very excited to announce a uk-wide tour of my 2023 edinburgh show 'sentimental' - come and laugh at a show that has been described variously as 'near perfect' and 'like marmalade' (tix in thread)
a woman just got on the subway yelling into her phone “listen BITCH you told him i was a DRUG ADDICT-“
and then was abruptly cut off by a mariachi band boarding the train playing feliz navidad. one of the greatest comedic set pieces i’ve ever seen. no notes 10/10.
amazing that the shut-down was caused by the new york side, the irish were really controlling the game in the first half but a shock last minute equaliser for the big apple there
volunteered to cook christmas dinner for 10 ppl at my gf’s mum’s unaware of some key details such as she only owns one frying pan and it’s encrusted with fossilised remains of long departed sausages. i just moved an 8kg turkey using 2 table forks and a spoon. this is my dunkirk.
[south africa presenting 15 tiktoks in a row of israeli soldiers saying “haha we’re committing a genocide 🤪”]
british barrister being paid $10,000 a day to defend israel: your honour the 9:16 aspect ratio is not admissible in court
this is some of the most powerful britainology i have ever encountered - it’s like what if the dumbest guy in your hometown got to design the stanford prison experiment
the transition of libertarian guys from pretending they’re gonna 3d print a gun and overthrow the govt to calling the cops about having their imaginary ape stolen is awesome
i’m in paris and what i’ll say is you’re never prepared for quite how french the french are -
no more than 5 minutes have i been sat outside this cafe eating lunch when a kind of nice-with-it 50 year old woman walking a pomeranian in a beret ambles past and says “bon appetit”
trying to imagine a british version of this where adele starts dating luke shaw and they’re all watching the fa cup final with a 23-shaped bowl full of mini cheddars
More fallout from Apple's decision to stop selling its products in Russia
"Here's our response to American sanctions! We don't fear you! We'll live without your nice 'pretty' things!"
Breaking: Protestors at McGill university ripped up the new grass lawn in the name of Palestine.
The school had to re-grass the lawn after the encampment from last semester destroyed it, now the students are directly disrespecting the groundskeepers.
bernie sanders: i have a series of radical policies which will transform our society for the better
libs: [booing]
rich person: i am rich
libs: [cheering]
rich person: i am also racist
libs: [teary eyed] this man will restore faith in politics
unfortunately the number one nev maker is actually gary neville’s paternal grandmother who produced neville neville, arguably the highest pound-for-pound neville level ever reached in one man
i can’t even make sense of what the conspiracy whackos are on about anymore - guys will see regular archaeology and be like “ah yes proof at last!!” proof of what mate, a fucken mole civilisation?
*3 weeks ago*
right wing press: the left are destroying civility in british politics by pouring milk on tommy robinson!
*today*
right wing press: whomst among us has not choked a woman at a work event?
what’s the most deranged discourse you reckon you could get at least 5 people on here to go along with? for me i reckon it’s “acab includes paramedics”
i was trying to explain what a capybara was to my gf’s french aunt last night, so googled “french for capybara” and the first thing that came up was this image:
this website is basically a lottery you can only lose - endless people with 200 followers, posting daily for 3 faves and then finally accidentally pushing the right button and getting ratio’d into oblivion for 24h by people they’ve never met and who’ll never think of them again
i got talking to one of australia’s perfect himbos in a bar in south london last night and he said to me “yeah i mean, i’m here for a short time not a long time right!” and i don’t think i’ve ever seen such a confusing misunderstanding of a phrase
[the year 2030: former president donald trump and rachel maddow share a gigantic 2ft long hot dog while they watch a monster truck rally]
liberals: this is exactly the kind of statesman-like behaviour president logan paul will never be capable of. for shame.
a hard right government in argentina? a desperate tory government in the uk miles behind in the poll and staring down the barrel of a general election?
