Robert S

At this stage I'm just surprised that the AI adviser isn't "AI" itself...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

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As if offending Trump isn't the most basic litmus test of all serious journalism & reporting in these times. And if the BBC has an ANTI-Israel bias I must be living on a different planet.

But the BBC board selects the new DG.

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

Mulled cider - best drink of the season

And a nice little top-up drink when you get home to boot!

My party approach these days - leave when it's at its peak, and go home with a buzz.

Some drunk people in the Crown & Two Chairmen pub in Soho

Made it this time!

London again for party attempt 2. Why do football fans always sing about earwigs?

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

Ah, absolutely, of course.

Have you tried crawls at all? I've been doing leopard crawls daily for 2 years now and find them so much better than push ups, (which I always used to do but don't bother with now).

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Even I thought this was one of mine!

Yes, nowadays I always factor in long distance travel as a kind of work in itself, even when just a passenger, and have to adjust the rest of my day in terms of exercise & sleep accordingly.

I still remember a taxi driver in Barcelona many years ago that I swear was trying to kill us all.

You see dogs seeming to love it - I have a back-of-an-envelope theory that maybe predators associate speed with the thrill of the chase, whereas prey animals link to fear.

Which one is more English?

I'm surprised that animals don't get it - or at least they don't seem, to in my fairly limited experience.

Exactly that, yes. Although I do not go on roller coasters!

Ever get that feeling sometimes, when you're being driven in a car or a train, when you suddenly become kind of 'viscerally' aware of how fast you're going and the body goes into a kind of panic for a few seconds? Is that a thing, or just me?

Save money on expensive fireworks simply by getting someone to slap you repeatedly on the back of the head with a ruler.

wes streeting calling mamdani "inspirational"

This transphobic corporate charisma-vacuum thinks we're all fucking stupid. He would have been cheerleading for Cuomo, who does he think he's kidding!?

huh it doesn't seem like it's necessary to run away from supporting marginalized people in order to win at all, it almost seems like it helps you win the support of a polity that hates our supremacist government

we might just have to beat bigots without seeking the approval of bigots

They used to send me voting emails. Now they just send something called 'chat', which I ignore. Maybe some kind of screening?

Are there war crimes tribunals in the afterlife? One for the theologians I guess.

trying to channel my late mother’s grace and not speak ill of the dead but if you want to know how we got to where we are in this country that line goes straight through dick cheney

Or to put it another way:

The right believes that the rich deserve to be rich, and the poor deserve to be poor. The left don't.