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Earlier today, the missus is putting the Xmas decks up and asks me where she should put the new portable central heating thermostat Stick it on one of the lower bookshelves suggests me I prefer it on one of the higher ones says her Dont be shocked when you're suggesting it’s cold later on says I. She gives me a withering look… You know what just happened don’t you

Another very British problem is colloquialisms for everyday objects that other might not be familiar with and think you've done a Dem telling us about your recent trip to Dai's Plumbing Emporium Not me obviously as I'm multilingual

Too busy throwing money at the roulette wheel to ever drink tea

Clearly you have mere mortals and not the Guardians of the Tip

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I went Watkins back in for Isak which will obviously bite me on the arse later but at least Haaland not playing has put the armband on Salah and really boosted me in my ML

Did one myself today. Here's two things that pissed me off 1] the missus knowing that I'm going to the tip, decides there’s some other stuff to go, fairy nuff so she gets it together and puts it all in two bags. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell her not to do this because different things go in different skips and it just means I have to unpack it all before I even get it in the car because I need to put it in a certain order because there’s two sides to the tip and you have to do the stuff on one side first then do the stuff in the other side. Grrrrrr She still doesn’t see how she’s made things harder than just leaving them in piles and letting me sort it out, no bags are neater. 2) Cardboard has to be flattened at the tip (another part of the issue above boxes put inside other boxes) anyway there’s a bloke at the cardboard slot before me, it’s a slot to force you to collapse it all before you chuck it in (makes perfect sense), everyone turns up with the majority of their cardboard pre-flattened, mines in two easily ripped at the scene boxes full of pre-flattened cardboard. Anyway the whopper in front of me hasn’t flattened his one and only box and he’s trying to force it in through the slot, it’s about six times the size of the slot. He tries it every which way, a queue is now forming and it’s blindingly obvious it won’t fit unless he rips it up. People are beginning to mutter because the other cardboard slot is off limits as the Guardians of the Tip are moving a new skip into place. Someone shouts “you need to rip it up mate”. “No it'll go now, you'll see”. One of the Guardians of the Tip eventually sees the commotion and comes to investigate and deals with it appropriately “Are you f***ing stupid, step aside, collapse the box and let all the people who've done it properly put their stuff in and the join the queue you've caused at the back” “No, it'll g…”. GotT has a face like thunder, dimwit eventually does as he's told.

There’s something far more annoying in checkout ettiquette. The checkout person not scanning the goods in the order you put them on the belt. Leaving stuff at the front to stop the belt then reaching over to grab the stuff behind. They went in the belt in a logical order for packing at the other end so you reaching over the bottles and bulky stuff that goes at the bottom of bags to get the lighter stuff behind is just going to cause me to stop packing you dimwit

It’s a Dutch problem

Only just announced today but died on Monday John Hyatt of The Three Johns I have stories but this wouldn’t be the time After the Three Johns, Hyatt went into artistic academia and became quite the success RIP

Bought another one only last Sunday, my fifth I think though two of them have been wrecked in house moves, so three currently alive (and almost full of vinyl) three 4 by 2 units

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I'm sure he was just about to drink piss

In a quandary, stick to the plan and go Ward-Prowse to Palmer or jettison Son for Saka or get Watkins back in for Isak or even just roll it

They really should Basque in their glory

Am I right in thinking that we've sent Rwanda £240mil in order to be able to house 200 asylum seekers a year? That would appear to be £1.2mil per asylum seeker

Nah I don't get it, having dealt with intrusive journalists they are pretty easy to deal with. You ignore them. They have to find out who you are first. If it was me who won £200mil, I'd be out of the country for 6 months by the end of the week.

Well I think they want to talk to very tall people with an amenable disposition

Excellent, remind me how far away is GW18?

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This started as a £165mil boost, there's approx a 1 in 140mil chance of winning. It's ludicrous as you say, spreading the prize pots would be far more beneficial Hell just increase the amount of guaranteed UK millionaires. Start it at £65mil if you're going to boost it and have an extra 20 guaranteed millionaires for 5 or 6 weeks or something anyway

I’m in a pub on a street of pubs, considering another pint or do I move over the road to where my mates playing a gig shortly Dull of Kintyre came on. Out before the bagpipes start decision made

Inadequate, requires improvement

Even the we are a reasonable country bit is bollocks with this it in power

BZ is in The Times list of the best post 1945 British writers, thats creative writers in any field, alongside Iain Banks, Berryl Bainbridge, Salman Rushdie, JK Rowling, Michael Moorcroft… He really isn’t as unknown you seem to think. Outside of the Toblerone Theme Park he’s very well known.