James Blunt fallen on hard times?

(I could add the story an actor friend told me once of a fellow thespian on tour who came across a three-day-dead whale in the seaside town where he was performing, climbed on it, and fell into... well, an orifice larger than a blowhole, let’s say. However, the details remain ~ahem~ unverified)

oh jesus

...and perhaps you can get some sense of the smell they must have encountered from the photos of the much, much larger whale which burst in Taiwan in 2004

now whenever someone rings the doorbell it acoustically zaps her like an electric shock. we now know when someone's at the door when my mother leaps up suddenly

Paul Linnman eventually wrote a book about his experiences as a reporter, concentrating on the whale. He didn’t realise it at the time, but he’d been sharing the beach that day with a 24-year-old marine biologist, Bruce Mate, who’d also had misgivings

After initially confirming the project to Tech Radar, Ofcom went silent when pressed on questions about what data was being monitored, what privacy protections were in place or who the company doing it was.

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