Hello Gillian Profile Banner
Hello Gillian Profile
Hello Gillian

@mippy

2,297
Followers
4,373
Following
3,824
Media
75,184
Statuses

Long-legged candy

That London
Joined March 2007
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@mippy
Hello Gillian
8 months
Didn't post this properly, at the end of 2023, but shout-out to when I went to see my first football match in Germany and ended up on yer actual Liverpool FC YouTube channel with my little Canon in hand (probably whilst taking this photo) (🧵if you like film photos + waffle)
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
1
0
10
@mippy
Hello Gillian
3 years
@IsabelOakeshott So people shouldn't be over a certain size, but they should also not exercise as part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and body image and/or to become the size you believe they should be.
15
269
22K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
Totally normal human male thing to say.
Tweet media one
798
3K
18K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
I can't stop laughing at this, especially the assumption that swans can read
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
175
4K
17K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
What food did you think was really posh as a kid, even though it clearly isn't? I'm still amazed that I can purchase Vienetta, Queen of Desserts, for only £1.50 from Iceland. Didn't they only sell it at Harrods?
2K
682
11K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@paulduanefilm I think it's absolutely fine to say 'I don't know enough about this, I don't want to give an opinion, ask someone who knows more about it' about most things, tbh.
14
205
8K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
Bit of an odd battlecry, but who am I to judge
Tweet media one
36
1K
6K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
11 months
Sorry but this makes me want to eat a live hen
Tweet media one
85
303
6K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
It's been a decade of change for all of us
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
7
247
3K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@mart_in_london @sarahlostctrl My mum taught me to read/sing Frere Jacques at home for free.
7
8
3K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
This seems really generous until one learns that the landlord of the property Alan is in arrears to is...the estate agent setting up the GFM to help him.
Tweet media one
37
430
3K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
Harry Cole is like the Wario of Boris Johnson
Tweet media one
30
375
2K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
lol at people actually thinking that Ariel cannot be played by a black actress because of 'mermaid science'
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
242
554
2K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
3 years
@nickw84 My friend keeps asking me about whether there's a market for celebrity meat once lab-grown meat becomes a thing, not unconvinced this is him.
9
20
2K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
3 years
@Dan_Morton @tainkirrahe So interesting how some hobbies are coded as weird/shallow/nerdy and some not. Sport is incredibly nerdy, so many stats and rules, whereas some people just appreciate nice trains.
13
33
2K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
Tweet media one
1
1
1K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
So of all those members, where did they come from? And where did they go?
@kitlochery
Kit / Chris
5 years
There have been 26 members of the band Rednex. The Cotton Eye Joe people. 26 members.
27
36
217
21
235
1K
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
The Wetherspoons near my house this morning. #boycottWetherspoon
Tweet media one
19
176
719
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@ChrisJosephPAX Do you genuinely think people who are struggling with food costs don't know about own brands?
5
8
795
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@mrtomchitty @VICEUK Tom Tom Tom Tom *whispers* you can take the top off the bottle and put more water into it from a tap
0
3
571
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@Michael1979 @ManOnThe100 I thought Wikipedia was copyrighted, though? Will they sue me if I keep using their big h?
4
8
533
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@MartinPilgrim1 The weirdest things about these stories is how often someone will get picked up for a first date - I'm not getting in a strange guy's car, I will meet you at the Denny's Olive Garden Stadium thx.
6
3
583
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@SalfordMe2023 Everyone's going to come here and explain to you how banking risk calculations work, rather than rightly agreeing with you that the system seems almost designed to make life more difficult for some and others richer.
5
18
565
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@deathofbuckley Their systems were strong from avoiding "fast food takeaways" and lattes, which is also how they managed to buy houses on a wage of 36p.
4
7
479
@mippy
Hello Gillian
9 months
@ask_aubry Farming and home baking, notoriously easy activities that leave you with lots of free time to feel sexy.
7
4
482
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@sophierebeccaf A) who is Michael B) all I got from this is that she buys coffee and mostly wants to study in the UK so that she can travel around "Europe"
0
5
441
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
Absolutely delighted that the Tony Macaroni Arena, home of Arbroath FC, is known as the Spaghettihad
13
55
434
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@SheRatesDogs Reply explaining that you're actually working on gaining weight right now, and see his brain break.
