Couch 185: The Labyrinth

Bah that didn't work. ETA: David Mitchell | The Guardian

Yes on tonight. It used to be at new year didn't it?

Ah thank you! Not familiar with him.

Don’t get him confused with the novelist!

Woooo! What channel is that on? I liked peep show but nothing beats the it crowd.

I served him something at my pharmacy like 2-3 years ago! We're open till 10pm and my areas kinda fancy smanchy where the surrounding homes are £2 million. I've also met the wife of someone who owned one of those football clubs with a red shirt and we've done prescriptions for a few celebs including David Tennet.

I am not sure not being in the uk. The yt vids used to go up at new year. now i have to get a vpn to watch a lot of them.

I am trying to convivnce myself that it just a run of bad luck this year with my car.

It looks like something out of a demolition derby at the moment. I have only had it a year.

Ooooh! Lucky you! He's adorable and so hopelessly in love with his wife i think he's the most endearing person in the public eye. He also makes me feel really cosy because he's all awkward and wordy like my T.

I once served Jimmy Saville when I worked at a supermarket. That's not so great.

The BFQOTY is on Channel 4. It's bound to be on catchup too.

4 minutes left of my workday woo

I once triggered myself by watching a doco on saville then i read later on the main victim may not have been as truthful as it seemed, i think. There was some doubt to her story. I cant really remember.

Time to go build my blanket fort and hide from the world for a while and read!

My dog is in a mood and taking it out on me. He has been fed, let out, had a bit of play but he is just trampling all over me. Now he is sulking at the end of the bed.

He says that on Twitter: "Not the novelist or the Cumbrian origamist"

There's a man who has googled himself.

I got confused for a moment thinking Peter Saville who designed album covers for Joy Division and New Order (I was pretty obsessed with them at one point!)

Had a production/engineering meeting at work this afternoon. Kept me distracted from feeling depressed. It's such a long day to feel like crap. I really want to email my former T but I think it's because I didn't get a response from the text I left her yesterday, so I want to like try connecting again. But I know that's the wrong thing to do. So I'm sitting with the feeling only it doesn't feel good. It's hard. Kit

A part of me is convinced the car is cursed. I have had so much trouble with it. Before i bought it i rang 3 mechanics to see if this model had any majors issues, no they all said. I discovered that the automatic gearbox shitting itself is a known major problem. I am over this car and will save up and get another one in the next year or two hopefully from a better dealership i have since discovered this dealership i bought it from sells ultra dodgy cars.

And the page footers.

It shows what a third world country can do when it's properly organised.

It's one of the worst feelings to come home wondering if they've broken into my house again today. This has been going on a long time. They break in and then I go around looking to see what they've taken this time. A terrible feeling. No one can relate unless they have been burglarized too.

Sorry to hear that , I've had my car got into twice recently. It's a horrible feeling I know.

It turns out that I have a lot to say on this subject.

1. To remind ourselves that the Nation State, with its xenophobia and obsession with uniformity in language and religion, is a very recent phenomenon, and certainly not the only way to organise a society. (We should study the Ottoman Empire for the same reason.)
2. To remind ourselves that there was a time before racism and homophobia.
3. To remind ourselves that Western law (and some of our most cherished legal principles) is well over two thousand years old and has nothing to do with Christianity.
4. Because it was the greatest republic in history before the rise of the United States.
5. To remind ourselves that a republic can fall, and why.
6. Concrete.

*takes notes furiously*

7. Lead poisoning.

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"