Man realises five years later that girlfriend was dumping him
A MAN has realised, five years after the fact, that his last conversation with his girlfriend centred on her ending their relationship.
MORE than 60 per cent of craft beer is brewed by big bastard corporations rather than independent bearded wankers, research has found.
HELLO, Double Dave here. Despite Brexit cementing my reputation for being thick as mince, I’m 90 per cent sure Lucy Letby is innocent. I could also help these obvious miscarriages of justice.
YOU bought their records, and now they want you to buy appalling artwork which proves their talent is solely musical. None of these would be hung on merit.
JEREMY Clarkson has admitted disquiet at his discovery, aged 64, that consequences exist and even worse apply to him.
A TEENAGE boy has been turned on to seriously obscure alternative music after hearing it for the first time in a series of popular commercial films.
AN Australian senator has embarrassed herself by shouting slogans at a ceremonial figurehead which could no more do anything than a statue could.
A WOMAN is under the mistaken impression that her leaving for another job is an important emotional event for those around her.
THERE is ugliness in Hollywood, but only on the inside. Which is why the casting directors of these had to cast tanned and toned actors with glowing veneers.
Politics
KEMI Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are, over the course of their leadership campaigns, to fall in beautiful far-right love.
ARE you a Tory who feels like you’ve done nothing over the past five years apart from choosing awful nutcases to lead your party? Here’s how to cope.
THERESA May has admitted she smoked up to ten rocks of crack a day while prime minister because 2016 to 2019 were very much crack-smoking years.
THE dismissal of the prime minister’s chief of staff after just three months in the job makes it unignorable: Labour are over, the Tories have won and an election is a formality.
Society
A LEARNER driver is handling the flat roads and unobstructed corners of his local industrial estate like a pro, he has confirmed.
A WOMAN has informed friends she is prioritising her mental wellbeing by setting boundaries of only doing what she enjoys.
GENTRIFICATION can seem, at times, inevitable and inescapable. An area is happily shit until Negroni-sipping twats in Foxtons minis turn up. But it will never happen in these locations.
THE awarding of an OBE to a horse that stood and watched cars go past is proof once and for all that Britain is sane and rational.
TO you they were friends and companions. To your parents, they were teachers of the brutal reality of mortality. This is how they died.
WORRIED that sending your kids to private school will be unaffordable with VAT on fees? Simply fake the whole thing - you’ll save a fortune, and it can be as ridiculously posh as you like!
Lifestyle
A LOW-QUALITY scorpion found in a Shein parcel has fallen apart after its first and only sting, it has emerged.
READING about London is like watching a good horror movie for many Northerners. Here Roy Hobbs gives an account of what he firmly believes an average day in the capital is like.
PICKED up a nickname? Proud of it, even though it’s a glaring sign your life has taken a wrong turn somewhere? Any of these is a sign you need help.
A FASCINATION with Japanese culture is alternative and interesting in women and a sign of an aberrant personality and unhealthy sexual interests in men.
A MAN has bravely told his girlfriend how great her new pixie crop looks while pinching his inner wrist hard to hold back the tears.
A FOOL threw away his 20s predominantly sober while holding down a stable job and adult relationship, it has emerged.
Sport
THOMAS Tuchel has nobly accepted his career as a football manager who won trophies is in the past and begun a long, sad slide into irrelevance.
ENGLAND played five strikers on Thursday and lost. Logic dictates they should therefore increase the number of strikers to 11 for Sunday’s game, but will they?
NOBODY seems to want the England job and fans believe anyone could do it better than Gareth Southgate, so should we let this lad Lee Carsley do it?
FOLLOWING the shocking exposure of Jermaine Jenas as neither bland nor sexless enough for The One Show, who will take football’s top presenting job?
THE multi-million pound transfer market is once again ridiculing the pointless allegiances of football fans.
A NEW Premier League season has begun, but which club deserves to win it most and will therefore inevitably triumph?
Science & Technology
THE price of a good, solid shot of healthy human semen has risen by a full ten pounds to a princely £45 a time.
GOOGLE is wondering if you meant a different search term which requires less effort and more showing of sponsored posts, it has confirmed.
BANNING mobile phones in schools makes sense because why should they have fun? But in these sacred spaces devices should always be allowed.
A BILLIONAIRE has finally achieved his dream of looking down on the entire world’s population while shaking his head condescendingly.
Arts & Entertainment
BOOBS are usually a quick, easy way to get eyes staring at screens, but these films treated them as though they are nothing more than anatomy.
BEING into a band means you have a moral obligation to pretend to enjoy all associated solo work, and never to admit it’s crap. Loyally play the following.
THIS year's EastEnders Christmas episodes will set new standards in harrowing festive grimness, the BBC has promised.
MODERN cinema is proud to present positive female role models, and what do you do? Enlist them in your sordid imaginings. You should be ashamed.
YOUNG people who never flicked through Jilly Cooper books for the dirty bits are entirely uninterested in their screen adaptation, they have confirmed.
Business
A GROUP of natural Tories have warned Labour to run the country in their best interests or every one of them will have left the country by Friday.
ARE you concerned that when the inevitable call from banking scammers arrives, you will be too savvy to fall for it and end up keeping all your money? Follow these steps.
RESIDENTS of a gentrified town are dismayed that the artisan cheese shop they collectively neglected is going out of business.
TENANTS are ungrateful bastards. Always complaining about broken sinks and holes in roofs but no appreciation for the finer points of interior design. Detail is everything.
THE overworked staff of a busy clothes shop have found great comfort in the sympathy of a woman who knows what it is like because she worked in retail once.
Work
A BOSS is hoping that his employee’s five year plan aligns with his own vision of an increased workload for decreased compensation.
A BUSINESS is rethinking its morale-boosting strategy of asking staff to bring children to work after a group of teenage girls tore them to shreds.
EXPERTS are disparaging the need to be physically in the office you work in as mere ‘presenteeism’. But what if that’s the only bit you’re good at?
A CONSULTANCY firm is proud of its distinctive workplace culture of drinking too much while employing multiple staff members with the same name.
HI, [INSERT NAME HERE], I came across your LinkedIn profile and thought you would be a great fit to make me look like I’ve got a wealth of candidates. Here’s how I’ll screw you over.
Alcohol
A GROUP of work colleagues have been assured by a co-worker that they can continue their drinking at a great bar situated a mere 45 minute walk away.
A NEW range of boutique 12 per cent lagers are the drink of choice for sophisticated urban professionals at upscale dinner parties.
MORNING! Oh God, what did you do? How did unwinding with three bottles of wine lead to this? What is your pickled brain claiming happened and did it?
A MAN who absolutely underdid it on the pints has woken up mortified at the not even slightly embarrassing things he said the night before.
SCIENTISTS in Britain’s capital believe they are only months away from creating an ordinary point of beer which costs more than £15.
SHITFACED way after midnight? Illogically hungry? These are the foods you will stumblingly prepare yourself, ranked from worst to best.
