Thursday 18th September 2025

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If you're opposed to anti-fascists, what does that make you again?
Hey look you can be anti-anti-fascist, without being fascist. I am very much anti-fascist. Oh balls.
Obviously I've got to be very careful what I say. We're entering a period where telling the wrong joke could get you cancelled (from working or from life). I wonder how edgy the edge-lord comedians will be in this new reality. First they came for the comedians and I was a comedian, so I said "Stop it", but no one else joined in, so that was me fucked.

I'm pretty much against cancelling or murdering people for what they say, unless they are saying something actually criminal (and still don't murder them for that please). Like most lapsed Christians I believe in apologies, forgiveness, second chances and turning the other cheek and as Jesus said "If someone calls you a cunt, tell them to call you a shitbag too." It's a shame that some of the non-lapsed Christians aren't as hot on those things. Maybe I am reading the book wrong. I might have paraphrased on the last bit.
Free speech, unless you say something I don't like.
Respect the Amendments, but only the one about guns.


Catie came with me to the dump because we had to get a sofa up the steps and into the (non-cum) dumpster. A big man came and helped us for the last bit, correctly ascertaining that the job might be a bit much for Catie. Though no one stepped in for me, which would have been nice. We got rid of some good crap and it was quick and efficient and I love the dump people. We'd turned up 10 minutes before opening time and were sixth in the queue. The people in the cars in front of us were just the kind of people who would turn up to the dump 20 or 30 minutes early so they got in their first. My kinds of people. Hopefully one day I will work at the dump. Eventually I will live there.

Thanks to reader Alistair Tyrrell who let me know that it's possible to save a little money on prescriptions by paying a fee for all the ones you'll get in the next twelve months. If like me you have a repeat one every 4 weeks then it should save you about £20, but if you have more then you'll be quids in.
Of course the NHS are playing a nice gamble there. There's a great chance that the kind of person who needs a prescription will die before the year is up. And then they're quids in. I'll show them. I am going to live forever. The idiots are even going to try and help me do this.
The sad part of this was I realised that this will be my last full year of being able to take advantage of this scheme, because mine runs from mid-October so when the next one comes up I will only be 9 months away from my 60th birthday (which unless I can get myself another regular prescription will not make the up front cost worth it). After that my prescriptions are free. Good news? No. I am only 21 months from my fucking bus pass. How the Hell has this happened?
I am aware that I am turning 60 in 2027, but I am very much in denial about this one. And seeing I am 21 months from a Senior Railcard has jolted things up bad for me. It's only a couple of years since I was using my student one surely? I reckon I could still use the student one, I look just the same. They've probably changed the design. That's the only way they'd catch me.
Fuck, when they start giving you free medicine again then you know you're old. It's a crazy system. Old people use the most medicine. They should have to pay more. Until 2027 when things should definitely change.
Old and grey. Wrinkled old and grey. I was so young. Just the other day.
This is a quote from Galactic Nightmare and you'll now have to listen to the whole thing. And you can thank me for it. Is it actually an early project from Reece Shearsmith? No.






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