Oh, they started that months ago. ‘It would all have been sunlit uplands if it hadn’t been for this pesky virus’

Pretty much that, yes

You don’t know ’cause you weren’t there, dude. I stayed up all night watching Patrick and Steven take that thread over the millennium mark. It was deep space, it was the South Pole, it was Everest.

It’s this constant juggling of lives and livelihoods. Of course we should have locked down earlier, over half term, but the tier restrictions announced today are lockdown in everything but name anyway. The problem […]

By a mile!

I think that version of this topic got over 1000 comments didn’t it?

‘kew!

He’d hate all those ‘evers’

HP summed up his style good. At 14 I thought Ernest the best writer. I was wrong.

Gottle O’Geary, Hemingway’s ventriloquist and muse

That’s where I was going with that, yes

For all the talk of cheating, if you watch his highlight reel you can see how he skips through dozens of murderous lunges which would have led to a penalty, free kick or even a card; but he’s not interesting in […]

We haven’t spent Christmas in the UK for 10 years because it’s a good time to get a holiday in and there’s nothing worse than that awful week between Christmas and New Year (aka ‘The Perineum’) in the dark, damp […]

What he actually said was: “No listen, right… shut up! Shu- lishen. This is very imp… this is very, okay? Write sober, right, and edit… no wait… write sober… Fuck off!, No… write when you’re drunk… […]

After an inquiry into an accident at an air show, our local paper led with “Crash Plane Was Too Low.”
Presumably the point at which it was too low coincided with the point where it hit the ground.

Another wartime classic was “British Push Bottles Up Germans”

“Oh- and there’s no food. Sorry about that. But we do now have the sunlight uplands of sovereignty, so you can all feed our kids on that.”

I was half expecting him to come on in a Santa suit and shout “I’m saving Christmas!”

I wonder how long it will be once the vaccinations start that someone will publish a rolling total of ‘People who died within 28 days of a Covid-19 Vaccination’

(It’ll be 29 days….)

There’s a LYNX AFRICA™ MARMITE™, apparently

Different departments, I hope?