FollyDodger

Read Wind in the Willows to mine last year and she listens to the Michael Horden version on audiobook now. It's the best thing we've read together. Really hope more people enjoy it.

The muscle memory to write an N after a U when attempting the word 'customers' is so bittersweet.

My new AI tool FollyGPT came up with it. Unfortunately that's its answer for everything.

Olive oil and marmite in milk make a wonderful substitute.

That would at least make the sounds plausible

Anyone else have neighbours a few doors down who make incomprehensibly weird sounds when they're having fun. Not particularly loud or annoying. Just bizarre combinations of laughter and grunting?

I'd always assumed he was an atheist because of his lyric "I don't believe in an interventionist God". But then I heard him speaking about God and wondered if he'd converted.

We're all obsessed with movers and Quakers.

I hope not if it's based on the artist in question!

Oh that's easy, it's... Mmffpfflepupff!*

*A sack is placed over my head as I'm bundled into a van.

Because I'm using this post to learn something, the autocorrect sent me in the completely wrong direction.

Pub toilet urinals, except they’re genuine brass musical instruments

Allow me to present these monsters from The Bell Inn in Ticehurst

I want to live in this timeline. Sure, I'll be torn apart by the forces of quantum cataclysm, but it will be worth it.

Lawrence O’Donnell, "The White House press corp is failing before our eyes"

"Donald Trump, the only president in history to have a best friend for ten years raping children nearly every day of those ten years"

"Trump's own justice department has said that Epstein raped over a thousand victims"

I now want to see an Arena style documentary about Mr Cig where one of those (now elderly) nurses reminisces about the tryst from a chintzy chair in a nursing home on 16mm film stock.

Weather chat: Bloody hell it's lovely when the sun is out and the air doesn't want to turn you into tandoori chicken.

🎶 Take me down to the Paradox City/
Where the grass is green/
And the grass isn't green 🎶

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

Lot of people sneering at this who haven't read it, he's upset because they've refused to give back his Nan who died of a heart attack and fell over one of the "keep out" ropes and now they're not sure how to retrieve her.

A whole generation deciding to sing as though they'd been goosed while hiccuping

A nearly completed building job that has not had any work done on it for ages

Incredible how building sites just go into hibernation. Hive of activity until the job is very nearly finished and then complete shutdown for months. I need David Attenborough to explain this behaviour.

I've shut myself off from things so completely that I only hear about major national discourse tangentially on here through jokes. Anyway, no-one needs a ninja sword do they? Yes yes people can circumnavigate anything I know, but... Oh fuck it I don't care.

I have flags of all colours on my shelf. Green, red, rainbow, grey. Enough to make an enemy of anyone.

This could be a narrative monologue in a Scorcese movie. Not to be flippant about your experiences, but it's so good.

right so I keep having people - not unreasonably! - ask me why I've mostly stopped writing about politics so I've liberated the newsletter I wrote five months ago from the paywall, should tell you everything you need to know: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/westminste...

How good is Noma Dumezweni! Absolutely incredible performance throughout.

Heartbreaking stuff in the cricket

Make it illegal for any elected person to make money from posts on X. Word it however you want. The situation is mental.

56!

(It's sort of an opinion)