When what little culture your nation has consists of shopping, cars and pornography this is what you end up with as a national celebration: inept plywood impressions of quasi-classical buildings. It’s not a travesty at all. In fact, it’s perfect.
I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole.
This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.
Fundamentally nothing will ever get better because a relatively large chunk of people believe that The Met Office is part of some grand conspiracy to lie about the weather
One thing I hadn't known about the 1976 heatwave—which really was an exceptional run of hot days—is that the overnight lows were mostly quite normal & even cool. These are the figures for Oxford, from https://t.co/KIfqGpHnbm
I spent 20 years building a business and sold it last week to 3 members of staff. Mutually beneficial. At the age of 54 I have done my best to raise a family , be kind - not a bastard so now I am ready to move up to the next level: paid the bastard mortgage off too. What next????
The most effective way of keeping cool in this weather is writing a short blogpost about why Europe is failing to adopt air conditioning. The more derivative, the better.
Efficient and well-put-together families will be enjoying this heat. Nice garden to relax in with shade under a tree. Dad on BBQ, mum keeping house cool. Ice bucket for drinks. No-one fat, everyone with a tan. Literally fine. Whereas fat spastics are in trouble.
Zero Bristolian accents in Central Bristol anymore - the teens sound like that “those biscuits are bareeee niceeeee” TikTok.
I knew we were finished when a cafe worker asked me what my accent was. Here mate.
Has any social or political argument of the 2010s been more thoroughly disproven than “It would be good if music critics took commercial pop music more seriously”