In I'm All Right Jack (1959), he played the decent but slightly daft young executive, Stanley Windrush, while Peter Sellers appeared as the pompous shop steward – an even-handed cinematic satire on both management and trade unions.
Why only the other week they wrote up some spotty, jobless and narcissistic youth from, I think, the north east, who had fathered 15 children with 14 daft young women – it may have been 150 children by 140 daft young women – and wasn't bovvered.
Fitzgerald clearly likes digging away at the kind of things that keep Daily Mail readers awake at night: drugs, casual sex, the corruption of innocence and how daft young people can be.
"Using cherrywood is maybe a bit daft with young kids punching around, since the wood is so soft — and it's already been drawn on with a permanent marker," Mrs. Maclean-Bristol said.
Last year, the Spectator scoffed at the idea, asking: "Do adults really need to be taught about the moment of 'consent'?" The suggestion, posed under the banner of common sense, is that all the talk of needing to clarify consent is a daft generational trend, one where young people are complicating the simplest, and oldest, of human interactions with stuttering indecision.
Grownups will discern scorn here for the Victorian direction the education system is taking; younger readers will enjoy a daft tale in which the grumpy stickler Uncle Gobb is undone by Malcolm and his friend, Crackersnacker.
I hope the Dawson Bros muster up this strength because whether it's their prime time or their ruder, dafter, younger BBC3 work, they genuinely brighten my world.
As my colleague Buttonwood has pointed out, it is a daft ruling given the mass of actuarial data suggesting that gender is a big risk factor, especially among young men.
