Sally

We are not a well nation.

And it turns out the word doesn't mean that at all, but the real meaning is complex and harder to slap on a candle.

Qobuz was just broken for me. Downloaded a playlist, went offline, but after a while it was stopping mid track and losing songs, claiming they weren't downloaded. I could hop on a flight with a 2hr playlist and come off with it whittled down to single digits.

I get my tiny portion for free if I bench-press the Obesity Tsar

This is one of those things I try and explain to non-Brits and I just can't, it makes no sense to those in normal, functioning countries.

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

Still true

THIS omg, like I know that article went around that writers had to have characters stop and explain the plot in big friendly letters, but I didn't think it would come true so fast.

Shows now just feel like people standing around explaining the script to one another, it's like watching a meeting.

It’s incredible that places like this exist in modern Britain 😞

Dropped off so hard I got whiplash. Same feeling, that I must be dumb to have enjoyed S1. It just gets worse then fizzles out.

Tramell Tillman is worth sticking it out for, though.

A chatbot that gives you answers that look vaguely British but aren't - you could make money from that.

"By the jolly spanners, lad, take the forty-eleventh to Spattle-on-the-Wold and then nip down the snicket to Grommidge Mill, Robert's your mother's brother, old chap."

Gold Tier writes recipes.

My daughter told me old Canon Powershots and Ixuses were popular with the youth now, because of the retro feel to the photos. I still have two; lent her the best (oldest) one.

Loved that Ixus. Later devices took 'better' photos, by someone's metric, but not mine.

And booze. It's really about the shot of brandy you're getting 1-3 times a day. How else do you get through December?

I had a German primary school teacher, he read us all the lovely Struwwelpeter stories. Kept us away from matches, for sure.

Det här är ett bra tillfälle för träningsbyxor

Oh, then could just be a genuine error. It's a known scam via Amazon, I think, sending out loads of tiny fake products for reviews, but nothing real and expensive. Does seem a bit odd.

Probably a scam, where the seller tries to demand payment, but the loopholes around this were closed a while ago.

(Ex-debt-collector. Mobile phone companies used to actually do this to customers and try to charge them because they opened it, which they deemed intent to purchase. Banned now.)

"Epadunk" är ett så bra namn.

It makes me wanna buy bigger, brighter headphones.

Or eaten by birds, as a backup plan

✨ Senpai noticed you ✨

No, still balancing my spreadsheets on the tax fuckery.

She's not above criticism because she's a woman.

Her gender matters why?

My kids are old enough now to be let loose on their school libraries. It's brilliant.

"Read <book> today."

"Oh, wow, that messed me UP when I was, like, 22. How you doing?"

"Messed uuuup. Grabbed the rest of their work."

Creative writing module at uni, we were encouraged to think about what would go in our "for fans of <other book> and <other book 2>" pitch. Which authors we needed to be next to on the table, sharing cover art styles...

Left me cold.

Few believe me when I try to describe the joy of these fleeting moments of peak household organisation.

It's like they Benedryl Cumberswatched you!

Next, we come for the 'petrichor' clan.

It made them drift away from using 'hiraeth' though so I have mixed feelings.

I've heard it's rather insane in places. So many rumours that it's more fun to pretend they're all true than actually read it.