The White House has defended strikes on Iran, stating that the country’s leaders are “paying for their crimes against America.” The Onion examines the myths and facts surrounding President Trump’s war.
MYTH: As commander-in-chief, Trump has the authority to take military action.
FACT: It is unconstitutional for a U.S. president to declare war without the approval of the Knesset.
MYTH: These strikes could lead to a long war.
FACT: It depends how many decades you consider “long.”
MYTH: God anointed Donald Trump to wage war on Iran.
FACT: God anointed Donald Trump to cut funding to Sesame Street.
MYTH: A war between the U.S. and Iran is necessary for Jesus Christ to return in glory.
FACT: Jesus is holding out until Paraguay and Kyrgyzstan finally go at it.
MYTH: These attacks will lead to retaliatory strikes on U.S. citizens.
FACT: Wait, shit, really?
MYTH: These strikes will diminish America’s standing on the world stage.
FACT: Hey, if they were still with us up until now, God bless.
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HOUSTON—Paralyzed with fear at the unexpected sight of the miniature figurine, Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant reportedly screamed in terror Tuesday after unexpectedly coming face-to-face with a bobblehead version of himself. “Who…who are—what do you want from me?” said the visibly trembling 15-time all-star, who nervously backed away from the tiny novelty doppelgänger as it stared in unblinking silence, its head nodding in a slow, chilling rhythm. “Speak, impostor! Why do you have my face? What are your intentions? Please, just don’t hurt me. I-I-I can give you money if you want money. Or anything else! God, please, just let me be.” Witnesses later confirmed that a blood-covered, knife-wielding Durant had wandered into a team meeting and muttered, “The other Kevin made me do it,” to no one in particular.
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If the body of Beatrice Fagan, 88, is not claimed within one year, her corpse will be sold at a state-sponsored auction.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a hard-set face betrayed by tears, President Donald Trump was seen taking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem out back behind the White House woodshed.

Following his primary loss to Steve Toth, Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw is now looking for a new career path.

TEHRAN — The United States Air Force confirmed a major strategic victory in Iran this week after it utilized a $30 million smart bomb to destroy one of Iran's used $3,200 Toyota pickup trucks.

