rip francis crozier you would have loved falling asleep in front of the telly after refusing to lie down for a nap

Not to mention that PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. It's intended as a security net to help disabled people, whether in work or not, to meet the extra costs of being disabled (estimated by Scope at an additional £1,095 per month in 2025, on top of all the standard costs of living). But Labour and other political parties are deliberately conflating PIP with out-of-work benefits to promote their narrative of disabled people being too nervous but really capable of work at best, lazy workshy scroungers at worst, so that they can justify 'reforms' to PIP which will effectively be cuts.

people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literally and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

you're my brother and to some extent my wife

he gave the whole team the mbappé special

liberté, égalité, éliminé

I am going to clarify that when I say "if your romantic pair would have no appeal as a platonic duo, they're going to fall flat", I'm not necessarily saying they needed to have a pre-existing friendship within the narrative. I'm saying that if you can't pitch the dynamic to me without referring to the fact that they think the other one is hot, they don't have a dynamic, they're just attracted.

AS I ALWAYS SAY