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Richard
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Carrying on tweeting like nothing happened.
Could be having a dig.
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
At that moment the elderly man goes “Clubcard? Here you go” and reaches his over.

The Clubcard man lets him scan it despite my trouble, doesn’t say word to me, and leaves.

I reluctantly take up the lower checkout.

Elderly man immediately fucks off.
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
...kicked across the floor. He called me a "four-eyed freak", and left.

The staff were so grateful they gave me a Krushems on the house.

Outside he was nowhere to be seen.

Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
He turned around. "What did you say?"

"Don't be a dickhead."

"What did you call me??"

"A dick. Head."

He asked what it had to do with me, and I said it's a public place.

He offered me outside, so I said I'd join him once my food arrived.

Then I dropped one my gloves (undignified!), which he...
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Whoops, Pitman* (Journo college was clearly a very long time ago)
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Haha, you’d definitely have to be silly with it! Just a thought, what if this is shorthand of Urdu??
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Did your grandmother work as a secretary? My brother studied Teeline shorthand many years ago, but suspects this might be Pittman, the kind secretaries typically wrote in (so he was told).

He also said you’re free to make bits up and make it your own, so I hope this isn’t secret code!
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
20:04

24😏
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Hooray!
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
(Wasn’t sure if acronyms counted!)
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star
Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SBAAAAS
LIELIAM
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Punk! This idiot forgot what question we’re on.
October 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra?
October 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Dialogue.
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
11 years, or really about 10 and a half.
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM