Friday, February 14, 2020
I love you. Really. Truly: je t’adore. But when I make our lunch, I still put more cheese in my sandwich than in yours. – For Roar Media
. On an average there is only one sudden death among women to eight among men. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Tuesday, September 25 1906 . The Earl of Oxford did not write Fleabag. Hull is other people. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci chose to stick the with most ridiculous crap name that they could think of. Failure to [...]
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. There are now about 54,000 Chinese coolies in the Transvaal gold mines. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, March 14 1907 . Los Angeles is a lousy, boring little town. A European could die there from boredom. January ain’t about the blues. Piers Morgan is sick. The veins of Englishmen flow with rainwater. In a land [...]
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Also tagged Andy Murray, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brexit, Cana, Chernobyl, crime, death, deer, Dominic Hilton, drink, Englishmen, Europeans, fathers, gold, health, hobbies, homosexuality, January, Los Angeles, marriage, money, Nelson Evening Mail, philosophy, Piers Morgan, rain, Sellafield, sex, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the Chinese, the West, women
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Thursday, December 6, 2018
Of arshins, poods, and workplace happiness. A whole new week’s worth of the news where you aren’t. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged accents, Alan Titchmarsh, Armenia, army, BTS, children, Christmas, doctors, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, employment, health, Italians, measurements, Nelson Evening Mail, pens, politics, Queen Mob's Tea House, Richard Dawkins, Robert Browning, Russians, satire, Shakespeare, Sri Lanka, the Irish, the Orient Express, the Scots, theatre, train-travel, vending machines, wolves, work
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Thursday, November 22, 2018
A little bit more idiocy from around the global village. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged baseball, beauty, birds, books, Caucasians, Central Park, China, Communism, death, Fernando Po, fire, grandmothers, Joseph Conrad, knives, MAGA, manufacturing, MILFs, Nelson Evening Mail, New Zealand, parenthood, petroleum, politics, PornHub, potatoes, Queen Mob's Tea House, Roxy Jacenko, satire, saxophones, science, teenagers, the internet, the ocean, trivia, University of Iowa, widows, women, Yiddish
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. We call our day 24 hours, but it is really 23 hours 56 minutes 5 seconds. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 28 1906 . ‘Facetious’ is the shortest word in the English language including all the vowels in alphabetical order. The English theatre loves the joker. Samuel Beckett notched up 35 runs in first-class cricket. UK funeral directors are [...]
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Also tagged America, anatomy, baking, californium, comedy, cricket, death, education, English, fishing, funeral directors, gun violence, JR Ewing, mackerel, money, murder, music, Nelson Evening Mail, republicanism, Ross Brown, Samuel Beckett, singing, the pentatonic scale, the UK, theatre, time, torture, Uzbekistan, vowels, weather, work
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. Electricity is now used to improve the complexion. — The Nelson Evening Mail, July 4 1908 . The Chinese Christian warlord Feng Yu-xiang (1882–1948) baptised his troops en masse, using a firehose. Vincent Kompany has suffered more than 40 injuries. Time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth. Poetry must be entered into by a personal encounter, or [...]
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Also tagged Baby Bunting, Cadbury, children, China, chocolate, electricity, Feng Yu-xiang, football, German, hair, health, hippopotami, insults, Japan, Johnny Cash, Milan, Nelson Evening Mail, onions, Poetry, Queen Victoria, religion, song, sport, Sri Lanka, suicide, tennis, the Irish, time, Vincent Kompany, water, writers
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Monday, February 19, 2018
. In China the dials of a clock turn round instead of the hands. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 8 1908 . Benedict Cumberbatch reads Oryx magazine. A piece of pasta (dry) weighs essentially one gram. A man can only care about so many things. Labels are for clothes. In Bosnian there are no words for [...]
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Also tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, Bosnian, brothers, China, clothing, cows, Darryl Gerrity, death, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Englishmen, fiction, film, friends, grapes, Hawaii, health, horology, Islam, love, magazines, measurements, music, Nelson Evening Mail, non-fiction, pasta, pornography, Qatar Airways, Reading, religion, Russians, Virginia, white goods
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Thursday, February 1, 2018
If there’s one thing I just can’t abide, it’s ranters. Not the C17th religious nonconformists. Folk who can’t shut up about things. You know the type. The workplace philosophers; the shouters at the TV; people in whose eyes you see the glint of socialist dictatorship. They come in every walk of life. Stupid boxers (*tautology [...]
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Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alex Ferguson, Bangalore, Basil Fawlty, boxers, British Rail, Charlie Sheen, comedians, customer services, Denmark, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fathers, Geoffrey Boycott, Hamlet, humour, Jeremy Clarkson, John McEnroe, Mel Gibson, memoirs, Michael Richards, Naomi Campbell, philosophy, phones, pubs, ranting, religion, Samuel Johnson, socialism, The Daily Mail, the Labour Party, The Oldie, TV, Will Self
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. Stocks were first used in England about 1359 A.D.. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 18 1907 . Women leaders are more volatile than men. The cause of alcoholism is unknown. They’re selling hippy wigs in Woolworths. In Togoloese, ‘fofo’ means ‘revered big brother’. White people, lacking community, must make do with property. If extortionate fares [...]
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Also tagged bathrooms, black, brothers, Ceylon, crime, drink, Elvis Presley, feet, hair, health, heroes, hippies, justice, law, money, mud, Nelson Evening Mail, Nicodemus, politics, Reading, rickshaws, Satan, scholarship, sex, somnambulism, Tate Britain, the internet, Togolese, weather, white, women, Woolworths, work
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