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Man washes neighbourâs car after being jokily asked to
The play book of social norms was ripped up into pieces today after a man washing his car took up his neighbour on the jokey aside that âyou can wash mine after youâve finished yoursâ.
Peter McBride made the throwaway comment after coming out of his front door, seeing Mike next door waxing his Nissan Qashqai, and realising he had little else to say to him.
âNext thing I know he was knocking at the door saying he had a spare half hour, asking for the keys to my Astra and did I want the interiors vacuuming tooâ, said a flustered McBride. âI donât want him anywhere near my pride and joy. It was just weird.â
âThe âyou can do mine after youâve finished yoursâ is a timeless bit of small talk, simultaneously designed to close off further conversation whilst acknowledging the effort being undertaken to keep their property in better nick than your ownâ , said David Davidson, Professor of Social Niceties. âIt works particularly well with creosoting fences, trimming hedges and of course cleaning windows, the latter inevitably preceded by the quip âyouâve missed a bitâ.
McBride is said to be looking forward to the clocks going back next month so he can revert to his âthe nights are drawing in, arenât theyâ, one-liner for the next few months.
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The commie, pinko, Britain-hating BBC will now be legally required to produce âdistinctively Britishâ programmes, like Only Fools and Horses and Fleabag, though, mysteriously, not like Luther and I May Destroy You. The BBC itself will rebrand as the Great British Broadcasting Corporation. Channel 4 will become the Great British Bake Off Broadcasting Corporation.
Every hour, all BBC channels will show the Queen, armed forces and fluttering Union Jacks, as Jerusalem, Rule Britannia and the national anthem play. The images will be intercut with a smiling, omniscient Boris Johnson looking statesmanlike, or at least having had a haircut.
New shows will include âSnowflake Melting with Jim Davidson and Laurence Foxâ, a nightly hour-long show, with guests who self-identify as cancelled by the liberal elite. They will talk, on air, about how they never get on air because PC has gone mad. A tearful John Virgo will be forced to play snooker as Davidson makes increasingly dubious remarks about the differently coloured snooker balls.
Also new, a lavish 26-part documentary, adapted from Boris Johnsonâs Churchill biography, with the royalties helping Johnson to pay for his next divorce.
BBC News 24 will rebrand as GB News, with presenters wearing poppies all year round. Those with regional accents or from ethnic minorities will be limited to local news and sport.
Gary Grimthwaite said âIâm English and I find these changes soothe my unfounded, borderline nonsensical fears. I mean Strictly Come Dancing is presented by two women. Women! Whatâs next, sharia law? I blame the Germans.â
Childrenâs TV looks set to be unaffected, as one parent noted âIf you come for CBeebies, we will kill you and make it look like an accident.â
Duolingoâs demand for Somali surges on International Talk Like A Pirate Day
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âWindows 11? Iâve barely mastered Windows 95âČ complains man.
News that Microsoft plan to update their operating system, has caused widespread panic among those who struggle to tell the difference between a PC and gramophone. Particularly those who think the âStart Menuâ is what you order from before your Main arrives.
Jake Kalpar (49) has been particularly tense since the announcement: âI phoned my sister and she said Windows in the area were upgrading and I just assumed she meant double-glazing. 64-bit? I donât even know what the other 63 bits are. And DirectX sounds like a hyperlink to a p$rn siteâ.
âWhen did we start calling everything an App? Why is everything in tiles? Whatâs wrong with a list, a normal list? Iâve got a OneDrive? But itâs in a cloud? What? A cloud? For the love of God, I just want to copy some clip art â is that too much to ask? Where is spellcheck now?â
âCan I help you?â asked Cortana.
âWho the f$ck said that?!?â replied Jake.
âWindows 11? Iâve barely mastered Windows 95âČ complains man.
News that Microsoft plan to update their operating system, has caused widespread panic among those who struggle to tell the difference between a PC and gramophone. Particularly those who think the âStart Menuâ is what you order from before your Main arrives.
Jake Kalpar (49) has been particularly tense since the announcement: âI phoned my sister and she said Windows in the area were upgrading and I just assumed she meant double-glazing. 64-bit? I donât even know what the other 63 bits are. And DirectX sounds like a hyperlink to a p$rn siteâ.
âWhen did we start calling everything an App? Why is everything in tiles? Whatâs wrong with a list, a normal list? Iâve got a OneDrive? But itâs in a cloud? What? A cloud? For the love of God, I just want to copy some clip art â is that too much to ask? Where is spellcheck now?â
âCan I help you?â asked Cortana.
âWho the f$ck said that?!?â replied Jake.
Man who was never mis-sold PPI demands compensation
‘My neighbour claimed for PPI, and he got ÂŁ13000. His cousin got ÂŁ12000. Me – I didn’t get a penny,’ complained Bruce Aldridge today. ‘I never fell for that PPI shit – first they tried pre ticking the box, I always spotted that, then they did the dirty little trick where they left the box empty, but you had to tick it to opt out. Sneaky, but it never caught me out,’ he added.
