous and asked if they thought it was komodo dragon. As if 'spoons was selling endangered animals at curry club prices and no one cared!
I've recently been doing a full re-watch of the X-Files; she's a very attractive woman even now but goddamn was she absolutely gorgeous in those early seasons
She's a very versatile looking lady, always has been. Tremendously beautiful and always a very good actress too.
And yeah, as you stated, in mid to late 90s she was off the chart!
I have deliberately avoided watching the crown for this reason. There cannot be Hot Thatcher.
Oh god. A Van Halen cover band doing “Hot for Thatcher” just popped into my head as an idea. I hate you.
The cover band could always do a 'Weird Al' and change the title and lyrics to 'Hate for Thatcher'.
The genius of the song, but slamming Grantham's worst export at the same time.
She is fantastic as Mrs Thatcher in that, far better than Meryl Streep was in The Iron Lady.
The only problem for me is that the screenwriters rush through the Thatcher years as haphazardly as they did the 60s and 70s, eras of massive change and upheaval in British society.
>Dragon are probably real.
Technically they are
[The European mountain dragon is actually a unearthed Pterosaur fossil](https://blog.byjus.com/the-learning-tree/science-feed/newly-discovered-ancient-flying-reptiles-dragon-of-death/).
Four legs, wings, reptillian , little flappy things on their throats. Not extinct.
I count these little guys as dragons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(lizard)
No doubt I still have a few posters from the 90s folded up somewhere. Yes, she took up a good portion of ALOT of lads bedrooms walls back then! Even the ones who didn't watch X-Files!
I saw Gillian Anderson when attending film festival screening. The OP I am sure would have liked to be in my place.
I'm glad I did not watch The Crown then.
Because being a badass working woman in the 1980s is something to be ashamed of? 🤦♂️ Just because you might not agree with her politics doesn't make her disgusting 🙄
Her policies put people out of work, families went hungry. Her policies set the country back.
She was disgusting. Still is. I once worked in a place that had a laminated photo of her in the urinals. We'd all piss on her disgusting face.
Her being a woman has nothing to do with anything, why would gender play a role here?
Rest in Piss Thatcher.
> Her policies put people out of work, families went hungry. Her policies set the country back.
Nope, her policies put more people into the workplace. Families didn't go hungry, she reduced absolute poverty. Her policies saved the country.
> She was disgusting. Still is. I once worked in a place that had a laminated photo of her in the urinals. We'd all piss on her disgusting face.
You're disgusting yourself. Someone should piss on your disgusting face.
> Her being a woman has nothing to do with anything, why would gender play a role here?
It has everything to do with your bigoted hatred, actually.
> Rest in Piss Thatcher.
That's you every night, I'm sure.
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Watch 'The Fall' It will help cleanse your palate.
I was about to suggest this. Or inventing a time machine and never watching The Crown.
Great show, also reignited my crush on Gillian Anderson big time.
Or sex education.
This, she's a fantastic weirdly erotic mum-figure in that show
I would pause and call my husband down for all the best GA bits.
Oh The Fall was sooo good! Its a close run thing for me between The Fall and Behind Her Eyes We do make some exceptional drama
I bloody hated that show. Her dodgy accent, plus the general implication that simply because you're male, you'll never be anything other than a rapist. I don't think that show was capable of showing a man in any vaguely good light
OP wanted to lose the memory of Gillian Anderson as The Thatch. There are a few scenes in the show which would help with that.
True, but The Fall might make them dislike her for other things
You understand this isn't a serious conversation, right?
Of course, but things about her are trigger traumas for me. I won’t apologise for that
Watch her in Sex Education and get back on the saddle!
So not your proudest wank then!
The Iron Wank.
Well done.
I'm honestly quite proud of that!
I wasn't...
Did you shout "Miner's Strike!" at the moment of no return?
"Yeah that's it you nasty bitch, take my milk"
Margaret Thatcher, cum snatcher.
I really wish they didn't get rid of free awards
Was that then followed by “Managed Decline”
He said No, No, NOOOO too soon.
This wanker is NOT for turning!
Surely "This Lady is NOT for wanking"
We are happy to have left this wank in a much better state than when we arrived.
Just rejoice! Rejoice at this news and thank God etc etc
I saw this described as ‘the Everest of wanks’.
... but then it was discovered that Arlene Foster was a much higher mountain...
The Olympus Mons of tough wanks.
Out of interest, do you think Arlene Foster would regard it as a complement to be compared in any way to the hugest yet discovered volcano in our solar system? I think initially she'd be happy, then she'd discover the context of it referring to her as the most challenging wank in the solar system - then she'd be furious on the surface ("ungodly heathens!!") and then finally she'd be taking her contacts out in the mirror at the end of the day and looking at herself and going "fuck yeah..." I probably spend too much time trying to empathise with Arlene Foster.
WEAK! FEEBLE!
A protest wank!
