This used to be the body you would temporarily train up to if you were playing a superhero. Now it’s the body you have to have if you’re playing a moody chef on prestige evening TV, and the superheroes look like alien circuit gay Olympians
It's Valentine's Day, so we're going back to 1964 and an episode of Marriage Today that looked at the future of relationships. Young and old reflect on their experiences, and share their opinions on the matter.
What’s this new thing where artists barely sing at gigs because they’re too busy going “is that person over there ok”. No they have heatstroke. But let’s focus my love
I hate when you exercise once and it drags you out of a sad and self-loathing gutter and you have to accept that exercise is good and not a conspiratorial lie designed to spite you by Big Activewear
Just looked at a beautiful pink sunset and thought, "God I love London", then remembered there is a sky everywhere and I'm paying half my salary to sleep 2 feet from my drying clothes
Literally everyone who goes to work, particularly those in customer-facing service jobs, appears not as themselves, but as a cheery upbeat character they’re compelled into on the job. Does this mean Pret workers get a tax break?
the insufferable social media meltdown that will happen when some people choose to go pub and others get mad at them for going pub is all part of the long process of turning this pandemic into a question of individual virtue rather than state action btw. just btw
hometown Tesco is out of Linda McCartney sausages because all the ma’s have panic-stockpiled them in anticipation of their lesbian emigrant children returning home
My grandchildren: living in Britain in 2019 must have been so fascinating! do you have any memories of no deal Brexit?
Me: .....
My grandchildren: how about the climate rebellion?
Me: ....
My grandchildren: how about Coleen Roo-
Me:
This isn’t the reaction I expected from Jaz finding out Harry is a traitor?! 😭 he’s SO PROUD of all the traitors names he put down 😭😭 God bless Jazatha Christie
#TheTraitors
Still laugh thinking about the guy behind me at Elton who’d clearly been on it for six days solid and when it finished he was like “he can’t be… he hasn’t done Your Song… he hasn’t done Tiny Dancer…” and his girlfriend was just like “babe yeah he has x”
People in London love to put books outside their house and be like “FREE TO A GOOD HOME ❤️” and the books in question are a GCSE chemistry revision guide from the Blair era and a self-help book about managing stress as an airline hostess
Name a less successful rebrand than '4od'. Been called whatever it's called now for the guts of a decade? Still no idea. Don't tell me. I won't remember
Here's an MP and a British town turning out enthusiastically to commemorate a man whose claim to fame is dying before he could be tried for shooting a disabled Irishman, John Pat Cunningham, in the back in 1974. John Pat had a developmental age of 7 and a fear of those in uniform
Imagine being Katy Perry's team. Having your first social media success story in *years* by making her say 'wig', then you go to the pub and toast your successes, take your eye off her for a minute, and she's killed a nun.