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WTF are buttery French fries?

As a Canadian lawyer, I like to call it "being ensconced in His Majesty's Hostelry"

Telling your guests not to give you a gift implies they were otherwise obligated to give you a gift.

Like wedding invitations that specify the colour that guests are to wear. Who cares if your nearest and dearest can't afford to buy something to match your wedding palette, guests are merely props in your carefully staged Instagram reel and extras in the Film of You.

They cleared out the stuff they thought made the house cluttered; I'm sure they thought the stuff they left was tasteful and classy.

Helmets don't prevent concussions; your brain still "rattles" around in your skull, like an onion in a mason jar.

I was in the audience for Tom's West End debut in Billy Elliot (yes, I'm old). He radiated star quality at 12.

The NYE show is, of course, recorded weeks in advance. Some years it is clearly recorded over several dates, with completely separate groups of guests on the couch, then pieced together for airing as if it happened all at once. It's not a matter of "guests who had nothing better to do", they're scheduled by their publicists like any other date.

Robbie is always a great guest on Graham's show. Search for him telling the story about his daughter's birth, I believe to Emma Thompson.

There's a lid for every pot/ass for every saddle.

Then create one?

So just sign in with your AppleID, that's what I did.

I'm still pretty restricted while recovering from an accident, so I declined an invite to a small home NYE gathering; going to friends' home for Christmas dinner really knocked me out so I don't want a repeat of that. Other friends just dropped off a huge plate of a turkey dinner. Too many brussels sprouts, not enough gravy. I kid - it was delicious. Although I did scrape the sprouts straight in the compost. I have enough left for another dinner tomorrow. I expect to be asleep any minute now.

An easy rule - "self" is reflexive, it reflects back on something earlier in the sentence. "I did it myself", "He went himself". If it is the first time the character is appearing in the sentence, they can't be a "self".

It's Middle Management Myself; if i have more syllables, I must be more important.