An Ideas Man. SBT New Writers Award for Fiction 2019. 'Endorse Me, You Cowards!' out with
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. I believe in repetition and Carly Rae Jepsen. He/Him.
Where's that 'ridiculous things you believed as a kid' thread? Because I just remembered that I used to think the two teams on University Challenge were stacked one on top of the other like the way it's cut together.
Google has fixed a bug that told drivers to head down a set of stairs in central Edinburgh
The news comes after two cars became stuck on the same steps off Leith Walk
You cannot beat NFT people for utilising the English language in the most unhinged ways. This post alone contains the phrases:
- my long term ape
-with this ape in my pocket
- myself and around 15 other high ranking ape members
It's impossible to post this good on purpose.
It is with a heavy heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar. Most of my early followers know me as this ape. My kids know me as this ape. I met my wife when I WAS this ape and had my first kid when I was still proudly wore this ape. By extension, it is part of me.…
Rosie just came into the room to ask what I was reading, and when I said Infinite Jest, an answer which she was already aware of, obviously, she produced a small red flag SHE BOUGHT FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE THAN TO WAVE AT ME FOR READING INFINITE JEST
Parody Politician Accounts are bad. All of them. Every single one. No exceptions. They serve as little more than vehicles for inevitable and horrendous coffee table books your parents buy you for Christmas in a misguided attempt to be funny.
let me check if I've got this right: everything has to get worse and worse and worse for the benefit of a tiny number of businessmen forever and ever and ever until we die
You wake up in hell and discover that it is also inhabited by all the cows and chickens you ate, and they've got carte blanche to get revenge, but they're also cows and chickens so not really dextrous enough to do anything about it but the mood is sour
Would be great if the 'terrible 2s' happened every decade, so whether you're 12, 22, 42, 72, just a year where you go absolutely apeshit and everyone goes "oh, you're 32? that figures"
In Three Lions by Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds, they sing "Thirty years of hurt". As the song was written 30 years after the win, and they couldn't have defended it until 4 years later, it suggests they immediately started feeling sorry for themselves. In this essay I
@RobertSaysThis
haha aw man. i think i thought the crystal maze was spectacular thing too. I think it was the travelling in lifts thing that convinced me!
It pains me to say it but it was absolutely a boomer who invented "lol". Even gen X would have been way too young.
Compression of history is a very real thing.
In 2024, we're leaving "Muppet casting of films" behind and we're embracing "which of Gerry Anderson's characters would support the current rise of fascism"
A recession? How exciting! Where's next? Another pandemic? A meteorite that hits the UK and somehow only damages the poorest areas? Or maybe we could have a shower of broken glass or a tornado that pulls a trident submarine into the air that drops it on a northern English city
If you do an BA in Scottish literature then follow it up with a Masters, then complete your academic studies with a PhD focused on the man who wrote Old Lang Syne, you could go around referring to your doctorate as Third Degree Burns
Daylight Savings Time is one of those uniquely human things. It's a reminder that if we can shift the hours of the clock however we like then we can do so much more: everyone can be given enough money to live on, no one needs to struggle, we can have more free time
I honestly love any and all jokes that go
[here's a picture of a character]
[zooms out to character next to it with the exact same expression]
This is perhaps my favourite one
It should be really really difficult to get a Blue Peter badge. If you raise £500 for charity they should send a letter back saying "this other kid raised £1000 try harder"