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Alistair Barrie

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Comedian, allegedly. Latest special 'Woke in Progress' out now on ITVX: www.alistairbarrie.com

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 1h

My mum’s 88 next month. And I suspect will have my booklet in that drawer before she needs one herself!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 1h

No idea tbh. But I’m sure I’ll get waylaid by those considerations when we eventually have to clear the house!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 1h

I think it’s entirely understandable to keep them. The problem is, as a race, we hold on to far too much stuff in general because it’s easier than throwing stuff out. And it was funny, rather than unnerving. They’re doctors and I’m similarly unsentimental. But thanks for your concern! 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 1h

So your ‘This is normal’ was sarcastic?
I think it is reasonably normal. They’re odd things to throw away - I guess it feels like discarding the person a 2nd time. But they’re also odd to keep cos - what do you do with them?
Delighted to find genealogy sites want them & that’s where they’ll end up.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 1h

Glad you’re pleased. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 2h

1. I know.
2. I was staying in the house I grew up in. These were either side of my bed. I wasn’t ’poking around’ anywhere.
3. Who says I’m ‘making fun’ of anything?
4. My mother thought it was hilarious when I told her this morning.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 2h

I heard they’re so blasé about sweetcorn they don’t even bother digesting the individual kernels.
Absolute fucking decadence.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 2h

Who said I wasn’t interested?
I have a copy of one of them at my house, because he was my uncle.
I think they’re a fascinating trove.
But if you can’t find the humour in discovering them either side of your head when you get into bed give your own a wobble.

My mum thought it was hilarious.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

(Of course it’s far more RESPECTFUL to the dead to use their name for your anonymous profile on social media. 🙄)

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 3h

I hope people have an excellent party for which I will have chosen (some of) the music. That’s about it!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

DEATH BED™️?

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

(Of course it’s far more RESPECTFUL to the dead to use their name for your anonymous profile on social media. 🙄)

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Yeah, but now I know genealogy websites take them and put them out there for families to find - and I think that’s rather nice. And what I will now do when the time comes.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

My folks bloody LOVE them. I think some sort of scoring system may be in operation. 😉

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Absolute tosh. I have just spent four days caring for my ailing father. If you can’t see humour in finding these as you’re turning out the light, yours must be a very bleak existence.
I very deliberately took photos that don’t share too many details.
The only person rolling their eyes is you.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

Who said I was mocking anyone? One is my much loved uncle. I find it moving, sad, but also joyful.
And thanks to this thread I now know what to do with them when the time comes.

The humour was in discovering them either side of me just before bed.
Any disrespect is in your head, not mine.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4h

I know. Noticing what was in the drawers either side of my head. I’m practically a grave robber.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 5h

Yup. and apparently not a typo - UK's oldest person when she died! Well played Gladys. 😊

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 5h

I have just spent four days caring for my father who is...really not well.
I completely understand why they keep these, and I intended no lack of respect to anyone.

It's just quite a weird thing to find in the drawers either side of your bed moments before you turn the light off!

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 8h

And have just been filling out the legally binding forms to prove it. 😉

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 8h

Lovely thoughts. ❤️

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 8h

Exactly. Absolutely not cheerleading for stamp duty. It’s just another of these mad, archaic, confusing taxes which adds to the chaos of the whole thing.
Massive, wholesale reform is vital. As is simplification.
Not throwing red meat to Telegraph readers annoyed their kids can’t get a mortgage.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 8h

Pretty sure they’re just interested in attacking anyone who isn’t Reform and will give the Tories a relatively easy ride until they then throw their full weight behind Reform in the run in up to the election.
It’s not like they’re motivated by any sense of altruism.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 8h

I suppose the on the plus side for the rest of us, this means stamp duty is going absolutely nowhere for the forseeable future.

Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 9h

‘This is the Kemi we have waited too long to see… giving away pots of money the country doesn’t have to people who are by definition already relatively well off, so our children don’t need to come to us for a deposit.’

Hallelujah!