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Are You A Bellend?

Some people are born bellends. Some have bellendness thrust upon them. Others achieve bellendness. Are YOU A Bellend? Take this quiz to find out. 1) Your Neighbour is washing their car. Do you: A) Bid them good morning, then go about your business, leaving them to go about theirs. B) Wonder why they’re going to the trouble of washing it themselves when those nice swarthy chaps down the road will do it for £4. C) Shout “You can do mine next!” then just stand there, grinning inanely, like a bellend. 2) It's lunchtime, and a colleague asks if you would like them to bring anything back from the shops. Do you: A) Give them a fiver, ask them to get you a meal deal and get themselves something with the change. B) Thank them, but decline as you’ve got some soup. C) Shout “A bunch of fivers from the till!” then stand there, grinning inanely, like a bellend. 3) A colleague asks if you’d like a beverage. Do you; A) Accept their offer. The usual: black coffee. B) Politely decline. You’re drink

Word of the day: Whataboutism.

Word of the day: whataboutism (noun)* Those who defensively respond to criticism of this government use Whataboutism as a conscience salve to excuse their voting this administration in. As in: "What about if the other lot got in? It would've been even worse". It serves no purpose to try to imagine what the behaviour of a different administration WOULD have been like; we know what this one WAS like, and it was shameful; by any measure the worst of a generation; a cabinet populated largely by people there only because of their support for the Brexit cause, still in thrall to Cummings, the Temu Rasputin. My desire to end this 14 years of Tory rule isn't solely due to my socialist leanings, and it's not purely anti-Tory; it's more to do with this particular government: not there to serve you; only themselves.  I don't need to provide examples, we all see them, if we care to look. They're there: not even bothering to hide in plain view; brazenly