Julie

Off on holiday on Saturday, so of COURSE I appear to be coming down with a cold.

PS: And why do UK governments seem to always choose women of Southasian heritage to do the dirty work for them?

Of course if the whole Epstein email thing was happening today it would be a bunch of Microsoft Teams messages. Eurgh.

If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.

My 81 year old mother in law does this. Drives me insane.

Cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube or peritoneum usually causes symptoms that are similar to common non-cancerous conditions. This can make it difficult to diagnose early. If you have any of these symptoms or get these symptoms regularly, your GP should offer you cancer tests: • a long-lasting bloated or swollen tummy • feeling full quickly when you eat • loss of appetite • pain in the lower tummy area or back • peeing (passing urine) more often than usual • needing to pee urgently (feeling like you cannot hold on). Other symptoms may include: • a change in your normal bowel function (diarrhoea or constipation) • weight loss for no obvious reason • unexplained or extreme tiredness (fatigue) • vaginal bleeding after the menopause. If you are aged 50 or older and develop symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for the first time, you should also have tests. IBS can cause bloating and changes in bowel function. But it does not usually start after the age of 50.

There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.

Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.

1960 - His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew
1986 - His Royal Highness The Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh
2022 - His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew;
2025 - Prince Andrew
2025 - Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
2027 - Andrew
2028 - Andy
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As we have been saying: Keir Starmer could personally machine gun refugees in the channel and *it still wouldn't be enough* because the entire point of the fascist worldview is to rage against the external and internal enemies of the people and the soft traitors who enable them.

It just so happens I stumbled across this yesterday. I thought, if only someone showed this on TV every time they show or discuss Pochin or Reform or Farage. Buy ad time. And show this.

We had to read Kafka when I was at school. Always assumed "The Castle" was fiction, but it was clearly an accurate look-ahead to dealing with local authorities/ social services in the year 2025.

I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.

Two books - "And the Truth Will set you free" by David Icke, next to "Conspiracy - Bullshit Theories and How Not To Fall For Them"

Decisions, decisions

Current status - sitting on someone's tote on the train because, when asked, they declared the seat to be free but didn't move their bag.

Seen on French site for selling second hand stuff

This ->

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Thank you!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Yeah, whoever wrote it definitely seems to be in the minority from all the other reviews I've read!

Thanks! It does seem generally quite divisive but all the "professional" reviews I'd read before that one were 5* so I was surprised

Second part of scathing review of the film One Battle After Another

A quite scathing review of the film "One Battle After Another", my favourite line of which is " Once a plot finally emerges, it’s less “narrative momentum” and more “mold growing on bread”—you know something’s happening, but you’re not sure you want to keep looking at it. "

I had been vaguely contemplating going to see "One Battle After Another" until I read this review....

Obviously, it is racist so vote in the poll and no you don't have to give any personal details to submit

Ok Bluesky, this is a very very long shot.... Daughter has got a job offer in Stoneham ski resort in Québec, but is struggling to find accommodation. Anyone out there with a room to rent? She won't have a car so would need a way of getting to the resort if further afield.
#Canada #quebec #stoneham

A man wearing a Breton shirt and a beret, holding a baguette and a glass of wine

The only question is why you are getting your Christmas dinner all the way from Türkiye?!? 😜

Dear fellow pedants, it’s National Punctuation Day and I’m not going to make it. Leave me here with some apostrophes, Oxford commas, and a loaded semicolon; I’ll try to hold them off - save yourselves: run!

#NationalPunctuationDay

Thinking of trying to dig out my grandfather's pipe.

If someone could please come up with a way of using snot to power our national grid, I can furnish them with what appears to be an unlimited supply.

will Farage deport his girlfriend

Times births column today

It's surely REALLY obvious?

Anyone wanting a Farage UK is either:

* A massive Tax Dodger

Or

* A thick racist

It's simple!