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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • Any of the 6 million versions of Hallelujah except the original Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.

    I swear wannabe pop singers see it as some sort of rite of passage but they universally murder it either by trying to replicate on of those two and coming up painfully short or embellishing it with flourishes and superfluous variations.

    It doesn’t make you look deep and thoughtful it just highlights what an average singer you are.



  • 1 - England is not an island, you mean Great Britain.

    2 - Almost half the food eaten in the UK has been imported from overseas.

    3 - A large proportion (it’s difficult to get exact figures and it fluctuates) of energy is imported from abroad in the forms of oil and gas.

    Great Britain, and the wider UK, has not been self sufficient for ~600 years relying on colonialism and a maritime empire to meet its needs and trade since it collapsed. If it had to rely on resources available within the island it would collapse in days.






  • 2 nights in a hotel in Sydney. Arrived at about 10pm straight from the airport. Unmanned entry to had to call someone from reception to come and give me the key despite arranging all this in advance.

    Got in the room and the AC was broken so as a Brit arriving in Australia for the first time it was unbearably hot and the room stank of damp.

    About the worst way to start jetlag recovery and I got out after the first night despite paying in advance.

    Edit, oh and the fire alarm went off at 3AM!