Companies should simply not have manifestos

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That would bring down life expectancy but not median age, no?

Yes, public transport services are limited in the US so Americans cannot, in good faith, sing that the bus goes all day long

Begins like an earthy retelling of Dante's Inferno. Resolves too quickly

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

Lennon wanted to call Dear Prudence "Hey Prude" but McCartney vetoed it

Possibly I'm just fooled by the 45-55 image being bigger

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I am apparently at peak massive wax bum

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Fuck these death machines, especially in the UK where the need to have either of the top two is extremely limited.

THE TIMES Peter Mandelson to be fined for urinating outside George Osborne home Incident happened just hours after messages showing extent of former ambassador's contact with Jeffrey Epstein were released • NEW Peter Mandelson was sacked as ambassador to the US in September AP PHOTO/KIN CHEUNG Fintan Hogan Friday April 10 2026, 11.43am BST, The Times

We're all in piss together

So do the Don't Knows get a pass or are 46-47% of American adults genocidal psychopaths? (Sorry, but "somewhat disapprove" doesn't cut it)

I've complained a lot about the world but I don't want it to end

Deep State, assemble

What about Biffo the Bear?

I think deranged Biffo has mistaken an elderly person's bathroom rail for a telephone handset

Exquisite Marrows

Possibly it's just I was living in boring circles where people didn't try to sell Madonna's pap smears

It's funny – I watched it near the time and the one thing that stuck in my mind was that woman trying to sell Madonna's pap smear, which seemed impossibly exaggerated at the time but as the years went by, much less so. So I kind of think of it as ahead of its time

Yeah I'd guess quite a lot of parents have their smart speakers etc set to no explicit language in Spotify which hits plays of "The one sweary track" on albums like AFTP

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Wrong

The Independent Six things a physio wishes people over 60 would stop doing

Misread this as psycho

Oh sure. I was being a bit facetious. Like Eddie I can't remember much British nostalgia making it to fashion. Teddy boys, I guess

Maybe it was "Keep Calm and Carry On"

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

Ha ha – fair

Less than 10% of adults went to private school. About 39% define themselves as middle class and many people point to the fact 57% are ABC1s as evidence that even more should. I think privately educated is far too high a bar, personally

I think he asked Gemini

Grade is about three years too old to be a boomer!

Rubbish. Things can only get better.