Bruce is fuming that he’s being penalised for being aware of the scams banks were playing. ‘I could have let them mis-sell to me and I’d be loaded now, but because I’ve been careful I’m the only person in my group who can’t afford to go on holiday next year. Bruce is campaigning for compensation for those who didn’t get mis-sold PPI. ‘There must be dozens like me,’ he said today.
Drug dealers concerned customers are unsure of imperial measurements
A spokesman for the National Union of Drug Dealers has expressed concerns that customers and pushers will not understand imperial measurements when changes come into force.
“We’ve always dealt in grams”, Spider Harris told our reporter. “The customers will have no idea how much to buy and, to be quite honest, I’m not sure many of my members will either.”
“It’ll be the ruin of us. A one gram wrap for ÂŁ20 will now be a 0.035 ounce wrap. We’re gonna need new scales. My employees won’t be able to quickly work out grams to ounces by dividing current wraps by 28.364. Most of them didn’t go to school, if they’d got maths GCSE, they wouldn’t be working for me, would they?”
A spokesman for Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, released a statement saying the PM was concerned for the future of the trade and that the Department for Work and Pensions is looking into an advertising campaign, credit card sized conversion charts, new scales and extra training for dealers at this difficult time.
Anti-vaxxer stays healthy, frustrating social media users hoping for ironic death
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National Curriculum to include long division of gallons pints and fluid ounces
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Unattended PM on nursery school visit eats crayons and smears own faeces on face
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was momentarily left unattended during a visit to a nursery school. In the space of a few minutes he had eaten all of the crayons and entered the faeces smearing stage.
His handler said, ‘All of these visits to schools and playgroups and nursing homes are our way of getting him the care he needs at the expense of the state. Donors used to fork out for his playpen and bouncer and things like that which were disguised as Number 10 flat decoration expenses. But they’re refusing to stump up for the professional help he requires, so we have to plan his week very carefully to cause the minimum disruption to the country.
‘Can you imagine if we actually left him in charge of something important, even for a minute? Hah! Doesn’t bear thinking about, does it? No, it’s a very important role I fulfil, and extremely stressful. The other week I caught him trying to stuff a toy bus into Larry’s anus. If I wasn’t watching him 24/7 then he’d probably do something unimaginably off the scale batshit like give nuclear weapons to Australia.
‘To be honest though, it’s not as hectic as looking after the Cabinet in my wider remit as Wrangler of Ministers. Turn your back for two minutes and they’re swinging off the curtains, building cushion forts under the cabinet office table, pulling Liz Truss’s hair and forming national policy at a level which would make your average five-year-old sick up his cheese strings.’
Richard Curtis new rom-com about turd stuck down toilet of luxury apartment
Richard Curtis, writer of such rom-com classics like âNotting Hillâ, âAbout Time and âFour Weddings And A Funeralâ, has revealed that his next movie will centre around a woman dropping an unflushable log down the toilet of her date’s luxury apartment along the South Bank.
The shooting of the movie is almost complete with Hugh Grant reprising his role as a bumbling upper-class twit, who at first is amusingly unable to deal with the situation of having a shit the size of a brick stuck down his loo.
Four Weddings and a Funeral cast member Andie McDowell, who will be playing Grantâs love interest in the movie, is said to have signed up to the role within minutes of reading the script. ‘She couldnât turn it down,’ said an industry insider. ‘Scripts as polished as this come along once in a lifetime.’
One of the directing team explained that the floating turd is a metaphor for the world we live in. ‘We are living in a world that is going through a pretty shit time at the moment, but at the end of the day love conquers all.’
Without wanting to give too much away, he continued ‘One of my favourite moments in the movie is when McDowell’s character turns to Grantâs character and says, “is it still there, I hadnât noticed.” And thatâs the whole premise of the movie, no matter how hard it tries shit can never come between love.’
Another insider concluded: ‘Itâs basically a story about a shit looking up from the toilet watching a boy and girl fall in love’. He also confirmed he was working on the sequel, where Hugh Grant’s character fishes the turd out with huge comedic effect, titled ‘Glove, Actually’.
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Metric martyrs chain-ed in a bushel and peck-ed furlong time
Supermarket shelves may be empty, but that zero may need no longer be measured in metric.
Greengrocer Bob Bridlington says he once served 10 years in an EU maximum security prison for using imperial measurements, adding: âI deliberately cannot understand that 1000 grams is 1 kilogram. I prefer 16 drachms per ounce, 16 ounces per pound, then inexplicably 14 pounds per stone. Then 112 pounds per hundredweight, as God intended. We should ban apostropheâs too because it feels European and I forget not to use them for pluralâs.â
Scientist Shelley Stevenson asked â5 fluid ounces per gill, but 4 gills per pint. 3 barleycorns per inch but also 22 yards per furlong. What? Do I have to buy black market beakers now?â
A Tory strategist noted âMichael Gove is converting his cocaine order as we speak. Also, thereâll be more Olympic medals for Team GB because yards are shorter than metres, so weâll have a head start.â
Cabinet reshuffle is âtop trollingâ
The disbelief provoked by the recent reshuffle, is said to be evidence that this was a clear attempt to spark outrage and give Twitter users an embolism. A Downing Street source confirmed that Boris was just doing it ‘for the bantz’.