1
0
392
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@BBCWomansHour @matthaig1 Why are you interviewing a middle-aged man about this, rather than letting teenage girls have their voices heard? Or even just someone who works with them and knows them???
1
2
368
@mippy
Hello Gillian
3 years
@MockWooloo @I_make_music @tfirstelizabeth How interesting - if you visit a pub and vandalise their decor, they tend not to want you to stay. Who would have thought it??
1
2
368
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@notsleepy @danbarker This is about raping and abusing women, Tones
2
0
398
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@KEdge23 1kg of pasta is 90p. That's one meal for two adults and two children, assuming you can afford the fuel to boil it, have adequate cooking facilities, and are happy eating pasta with nothing else because sauce and protein cost extra. Sounds like a plan!
5
11
358
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@sophierebeccaf She's going to get the UK equivalent of Paris Syndrome once she realises that all her money is going to go on heating bills and not Eurostar tickets
1
0
396
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@AndrewBooton That's great if a) you have £3.89 to hand, and every day b) you can go to the shop each day at the right time for clearance ingredients c) you live somewhere that has proper cooking facilities. Also wondering where you're getting 'all natural ingredients' sauce for 75p.
4
6
351
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@peekabooveach @mrs_g_rider @bryony_black I hope you all get it soon, grieving people should not come home to an unfathomable bill.
6
5
357
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@KucingJava @roselyddon Through GDPR violation?
3
6
324
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@richmondie @alexjpollard It's a rehash of the 80s 'if I were a one legged African lesbian dwarf I'd get more opportunities'.
6
3
292
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@AlexandraTST @jesslynnrose @Eve_Piper_ Neither is racism, to be fair.
1
1
292
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@Prolagus @fatumakhaireh In the book, it was in Holland Park. Holland Park even in the nineties was not a cheap place to live.
4
6
309
@mippy
Hello Gillian
11 months
@jodcoll Rent: 1000 Bills: 300 My first property: £350,000 EasyJet flight to Riga: £29.99 Someone who's good at the economy please help me with this, my family is stuck in Latvia
2
3
334
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
I bought a camera from a charity shop in #ForestHill #SE23 , and it came with a film in it, which I got developed out of curiosity, not expecting anything to come out. Seems to be a trip to Ireland. Does anyone recognise the people here in case they want the photos?
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
14
245
295
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@RoySeastrunk @randygdub Tea, famously grown somewhere near Doncaster.
2
3
244
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@vinivinidogo @KekeKodeine @HuffPost Bridget Jones in the book was not actually plus size - the point was that she thought she was and was neurotic about it. She was actually slim for her height. Yes, this is the hill I will die on
3
4
226
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@actwithoutdoing @alwayssunny The Gang Breaks The Chain
2
3
222
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@hansmollman I have been to enough boardgame shops to know that deodorants and things that mask the smell of the natural human body are very much welcome with me.
1
2
247
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@ImogenWK Almost everyone I was friends with at uni. Likes a bit of Queen or Meatloaf in the car. Wears a paisley waistcoat on a special occasion, but otherwise lives in black 'because it all goes together'.
3
0
251
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@sIaghetti What if they are paying rent? Or providing for their child? Or looking after older relatives? Or - and bear with me here - they are doing exactly the same job as an older person on £10 per hour?
1
1
218
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@Nicole_Cliffe Q: I want to open a restaurant, but I don't know many recipes, and frankly my hygiene and pest control abilities aren't going to be up to code. I am, however, a massive fan of the film Ratatouille. Can I just put a rat inside my hat and hope nobody finds out?
2
8
247
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@sammytwolegs @navracadabra White people call their kids Jolyon and Brightenkneelynne, but OK
1
5
229
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
I am also an expert in mermaid science as you can see from last Hallowe'en
Tweet media one
8
2
222
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@supermathskid So *that's* where the new followers are coming from :)
6
0
214
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
A pen, so I can draw a line down your abs and make your torso into a picture of Kenneth Williams' face.
@_JackFowler_
Jack Fowler
6 years
What are you going to bring to the table?
