My parents-in-law are Bengali and canna *thole* spicy food.
They’re conscious that this is ‘unusual’.
Every time we eat at an Indian restaurant, they ask the waiter for “no chilli” and they always get chilli because the staff think they’re joking.
I’d be God-Emperor of Earth in a year with my magical ability to predict stock market fluctuations; but first (& most importantly) I’d be at the Tattiesheds throwing shapes to ‘Ecuador’ by Sash with a bottle of White Lightening and nae back pain
I’d cheerfully go £10m into debt to go back to 2001, assuming I got the body to go with it.
"Operation Epic Escort" guys come on
Supreme Leader Khamenei has died in battle. Our new enemy is Supreme Leader Khamenei
Warscore: 0%
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
The Argentines: "Give it back to the indigenous inhabitants."
Me: "Fair enough, but you've to give Argentina back to the indigenous inhabitants."
how all youtube ads sound to me
10/10
Add Lorne sausage & ketchup tae it. Instant 200% improvement.
The "Predator" arm meme with the Labour Party and Andrew (former prince) grasping hands with "having a terrible birthday in 2026" in the centre
James Pronk is having a stot, call a pronkulance
My favourite Shakespeare play, and an undoubtedly cruel hatchet job against one of our better medieval kings.
My 9-year old’s going to be psyched
We all have to shake hands with a monster at some point.
Now we know what they’re going to do with the TV license detector vans once the BBC is privatised
It was a pretty popular policy at the time IIRC. And there’s a certain wisdom to “let’s see if anybody else gets buyer’s remorse”, given how important our food industry was & is.
That was near two decades ago, though, so it does bear revisiting.
It’s still in place, if ScotGov’s website be believed
Bairns’ illustrated histories depicting ‘Life In The 21st Century’ and it’s a sad-looking boy eating a bag of crisps, wrapper & everything, hitting himself in the face with a hammer while a screen with ‘6,7’ buzzes in the background
“We’ve got back the chemical analysis, and we think they were *eating* the plastic, and that’s what made them hit themselves in the face with hammers”
these have been good years for medievalists, first wondering if the pope will excommunicate the emperor and now watching the king have his brother locked up
You think you know a guy
Posts from the Daily Record's Paul Hutcheon on X: #1: 'That's the Scottish Labour "branch office" line dead and buried.' #2: 'From the silence/public statements of Scottish Labour MPs, it's clear they see Keir Starmer, not Anas Sarwar, as their leader.'
Less than six hours between these posts.
Excellent journalism, Paul. Thank you.
Just beyond parody at this point
Go somebody smarter & more motivated than me start a Crowdfunder so the Met can afford their own murder tent
Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home
Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home
They didn’t: but this one, in particular, was already ‘here’.
And at a time when we had a *real* problem with ‘boat people’, funnily enough.
But not as a king 🤷🏻♂️ in fact, *never* as a king.
There’s no primogeniture before Oengus I
In the interests of clarity, I reckon he was the latest in a long tradition of Picts-as-they-reckoned-it and Dalriadans-as-they-reckoned-it.
I don’t think he would have been especially ‘exotic’ to either group. The Picts seem to have had a long tradition of not being v. fussed about who yer da was.