MILWAUKEE, WI — Sources revealed that Stephany Sumner, 37, was entirely unable to restrain herself from talking about how much she loved coffee after taking a sip of chocolate milk with a single drop of espresso in it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faced with the threat of their total annihilation, the Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly contacted the White House on Thursday to ask if they could "please have Joe Biden back."
If you were hoping to read some uplifting news today, get ready to smile, because one of Hollywood’s biggest icons has shared an absolutely heartwarming update about their personal life: Whoopi Goldberg just announced that she has received a brand new email.
Congratulations, Whoopi!!! How incredibly exciting that must be for her!
In a video posted to her official Instagram page earlier today, Whoopi Goldberg revealed that she woke up to discover her Gmail inbox had a very exciting notification waiting to be discovered: a completely new, unread email, just for her. The famed EGOT winner and The View host expressed how she felt overwhelmingly grateful for the opportunity to have a new email to read, and that it’s been one of the greatest blessings she’s experienced in life. Not wanting to take the email for granted, Whoopi said that she plans to open it when the time feels right, explaining that “most people wait a lifetime for something as wonderful as a new email, so I want to appreciate every moment of this experience.”
“Receiving a new email seems like something that only happens in the movies—but it’s not the movies, it’s my life, and by the grace of God, I’ve been fortunate enough to have a new email happen to me,” Goldberg continued in the video, wiping away tears of joy as she held up an iPad displaying her Gmail inbox for viewers to see her new email. “Whatever the email says doesn’t matter. I may decide to share that information with you. I may not. Merely receiving it has already changed my life. It’s like I was seeing the world in black-and-white my whole life, and getting this new email finally let me see the world in color for the very first time. For now, all I’ll say is that the email was sent by someone named HelloFresh.”
“If this experience has taught me anything, it’s that you never know when your Gmail inbox might surprise you with a small miracle such as an email. It happened to me, and it could happen to you too. Never give up hope. In life, when the going gets tough, remember that there are so many reasons to stay optimistic, like email.”
We’re literally ugly crying right now. We couldn’t be happier for Whoopi! Make sure to hop on social media and congratulate Whoopi on her new email today, because, well, this is simply as amazing as it gets. If anyone deserves something as exciting as a new email, it’s Whoopi Goldberg! You go, Whoopi!!!
This is such a huge win for indecisive people. If you haven’t decided whether you want a receipt for gas or not, this gas pump will let you select ‘maybe’ to reflect your uncertainty. We hope this option comes to gas pumps everywhere sometime soon!
Well folks, as if you needed another thing to worry about, here is something very concerning: This bottle of pills in an Asian grocery store just has the word “DIARRHEA” in the Matrix font above a picture of Keanu Reeves in sunglasses.
Yikes. Who exactly is buying these pills, and…why?
Even a close examination of this highly questionable product found on the shelves of Asia Mart in Cincinnati, Ohio reveals very little useful information about what horrific purpose these pills could be meant for. The poorly printed graphics and low-quality label only make the product seem sketchier, and outside of the word “DIARRHEA” on the front, the only other English on the entire bottle are the words, “The time has came,” on the back next to a picture of the Predator. While there are some additional Asian characters below the English text, five different online translators were unable to recognize what language this could be. And at $16 for 4 giant pills, this definitely isn’t just some run-of-the-mill herbal diarrhea cure. Its packaging seems to imply some sort of diarrhea journey, perhaps one that makes the user feel as if they’ve been sucked into an adventure in a strange, computer-generated alternate reality.
Um yeah, we don’t want to narc on anyone, but we might be calling the health department here.
Look, people are free to experiment with whatever substances they want as long as they aren’t hurting anyone, but this…this is definitely hurting someone. We feel like we need to buy all of this stuff just to make sure no one else takes it—but who knows if we might be tempted by Keanu’s outstretched hand promising whatever mind-melting diarrhea experience these might offer. There may be no way to keep the world safe from whatever it is these pills do.
A potentially tragic story is currently unfolding that could have a seismic impact on American pop culture if it turns out to be what we think it is: This crime report keeps referring to a victim as John “The Rock” Doe.
While we can’t jump to any conclusions just yet, we’re praying this isn’t what it sounds like.
According to a crime report released this morning by the Los Angeles police department, a hit-and-run victim was admitted to a morgue in Hollywood last night who could only be identified as “a bald, muscular 53-year-old male, 6 feet five inches tall and weighing 260 pounds.” The report says that the deceased victim showed signs of having starred in the films The Tooth Fairy, Black Adam, and The Smashing Machine, but that no further information on his identity was available at this time, and that they were treating him as a John “The Rock” Doe pending further investigation.
Yikes. When you start piecing everything together, you start getting a pretty dire picture of what’s going on here.
“While the victim is currently being referred to as John ‘The Rock’ Doe until we can confirm his identity, officials have advised that the victim would prefer to be referred to simply as John Doe for now so that the public can more easily separate his current acting career from his former career as a professional wrestler,” LAPD Detective Brandon Longshire said in a press conference this morning. “At this time, we’re asking anyone who knows an individual who might have appeared in several films from the Fast And Furious franchise who have gone missing in the last 24 hours to please come forward to smell what this anonymous victim is cooking and hopefully make a positive ID sooner rather than later.”
Absolutely hypothetically devastating. While there’s clearly still a lot that the police don’t know and there are many details yet to be confirmed, we’re not going to sit here and pretend that this situation doesn’t sound pretty bleak. The more we about this John “The Rock” Doe, the more it sounds like the entertainment world is in for some very sad news. Here’s hoping we’re wrong and that this dead body is just some anonymous huge bald guy that nobody cares about!

USNS Mercy – The entire crew of the USS Breault has been placed in a medical stand-down after reporting erections lasting more than four hours, sources confirmed today.
"We were doing some … stuff, and then boom. My dick got hard," said Torpedoman's Mate 2nd Class Timmy Jimenez. "It was abnormal, like we finally got to do something we were always thinking about doing, and then it happened. But then my dick just stayed like that."
Being erect on a submarine isn't anything new. In fact, the standard operating procedure for most scenarios involves an erect penis or engorged clitoris. What's abnormal is when it lasts more than four hours, let alone across an entire crew.
"Fifth Fleet is ensuring the safety of our sailors first and foremost," said Vice Adm. Curt Renshaw while his left hand held something in his pocket. "We are fully committed to handling the medical emergency onboard until they can go home to their families."
Mercy’s skipper, Capt. Charles Dickerson, told reporters the erections were “moderately contagious.”
“Prolonged contact with amine and Otto fuel has caused uncontrollable erections among medical staff in contact with the crew,” Dickerson said while holding a clipboard over his belt buckle. “We have to treat sailors in shifts, no longer than 30 minutes per person, to avoid proximity boners.”
Reports from the Mercy’s crew describe the seriousness of the situation. According to Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Peter Johnson, several sailors’ dicks hit the weapons shipping hatch as they departed, which “sounded like an alarm bell going off.”
Navy officials say the emergency stop came for both practical and humanitarian reasons. Sailors may lose their genitalia if the erections aren’t controlled, but that creates a secondary threat: counter-detection.
“We found that after a confirmed kill, the collective moaning of the crew is actually detectable on sonar,” said Capt. Richard Ortega, commanding officer of the USS McFaul. “This is completely unprecedented in anti-submarine warfare, since we typically have to resort to active sonar or helicopter sweeps. But you could just stick your head in the water and hear the cries of pleasure. Or the screams of trapped Iranians.”

