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Hang on a minute - the one on the left and the one in the middle of the new one are double dipping!

7 for Tuesday

I thought that there are bound to be genuinely awful MPs in history. Criminals, traitors and the like. So I had a look and Chris Bryant had written this article. The next hit on Google was from Stephen Liddell. Published two days later. It's the same list. Stevie boy should add plagiarist to his bio.

When I was a PhD student, the animal testing lab at the uni would provide me with fresh rat tails for my experiments. Used to give me a wee styrofoam box of them. The security was immense and there were no signs to the place. I remember bringing the box home one night as I was about to head to the synchrotron the next day. My step-daughter who was 6 or 7 at the time said "What's that?" and opened the box. She never did that again. Screamed and screamed for ages.

Had a long email conversation with a few people, and one colleague just kept on asking questions. Really basic ones. It was getting ridiculous, and one guy who was in the trail emailed me to say I was being sealioned. There's a lot of that going on in the politics thread here, too!

Somebody to Love and Tie Your Mother Down are pretty good songs, though.

Fighting a battle on the home front. As soon as Hallowe'en was out of the way, my daughter started nagging about getting the Christmas tree up. No way, far too early, I said. The wife today started playing Christmas music. I suspect more pressure will be on its way soon. This is all at least 5 weeks too early. And I'm not relenting. They want the tree down from the loft? Fine - they can go up and climb over the mouse corpses and bring it down.

8 for Monday

His real life father was in an episode of Friends as well.

I spotted MY flat on AirBnB! Furious landlady discovers her tenant has been making thousands by renting out her London apartment online

Used tampons are Dracula's teabags

Teagan for me.

I probably have the corpses of dozens of them in the space directly above where I sleep. A friend of mine who is an archaeologist told me a story that he excavated a site somewhere in Africa where the war lord's house was built with the skulls of his enemies built into the walls. This is how I feel about it also.

Couple 'so upset' after paying £800 for iPhone and being sent power bank

Anger as motorists get £60 parking fines after new rules 'too small to read' are implemented

Yes. @thistledo did, above.

I'm having a chippy tonight. Half pizza supper, as usual.

The analogy I guess would be Queen's Made In Heaven album. The difference there being that Freddie Mercury knew he was dying so recorded loads of vocals, knowing that the other guys would add the music after he died. This sounds far inferior, probably because it wasn't intentionally done.

@Lofarl mentioned the episode Palestinian Chicken in the Israeli thread, and it put me in the mood for it. Watched it last night - utterly, utterly brilliant. "f**k me like Israel fucks my people" Bob Einstein was sublime in it.

It gets better. That said there's almost exactly 5 years between my two!

Get revenge by eating fried food, drinking beer, not exercising and enjoying breakfast kebabs.

Thanks - so these are ornamental fire extinguishers? Folk will buy any old shite these days.