Long term sober alcoholic here. People who insist they have to be on social media for work reasons always phrase their justifications for not quitting in terms anyone who has been in a programme will recognise.

Homegrown tomatoes taste great and are ideal for people who want to eat five hundred of them in a week in early September and none at all for the rest of the year.

Rayner made a mistake yes, but it also perfectly shows that the working class can't get away with anything while the rich keep avoiding tax like the plague. She avoided tax through negligence and pays a high price. Billionaires avoid tax intentionally and carry on as normal.

Too many bathrooms are designed without consideration of where the toilet roll holder will go. People send a fortune on: walk in showers, roll top baths, exactly the right tiles etc but then stick the loo roll on top of the cistern - I don't want to contort just to wipe my arse

What we have learned from Google Docs is that word processors were functionally complete for 99% of users by 1995. The only useful feature added since then is collaborative editing.

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

Nothing charts the gradual enshittification of the UK over the last 25 years better than the Kellogg's Variety Pack. The exciting 90 & 90s breakfast is now a pathetic shadow of it's former glory.

The New York Times list of the 100 best films of this century contains numerous films which came out in 2000. Which is the last year of the old century. Inconvenient as that may be.