A few years ago James Acaster did a bit in his stand-up about Gervaise: https://youtu.be/UHqma3rx-xI

If you want just the Gervaise bit without the lead-up, go to around 2:30

The magic word is Calibre

Given that Melanie has just made a completely unprompted speech about how she totally was never friends with Maxwell, i suspect that something new is about to drop

Given the image,i wouldn’t be at all surprised if the article were just AI

For a real answer, they’re claiming the space. They’re demonstrating that they can control it and you

There was a reddit thread a few years ago where insiders from industries were asked what was true about their industry that the moneymakers wouldn’t want the public to know. A sunglasses guy said that the build quality of all sunglasses above something like $10 was identical. Above that price you’re literally just paying for the logo

Make sure they’re UV safe, make sure the lenses don’t distort your vision, and buy something cheap

Also be interesting if she does appear to see what she says. I bet it’ll be very different from last time…

The page won’t load for me, but at a guess she’s talking about the transphobic jokes about Chandler’s dad

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines - If a headline asks a question, the answer is always no - needs a corollary: “unless that question is ‘Is Trump an idiot?’”

Here’s the thing - we’re at the beginning stages of the war affecting things beyond “it costs more to drive”. Europe have been meeting about how to reopen the strait without the US

I think the strait will open again soon, and whether that happens without the US’s involvement or the US is forced into it in some way, the end result will be the same - there is will be less powerful globally than it was before, and Iran will be much more powerful globally than it was before

That was Hegseth, i think

It could grip it by the husk

“Dick me dead and bury me pregnant” would cause some interesting situations

One of those people was French, so it’s possible

Me too

One thing I’ve never heard any native English speaker say, but have heard from more than one non-native speaker is the phrase ”we perfectly know“. Something like “as we perfectly know, English is a living language”

I’m not sure exactly what word I’d substitute in there to make it “proper” English, but I do know I don’t want to

I mean, at least it’s possible to operate a podcast at a profit

Poor Jerry

Not the UK. The Green Party is having a moment, yet their leader is a man who used to be a hypnotherapist who sold sessions where he promised he could hypnotise women to make their boobs bigger

I know plenty of Brits do. I’m British. I just don’t think I’ve met a Brit before who hasn’t

If you have someone over, offer them a cup of tea. You will need a kettle

Before you get up to do anything, slap your legs and say “right”. This is the law