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Just showed a couple of 14 year olds on the train how to work/fill their Zippo and felt a bizarre combination of nostalgic, guru and very, very old.

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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

submitted 22 hours ago • 84 comments

The Facebook algorithm is now SO f**ked up. I mean, I have strong enough objections to being spoonfed by a computer as it is, but ‘Most relevant’ now excises entire posts, rendering whole conversations meaningless. Dunno about you, but if I ask a question, I consider the answer ‘relevant’.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Day one of the Easter holidays and I decided to wake up at 5am. I am not an influencer, or a CEO. I am very tired with a stupid body. 🥱

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I know. They’re just penguins, right? 🐧

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I haven’t felt this patriotic in nine years. 🇬🇧

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Um…just one little question from an economic illiterate about the economic illiterate, but the US department that’s meant to collect all these tariffs… Dothey still exist, it has Musk disembowelled them with a chainsaw too? ✂️ That would be quite funny.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sail away sail away sail away…

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I dunno. Not to say Brexit didn’t play a part in securing lower tariffs for the UK (giving Starmer any credit is obviously ideologically impossible for The Telegraph,) but not sure claiming ‘act of economic idiocy saves us from seismic act of economic idiocy’ is quite the win they think it is.

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Has anyone seen Liz Truss recently? I imagine she’s probably in a dark room somewhere using a copy of the Wall St Journal like Vanessa Redgrave with Oliver Reed’s thigh bone in The Devils.

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Although it has to be said that if today ‘Wall St finally collectively realises that these people have no idea how economics work’ that doesn’t say much for Wall St. I knew it when some kid at High School in PA showed me ‘The Art of the Deal’ three decades ago.

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Donald Trump - giving vegetables a bad name.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I’m such a shit parent I thought Bluey was a boy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I have joke writing game, but it’s still in development.

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I mean, well done and everything, but would it be possible to quietly suggest that objectively, any system that requires or even allows speeches this long is intrinsically f**king batsh*t?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This was a lot of fun, although Kev was probably funnier than me. I had serious policies to advance, including an end to Customer Service Questionnaires and Death to Alexa. Anyone who disagrees can get in the sea. Literally.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I think Charlie Mullins might consider himself more of a thorn in the establishment’s side than he actually is. Reading this - published gleefully by The Telegraph - would seem to indicate he may just have the wrong establishment too.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So it would appear The Guardian needs to write another column with a picture of Donald Trump at the top, giving its view that the Guardian view is palpably idiotic.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’d love to see the statistics for how many right wing blowhards get convicted for committing crimes, all while claiming it’s a ‘politically motivated hit job’. Quite astounding level of coincidence among those who pretend to insist on the rule of law whilst considering themselves firmly above it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Good to see The Telegraph in their natural habitat of Trump apologia. Pretending to be ‘pissed off’ at someone for the superficial benefit of others is a tactic as old as time, & has been done much, much better. He could actually end this war in close to 24 hours. He has no intention of doing so.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone acting surprised at this was probably stupid enough to vote for him the last three times.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments