Birdie A: Have you heard about Laurence Baillie Brown's books?
Birdie B: No. Do tell!
A: Well, they say he's selling awfully well on amazon - especially on https://t.co/nGUP3FDVU9.
B: What's that?
A: It's amazon for India, you silly little birdie!
B: Sorry! Have you read any of his novels?
A: Well - I read 'Addictions: Bears and Bitches ' - and I nearly fell off my perch a few times - it's rather raunchy!
B: And hasn't he written a very popular historical novel about the Middle Ages?
A: OOH - get you! You DO know about him! Yes, that's right. It's called 'At the Court of Broken Dreams: Love and War in the Middle Ages'. Lots of battles - but also what he likes to call 'the dear love of comrades'....
B: Quoting the great, gay American poet Walt Whitman, I suppose...
A: Sometimes, my little friend, you're just a bit too clever for your own good!
You heard the man - I mean, the birdies!
The Jet2 narration over videos of people kicking fuck out of each other on holiday is probably the best Internet trend of the 2020s so far. Very silly. Great.
It’s almost that time of year when my wife sits next to me on the sofa and glances at me like I’m a piece of shit. Because of what Alan Rickman did to Emma Thompson in a fictional film, released over 20 years ago.