Sal Cap0ne

Someone who works next to his fish in Barcelona told me FG took a massive backhander from some Japanese company to make the fish look like their logo and that this apparently was common knowledge and just shrugged off with all the other shady Olympic deals. I've always wondered if that was true.

same

'Orwellian' is a ridiculously abused word, but novels written by AI is literally the first 100pp of 1984.

ohhhhhh (oh oh)

'Oh' is not a word in Spain, so I'm guessing latter

I can't work out if the back view of this was deliberate or a very funny oversight

Used some stem ginger from 2019 earlier in the week. Everyone's in rude health.

totally fine

Gratitude journal, opening with all the Leuchtterm blessings

(I got the teal Leuchtturm for 2025 and it's the most pages I've ever covered, just sayin')

My friend once said on Twitter that she'd finished a Pukka pad and she got so many likes for this that I finally grasped the universality of the problem

I think that's just @derbren.bsky.social

I thought this was genius until I did the maths to see how many we'd end up with. I think it would be approx 48 to 50 each.

(For the first time in history, I think, I threw two such away yesterday. At LEAST 48 remain.)

o no

Do not wear spanx, is all I can tell you; it's a mistake I've made more than once. Look, they gasp, as you walk in. How svelte! What elegance! No VPL! But then you sit down and put food inside you and the fun absolutely ends.

yes
YES
Mrs Dalloway is out

That's what I mean. Is he not called Mitch because his dad was also Frank and therefore to avoid confusion they had to give him a nickname from birth?

Because they name sons after their dads? Mind you Catalans do that but my father-and-son neighbours, for example, are simply called Marc and Marc. This is not at all confusing.

One of my most favourite timeline moments, especially good since I had no idea who or what "Root" was at the time.

amazing

Also as soon as I opened the surgery door the mysterious stomach pain I'd had for months vanished, never to return, so the post has done me all kinds of favours really.

I was with them before but they then pinged it up when I tweaked something (the cardy in this scenario although in truth I couldn't even remember what it was so it was hard to undo).

"Oh sorry, did I say I got a new cardy, I was just singing to myself, I don't really. Everything is exactly the same as last year."
"Too bad, it's £717 now, for secret reasons. Monthly or annual payments?"

Renewing car insurance be like
"£215 for 12 months. Unless anything has changed in your life?"
"Not really. Got a new cardy."
"Revised quote is £632. How would you like to pay?"

o god the cowboy one

I rewatched Pulp Fiction last year and I very unfashionably maintain it's still a banger, with unimpeachable casting and music. He's still a jerk though.

Can you imagine. And I speak as someone who (mostly) likes (some of) his films.

That Fiona Apple quit cocaine forever as a result of being stuck with him for an evening really should have been the end of Paying Attention To Tarantino.

everyone is 12 now