What?
I was held at gunpoint when I was 19 and worked in a post office. It doesn’t really sink in until after. In the moment, it does appear pretty calm. You don’t really expect someone to start waving a gun in your face. So I just got up and did what they said. If you were on the other side of the shop, it would only be the alarms blaring that would tip you off.
I’ve never been served one up, but I have seen a couple of videos talking about them. I recently saw one by Marina McBain, and the stuff in there is outright child abuse. Yet YouTube and tiktok etc allow and monetise this. I hope they as well as the parents get sued to oblivion by these kids.
That’s why you sign it as Ena B. Madeupname.
Edit: TIL the origin of this joke:
At one point the magazine printed many letters from a reader named “Ena B. Maxwell”, of “Headington Hall, Oxfordshire”, the real-life address of Robert Maxwell. The letters were written by the Private Eye editorial team, and the pseudonym was attached to suggest that he was writing to the magazine under an assumed identity. The letters were careful not to make any legally actionable claims, instead containing material that was impertinent or absurd in order to ridicule Maxwell. “Ena” still makes occasional appearances in the letters column with varying surnames. Maxwell himself was “Cap’n Bob”, a mocking reference to his ownership of a large yacht and regular appearances in a ship captain’s cap, and to his former rank of captain in the British Army.
I went to the library in Dalston last year and the STAFF were shouting and laughing. I couldn’t believe it.
It’s very simple. The wealth hoarders are pointing in the other direction. “Look over there! It’s brown people’s fault!” And the media parrot it and too many people fall for it.
Isn’t it more “Tesco’s”, the possessive rather than plural? In the way you’d go to your mate’s or your mum’s or Jimmy’s. I feel like we do that with shops too. I’m pretty sure I say Tesco’s and Lidl’s. Sainsbury’s has it built in.
Are “family vlogs” illegal yet?
There was a google toilet joke in Private Eye years ago. My nephew was around 5 and I read it to him and he thought it was real. I got a call from my sister asking why my nephew was terrified to use the toilet and kept saying the googles were going to come and look at him.
Anakin had neither (╥﹏╥)
The modern iteration of a toilet demon would be a collaboration between Samsung and Meta: the smart toilet.
Nerd time, sorry.
Does Latin have two different types of “to be” like Portuguese, Spanish (and maybe Italian?). French collapsed them into one, pretty similar to your Latin above.
Suis, es, est, sommes, êtes, sont!
But I’m wondering why the other Latin languages have different versions of be. When I started learning Portuguese, I realised why être had such a weird conjugation. It looked like a mashup of ser and estar. Anyway, I’m too lazy to look it up, so I will continue to wonder.
Nerd moment out.
It’ll have about as much success as the law that says no cycling on pavements.
Who’s going to enforce it? People who play their slop videos and music out loud on public transport aren’t the most considerate people to start with. They’re not going to care.
Another sad victim of Get-off-my-lawn Girl.
I have no memory of even doing it! I can’t even think what I was trying to calculate it for 😅 I know my 12 times table lol.
Just a sample. It’s better if you click the timestamps.
@airforce9872
5 years ago
26:47 what my girlfriend tells me to make me feel better
@JustOneHappyBoiii
4 months ago
15:23 when u are measuring the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 3 cm and 4 cm.
I used to be a straight A maths student. I got 74/75 in my P1 retake 😭😭😭 and unlike Mma Makutsi, I’m real!
I’d like to say one of the kids was using my phone, but I think this was all me.
You do realise that all you have to do is pinky promise that you’ll join the euro one day, then kick the can down the road till the end of time?
There are many steps before you actually join the eurozone, you don’t just get auto-enrolled. You just don’t do one of the steps and literally no one cares.
They forgot to mention Westminster.
I learnt it from Alvin and the Chipmunks iirc.
M I, double S, I double S, I double P, I.
I could spell it, but I didn’t know what it was.