Doug, Persisting

Just been given the FIFA Prize for Economics, I’d give it five minutes if I were you

Even I know that m8, and I live in Not Yorkshire

OMG

That’s one happy looking gingerbread man, must be on drugs

An oddly shiny finish and a strong smell of cinnamon

They feel… waxy

Fucking hell, this is worse than that time I accidentally chugged the bottom quarter of a can of brown sugar bubble tea I didn’t know was full of matcha flavour blobs, and nearly choked to death

Gingerbread pretzel Flips: an abomination. I’m only eating them because I paid for them, 0/10 #festivejunkfoodreview

(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee

I've known at least two in my time. You laugh a lot of stuff off at the time that afterwards makes you go 'hang on a minute...'

I want to go but can't justify spending that on tickets before Christmas, curse him

The ones with the sausages in the tin or GTFO

MMA and Formula E

I worry that the Reform vote is basically a politics-less 'fuck you all' vote, because it's almost impossible to fight. However, I am also cautiously optimistic these moods do pass and under FPTP it'd be a very inefficiently distributed vote anyway

I even know seven of the 16 digits of my bank card number

As for the glasses, they look lovely if you get the double-skinned ones. But usually I drink it out of a mug

If it grinds its own beans there’s no need to get anything beyond a varietal you like. If not, I like the Lavazza gold stuff - you do need the espresso grind because it’s finer and you get a bit more flavour out of it

It’ll be off again in a minute

British occupation of the Faroe Islands - Wikipedia

So we handed Iceland over the the US in 1941, but stayed in the Faroes for the duration. Apparently they still have Cadbury’s chocolate fingers and Brooke Bond tea in their shops as a legacy, it’s remembered very fondly I read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...

We invaded Iceland in WW2 so the Nazis couldn’t have it. And the Faroe Islands

In an echo of this, I was single for a good four years in my 20’s. How many other single people did my friends know to set me up with? Zero. None. Where are all these people coming from?

What's the difference?

Dulwich College isn't minor either, it's sixty grand a year for boarders

And I get more like that with every passing year. I think we can feel this *and* be a good European *and* a good progressive socialist *and* understand that these things all work gloriously together

A note I think is as damaging to That Cunt Farage (to give him his full name) as the racism is the constant reminder to anyone thinking he's some man of the people that he went to a very, very expensive elite public school (Dulwich College, £10,000 a term for day boys, twice that if you're boarding)

The older I get though, the more I feel the pull of this imagined England, because it never really existed, but it’s also very real. It’s in a million things like cricket and hymns and teatime and summer and untaxing green hills. Hiraeth for those of us East of the River Wye

These are great people to turn our backs on our literal next-door neighbours with whom we share 2500 years of history for

Watching Mammoth, because it’s hilarious. Fight me

We’re already up to our armpits in consensus-challenging new programmes hosted by rebellious, mould-breaking iconoclasts, Liz

This is almost as bad as drinking coffee at 4pm

Look, ask yourself, what's worse? This, or misnaming a chess competition you took part in thirty years ago?

Brexit also did a lot to them, they had to doublethink a *lot* of stuff they knew was bullshit to cheer their man Johnson along

England, the #Spurs of cricket