This is A Thing of Beauty.

"Help me, Smokey-Wan Sausagerolly, you're my only hope."

He was like Ringo to The Beatles: never played a note that didn't serve the song entirely. You can imagine a flashier, more expressive player adding something to the song, but it would have taken away from the whole.

Fuck me. Ignore Climate Change Commission, ignore MFAT recommendations to recognise Palestine, ignore Treaty obligations, ignore ignore ignorant.

I assure you it will never wane, although just like Christmas pud I've always got room for a little more.

Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.

Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them

"I for one am not prepared to trust the science." - scientists, according to this pillock.

No shame. Repeating the same joke in slightly shitter ways was what we had to do before memes.

Look at her. Do you think she's ever suffered true hardship or tragedy or wanted for anything in her short life? Easy to lack empathy when you're certain that bad fortune is always your own fault for not trying enough.

Looking up the sexual predilections of the Adelie penguin...ooooh dear. BIIIG 'before we begin'....

Try to imagine her at any point in her youth having experienced hardship or hunger or misfortune. The way you end up with BvV is someone entirely without empathy for struggle who thinks people could end up like her if they just apply themselves.