Marc 🏳️🌈🏴🚍📚
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- Was staring at this bathroom wall tile for ages because it looks like North America in the good timeline (no Florida)
- Keep seeing murmurs of Labour MPs pitching Al Carns as a successor to Starmer You can't just pluck an extra and make them the main character, wtf?
- One thing I've learned from Vietnam War documentaries is these guys used to looove wheeling out massive maps for press conferences They should bring that back
- Impatient fuckers on trains need to chill omg Some guy huffed and puffed because I paused for a split second to sidle into my seat, barged past, and knocked over my full drink with his bag. No apology, obviously. Fucking arsehole. I swear to Christ people are getting worse.
- No really I'm so serious when I say he should be the next Prime Minister.
- Sheffield appears to have been excommunicated from the United Kingdom
- Starmer is handing over documents on Mandelson in the hope that it buys him cover. But why was this information not available when Gordon Brown raised it with the Cabinet Secretary four months ago? Better yet: where was it when he appointed Mandelson a year earlier? He's cooked.
- "No but I actually wanted the Tory ghoul! I was BULLIED into picking the nonce by a subordinate!" – Keir Starmer, probably
- Deeply depressed with the state of the world. It actually hurts to think about.
- First Katy Perry did the rounds at Davos, and now Justin Trudeau is rocking up to the Grammys Their crossover is something to behold
- Accidentally wrote in my manuscript that one of the characters "shitted awkwardly in their seat". And that, children, is why it is important to go back and proof-read long after you write the first draft.
- I see "WASPI", I think "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Illiterate"
- Reason #3729 to have a boyfriend: you get to tell him the most ridiculous jokes and he can't stop you
- What a year January has been, huh?
- Kinda crazy that they named a new burger after Hudson Williams
- Saw in passing that the Netherlands is soon to have a new coalition Government and Prime Minister. Then recalled that their elections were *three months ago*. Most extreme example of "let's circle back after the holidays" in all of recorded history.
- When I was a kid, celebrity deaths used to confuse me a bit – the way people would get so upset about someone they never knew. As I've gotten older, and more familiar figures are passing, it makes sense. First Carrie Fisher, then Matthew Perry – now Catherine O'Hara. All devastating gut-punches 😢
- If Keir Starmer convened a meeting of First Ministers and regional leaders it would be in some poky room with the aesthetic of a 90s call centre with wonky tables of mismatching heights. And Andy Burnham wouldn't be invited.
- Gen X are fast becoming more insufferable than boomers there I said it
- Got on the train and there was a guy sitting in my seat. After I mentioned it he grunted, "There are empty seats over there," and pointed to some backward facing ones without a table. I looked at them, then back at him, and said, "Exactly. So can I have the one I booked, please?" Ugh.
- Last year, my flight to NYC got diverted to Boston bc of a storm and we were stuck on the tarmac for 6 hours. Spent the entire time chatting to the lady next to me and anyway now I'm friends with an iconic 75-year-old who lives in the Village and has been sending me pics of all the snow this week 😭
- The original vs the edit
- Hey soo... this is fucking crazy Mentioning non-Jewish victims of Nazi genocide doesn't "dilute the Holocaust"??? The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (a separate organisation) commemorates "six million Jews [...] and the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution". They were all human beings.
- Year-long saga with EE: failed to do basic change of address, set up new account, failed to shut down old one, kept charging me, gave my details to debt collectors, harassed me, affected my credit rating, promised £193 compensation, reneged to £117, reverted to £193 And only sent the £76 difference
- Made a point in a meeting, got shot down (but in that really annoying way where people keep repeating themselves in different ways like you're 5, to the point I had to say "I get it" so they'd move on). Only for my exact point to be said by someone else and then agreed five minutes later.
- I find it funny when hotels have flashy, modern lobbies but the corridors and rooms upstairs still have the same carpets, doors and curtains from like 30 years ago
- Starmer's grand plan: bitch about Brexit but do nothing to reverse it. You can't "make Brexit work" with tweaks. Labour already lost my vote when it sold its soul to chase Reform voters. The only way I'll even think of voting Lab again is if rejoining the EU is on the table. Not holding my breath.
- On a work trip, and came to a café bar to get out of the hotel ANYWAY There's a poetry group – each person read theirs aloud, then everyone critiques. One wrote an extended metaphor about the English flag and is getting shredded in that oh-so polite way that only a posh poetry group could muster 💀
- Self-service checkouts that are like "SELECT PAYMENT METHOD!! 😠😠👹" even when they're set to card-only need to chill tf out
- Motorists view pedestrians as second-class citizens. On approach to a junction, they're supposed to slow down and give way. If it was another car coming, they wouldn't think twice. But I've lost count of how many times I've been screamed at for having the audacity to ✨cross the street✨
- When you're unwell, your nose doesn't need to be doing all that. Switching between blocked and runny. Fucking up your ears. Dull headaches. Painful sneezes. ENOUGH! 🤧
- I have never yet watched anything where Leo Woodall remains fully clothed the entire time And I am NOT complaining 🙂↔️
- I love when people deep a frivolous post with serious explanations like the person who posted it is a kid and not just... kidding 🥴
- I trust doctors for their medical expertise – but not for their discretion. I know some medics and they do NOT keep that shit to themselves. Fair enough, they don't name names but – believe you me – they're giggling. 💀😭
- Periodic (obligatory) update to the pfp
- Glasgow is sticking an AI generated mural on a building and I'm so serious when I say that thing needs to be doused in neon yellow paint at every opportunity until they take it down again Also why tf is there a bald eagle in a depiction of Scotland? Stupid ass clanker bullshit.
- After a glowing annual performance review, there was talk of a bonus. After running it through a calculator, I'm now firmly of the opinion that Berwick-upon-Tweed should establish itself as a tax haven for Scots.
- There are few feelings better than clicking "confirm booking" on an airline website 😎 (I'm Marge in this pic)
- My hot take is that delay repay should apply in the event of planned engineering if you can demonstrate that you take the affected train frequently (My usual 5hr journeys to/from Sheffield for work will be extended by at least 40 minutes in each direction this week 🥲)