I disagree with the plans to shorten the line by 98.6%, it is contrary to the spirit of the project - they should keep the 170km length and *narrow* it by 98.6%
never write jedward off - you forget about them for a while and then, bang - john's psychic abilities were activated immediately before a minor bus crash
Trust your instincts! We were sitting on the top of the bus and John felt like we should move downstairs and the bus crashed into the train station! everyone is ok thank god but what a close call.
to give priti patel her due: if she does manage to get sacked for workplace bullying, it'll still be an improvement on last time, when she was sacked for treason
"If you are an adult, are you really going to be buying bubblegum-flavoured vape?"
Labour MP Stella Creasy tells
#PoliticsLive
there's a "public health challenge" surrounding children and vaping
whenever someone wins an award for political cartoons, you look at them and they’re all like the prime minister drinking from a petrol pump labelled “big oil profits” while a donkey labelled “the deficit” is crying behind him
just had a long phone call with a friend in st petersburg - she narrowly escaped being arrested at a protest today and i think it’s worth remembering how scared many russians are, both of being arrested for resisting the war and that they or their relatives might be sent to fight
it’s very funny to imply you’re smart by playing chess when we all know garry kasparov was a chess grandmaster and is also one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive
My dad taught me how to play chess at the age of 7 and since then I've had the chess bug.
Chess has taught me so many things which are useful in politics from being strategic to giving me that competitive streak.
in a pizza place my gf just asked the waitress if she could have the 8 cheese pizza with a tomato base and she said she had to ask the kitchen. anyway, she came back and said “i’m afraid that would be impossible” and we cannot stop laughing
"Boris, this ain’t alright.”
Chef
@jamieoliver
tells
@krishgm
why he's calling on people to protest outside Number 10 with an Eton mess pudding if the government doesn’t reverse its decision to delay a ban on multi-buy offers on junk food.
highlight of my christmas was absolutely my cousin’s polish wife being genuinely quite annoyed that i’d split up with my hungarian ex as it was depriving her of the chance to build a sort of eastern european axis in the family
it's so cool that us senators have started dying in office like they're the pope. there will now be a senatorial conclave to elect a new dianne feinstein.
the funniest report i’ve read so far and hope is true is that the kremlin ordered the regular fsb border guards to deny the wagner column entry to russia and they replied that this would be “unrealistic”
i know we've all had our fun over the years laughing at insane ukrainian nationalists, me especially, but you really *cannot* edgelord your way through a completely unjustified invasion in which ukrainian civilians are going to die
just got absolutely bodied by a 4 y/o girl on the tube - i gave my gf a kiss on the head and she points and shouts “look! her daddy is giving her kisses!”
“raygun the australian phd olympic breakdancer” is my manchurian candidate activation phrase. it has activated me to learn everything i can about raygun the australian phd olympic breakdancer
j.k. rowling’s pr person solemnly opening a manila envelope labelled “terf meltdown”, retrieving 3 fake passports and $10,000 in used bills and quietly going to start a new life in venezuela
the platonic form of the british tv debate is a subject matter expert making a reasoned case for doing something and their opponent, an idiot chosen by a random ballot similar to jury service, saying 'nah that's bollocks'
Should the Morning After Pill be available on general sale?
Here's both sides of the argument with NHS doctor
@SoniaAdesara
and freelance journalist
@llggeorgia
#KayBurley
FC
you can understand all american politics by internalising that the republicans make bad things happen and the democrats make sure good things don’t happen
the collapsing concrete schools thing is the perfect british scandal because it manages to combine all of our great national traditions: inept politicians, public sector cost-cutting, cowboy builders and a hatred of anyone under 25
next the capitalists will have you believing that russia was the largest constituent member of the ussr and that it ran the entire union from moscow and enforced russian as the state language but you’ll have to get up pretty early to fool me!!
me, looking at a combined energy, economic and housing crisis that is a vindication of jeremy corbyn’s entire economic platform: it really goes to show how jeremy corbyn would have been just as bad
Truss and Corbyn are two sides of the same coin.
Everyone can see that the project is doomed, they’re heading for electoral annihilation, and damaging the party brand.
Everyone but the true believers, who think the public are wrong and that they will eventually be proven right.