Farridge referring to "Broken Britain"

[Goose chase meme]

WHO BROKE IT, MOTHERFUCKER?

The BBC series Civilisations: Rise and Fall is based around objects from the British Museum. Captions tell you the date of the object (and its age: no mental arithmetic needed) but not where and from whom it was stolen.

Just like being given a guided tour around a well-sourced fence's storage unit.

I'm reading Anthony Seldon's 'Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister' in which he—a Tory, though no fan of Truss—explains animosity between Tory factions on "failure to deliver Brexit benefits".

I'm trying not to keep shouting "why are you referring to them as if they're real?" at the screen.

“Masukkan kode ini atau klik tombol di bawah ini untuk mengonfirmasi email Anda.”

Starting the day with someone in Indonesia trying to sign up to LinkedIn using my gmail address.

I'm doubly fortunate to be able to afford it *and* that I don't have any of the many health conditions that would exempt me, but…

Ninety five fucking quid for this season's Covid booster still stings.

Young man delivering my—free on the NHS—’flu jab:

“What’s your exemption?”

D: “don’t understand the question”

“Well…for example…are you over 65?”

Excellent customer flattering; less good arithmetic since he’d already typed in my DoB.

We should definitely keep calling it the “Witkoff-Dmitriev Pact” because that form conveys the most appropriate historical context.

I’m pretty sanguine about the gifts evolution has given our species but it’s at this time of year that “the ability to hibernate” reclaims the top spot on my evolutionary wish list from its otherwise year-long occupant “we shouldn’t have given up our prehensile tails”.

I just finished reading a pentology of novels; the second such this month. This is dramatic shift from my previous “at my age it’s probably best not to start any long books” approach.

Still no locked accounts here?

Doris Morton has missed as payment on her Walgreens Mastercard® account. You may be able to intuit how I know this.