I think it’s a double negative ‘if he didn’t show this bit of humanity, we wouldn’t think he was the child of a gypsy or a Lascar, we would think he was a devil’. But this is not the author, it’s the author’s sister. I don’t think that proves anything…
01.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ohhhhhhhhhhh I can’t believe I’ve missed out on a means of communication to annoy you via
29.01.2026 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You have a second WhatsApp?
29.01.2026 18:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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That could well explain the delay in any footage surfacing
20.01.2026 23:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Oh god, none of those words belongs near ‘mother dances with son’
20.01.2026 23:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of article using the word ‘grinded’
Sorry but ‘grinded’ cannot be the past tense of grind
20.01.2026 22:50 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 2
yes the Macron sunglasses are for his burst blood vessel
also yes all European leaders should wear the same aviators throughout Davos
20.01.2026 17:43 — 👍 401 🔁 54 💬 25 📌 4
oh I have to challenge that, my mother used it all the time!!
20.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
oh it's got REALLY good, you have to give things a chance you know
19.01.2026 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh I thought you were outing yourself as a City fan but it’s a commenter isn’t it
18.01.2026 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh I think I know where you mean but I’m not sure I could replicate that journey!
16.01.2026 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh and also Jim I love this. It’s one of my fave Dylan songs.
16.01.2026 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No I mean you’re right, we Gen Xers just don’t know the vocab, we’re like medieval monks watching Star Wars
16.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
oh good god
16.01.2026 16:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The papers used to run ludicrous stories that execs had their own lifts. Happy to report this was untrue.
16.01.2026 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
sorry WHAT
16.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
you'd surely expect no less from the Beeb (I was right)
16.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm actually going to walk to the lifts now to verify
16.01.2026 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
There's no first floor in the new bit. You go straight to floor 2 (I think, I've only worked here 12 years)
16.01.2026 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
there's a missing floor in Broadcasting House as well, perhaps we are keeping up a noble tradition
16.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I worked at Downing St on secondment years ago and was once so lost in the House trying to find the room for an afternoon lobby briefing that I think I cried & was rescued by a lobby journalist
16.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just said the word Substack in a tone of voice which sounded a bit like Love Shack and that's ruined it for me forever now
16.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Was Harriet just a bit fed up? #thetraitors
14.01.2026 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well I thought ‘Hugo is definitely a traitor because they’d murder a barrister’ wouldn’t have stood up in court but everyone took it as solid gold evidence then he… was a traitor
14.01.2026 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
😮
14.01.2026 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
had to delete as my theological knowledge failed me & I robbed St Peter to pay St Paul
14.01.2026 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
in which case you must be horribly shocked every time you try and buy one!
14.01.2026 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ha yes! the stamp prices are metaphorically towering above us
14.01.2026 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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