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Mixing up a spot of bewigged law with some quality lounging, #pvfc , awkward puns and tireless pedantry.

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3 years
I was in charge of cheese and biscuits last night. I am 47 years old.
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Be fair to Liz Truss. A Prime Minister cannot resign after 42 days. It has to be 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67 etc
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When youโ€™re surprised at the efficacy of a Robin.
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I'm about to ask a very stupid question. Can someone with some photoshop skills make my profile photo Christmassy. I'm going to regret this.
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โ€œCake Decorations! Coming over the hill! Hundreds and thousands of them.โ€
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She sells Shell shares, screws the seashore?
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Theresa Villiers: Ex-environment secretary failed to declare Shell shares
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The moral of the story - don't take on tofu. The curds always get their whey.
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3 years
NEWS JUST IN: Prime Minister to wash his hands of responsibility for Covid infections as part of new Pilate scheme.
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Council looks at fencing to save migrating toads
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6 months
Jโ€™Accuzzi
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3 years
Five minutes into our walk, and Willoughby refuses to go any further without snacks.
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5 years
๐ŸŽถ"Spider brooch, spider brooch, Giving Johnson a stern reproach"๐ŸŽถ
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2 years
People are just brilliant. Thank you, Twitter. The response to this has been amazing - and Iโ€™m delighted that itโ€™s cheered so many people. I now have the joyously onerous task of choosing a new profile pic.
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2 years
I'm about to ask a very stupid question. Can someone with some photoshop skills make my profile photo Christmassy. I'm going to regret this.
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Heโ€™s been! Heโ€™s been!
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2 years
That Met Questionnaire: 1. What computing word also means religious imagery (4) 2. What hat did Tommy Cooper wear (3) 3. What was Pippinโ€™s surname in LoTR (4) 4. What word is missing from โ€œwithout _____ or reasonโ€ (5) Now phone the Met, and read the answers one after another.
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4 years
Good morning from the parakeets of St. Jamesโ€™s Park.
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8 months
Typical. They wouldn't have made her do that if she were a man.
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4 years
Nadine Dorries is an anagram of Inane Disorder. Everything else flows from that.
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2 years
Trussian Roulette (n) - A game where the Prime Minister goes on six local radio shows at random for an easy ride, but finds that none of them are firing blanks.
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4 years
Weโ€™ve even been abandoned by the World Health Organisation.
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The Who postpone UK tour due to coronavirus
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3 years
Pizza delivery man just said โ€œHope you guys have a good eveningโ€ after wrongly deducing from the size of my order that there was more than one of me.
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4 years
Nigel is going to propose.
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4 years
I am releasing another bombshell video on Sunday evening at 5pm. Itโ€™s not good news for @PritiPatel Iโ€™m afraid.
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3 years
Interestingly, the word โ€˜vaccineโ€™ comes from the Latin โ€˜vaccaโ€™ meaning โ€˜cowโ€™, because since the late 18th Century vaccines have been used to cow the populace into submission with microchips.
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1 year
Weโ€™re now into December and it seems a good time to remember this time last year when Twitter did my favourite thing ever. If you need a bit of cheer, have a scroll through this piece of perfect craziness.
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2 years
I'm about to ask a very stupid question. Can someone with some photoshop skills make my profile photo Christmassy. I'm going to regret this.
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man who has just travelled nine hours pops out again to Sainsburyโ€™s because itโ€™s the catโ€™s 18th birthday.
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9 months
Why is it called Cornwall and not โ€œpasty duchy on the left hand sideโ€?
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8 months
24 hours is my guess, lads.
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4 years
Suggestion for @BarristerSecret : Can you next blogpost please start: โ€œDear EU, Please may I revoke that Article 50 thing as weโ€™ve made a big hash of it and need to go away and have a think about what to do next. Oh, and I resign the leadership of the Conservative Party too.โ€
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5 years
How to not understand irony and not read posts properly. A lesson in one act, for all those tempted to be mean to @BarristerSecret :
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Absolutely devastated to learn that some absolute c*nt has cut down the Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrianโ€™s Wall overnight. Itโ€™s barely a month since I visited it with @ExcelPope but it had stood for hundreds of years.
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4 years
Bookshops are now rationing. I wanted to get biographies of all prominent rap artists ever - but they would only let me buy Tupacโ€™s.
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3 years
Fantastic. Missed. Ha, Fox.
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3 years
After all the Brexit promises and all the talk of fishing, I've trawled through 2,000 pages of the deal and I cannot find any net benefit.
