Finn wondered whether people in Easington would object to the gay themes in the story: Billy's best friend Michael is a "poof", to use the film's parlance.
For several years at England versus Scotland matches banners with the phrase "Jimmy Hill is a poof" would surface, a collectively hostile Scottish riposte to assorted Hill goadings, most notably the suggestion David Narey had "toe-poked" his toe-poked goal against Brazil at the 1982 World Cup.
This is a poof-of-concept analysis so it should be noted that this data set was not designed for an LCA, therefore, additional medical variables which may predict falling were not available.
"There's not that whole thing of, 'I can't wear that, I'd look like a poof', because you are a poof".
At points, we flash forward to the police investigation ("He's a poof, not a spy!" exclaims one copper, having a eureka moment) and back to Turing's schooldays friendship with a boy called Christopher.
He is telling me a strange story about standing at the top of the world - a story where he walks on stage before a billion people and privately panics, "I am becoming one of the biggest stars in the world - and I think I might be a poof.
When he's not out necking two pints over the legal limit because he can handle it and you're a poof if you say otherwise, he's RTing a Paddy Power joke and @ing the cast of Geordie Shore to tell them they need real jobs.
So is Hugh Grant the future of British acting or is he a poof?
George Cornell, a gangster from south London, had called Ron a "fat poof" – Ron used to say "I'm homosexual but I'm not a poof" – and once, when Ron was drunk, had beaten him up.
Of the others abandoned on this week's list, there's a fair case to say they deserve it: first Jilted John, who not only thinks Gordon is a moron, but a "poof" and, quite frankly, doesn't do himself any favours with his final tirade (though I have a feeling it might all be a joke); second, Jack White, who thrusts a bowling ball through a pinball machine in a fit of jealous rage.
His father was all for the idea, but one of Jackman's older brothers told him dancing was for sissies: "What are ya – a poof?" he jeered.
