Melania wanted me to stick my whole arm in her then cried when I knocked over the box of baking soda she keeps up there.

Ah, so a bit like asking the burglar to show you how they got in?

Ah that’s a classic as well, and responsible for so many odd phrases making it into my daily life.

There’s so many good ones it would have to be Red Dwarf for me though.

With Spaced in second place.

Is this Francis? Poor little bloke isn’t with us any longer.

I think it comes from the French "feux’, which means lights, as in lights in the sky. The phrase was coined by pilots over France.

It must be serious, he put his special little windcheater on for the announcement.

I used to visit Filesoup’s forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.

She’s got to put a statement out every day, otherwise people might forget how important she is.

He’s shit and everything, sure, but this is The Express. I wouldn’t even use the paper to wipe my arse.

We’ve got one member of the household down with COVID, one down with a cold (so far) and two feeling like a bag of smashed crabs. The Autumn lurgy has hit like a steam shovel this year.

His face, in general, was very maddening tbh.

That semi-colon made me wretch.

He hasn’t nonced enough kids.

I’d argue it doesn’t “just work” any longer. I recently left iOS for Android, after 10 years with an iPhone. The keyboard was the first issue, the OS stalling and making the device heat up was another. The lack of actual smarts got a bit annoying, too. You ask Siri something and it goes down a k-hole.

I’ll probably end up on a Fairphone without any Google tripe, which is a shame, because I quite like my new OnePlus 13.

And the UK is still in the middle at the top…

Waste of perfectly good lead. The same outcome could be achieved with human excrement.

I’d just like to see a sensible discussion that doesn’t involve the falsified statistics presented by the Dogsbite blog and its offshoots.

The so-called academic behind their “statistics” was outed for multiple frauds, the blogs are all set up by shadowy anonymous individuals with opaque funding.

It’s all just so janky, like there’s a big movement intent on muddying the water of actual useful conversation.

Large terriers are undoubtedly a potential problem in the hands of inexperienced or irresponsible owners, but to over simplify the argument to “pitbull dogs bad” is irresponsible.

Any dog over ~15kg can do great harm, and when you take into account the breed traits of terriers, it’s easy to understand the importance of proper debate.

But the crusaders need to be ranked out in favour of proper discussion.