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4 years
My diagnosis is Acid Reflux. Thatโ€™s why Philipโ€™s pH has dropped.
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1 year
One does not simply walk into Mordaunt.
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2 years
@WelshDalaiLama Absolute bastard.
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4 years
Iโ€™m trying to work out an easy way to convert the 2 metre social distancing rule into imperial measurements, but itโ€™s just a bit more than I can fathom.
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Not content with its Big Brother style banning of Trump, Twitter is now encouraging people to wish they could fly right up to the sky, when they canโ€™t. Itโ€™s positively Orvillian.
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2 years
Well played, the Canal and River Trust.
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4 years
I see Bristol is harbouring slavers again.
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4 years
A Very Exciting Night tonight, that Iโ€™ve looked forward to for ages. After living in apartment blocks for 20 odd years, Iโ€™m now in a house and itโ€™s ... MY FIRST BIN NIGHT. #binnight
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1 year
Today I have finished the trial I have been doing and so I can finally admit that these were my trousers.
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If any barrister has left Southwark crown court without their pinstripe trousers, they are hanging up in the gentleman's lavatory on floor 4.
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4 years
โ€œSo, do you come here often?โ€
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1 year
Thatโ€™ll teach the BBC to employ strikers.
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Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but Iโ€™ve told the BBC I wonโ€™t be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity.
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4 years
Seeing a lot of comment about Laurence Fox and how he and the Fox family are so privileged and how it's wrong for them to be speaking about discrimination and oppression, because the Foxes have always had it easy. Have we forgotten the events of Boxing Day already?
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2 years
Used to be "The Duke of York"
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Tonight we remember Konrad Adenauer who invented and gave his name to British Summer Time.
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7 months
Groups of 52 year olds hanging around outside a Costcutter, trying to persuade a 54 year old to go in and buy them some fags.
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4 years
Did you know that the new edition of the dictionary now spells โ€˜gggggullibleโ€™ so it begins with 5Gs?
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5 years
To be fair to Darren, I didn't understand how administrative law worked until I studied law.
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3 years
Thank you to everyone for their (generally) kind birthday wishes yesterday. I think this card, from my mum, nicely sums things up.
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9 months
ME: Iโ€™ve done a silly pun about Cornwall and a song by Musical Youth, but at least no-one could find it offensive TWITTER: Challenge Accepted
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4 years
If the toilet paper does run out, we will have to find something else to use in lieu.
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3 months
Does it count as moved in when youโ€™ve only unpacked the cat?
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4 years
Good morning from this squirrel, who threatened to send the boys round if I didnโ€™t pony up a couple of hazelnuts.
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10 months
Tuna steak went down well folks, though she couldnโ€™t be persuaded to blow the candles out.
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26th January 2021 - Chris Grayling put in charge of ensuring the survival of hedgehogs 27th January 2021 - Disaster and calamity for hedgefunds Is it possible that Chris might have misheard?
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2 years
@blackpoolcomedy I know youโ€™ve tried to remove personal details, but leaving in โ€˜Facebook textsesโ€™ is a GDPR breach as it makes it obvious this was Gollum.
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4 years
The current Magpie rhyme: One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a breach of Article 7 of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020
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Twitter, a plea. Letโ€™s all be kinder and nicer. Today alone Iโ€™ve seen friends being mocked for worrying about losing their pet, and told off for swearing. The near future will be hard - letโ€™s be kind to each other. And tell silly jokes. Make this place help, not hurt. Xx
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Dominic Cummings drove to Barnards Castle to test his eyesight, but Boris Johnson just used a distant font.
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Oh no! Disaster! Revenue and Customs have just phoned me with an automated message. If I do not call them on 02039174758, a prosecution will begin against me in my local county courthouse. Are there any decent lawyers out there who might be able to call on my behalf?
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4 years
Are you resolving to be a better person next year? Make it more achievable by spending today being the very worst person you can be.
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2 years
Stopped in Portrush for a spot of brunch before heading to Giantโ€™s Causeway. Itโ€™s a bit chilly but the toilets are very inclusive.
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I have pretty well been WFH for the last two weeks, and Iโ€™m happy to report that I have saved around ยฃ23,000 by not buying coffee.
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5 years
He owned the bottom one, but the top one was just a higher car.
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4 years
Dear Twitter, Iโ€™ve been Home Alone for a month now, and with no real life contact with anyone. Not seen my OH at all. Or Dayve the Cat. If not for you lot, Iโ€™d be going stark raving bonkers. Or bonkerser, at least. Thanks, everybody. Youโ€™re great.
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He was framed.