Rumours persist that originally Gavin Williamson was to be replaced with an egg plant but no one noticed. While appointing Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary, is the political equivalent of poking a hornetâs nest and then for an encore shoving your thumb up an alligatorâs butt.
Meanwhile the chairs on the Titanic objected to the tired analogy that Boris was simply rearranging the furniture on a sinking ship. Said one chair: ‘If anything we were killing time before an inevitable icy death, but with Boris it will be so much worse’.
Boris is considering staying on as Prime Minister, but that is just what a wind-up-merchant would say.
Courtroom artistâs rendition of defendant stunningly accurate
Readers of the Daily Express and the Daily Mail were able to recognise the picture of Danny “Fingers” O’Toole drawn by Sarah Robinson during cross-examination at the Old Bailey.
“Blimey, it’s the dead spit of him,” claimed Nosher Curtains of Bexley Heath.
Asked how she achieved such a fine likeness Sarah replied, “Well, I did study life drawing at the Slade. At first I thought that the sketches were meant to be unintelligible to protect the identity of those in the courtroom. But the Usher told me that was not the case. So I let my natural abilities have free rein.”
Why, therefore are most sketches so bad? “Dunno, really. Maybe other artists want to get the reputation as the Francis Bacon of the court scene”.
âMoths are idiotsâ scientists confirm
David Rogers, professor of futile entomology at Anthea Turner College Cambridge today published the results of his exhaustive seventeen year study into the uselessness of the common moth.
âThis is my lifeâs work. Over 2000 pages of analysis and statistics, comprehensively peer reviewed and submitted to the Royal Society which we believe proves, without doubt, that moths are a right bunch of dicks.
I mean, they fly into my bathroom at night because they think the light is somehow the moon. Whatâs that all about?, Itâs nothing like the moon. Itâs much smaller for a start.
And why are they so obsessed with the moon anyway? Theyâre never going to make it. And even if they did, thereâs fuck all for a moth to do up there anyway. Honestly, set of furry faced wankers the lot of them.â
Asked about his next research project, Rogers explained, âWe think weâre either going to look at whether wasps are a bit tetchy or if Boris Johnson is a clueless oaf. That one probably wonât take seventeen years though.â
Imports of red tape cut by increased border bureaucracy
Finally fulfilling a promise made during Brexit and subsequent election campaigns, the amount of red tape in the UK has fallen by over 90% following delays to red tape imports caused by increased bureaucracy at the border. Stationery and art stores around the country have warned that a winter shortage in supplies will have a catastrophic affect on the number of bows around Christmas presents this year.
Although the fishing industry is on its knees, the promised ÂŁ350 million a week cheque for the NHS is still in the post and the oven-ready deal is no more than an empty pack of unpicked frozen peas, the government have been celebrating the cut in red tape as âpromises made, promises kept despite our best efforts to screw it all upâ.
Nadine Dorries – newly appointed Minster for Flags, Farage and Gareth Southgate â indicated that the massive increase in paperwork, time and checks at the border were a small price to pay for the promised cut in red tape.
âWe said from the very beginning that we got all of our red tape from the EU, and surprisingly we weren’t lyingâ a spokesperson for Dorries added. âApparently 200 tonnes a year. Now we have more forms to fill in than the PM’s annual child maintenance assessment, most of it is stuck in Calais along with other unimportant things like food, medicine and a family of four who have been waiting in an immigration queue since Februaryâ.
Elmo appointed new Secretary of State for Education
Cute furry faced friend of everybody and MP for the Sesame Street constituency. Elmo Monster, has told the press he is “very happy to be appointed Secretary of State For Education” in the latest government reshuffle.
His background in education makes him more suitable for the role than any of his predecessors, especially with his knowledge of most of the alphabet, in order, and all the numbers up to 12.
Elmo will take up the post with immediate effect and has already started to move his toys, crayons and colouring books into his office in Whitehall. Previous incumbent, Gavin Williamson, had left some of his own colouring books behind but Elmo was disappointed to see that he had often gone over the lines or used completely the wrong colours.
Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, says he is pleased with his new Cabinet choices, which include Count von Count as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cookie Monster in charge of Food and Oscar the Grouch as Minister for Housing.
Surgical appliance replaces Foreign Secretary
The replacement of Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab by a truss has been widely welcomed at Westminster. It’s the first time a senior member of any British cabinet has been replaced by a device designed to counter the effects of a hernia.
‘This is a brilliant appointment’, one Tory grandee said. At last we have a Foreign Secretary who will take a firm grip of a difficult situation. It shows Boris’s creativity in making an appointment with which everyone will be comfortable, especially when they stand up suddenly. Conservative MP and doctor Mike Smythe explained ‘Very often the symptom a truss can effectively deal with is an enlarged scrotum, and I can think of no better description of Mr Raab.’
