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Flu did NOT kill 64000 people in 2018 - it killed about 28,000 in the year to March 31st 2018. Unless of course, you choose to believe that the PHE weekly and annual flu surveillance reports are all made up as well.

The way my wife "tidies up" any little thing i leave around (actually next to my laptop on the dining room table) - the latest is the instructions for a wine kit i am using for the first time. Alright love, i'll just fucking guess the rest of it - if it turns out like piss, it's all yours! It's...

Presumably "I can't wait ... to be sharing a blanket in a shop doorway with my owner after he loses his house due to a huge gambling debt". Ban the lot of them

"ickle" (instead of little, btw!) - boils my piss

Nucular instead of nuclear (even from high-ranking politicians and supposedly clever scientists)

It always makes me chuckle when i see the Moretti ads, being all Italian families, etc - "L'Autentica" is their trademark, yet they are owned by Heineken and it's brewed in Edinburgh!! Globalism is horrible!

There are very few lagers brewed in their country of origin for the UK market (the exceptions being the ones owned by Asahi International - which include Peroni, Grolsch and Urquell). Corona is another one, but not an Asahi brand. So your Carlsberg, Budweiser, Tiger (the Singapore one, not...

It's actually *illegal* to park in your front garden if you have to drive over a footway that doesn't have a dropped kerb - it's the driving over the footway that is illegal rather than the parking. And it's also illegal to park across any dropped kerb, even if it's your own! There's some old...

Not this Widdecombe?

What? The postie has been shoving razor blades and shaving foam through your letterbox? FFS, that used to be an honest upstanding career ...

I was taken aback that HM Courts & Tribunals Service seem to use the email address <[email protected]> to inform people of a "Penality Charge" nowadays, and believe that the Home Office deal with congestion charging zones, and use the link to a dating website for the "Pay Now" button! I...

Probably Rooftop down this way

We've moved about a bit, but due to changes in jobs rather than a desire to change houses. We love where we are now (5 years in Worcestershire, same as HH, but with a view of Bredon Hill and the Cotswold Edge rather than the Malverns), and plan to stay here until we retire and release our equity...

Most of my teachers ( i went to school in Bristol) seemed very old, and were not remotely attractive. I had a different French teacher every year, and they were all extremely moose-like! Until Mrs Turner in my 4th and 5th year (ask your parents, kids!) - she was French, and utterly divine in...

Might get you into trouble, but we need pictures on this thread, you know that! ;)

The evolution of the human voice in Britain (generally among the under-40s and women, in the majority) to be more of a croak than a voice. It is particularly prevalent in the whingey "singers" around today, but is now in general circulation. As with all steps in evolution, hopefully natural...

Spot on! I was having a discussion on Twitter last night with someone who was vaunting the Sweden model (the architect of which spent the early months of the pandemic slagging off the UK lockdown approach). The problem is that Sweden didn't NEED to lock down because everyone apparently politely...

Not to be confused with Ol' Vera