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5 years
The couple next to me on the bus are playing a word finding game on a phone. For the last two minutes theyโ€™ve been trying to work out if โ€œIMP-lyโ€ is a word meaning โ€œlike an impโ€. It is doing my head in.
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3 years
When thereโ€™s a wonderful view of sunrise on Wimbledon Common from your favourite bench, but itโ€™s only accessible by boat.
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5 years
@GaryLineker @Arsenal Wouldn't that just look like they were taking the Mkhi?
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8 months
Looking forward to when thereโ€™s a suspected serial killer and loads of people come on Twitter and say they donโ€™t believe heโ€™s a serial killer because he hasnโ€™t murdered them.
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It is Dayveโ€™s 17th Birthday today. There will be tuna. There have already been Dreamies. And her first driving lesson is tomorrow.
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4 years
I've seen a number of people mention their suspicions that Allison may not have two friends, but to be fair to her, she doesn't say that they are HER friends, does she?
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A year ago last Saturday I saw a circular rainbow for the very first time, at Victoria Falls in Zambia. It was one of the most wondrous things I've ever seen.
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..-. .- -- .. -. . .-- .- .-. .--. . ... - .. .-.. . -. -.-. . and -.. . .- - .... The Four Morsemen of the Apocalypse
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2 years
This is an appalling clickbait headline, @BBCNews , akin to โ€˜Fred West imprisoned for building a patio without planning permissionโ€™. Imprisonment was for perverting the course of justice, not the underlying lockdown infraction.
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Man jailed after serving mince pies in lockdown
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3 years
But whoโ€™s going to read it to him?
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Expecting a big story later. Keep an eye out after 10pm.
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@BarristerSecret Iโ€™m sorry SB, but thereโ€™s been an amendment since that version.
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"I'm hearing that Wagner have left the M4 and are now at the Chiswick Roundabout"
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3 years
You rail against the joke explainers, and then their target audience appears.
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4 years
The only explanation for โ€˜Froridaโ€™ is that Scooby-Doo is dictating Trumpโ€™s tweets to him. Come to think of it, that would explain quite a lot...
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4 years
At court for the first long trial since becoming a QC and I'm really seeing the benefit. This silk gown swishes around corners SO much more satisfyingly than the cotton one did.
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4 years
Interpretive Dance. Please let it be Interpretive Dance.
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Cordelia Lynch
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BREAK: WH official says there are discussions within the White House about whether the President will address the American public in some form today. No final decision has been made. #TrumpCovid
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This is weird. A late birthday card from my mum arrived today, mangled in apologetic plastic - a torn @MooseAllain card in a ravaged envelope with an odd precisely sliced tenner. I sent this photo to my mum. Her reply - โ€œThere was no money in that envelope when I posted itโ€ฆโ€
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Given the recent popularity of made up legal facts, I thought Iโ€™d start a thread. Do join in: FACT: To Kill a Mockingbird star, Atticus Finch, decided to train as a lawyer to help his brother Hal, who had unfortunately become synonymous with stealing.
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2 years
Whateley and Lewis go simultaneously, leaving Inspector Morse high and dry.
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11 months
90 days is almost two Liz Trusses
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3 years
@BarristerSecret Trial by wombat is a close cousin to the kangaroo court.
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4 years
I canโ€™t tell whether Dayve is cleaning her paw, or has just remembered in horror that sheโ€™s left the iron on.
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Dayve gets her evening feed not before 6pm. At 5.58pm I heard a thump, as if a slightly hefty cat had jumped off the bed where they'd been asleep all day. At 5.59pm this face peered around the door where I'm working. HOW DOES SHE TELL THE TIME LIKE THIS?
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4 years
Stunningly beautiful morning on Wimbledon Common.
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2 years
Do we have a name for the scandal surrounding Trumpโ€™s FBI search yet? #Margate
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2 years
Dog walkers on Wimbledon Common - please ensure that your dog is at least 4-5 metres away from you at all times so that it is clear I am saying hello to them, not to you.
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1 year
Just made the mistake of doing a task that I hadn't written on my list of tasks and now I've got nothing to triumphantly cross off.
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3 years
Whereas โ€˜Putting Small Stickers on Drainpipesโ€™ is a symbol of heroism and triumph.
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4 years
โ€œMath is not a four letter wordโ€ they say on CNN and everyone in the UK agrees.
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11 months
Killer whales don't randomly damage boats near Gibraltar - they orca strait attacks.
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4 years
You have a fox, a chicken and a baseball bat. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the bat with the fox it will beat him to death. How can you get all three across safely?
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