This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
I saw a TikTok video where a girl talks about if you're creative and you're not actively creating and using that energy, it will instead come out in self-destructive ways; overthinking, anxiety, etc..and it has me gagged
You occasionally get a moment that symbolizes everything wrong with this country. In this case it's a U.S. Marine veteran screaming out that no one wants to fight for Israel and a U.S. Senator breaking his arm. A perfect encapsulation of US foreign policy.
Oli Dugmore, "I'm generally a forgiving person and our politics is poorer for its lack of empathy" #BBCQT
"Most people should not be defined by the worst thing they've done in their lives, most people deserve a second chance"
"I do however have some moral boundaries. One of them is that it's wrong to have sex with children"
"I wouldn't want to be friends with anyone that did that"
"And I certainly wouldn't want to work with them"
"If I did, you'd be asking me questions, and they'd be valid ones"
"That is apparently now a fringe position for some people at the top of the Labour party"
"It is an extraordinary thing to be able to say"
"I don't know any pedophiles"
"I don't know anyone who's run a global sex trafficking ring"
"These are extraordinary things that we are talking about here"
"And, not only did people at the top of the Labour party know about this because this information was available on google, they don't need the security services to tell them this"
Fiona Bruce, "When you say this, you mean Mandelson's friendship with Epstein, and the fact that he stayed in his house while he was in prison"
Oli Dugmore, "And the top of Labour didn't think that was disqualifying"
"They thought actually: this is our guy"
"This is our guy who we're going to elevate to the most prestigious diplomatic posting that we have, we're going to make him our man in Washington"
"And not only that, we're going to bring him back to London every so often to advise on cabinet reshuffles"
"And actually when we're choosing our candidates for the 2024 general election, we're going to put him on that too, because we think he is a great judge of character"
"Come on"
"Keir Starmer promised a few things when he was trying to become Prime Minister"
"You may remember the Labour party manifesto that had one word on the front: change"
"He made a really big deal about standards in public life"
"And fair play, after the moral atrocities of austerity, the covid contracts, the way the Tories ran the country. You could understand why he did that"
"For him to stand on the steps of Downing street and promise people, and then to do this"
"What does that say about you?"
Every time I see Jarvis Cocker it reminds me of the time he exposed his bum to Michael Jackson at the BRITS, got arrested by MJ's henchmen so Bob Mortimer had to dust off his legal skills to get him released. By far my favourite British pop culture story ever
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