Tracy King

I don’t know if this is a working class thing but I’m baffled that not everyone grew up in a turps house. I’ve had a bottle of turps under the sink for as long as I’ve had a sink, like my turps-using parents before me. Yet there are entire generations who have not known turps or its various uses.

I just accidentally woke a lady who it turns out had generated a small spit bubble while asleep. She also snores.

Big fan of this level of honesty about stupidity. I once worked with a woman who was adamant her brother could fly, because he had told her he could. When I attempted to counter this, she got nasty and said “my brother wouldn’t lie”. I know where I am with that sort of person.

Has everyone left out a ham sandwich and glass of iodine for the Clock Man tonight? No peeking at 2am! He’ll TAKE YOUR HANDS.

It’s exciting to wake up in the morning to bloodied footprints in the garden and a trail of cogs. “The Clock Man’s been!” I exclaim to the children as we examine the clocks for proof. And indeed, he has given back the stolen hour because we have been so Good.

I bought this already-vintage MGB kit about ten years ago and am only now getting round to it.

Original factory spec is black seats. Thoughts? If we want accuracy could go with a tan leather or a red leather, or throw canon out of the window and have any seat colour we please.

I bought this already-vintage MGB kit about ten years ago and am only now getting round to it.

The old plastic is mostly holding up, only brittle in a few places and nothing I can’t fix. I’ll report back with progress.

Shoutout if you’re middle person making a great oblique joke then third person comes along and makes explicit what was implicit, and gets the bigger laugh

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This is why it needs external enforcement. A minority are just oblivious idiots but often, playing a phone out loud is a deliberate act of social aggression. It’s not advisable to try and suppress someone advertising their dominance over a shared space.

We both got off at the same stop, I filmed him until he went a different way. Then I got on the escalator and took an angry selfie with this stupid pea creature in the background.

This is why it needs external enforcement. A minority are just oblivious idiots but often, playing a phone out loud is a deliberate act of social aggression. It’s not advisable to try and suppress someone advertising their dominance over a shared space.