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This is why events unnerve me.

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Fireman and an alcoholic.

04.03.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's ok, they'll manage to brush it off.

04.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a very good goal. Bastards.

04.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FFS

04.03.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm like a fucking seesaw right now.

04.03.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of an Irish road sign for Banna Strand

A photo of an Irish road sign for Banna Strand

There’s always money in the

04.03.2026 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Well. I'm not laughing now.

04.03.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha ha ha ha ha

04.03.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where are these Dubai refugees going to live when they return ? Canary Wharf will be a ghetto for folk with bright teeth and dogs in Gucci handbags

04.03.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Those Dubai expats, calculate how much tax they would have paid had they stayed in the UK, and that's exactly the cost of a flight out.

04.03.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

As Jesus says in Two Corinthians, "Mercy is for pussies."

04.03.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 7

We've put the world's most stupid people in charge of it.

04.03.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t outrun the consequences of being stupid forever, but sometimes you don’t notice them, due to being stupid

04.03.2026 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

This'll be on Trump's gravestone.

04.03.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When conservatives say that they want to go back to an earlier time, it didn't cross my mind that it was the middle ages.

04.03.2026 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

she be absolutely fumin'

04.03.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: β€˜Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

β€œI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: β€˜Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: β€œI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

04.03.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3520    πŸ” 1097    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 35
03.03.2026 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a gif you can hear.

03.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

03.03.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1981    πŸ” 710    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 12
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"We could just grab them by the pussy"

03.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Phwoar.

03.03.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Were the cannibals warming him up in a massive cooking pot?

03.03.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Turnstile cover The Stone Roses' β€˜I Wanna Be Adored’ for Like A Version
YouTube video by triple j Turnstile cover The Stone Roses' β€˜I Wanna Be Adored’ for Like A Version

if you can play this through some decent speakers, not just your phone / laptop youtu.be/sZgZotipa-0?...

03.03.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

03.03.2026 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6532    πŸ” 1556    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 43
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Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

03.03.2026 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 666    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 10

This week on you couldn’t write this shit: Melania a migrant in a country that violently snatches its citizens from the streets due to anti-immigration sentiment whipped up by the state, sits at the head of its security council calling for β€œpeace through education” as her husband bombs schools.

03.03.2026 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is not working. He's still a fascist, war mongering sex pest.

02.03.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0