Almost everything is contemptibly dull

Rick says, in an aside: “I am, and always have been, a miserable sod with a near-pathological hatred of the general public.”

Well, I know the feeling. And when I read that, I remembered a sketch from the Channel 4 series ‘Spoons’ a few years back – which, it turns out, is on YouTube.

Now, I have nothing against barbecues as such, but otherwise I can really relate to this guy: