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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/harry-and-meghan-the-union-of-two-great-houses-the-windsors-and-the-celebrities-is-complete-1.4504502 "Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown."

This is what dog ownership does to a man. Be warned.

I find it hard to care about the whole thing, but I do wonder how many flag-wavers who signed a condolence book for Diana are now riding the "Meghan's just an attention-seeker/wealthy people shouldn't complain about their mental health" train without a hint of irony.

Gazprom takeover?

How's the bacon shed, did you say?

Mu-uuum, they're talking about me on the RADIO, it's so UNFAIR

The "Starmer = Kinnock" argument looks increasingly persuasive. Enjoy the 1980s, everyone!

He'll have his son out briefing against Ritchie imminently.

Or maybe Roisin Murphy, that's the kind of David Gray-level person no one could possibly ever need as a lookalike.

All right then, if they're that rubbish let's say Ulrika Jonsson and Cerys Matthews.

Cunts gonna cunt.

Matt Cardle and Sue Perkins are looking well.

I was thinking Patrick Kielty for David Gray.

CYP

Going off the site, so could any of the blokes in MF's post

Christmas jumpers? That's way more of a Fish thing.

Aye, nailed on. Pure Bruceball.

I'll entertain offers.

I've got polycystic kidney disease, which doesn't give me any trouble or need any treatment at the minute but apparently involves a 50-50 chance of kidney failure by the time I'm old, so maybe that's enough to put me on a list of special cases.

Well, most of London anyway. Soz Gloomy.

I don't know, actually. I have plenty of things wrong with me (shut up) but nothing that should push me up the list as far as I'm aware - asthma that gets me the flu jab every year but nowhere near bad enough to be in a Covid risk group, #feeb kidneys that might give up on me at some point but that aren't any kind of Covid-specific risk factor, and so on. So either someone at my doctor's has looked at the cumulative picture of all that and decided I should be bumped up a bit (even though that's not meant to happen), or I've just got lucky in some other way. There's not as many old people around here because it's all young professionals who've been priced out of nicer areas so they're getting further down the list quicker, or they knew they'd have a ton of the vaccine about to expire or something, I don't know. For what it's worth, I'd say pretty much everyone else getting it when I went was in the 35-55 age range, so that suggests they've already got through all the oldies around here, anyway. Or they're all just mentalist anti-vaxxers who've refused it. Either way, I was offered it through one of the normal channels (text message + online booking) so that's a no on the walk-in front I'm afraid.

I had the Pfizer on Wednesday and thought I'd got away without too much trouble, but I tried to go for a run on Saturday and nope. Had to stop and walk home with my tail between my legs. It's been all right otherwise though. #feebpower

Especially for something that's happening purely so the almighty god of house prices shall never fall.