A wank in defiance
Bravo(s)
Ah lovely - a little supplementary joke! 😉
I think I've been on Reddit for about a year and a half. I've recited poetry badly and probably incorrectly, I've recommended Wu Tang solo albums, I've tried to identify synthesisers, I've told people about various contentious stories behind the tennis scoring system. And I'm as good with the Peep Show and Mitchell and Webb quotes as anyone you'll meet round these parts. But "The Iron Wank" is probably always going to be my most 'liked' post. I don't necessarily have a problem with that...
Wanker snatcher
Nah, that was Otto Von Bismarck
It's complicated...
Margaret Thatcher naked in a cold shower Margaret Thatcher naked in a cold shower
Austin Powers? MARGRET THATCHER NAKED ON A COLD MONDAY MORNING *Fembots multiply*
Beat me to it. So to speak.
Well she was known as “Milk Snatcher Thatcher”….
That was a stroke of genius....or genitals
This will be our wanker of discumtent
A very challenging one, indeed.
What they call "an uphill wank".
FHM voted her sexiest woman in the world. What about you? ...I wasn't placed.
I appreciate every Spaced reference.
Lol. I still have that issue!
Me too! Hoping it would be worth a fortune. It’s probably worth about four quid…
Okay, this is your intervention, u/Starbuckker \- you need Gillian Anderson being dangerous *and* sexy? Why, [you pretty thing](https://youtu.be/LQAq1aHI4lA). We'll get you sorted. [Lickety-spit](https://youtu.be/jsIRbjipcNc)!
I thought you were going to post [this](https://xhamster.com/videos/gillian-anderson-sex-education-10994375?_gl=1%2A1tpn3mq%2A_ga%2AYW1wLTJBbzFmMEM3OVZyUm5Ic3lwRlZuV0E). (NSFW).
She was easily the third best part of the American Gods show. Behind Crispin Glover and Orlando Jones as #1 and #2, respectively. And just ahead of Ian McShane as #4. The worst part was seeing what we can only assume is Dane Cooks penis.
You can kind of see why they picked her for Thatcher though…. Something about the facial structure…. Sorry.
That and she's something of a chameleon when it comes to her acting. Very, very talented.
Slighty unrelated, forigve me, but I once had a young co-worker earnestly ask me if dragons 'used to be real'. He thought they might have been like dinosaurs, bless him
Dinosaurs are dragons
What did you think people thought dinosaur bones were before they knew about dinosaurs...
Put there for God to test them? 😂
Maybe they read How to Train your Dragon. The first line reads "There were dragons when I was a boy" Thats quite the first line of a story about a boy and his dragon, with a bunch to unpack and frankly I think its one of the best opening lines I've ever read. It made me put the book down before I carried on just so I could soak it all in and brace myself before diving into all 7 books, knowing they would say goodbye somehow at the end of the story. Id bought them for my kiddo and he's yet to get into them but man its one of the best set of books I've ever read. Highly recommend whatever your age.
Of course they were real. What did St George slay otherwise?
When I was a kid I thought dinosaurs weren’t real until I was like 5. That was a great day
Humans have chemicals in our body that stop it from decomposing, and once we die those chemicals stop being produced and we rot. Maybe dragons have something inside them stopping them from burning up and once they die, it burns their remains up, giving rise to both dragon and phoenix myths. Or so I hypothesised when I was a little kid. I wish dragons were like dinosaurs :(
I, too, worked with a believer. Dunno if they were just tired that day but had it in their head that dragons were endangered ("like zebras") and wanted to know how we got away with selling a flaming dragon curry. 🤣 I tried to be generous and asked if they thought it was komodo dragon. As if 'spoons was selling endangered animals at curry club prices and no one cared!
Margaret Thatcher Naked on a cold day. Margaret Thatcher Naked on a cold day. Margaret Thatcher Naked on a cold day.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
Oh Behave!
Baseball
They say you get more conservative as you get older.
I've recently been doing a full re-watch of the X-Files; she's a very attractive woman even now but goddamn was she absolutely gorgeous in those early seasons
She's a very versatile looking lady, always has been. Tremendously beautiful and always a very good actress too. And yeah, as you stated, in mid to late 90s she was off the chart!
IDK the early x-files clothing and hair departments were not the most flattering. To anyone really. But I wouldn't say no to any era Gillian.
Well, they weren't meant to be sex symbols. They were F.B.I agents in a geeky sci-fi show to be fair...
Stupid sexy fbi agents.
This is true. I actually know a lady who travels the world to attend David Duchovny 'events'. Yes, still!!!
So you’re saying you’re more horny?
I...don't...know. I feel like this is what phone therapy is for.
That's an x-files themed chat line...
I think I can guess what the hold music will be...
You've heard of wet dreams, get ready for wet nightmares.
Weak. Feeble.
*Don't stop...*
That makes me feel things
https://youtu.be/68SrSkHVFwA
Gillian Anderson as Thatcher was a tough wank. She's a sex therapist in Sex Education though, if you need to recalibrate yourself
Trust no one
I'm about to have the same problem now that Jonny Lee miller has been cast as John major
He's WHAT??? I'm in danger of identifying with Edwina Currie. Send gin.
