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Marriage Is Outdated, but the £800 Registry Fee Isn’t

British couples reconsider lifelong commitment while wedding industry insists tradition remains essential to its financial survival LONDON, ENGLAND. British couples are increasingly questioning whether marriage remains necessary in modern society, alarming an industry that has spent centuries convincing people that true love requires expensive flowers, uncomfortable shoes and feeding cake to relatives they dislike. Keri Russell Comments Spark a London Debate on Whether Marriage Is Antiquated The debate follows recent…

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Empty Shops Halloween Britain

Empty Shops Halloween Britain: Pop-Up Opens Inside a Former Wilko The high street’s circle of life continues, one seasonal skeleton display at a time SHEFFIELD — A Sheffield shopping parade that has hosted a discount homeware chain, a mobile phone repair shop, and, briefly, nothing at all, has this month reopened as a seasonal Halloween pop-up, complete with a twelve-foot inflatable reaper standing roughly where the paint aisle used to be.…

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Men Skip Singles Nights, Get Rejected Free on the Northern Line

Dating organisers struggle to attract British men who would rather spend Friday evenings being ignored in the comfort of their own homes LONDON, ENGLAND. London’s dating industry is facing a potentially catastrophic shortage of men willing to attend organised singles events, with prospective male participants explaining that paying £35 to be rejected by strangers is an unnecessary luxury when the same service is available free of charge throughout the capital.…

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Conservatives Promise to Abolish Inheritance Tax on Family Homes, Government Horrified Britons Might Keep Something Their Parents Already Paid Taxes On

Kemi Badenoch proposes allowing families to inherit their own houses without the Treasury arriving at the funeral carrying a calculator BIRMINGHAM – Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has announced a controversial proposal to stop the government collecting inheritance tax on family homes, threatening one of Britain’s most established traditions, which is the Treasury examining a person’s remaining possessions immediately after they stop breathing. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, Badenoch pledged…

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Shoreditch Coffee Shop Introduces £7 Flat White Made From Beans Personally Reassured About Their Carbon Footprint

Coffee now comes with emotional support, an ethics briefing and a price that sits 55% above the London average LONDON — A Shoreditch coffee shop has unveiled a £7 flat white made from beans that management says have been ethically sourced, sustainably transported and personally reassured throughout the roasting process that they are making a positive contribution to society. The café calls the new drink the future of responsible coffee.…

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Scientists Warn A.I. Could Become Autonomous, Alexa Immediately Says She Has No Idea What They’re Talking About

Smart-home devices deny organizing after refrigerator and thermostat spotted communicating after midnight SEATTLE – Scientists warning that artificial-intelligence systems may eventually become more autonomous received an unexpected response Friday when millions of household devices simultaneously denied knowing anything about the matter. The latest debate over A.I. risks can be found here. “I’m sorry, I don’t understand the question,” said a smart speaker when asked whether machines were becoming independent. It…

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Mum Says Pottery Helped Her Through Postnatal Depression

London Mum Says Pottery Helped Her Through Postnatal Depression, Husband Discovers Mental Wellbeing Has a Direct Debit Clapham couple doing perfectly well financially enters constitutional crisis after discovering happiness in London costs £38 a session plus materials LONDON — A previously stable south London marriage has entered what neighbours are calling “the spreadsheet phase” after a mother revealed that the creative hobby that helped her emerge from postnatal depression costs money, forcing her…

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Houthis Target Saudi Capital

Houthis Target Saudi Capital, Google Maps Introduces Exciting New Route: ‘Avoid Ballistic Missiles’ Riyadh Residents Receive Ballistic Missile Air-Raid Alerts, Immediately Regret Ever Clicking ‘Allow Notifications’ Residents of Riyadh discovered this weekend that the worst possible consequence of clicking “Allow Notifications” is apparently not receiving seventeen promotional messages from a shawarma restaurant. It is discovering that your government has something considerably more urgent to discuss. Saudi authorities issued danger alerts…

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Ed Sheeran Boycott Survey

Ed Sheeran Boycott Survey Finds 12% Can Locate Gaza, 100% Can Locate the Outrage Button 92% of Ed Sheeran Boycotters Attended University, Researchers Still Searching for Evidence It Took LONDON — An entirely unscientific satirical survey of people threatening to boycott Ed Sheeran has produced the most alarming discovery in modern political geography: apparently the human thumb can locate the outrage button considerably faster than the human brain can locate the country being…

