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Appreciate that this isn’t philosophical, and it doesn’t stretch to the requirements of a full magazine feature or word count, but could any of it just be that he’s a dick.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Appreciate that this isn’t philosophical, and it doesn’t stretch to the requirements of a full magazine feature or word count, but could any of it just be that he’s a dick.
A friend of mine, aged about 4, having been told by her mum that if all she ate was sweets then she’d get a big belly, greeted a very pregnant lady on the bus with the words “I know what YOU have been doing!”
This was hard for her mum to explain on several levels.
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A friend of mine, aged about 4, having been told by her mum that if all she ate was sweets then she’d get a big belly, greeted a very pregnant lady on the bus with the words “I know what YOU have been doing!”
This was hard for her mum to explain on several levels.
Everyone thinks I'm making this up but I swear it is true; in the village I grew up, in the Welsh nickname style the undertaker was "Jones the Box". His son was a solicitor, who specialised in defending minor criminal charges, hence "Jones Witness Box"
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Everyone thinks I'm making this up but I swear it is true; in the village I grew up, in the Welsh nickname style the undertaker was "Jones the Box". His son was a solicitor, who specialised in defending minor criminal charges, hence "Jones Witness Box"