Ed Morgan

No you didn’t, but it’s a good gag.

At some point does this become like a politician saying they don’t watch TV or films? (I’m not saying LOTO should have lots of spare time to do these things, but politicians tend to at least pretend to engage in popular culture).

My two year old loves it (she has something of the bad baby about her anyway).

I’d assumed the elephant was the baby: the elephant’s trunk a symbol of a young child’s tendency to grab anything they can reach, and the accusation of not saying please the child beginning to understand that you can’t do some things. Could just be it’s fun to say ‘rumpeta, rumpeta’, though.

So this is a map of how far you are from Rutland?

Looks particularly weird after calling them ‘giants’. They wouldn’t say ‘the Chicago Bulls was floundering’, surely.

Even as someone who grew up in nearby Sydenham, the prospect of the name ‘Clanny Penge’ is absolutely revolting.

The fruit and veg stall in one pic appears to be selling several varieties of sweet potatoes/cassava, and tomatoes, which seems unlikely.

When people talk of the British way of life disappearing, this is what I think of.

Ditto which sectors are most exposed - the fact that US logistics stocks fell a couple of weeks ago because a company announced an AI product, which they claimed made logistics more efficient, seemed completely backwards to me.

Ah but have you considered that class varies by which part of the UK you’re talking about?

Brexit also played a role, I think. It pitted the free market think tanks against businesses, and ever since some parts of that ecosystem basically see business as not being on their side.

1026 to 1100 you’ve got a whole new ruling class! (It’s going back a bit, admittedly)

Depending on when he applied, should they even have retained the data?

I was being flippant. I still think it’ll all come crashing down eventually though.

Isn’t the point that mining becomes unprofitable also the point where it all falls apart?

Kruger’s Mary Whitehouse-ness vs Farage’s licentiousness is quite a weird contrast.

One thing I think plays to this point is that we’re meant to be electrifying everything eg. switching HGVs away from diesel - on current plans the cost and availability of electricity are a massive issue.

I absolutely loved that adaptation as a kid, remember it looking a lot less shonky though!

Which only tangentially referenced the occult. Haven’t watched Buffy since I was a teenager, but have to say I’d be tempted by your reboot.

It’s very sad when they grow out of that.

Wasn’t the Washington NFL team called the Redskins until pretty recently, if we’re talking about insensitive cultural appropriation…

‘At the dawn of a new era’, ‘at the end of the Cretaceous’ aren’t very specific periods, which is why maybe at the weekend doesn’t sound weird to us (not that I’m saying British English doesn’t have plenty of odd features).

What would you use - on? I’d never thought about it, I suppose at normally relates to a place. You’d say ‘at the end of the day’ etc., though?

650,000 work in warehousing. We’ve been working on a new level 4 warehouse manager apprenticeship - it’s not generic management skills, it’s a specific job in a sector that has only been able to claim c30% of its levy funds. And yet it’s being held up, possibly because of the thinking described.

I can see that for older kids, but I was in the house with my 2 yr old and 4 yr old last night - one was shouting for me from the bathroom while the other was demanding I put a shark costume on her. It’s not like I was trying to do something enriching or anything, but it was certainly active.

I’m not sure I’m reading this right - like literally how do you only look after a 0-4 yr old for less than 100 minutes per day? They wake up early, they’re not in childcare all day (I thought more kids are in professional childcare these days)?

Isn’t this just the availability heuristic and the top two films being seen as Christmas films? For my money, the holiday is much worse - actors with the potential to be annoying anyway in the most annoying possible film.

There’s a great bit in the Sopranos where Sir Ben Kingsley corrects one of mobsters for calling him Sir Kingsley. It’s subtle, but part of why it was such a great show.

I don’t care what this person I’m going to name specifically writes about me, because I definitely don’t read him and it definitely doesn’t get under my skin. Definitely.