Tweet media one
124
142
2K
9
29
229
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@Jkbmedic @Microbedoc2 London needs doctors, though, that's the problem. If people in professional jobs think they can't afford it here then things are really broken
5
4
221
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@ladyhaja He was also a renter, though, so maybe they'll print his cost pcm rather than the usual house price.
3
5
185
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
Colleague of mine, door-knocking in the #Raab constituency on behalf of the LDs. "Did you know, by the way, that someone's sprayed 'Dominic Raab out!' on the white wall at the side of your house?" "Yes, I do. I did it. I hate him."
1
50
189
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
'Retired' is a nebulous category - some retired people are sitting on a lot of savings - but surely someone of advanced age living off only their pension shouldn't have passed due diligence checks?
2
9
193
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@bkmillii @HeatherApplebum @stefsanjati I would answer with 'Sorry, what? It's just a made up band to look cool on a t-shirt."
1
1
168
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@The8BitIdiot @Sorrelish People talking about struggling and also boasting* that they've never claimed benefits - that's what they're for! That's why you pay your taxes, so you get to claim them when you need them! *not quite right choice of word, more being made to feel it needs to be clarified
6
5
223
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
Curious as to the Francophone market for a costume based on a 35 year old comedy sketch about a regional stereotype that was inspired by a soap that's been off the air for 20 years, but clearly there must be one
Tweet media one
15
36
207
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@JackTindale Charity shops near me are more expensive than Primark, and with a limited range of sizes. eBay isn't cheap once you factor in postage, and it's mostly wholesalers now. This person has never been poor for an extended period and is just telling us things they do to save for fun.
3
0
199
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
Please, I beg, get someone to Google your name before you launch with it
@nonce_community
nonce
2 years
For all strong builders around the world, from nonce
Tweet media one
17
26
71
5
42
216
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@anxiety_doc @fatumakhaireh That was absolutely the point. She was extremely afraid of being considered fat. Weird hill to die on, I know, but it really annoys me when people describe her as 'chubby' etc because it misses the whole point.
3
0
184
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@transegghatcher @VictoriaPeckham @MunroeBergdorf Melinda was a Page 3 girl, a professional adult model, which is very different from someone posing for a magazine once (and as countless actresses have done). But funnily enough it's the trans woman who's deemed unsuitable.
4
2
155
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@corinne_podger @BarryPierce She's a Sunday Times columnist with a best-selling essay collection behind her, I don't think getting it published was too difficult.
1
0
181
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@CharlotteBHC Jesus, just buy a toastie loaf and a jar of Nescafe, workers on minimum wage shouldn't be putting themselves at risk because you are too busy to switch a kettle on.
1
4
177
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@aliceolilly @youngvulgarian It's incredibly exciting when you are seventeen and a half, but not a minute older.
2
1
187
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@SafiyaOutlines I bought my mum a pyramid of them for Christmas last year, which I feel was one of the greatest acts a daughter can offer their mother.
3
0
189
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@ladyhaja @stephemcneal You're just jealous you weren't called Hannyr
2
0
166
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
Sending this will see me divorced, yes?
Tweet media one
21
13
173
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@Planet_Pato @NoContextBrits Yeah, once the passenger side window rolled down it stopped being funny very fast. The way she stared into space made my blood run cold.
0
2
185
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@danjvalentine @JamesWillMarsh "Nobody has a right to live in London, if you can't afford it move out and commute in" doesn't really work once the city starts running out of people in minimum wage roles that keep everything running
1
6
189
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@kaye2cs @Variety I'm sure the casting director had you, and how to dissuade you from watching it, specifically in mind when they sent out the contract.
0
1
165
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@anarcho_slut @animaggus I dunno, I use 'partner' sometimes because 'boyfriend' can seem a bit juvenile or not serious enough. It's common in the UK at least for cishet couples to use it, and has been for a good while.
1
2
155
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
Cannot get my head around being older than....ciabatta
Tweet media one
6
69
182
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
Just gave my name in Starbucks as 'Candyman'. Unfortunately, when they called my name for my drink, I wasn't really listening, and a man with a hookhand appeared and slaughtered all the other patrons. Nobody applauded.
2
34
161
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@notsleepy Why do you think this thread exists? Someone belatedly resenting the £7.99 they spent on My Booky-Wook?
