“Do you have a disability meaning you will require adjustment for your interview” “My autism means I can’t wear underwear” “…” “…”

1. If it has any meaning at all, Parliamentary Privilege must mean the right to out info like this 2. Even if it doesn’t, if you’re an MP you should be prepared to go to jail for doing what is right. If you’re not, you shouldn’t be an MP

Gone so far outside the range of normal, they’ve become fascinating to look at in a weird way Agree with the original tweet, but if they were their own species which was — supposed to look like that — not at all violent — about 5–8 inches They’d be pretty neat

“You’ve been shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in touch to sort out when” “Great, can’t wait!” *one week later* “Thank you for applying, but…” ????????

To put the UK–US economic disparity into perspective, you can attend THE best university in the world in the UK, and reasonably expect to earn less than some US manual labourers

One thing you can’t stop noticing when you start is how many people have poor gait Just have a look next time you’re walking down a busy street, and I don’t mean people with back/joint problems, it’s completely able bodied people who’ve somehow never learnt to walk correctly

This is definitely a thing for certain areas of human activity. The stemcel loves to solve equations, talk about models, etc. But you see some TV chefs who just seem to have lost their ability to enjoy 99.999% of existing food.

The push to favour extra-curricular activities over raw academic achievement in university admissions is to benefit less intelligent students from more advantaged backgrounds, not, as is claimed, bright but disadvantaged applicants

South Koreans looking at the fruits of the Western intellectual tradition and inventing their current system is the academic equivalent of South Seas islanders building mock airstrips to make the American aircraft return

Was about to ask why they bother covering these things up seen as they always get out anyway, then realised the obvious bias that we only know about the stories that do get out What other horrors are yet to be revealed?

“You were supposed to turn left there”

Follow rec of the week is Mercian Supremacist — after copying his long walks a few years ago, I’ve copied him again and got married. Highly recommended.

Has anyone else noticed a linguistic version of the midwit meme, where ostensibly poorer speakers of English are easier to understand than more middling abilities? “Where toilet please?” vs “Hello I was wondering if you could tell me where to be looking…”

Apart from the ‘u got ur rod loicence?’ memes, this is a good example of the law being so nebulous you can never be sure you’re not breaking it Which seems incredibly corrosive to public morality

Genuinely good news. Let them raise their standards, let the lines be drawn, so we may know where allegiances lie.

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