Current Absurdities

Mrs Tee Pot Returns

Mrs Tee Pot Returns: Britain’s Most Important Golf Journalism Site Reopens During National Emotional Emergency LONDON — Britain has entered a difficult period. The economy resembles a haunted vending machine that accepts only contactless payment but is perpetually out of signal. The trains now operate according to principles discovered exclusively through astrology and spite. The NHS waiting list currently stands at approximately 7.3 million people, which is long enough for patients to complete…

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Lloyd’s of London Has Been Insuring Unlikely Things Since 1688; List Includes Ships, Legs, Voices, Weather, and Keith Richards’ Hands; Only the Ships Were Originally Planned

Lloyd’s of London Has Been Insuring Unlikely Things Since 1688; List Includes Ships, Legs, Voices, Weather, and Keith Richards’ Hands; Only the Ships Were Originally Planned | World’s Most Famous Insurance Market Continues to Underwrite Risks That Other Insurers Decline, Including a Celebrity Body Part Portfolio That Would Surprise the Original Coffee Shop Members

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UK Lottery 6/49: The Lotto Format That Has Been Selecting Six Numbers from 49 Since 1994 and Has Made Camelot, Then Allwyn, Several Billion Pounds and the Average Player Approximately Minus Forty Pounds Per Year

UK Lottery 6/49: The Lotto Format That Has Been Selecting Six Numbers from 49 Since 1994 and Has Made Camelot, Then Allwyn, Several Billion Pounds and the Average Player Approximately Minus Forty Pounds Per Year | Complete Guide to the National Lottery’s 6/49 Format, the Odds That Make It Mathematically Unattractive and Emotionally Irresistible, and the PS2.50 Ticket Price That Has Been Increasing Since 2013

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Anti-Semitic TikTokers

Anti-Semitic TikTokers Plead Guilty After Discovering Ring Lights Are Not Legal Defence Strategy A group of antisemitic TikTok creators pleaded guilty this week after discovering British courts still classify harassment and hate speech as crimes, even when filmed vertically with trending music. The defendants allegedly posted abusive content online while building audiences largely composed of angry teenagers, conspiracy theorists, and men whose profile pictures involve sunglasses inside cars. Influencer Attempts…

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“Steely” Princess Kate

“Steely” Princess Kate Allegedly Now Carries Emergency Reputation Repair Kit Behind Prince William At All Times The Princess of Wales, described by virtually every royal correspondent in Britain as “steely” at least once per column, has reportedly begun attending public engagements with what sources inside the palace are calling a Reputational First Aid Bag — a discreet holdall containing everything necessary to stop the Wales family image from bleeding out…

Reports

Britain Watches War Crimes Trial Abroad

Britain Watches War Crimes Trial Abroad, Quietly Wonders If This Is What Justice Looks Like Now London, 1961. The trial of Adolf Eichmann, currently underway in Jerusalem, has commanded sustained attention in Britain, where citizens follow proceedings with a mixture of solemn interest, moral reflection, and the uncomfortable awareness that history has become something one must now watch unfold rather than read about later. The case, involving crimes of a…

Current Absurdities

South Downs National Park

South Downs: Britain’s Most Accessible Wilderness, Conveniently Located Between a Commuter Belt and the Sea MIDHURST — The South Downs National Park, which extends 140 kilometres from Winchester in Hampshire to Eastbourne in East Sussex, is Britain’s newest national park, designated only in 2010 after a designation process that began in 1929 and moved with the urgency of a chalk stream in August. It is also, depending on how you…

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Grok Gets the Boot in Southeast Asia

Grok Gets the Boot in Southeast Asia, VPNs Do Brisk Trade, Nobody Learns Anything Fifteen Observations From the Digital Trenches The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have banned Grok, and the internet responded with all the compliance of a cat being told not to sit on the keyboard. Nothing unites people quite like being told they can’t have something. Not football. Not queuing. Not even complaining about the weather. Just those…

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The Mystery of God

The Entire Debate about Atheism The internet has finally solved the mystery of God using the same method used to evaluate Olive Garden service — one star, waited forever, never came back. The entire debate about atheism has apparently been reduced to Yelp reviews about the universe. Philosophers spent 2,500 years debating metaphysics only for Twitter to conclude the argument is basically about whether the cosmic chef forgot the order.…