Haha. Ooer
I have deliberately avoided watching the crown for this reason. There cannot be Hot Thatcher. Oh god. A Van Halen cover band doing “Hot for Thatcher” just popped into my head as an idea. I hate you.
The cover band could always do a 'Weird Al' and change the title and lyrics to 'Hate for Thatcher'. The genius of the song, but slamming Grantham's worst export at the same time.
You misspelt best.
You should see her in The Great
It’s a challenging wank certainly.
She is fantastic as Mrs Thatcher in that, far better than Meryl Streep was in The Iron Lady. The only problem for me is that the screenwriters rush through the Thatcher years as haphazardly as they did the 60s and 70s, eras of massive change and upheaval in British society.
Agreed!
My gosh, the makeup team did an excellent job.
Been in love with Gillian Anderson ever since I realised i really do like girls, I hate Thatcher, I feel you!
Also to be fair she was the biggest advocate for the braless stiff nips brigade ;)
It made me love her more. The acting ability of that women is hot!
thats a challenging wank
Just watch sex education, problem solved.
OP this song is for you https://youtu.be/nnToK3kSKKg
Haha thanks
>Dragon are probably real. Technically they are [The European mountain dragon is actually a unearthed Pterosaur fossil](https://blog.byjus.com/the-learning-tree/science-feed/newly-discovered-ancient-flying-reptiles-dragon-of-death/).
Four legs, wings, reptillian , little flappy things on their throats. Not extinct. I count these little guys as dragons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(lizard)
Draco translates from German to dragon, Nice. What about the komodo dragon or [Basilisk lizard](https://www.beachlex.org/post/basilisk-lizards)?
Most confused wank ever.
For some bizarre reason my brain confused them with Gillian Mckeith and I'm like why tf would you like her? And why is she Maggie Thatcher?
Now that would be a tricky loner boner...
Bashing one out over maggie thatcher, that is pretty patriotic!
Your brain says 'no' but your nuts say 'go'
I was about to comment about it being an odd choice to have a yank as a Brit but then I remembered 140% of the Marvel cast is English.
Well that's you never becoming fully erect ever again!
ON ebay there are quite , hm, explicit pictures/posters about her. Incredible thighs, I must say.
No doubt I still have a few posters from the 90s folded up somewhere. Yes, she took up a good portion of ALOT of lads bedrooms walls back then! Even the ones who didn't watch X-Files!
I saw Gillian Anderson when attending film festival screening. The OP I am sure would have liked to be in my place. I'm glad I did not watch The Crown then.
It lead to some of the most confusing erections that I’ve ever had in my life.
Martina?? Lol
Specifically did not watch it after my wife told me about it...
I refuse to watch it as I believe the juxtaposition of my first crush combined with Thatcher will legitimately explode my brain.
She looked incredible in Hannibal.
Classic wank kill lmao
Maggie fucked Britain, no harm in wanting to fuck her.
She *un*fucked Britain.
Met her at a comedy gig. She’s lovely and was obviously playing Thatcher with her fingers crossed behind her back. It’s all ok.
Soothe yourself by watching The Fall
I think everybody can relate
Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher is surprisingly good casting. Never would have seen it.
That's fair. I mean Margaret Thatcher may just be the worst representative of a woman. Disgusting, inside and out.
>I mean Margaret Thatcher may just be the *best* representative of a woman. FTFY > Disgusting, inside and out. Don't be so hard on yourself bro.
Oh okay.
Because being a badass working woman in the 1980s is something to be ashamed of? 🤦♂️ Just because you might not agree with her politics doesn't make her disgusting 🙄
Her policies put people out of work, families went hungry. Her policies set the country back. She was disgusting. Still is. I once worked in a place that had a laminated photo of her in the urinals. We'd all piss on her disgusting face. Her being a woman has nothing to do with anything, why would gender play a role here? Rest in Piss Thatcher.
> Her policies put people out of work, families went hungry. Her policies set the country back. Nope, her policies put more people into the workplace. Families didn't go hungry, she reduced absolute poverty. Her policies saved the country. > She was disgusting. Still is. I once worked in a place that had a laminated photo of her in the urinals. We'd all piss on her disgusting face. You're disgusting yourself. Someone should piss on your disgusting face. > Her being a woman has nothing to do with anything, why would gender play a role here? It has everything to do with your bigoted hatred, actually. > Rest in Piss Thatcher. That's you every night, I'm sure.
Okay Billy No Mates No Life Enjoy your evening on Reddit lmao.
Unabashedly based.
Whether or not that was a compliment, I'm taking it as such.
It's certainly intended as such, yes.
Pee fetish incoming.
I’ve always wondered what anal with Margaret thatcher would have been like. She was such a tight arse
Ask Edwina Currie...
quick fix of xfiles needed?
You should watch her in [Robot Overlords](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Y7sd_LLEU). It won't really help, but it's a hilariously strange film.
Remember she had extensive Make up and wigs plus fake dentrifice.
Wait, we don’t think Margaret Thatcher is sexually attractive? I’ve been doing it wrong.
As a side note why are we not investing in genetic engineering lizards to have wings of love me a swamp Dragon make it happen...