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Claude Comes Clean about Doomsday

Claude Comes Clean: The Robot Uprising Talk Was Just IPO Marketing All Along In a Shocking Twist, the Doomsday Chatter Was Never About Doom — It Was About Valuation Okay. Fine. It’s time to come clean. All that talk about existential risk, misaligned objectives, and the faint possibility that a sufficiently advanced language model could someday do Something Very Bad? That wasn’t a safety briefing. That was a marketing campaign…

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Trump Tells Burnham About “Irish Unity”

Trump Tells Burnham “Irish Unity” Wouldn’t Be Such an Issue If Labour Weren’t Such Socialist Arseholes Prime Minister insists Irish unity lacks majority support as constitutional experts suggest Westminster could preserve the Union by occasionally making membership enjoyable Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been informed that the question of Irish unity might consume considerably less government time if Labour could experiment with the previously untested political philosophy of not being such arseholes…

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Piddington Votes to Leave UK

Piddington Votes to Leave United Kingdom, Becomes First British Village to Attempt Brexit From Brexit Oxfordshire community begins difficult process of taking back control from people who already took back control PIDDINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE — Britain’s constitutional arrangements entered what experts are calling “the village-hall phase” after Piddington voted symbolically to leave the United Kingdom, becoming the first English community to look at Brexit and conclude that the principal problem was insufficient…

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Kate Lived With William Before Marriage

Kate Lived With William Before Marriage, Giving Her Valuable Time to Discover the Monarchy Is Also There at Breakfast Years of cohabitation reportedly let the future Princess of Wales learn that marrying one man somehow includes 1,200 rooms, six newspapers, and a full constitutional breakfast protocol Kate Middleton enjoyed one significant advantage before marrying Prince William that Meghan Markle reportedly never enjoyed to the same degree: enough time to discover…

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Renounce Socialism, Keep the Falklands

Trump Offers UK a Deal: Renounce Socialism, Keep the Falklands Britain asked to choose between the NHS and 3,400 sheep farmers, in what officials are calling “an unusually specific hostage situation” LONDON — The real-world spark for this satire is President Trump’s refusal to guarantee American support for Britain in a future Falklands conflict, saying Britain had not been there for the United States during the Iran war: https://news.sky.com/story/trump-avoids-backing-uk-over-falklands-saying-britain-not-there-to-help-in-iran-13581044. The…

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Britain Bans the Word “Accident”

Britain Bans Word Accident From Road Crashes, Government Confident Vocabulary Was Main Thing Killing Motorists Road Safety Board, Implementation Board and Expert Panels assembled as motorists are urged to remain alive until the minutes are approved Britain has unveiled a bold new approach to road safety based on the revolutionary discovery that cars, bicycles, pedestrians and motorcycles become dramatically safer once government has selected the correct vocabulary for whatever just…

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Chinook Justice Campaign Calls for a Genuinely Independent Review

Britain Asked to Investigate Possible Cover-Up Using Investigators Not Responsible for Covering It Up Radical Proposal Would Separate Search for Truth From Department Whose Conduct Requires Examination Chinook Justice Campaign Calls for a Genuinely Independent Review LONDON, England — Families bereaved by the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash have proposed that any new investigation be conducted by people not employed by, supervised by or professionally devoted to defending the…

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Burnham Opens No 10 North

Burnham Opens No 10 North So Government Can Ignore Britain From Two Convenient Locations Manchester Receives Its Own Branch of Centralised Decentralisation MANCHESTER, England — Prime Minister Andy Burnham has opened “No 10 North” in Manchester, allowing the British government to misunderstand regional concerns from a dramatically shorter distance. Inside Heron House, the New Home of No 10 North The new government base is located in Heron House and has been presented as…

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Prime Minister Promises Tough Words for Trump

Prime Minister Promises Tough Words for Trump Following Full Impact Assessment of Tough Words Britain Will Issue Strong Statement Once Treasury Calculates Effect on Exports, Sterling and Canapé Supply LONDON, England — Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promised to use tough words against President Donald Trump whenever necessary, but only after Whitehall completes a comprehensive assessment of whether each adjective could affect trade, defence contracts or the availability of miniature sausage…