I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

I got rid of my pen knife in the end. I've never once had to chop up a pen.

If I ever look like I'm in need of help, please don't throw me a bone. That would freak me the fuck out.

And only a short drive from Slough.

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

If they’re so keen to go in hard on gender-related bullying, maybe Labour would like to re-introduce duffings-in for anyone deemed to be wearing girl’s shoes, a girl’s coat, or riding a girl’s bike, and catcalling “bender” across the street at anyone not in football colours. Fucking thuggery.

You can fuck off with your chess pie

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

Orville: "I wish I could fly...right up to the sky, but I can't..." Wilbur: "You can. PEDAL FASTER"

Does anyone who's actually going to live to retirement age want my pensions so I don't have to do all the faffing around remembering what's where to put in a will?

"...so if you'll just get undressed behind the screen, I'll examine you" "OK, but I'm sure it wasn't this complicated when I bought a TV the last time"

I can't be the only person who sees it as a huge warning flag if a British person uses the recently made-up word 'leftist', which comes from right-wing Americans who think not having to pay for an ambulance is dangerous Communism, so they equate 'left' with 'Marxist'.

The question about why Starmer and Labour are so hated is perhaps one of the simplest questions to answer in British politics

Tax the shit out of me to pay for kids to eat. That is a better use of my money than what I was going to do with it.

My eurovision choice

Oh I love her :D

If they literally all wear black or white again, I swear to god...

Honestly thought I might have got through that 100 novels list with a single hit (there's not much by way of silly stuff or weird stuff so) but no, I have read the Great Gatsby.

McDonald's has got to be the most humiliating place to get angry. Oh no did you lose your McTemper? Do you demand to speak with The Clown?

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

I see Simon Heffer, in Michael Gove's Spectator, is once again repeating his lie that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech wasn't about race.. I debated Heffer recently (at the Oxford Litfest) - here's what I said. archive.ph/bqKZF

I see a lot of people talking about not being able to hear certain frequencies of whining type sounds (related to CRTs being caught on recordings). I don't mean to brag but I can here a pretty distinct whining sound ALL the time.

Play it as loud as your speakers will allow

Wes Streeting origin story

Magic. I just saw an actress in an episode of Morse called Rainbow Dench and idly Googled a family connection to Judy Dench (there isn't one). The AI overview also wanted to let me know that Rainbow Dench isn't related, by blood or marriage, to the television program Rainbow. If you wondered.

He also facilitated the deaths of trans kids and covered it up which seems like it should be a headline somewhere...

"Welcome to definitely-not-run-by-secret-aliens television. The next program contains tongue language and adult humans."

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

I refuse to eat cottage cheese until I find out how they milk a cottage.

I would like it on record - and for the benefit of all the social media listening tools out there that monitor for sentiment - that I think Wes Streeting is a slimy, repugnant little man And judging by his resignation letter, he's also unbearably smug

Our dog is a labradoodle: half labrador, half cartoon.

The local (North West) news decided that the correct way to celebrate Eric Morecambe's 100th birthday was to showcase a group of caterwauling school children. At first I couldn't really see the connection until I realised, they're not singing all the wrong notes...

Depluralise a movie: House of a corpse.

I wouldn't call myself an anxious person. "Person" feels like too much of an ask.

Give a man the 18th century pioneer of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis and he'll eat Faraday.

I have so much stuff I don't need but spent too much on to dump or give away (not to mention ever increasing costs of living) but absolutely zero "can be arsed packing and posting things." Can I just declare my flat a jumble sale for a while and have you all mooch around and make some offers?

That Wes Streeting leadership bid in full:

Keep a band the same.

Wes Streeting supports the Cass Report and Palantir's UK govt contracts. Either he lacks the critical thinking skills to evaluate the evidence/arguments against them, or he ignores these things for ideological or other reasons. Either one makes him unfit to be PM in my view. (Not going to debate it)

One thing I truly believe is that no one in the LGBT community should let Wes Streeting get away with saying he's the "first out gay prime minister" because we do not claim him.

If I were a Labour MP, I'd tell Streeting I was planning to back him so he'd think he had 81 and then I'd simply not do it so he'd fall flat on his stupid fucking face

Be fun if this was just a way to get Streeting to resign from being a minister then lose a leadership challenge though.

It's been a few years since I resorted to one of my own "depressed singleton's domestic tips" but the summer quilt was deployed too early so the emergency sleeping bag (usually the fix for"washed the sheets but didn't have the energy to put on fresh ones") is in play.

RIP Barry Blaustein. Beyond the Mat was the greatest accidental documentary ever. Its just carnies saying great quotes and people given rope to hang themselves. But its fantastic, despite not really have a narrative. Just a bunch of old dudes being quite tragic. I've watched it at least 90 times