Captain Marvel

Your electrician curtsied? Do you live in a palace?

Doesn't sound interesting

I like all those

What might the islanders do with a long range bomber base, naval dockyard and a satellite telecommunications station?

Forza Win Peckham

Someone on Quora asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, a Brit responded. A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump?s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don?t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it?s a fact. He doesn?t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn?t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It?s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don?t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He?s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He?s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy? is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it?s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God? what? have? I? created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

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Abbey Wood. Crossrail Thank me later

I saw god once but I had just eaten a handful of magic mushrooms

Apparently Edgar Broughton used to live on Lordship somewhere. Various Bonzos lived in the area, around West Dulwich I think. Nick South from Sniff 'n' the Tears lived on Crystal Palace Road. One of the Heavy Metal Kids lived on Dog Kennel and Elvis worked in the chip shop

Somehow 'scandalous' got through unscathed

There's often a Mad Max three wheeler parked up in Frogley Road

?250,000? What bollocks

Until such time as a cop runs one of them over and ends up on a manslaughter charge

50 hours a week = burn out

After seven years of study and training, I would want to be earning twice what a salaried GP gets. They probably take home less than a black cab driver.

I am one

Thank me later https://www.champor-champor.com/

Mine are reaching an unhealthy level. The Bowie solo section in Under Pressure. Just that bit round and round for about a month. Prior to that it was the Eurythmics Love is a Stranger; just one little bit, ad nauseam, for weeks. Get up for a pee in the night and there she is. I have to wait for a new one to move in before the old one moves out. I don't even like those two songs much but here they are my gift to you. It's my new theory, that I can give them away and be rid of them

I'd pay up if I were you

Christ Joe, take a chill pill

I haven't killed any; they are all living happily in my hoover

It's biblical out there

Day 3

Christ Mark, no one's tried irony for a while!