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"Cheeky glass or 3 of vino with this one #nomnom #blessed" Why, Facebook, is there a 'like' button but not a 'this post just gave me cancer' button?

Repeat of yesterday, expect it's a Chenin Blanc with some friends and this 90s gem currently playing:

The canteen closed for Victoria Wood on this day 3 years ago, aged 62.

Why's everyone so bloody healthy this year? God sake.

Sitting in the garden this glorious evening with a Viognier and this currently playing:

Pol was burnt and put in a Pot on this day 21 years ago, aged 72.

'God', I presume, was your Grindr date who waited for you to drink yourself to sleep before slipping you one.

Some South American Sixties Shizz. The chorus definitely doesn't sound like a Rolling Stones song released 3 years earlier.

In light of recent astronomical imagery:

So my 2018-19 effort was really rather amateurish. And this...is probably about the same. RUNNING TOTAL: 2,155 Lee Kerslake Leah Bracknell (+450) ??-09-2019 Greg Gilbert Sam Lloyd Fernando Ricksen (+300) 18-09-2019 Sprent Dabwido (+275) 08-05-2019 Bob Hawke (+250) 16-05-2019 Tim Conway (+225) 14-05-2019 Kathleen Blanco (+200) 18-08-2019 Alex Trebek Terry Jones (+160) 21-01-2020 George Alagiah John McCririck (+120) 05-07-2019 Pope Benedict XVI Jean-Louis Trintignant Herman Wouk (+70) 17-05-2019 Kirk Douglas (+55) 05-02-2020 Javier Perez de Cuéllar (+50) 04-03-2020 Bill Turnbull Danniella Westbrook Lindsay Sandiford SUB1) Loretta Lynn SUB2) Barbara Windsor SUB3) Prince Philip

Looking very well! She's as sharp and as eloquent as a near-nonagenarian as she ever was. Amazing lady.

We die horrible, agonising deaths.

Saw something a bit surreal in Penge today. Car that looks exactly like this (not this one; this is just a Google image search). Vicious looking McLaren, bombing about at 4 times the speed of sound, you could hear the thumping from the stereo approaching even before the snarling engine. Anyway, it stops at the lights, this shithouse of a geezer in sunnies has his tattooed arm hanging out the window, looking like a bit of a helmet. What sort of music d'you reckon he's playing? Some kind of rap drivel that's equally gangster, perhaps? Hard rock, possibly? Maybe some bass-heavy dub?

Heard the news that Heine had died on the radio at work. Thought I’d jokered him. Came home. Apparently I hadn’t. Bugger. Still, I’ll savour this moment of being in the lead!

Fuck me. What a shower of arse jalfrezi. House of Commons indicative votes Mk.2, results: (C) Customs Union AYES: 273 NOES: 276 (D) Common Market 2.0 AYES: 261 NOES: 282 (E) Confirmatory Public Vote AYES: 280 NOES: 292 (G) Parliamentary Supremacy AYES: 191 NOES: 292 I can't help but think that this is as close as Commons can get to any sort of majority, such is the division.

Four proposals are being voted on today, with results expected about 2200 GMT. Motion C: Customs Union - May's ruled this out before, as it would hinder the UK's chances of striking our own independent deals. Eases the NI backstop problems a bit, but otherwise makes fuck all sense. Certainly not as much sense as... Motion D: Common Market 2.0 - Basically the Norway deal, at last getting some consideration. Keeps us in the EEA and EFTA. Widely considered the least damaging way, mutually for the EU and the UK, of us leaving, whilst exempting us of having to abide by EU's home/justice guidelines and meaning we don't have to be in the Customs Union. Motion E: Confirmatory Public Vote - A second referendum. The public have to approve the deal parliament arrives at. Whether that referendum means the deal or remaining is unclear, though I should imagine it would. Interestingly, when it was tabled by Dame Margaret Beckett, it received the most Ayes of all the amendments of that fateful day. Motion G: Parliamentary Supremacy - Basically tackles the issue of having no consensus, in that if they can't agree a deal in parliament and subsequently an extension to Article 50 with the EU, they vote between No Deal and Revoking A50. Makes sense, really. Labour may be whipped to back Motion D, apparently. It does seem a likely compromise for the Leave-Remain sides. Certainly, I myself feel if we are going to leave, this motion is the way to go about it. A bit like if I were to catch cancer, I'd sooner have a little removable mole on my face than a Bracknell-esque lung.

Cheers mate.

Cheers Mary! 'Twas a close one. @Book. You see what I'm capable of. Start worrying*. *Don't bother. You'll probably piss all over my team.

I've just seen I'm against Book (subject to no more deaths in the next 7 hours) I am totally losing this round, arse burgers!

We ran out of Ronnies on this day 3 years ago as Corbett died aged 85. Yes yes, it's goodnight from him.

Leah Bracknell (5 pts) Sam Lloyd (5 pts) Kathleen Blanco (5 pts) Pope Benedict XVI (5 pts) Clive James (5 pts)

Alice Weidel is right in that an internally reformed EU is the answer; basically what Cameron tried to achieve when reviewing our relationship with the EU before the referendum (and, largely, achieved). The UK leaving is an extraordinary act of self harm, and likewise the Macrons and Barniers of the organisation actively stoking the fire and the Merkels and Verhofstadts demonstrating such arrogance in what is a difficult time for all of us is also an act of self harm for the EU. We're all tearing ourselves limb from limb.

AYES: 286 NOES: 344 SURPRISES: 0