I know of someone who collapsed in a French supermarket and was asked by a medic if they had 'Tomber dans les pommes". Her response, "No, I'd already passed the fruit section". If you don't know why that's funny look it up and appreciate the wisdom of this NHS advice.
I left my home on the Ribble Estuary at 18 because it was full of old people. Worked for 42 years, retired and came back as one of those people No regrets.
I'd wear this on a t-shirt.
Indeed. Still have episode 3 to go.
But the dog's happy and that's all that matters.
Thanks for the hint. I've put it on my watchlist for tonight.
So true.
My biggest smile of the day. Loved the end.
Congrats
War mongering media don’t have more votes than anyone else.
They try to ridicule us.
They try to silence us.
But we keep growing the movement.
We oppose war.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
And we win.
A special relationship is built on mutual love and respect.
An abusive relationship is when your partner belittles you, gives nothing back, threatens you, keeps negatively comparing you to an ex partner and despite it all assumes you'll always be there for them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On Jim Ratcliffe: just because you've got a lot of money, it doesn't mean you know what you're talking about
My interview on Sky News.
Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration.
tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats.
(I'm not trying to make friends)
open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I don't want to read the article so could someone please tell me who gets to play the Palestinians in this scenario? The Scots or the Welsh?
The White House posted the first frame. Here is the rest...
(source: Pepel Klaasa on the other place)
Writing as a Boomer -- I think you're probably right.
We regret to announce that the emergency mission to retrieve Farage from Trump's colon has failed.
I apologise. This was uncalled for and totally appropriate. But I really love roast potatoes. Please forgive me.
Selfish bastard. I want some.
Bad things are bad.
LET THEM FIGHT
Thank you - for being here and for brightening my day.
Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
Man on the platform (looking up from his book about mindfulness): Shit. I’ve missed my train.
OMG this has made my day. It's wonderful.
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
You are insanely good at what you do.
In which James Delingpole tells us (in The Spectator) that Russia is great.
archive.ph/TE7YV