1
0
180
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
Please don't tag me on the Vienetta video anymore, the shops are shut and it's just mean ;)
6
0
159
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@bethanyrutter In what sense is this a problem for the friend? Do they share a wardrobe? Is one the understudy for the other in a production of Cats?
1
0
160
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@MattGarrahan @ToniHaastrup The average salary in the UK is £25k, I think. Many graduate jobs (if we consider having a relevant degree as 'skilled') pay much less.
4
14
156
@mippy
Hello Gillian
6 years
@pascalkesseli @MrAndyNgo Sex segregated gyms already exist, and aren't specifically Islamic. Women often prefer to exercise separately from men for a number of reasons, including religious modesty.
4
2
137
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@SzMarsupial @mrandrewdickson @Twitter Presumably we'd all have to send in our birth certificates, a totally normal thing to do to use a website where I mostly just post about what song is stuck in my head every morning.
1
0
147
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
Japan is having a 'National Deliciousness Election', in which various local convenience store chains nominate their top products, and say what you want about a meal deal but they never sound this poetic
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
3
42
184
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@IvanBrandon My grandparents predeceased me, THAT's where I was going wrong!
6
0
157
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@CarolineMoss Got dumped a couple of days before my birthday. We were meant to go on a picnic, and all the food was in the fridge. Spent my birthday in my dressing gown, curtains drawn, eating prosciutto from the plastic packet with my fingers whilst crying.
2
2
154
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@OneSoul1875 @ccAndrewBaker If you don't think there's been *any* decent music since 2002 then I feel a bit sorry for you tbh. Though yes, the physical media market, bar vinyl, is a tough sell these days.
3
0
155
@mippy
Hello Gillian
11 months
Tweet media one
0
0
164
@mippy
Hello Gillian
8 years
Well. This phrasebook took a turn
Tweet media one
8
129
143
@mippy
Hello Gillian
11 months
@Luiseach I think this level of obsession over anything - trans people, vaccinations, veganism/carnivorism, religion, outdoor/indoor cats, cake - would be enough to put a strain on any marriage, and yet it's the trans aspect of it, the nasty transes, that are all at fault.
3
4
169
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@aijiujoe I feel like buddhism and being a landlord shouldn't go together, but hey, I ain't no theologian.
4
0
152
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@hannahrosewoods @hansmollman The journo on the radio made the point that, at 16, you don't know what's OK and healthy and consensual in a relationship, and it made me think of the crap friends put up with that is horrifying now.
0
1
153
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
Love all the 'well, if you'd booked 12 weeks in advance on an offpeak ticket whilst running widdershins round a witch elm it wouldn't be so expensive, doh' replies to this, as though all aspects of life can be planned with three months' notice and happen outside of rush hour
@scottygb
Scott Bryan
2 years
Completely normal country that purchasing a train ticket from London to Liverpool with two days notice is £342.60.
1K
3K
29K
9
29
150
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
Personalised number plates tell the world "I have an excess of disposable income, yet am too dull to know how to spend it"
9
15
134
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
I am so middle-aged that I keep seeing WAP and thinking of the really crap pre-smartphone mobile internet.
8
17
129
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@MhairiMcF Clearly I never ovulate.
2
0
125
@mippy
Hello Gillian
1 year
@HadrianAD122 @DanielRosney How dare someone working a specific beat that involves something I am not personally interested in work to verify stories about people that I haven't heard of! What an outrage.
1
0
145
@mippy
Hello Gillian
4 years
@Drullae1 @WestminsterWAG Your bio says 'no sodding pronouns', so I just assumed you'd be fine with me using whatever seemed to fit.
2
0
118
@mippy
Hello Gillian
5 years
@lfootner When we went through hard times as a kid, my mum peeled the sticker off her last bar and stuck it on the own brand stuff.
1
1
128
@mippy
Hello Gillian
2 years
@paulduanefilm Though there are some things where I feel I *should* have a stance by now but don't, and wonder if that makes me ignorant in some way, but also whether too much heated rhetoric has now passed for me to properly read up on it and formulate one.
5
3
134
@mippy
Hello Gillian
3 years
@MrKlawUK @Dan_Morton @tainkirrahe Happens with male/female coded hobbies as well. Airfix models are intricate and artistic, embroidery is just something women do in between having babies and making sandwiches.
2
3
127