Several torpedomen aboard the USS Breault have reportedly lost their genitalia due to the crisis.
“Worth it,” said Torpedoman's Mate 3rd Class Samantha “Sea Bass” Bourne.
The “coners” — the submariners who do the actual work on the boat — appear to be affected the most. But even the nuclear technicians aft have reported significant erections.
Engineering Laboratory Technician 1st Class Bill “Mandozer” Mendoza attributed the severity to the historic nature of the event: “They sank a frigate with a fucking erect torpedo for the first time since World War II.”
After being administered cigarettes, Rip-Its, and vapes, the crew is expected to make a full recovery.

WASHINGTON — Following the commencement of renewed U.S. military operations in the Middle East, defense experts lamented that the Pacific was once again not pivoted to.
"It's like no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, the United States just won't commit to pivoting to us," said Chinese Minister of National Defense Adm. Dong Jun. "I'm starting to think America doesn't care about Great Power Competition at all."
America’s rivals in the Pacific have long sought to attract the U.S. military’s eye. But aside from an occasional National Defense Strategy and a cyber attack or two, the Pacific has consistently played second fiddle to the hotter, more exotic Middle East.
"I flash my nuclear weapons on a monthly basis, but I can't get so much as an airstrike," North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said. "Even when I text pics of my long, thick ICBMs to the secretary of defense, I get left unread."
For over 15 years — even in the midst of active conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan — the U.S. military has touted its desire to shift focus to the Pacific. But now U.S. INDOPACOM analysts fear that with war reigniting in the Middle East, it could be decades before the country considers pivoting to the Pacific again. Resources that were once allocated toward scuba diving, surfing, and whatever else troops stationed in the Pacific do are already being redirected to the Persian Gulf.
"We have the best beaches, the best weather, and you get to be stationed in Hawaii," one INDOPACOM intelligence analyst said. "Why we keep going to war in rugged desert hellholes is beyond me."
Despite these setbacks, America's Pacific enemies remain hopeful they still have a chance to one day be the U.S.'s primary region of focus.
"She'll come running back. She always does," Dong said. "It'll just take a 10-year quagmire and a trillion dollars or so."

TEHRAN — A typo in an early version of a U.S. Central Command operation order has reportedly resulted in what defense officials are calling "the most confusing yet epic psyop of all time."
The scope of the error was not fully understood until early Saturday morning, when Israel and the U.S. began "major military operations" inside Iran under an operation dubbed "Epic Fury." But the operation had been mistakenly labeled Operation Epic Furry on a first-draft document circulated through the Defense Department's secure email system.
Spc. Seth "Klingon" Powers, a psychological operations specialist in the CENTCOM headquarters' psychological operations cell, reportedly saw the title and, without reading the document's text, assumed it was a social media influence campaign.
"As a native Portlander and former Army IT guy, Powers saw 'Epic Furry' and got fully onboard. He thought we were testing cultural destabilization inside the theocracy amid the ongoing protests," a CENTCOM public affairs officer said.
Multiple planned strike locations across Tehran were subsequently shared as party locations through Eventbrite, Partiful and Facebook as "underground furry rave gatherings." The listings were accompanied by neon wolf emojis and captions encouraging attendees to "bring paws, not politics." The hashtag #EpicFurryTehran began trending globally within hours.

Confused local residents who were reportedly bi-curious gathered at several sites wearing improvised animal costumes. Videos circulating online showed dancing crowds illuminated by strobe lights and occasional explosions in the distance. One X user, who declared it "the most epic furry party of all time," said the explosions had been initially confused for an elaborate pyrotechnic show.
The advertisements for the party were so prolific that even Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth saw them.
"I'll be honest," Hegseth said at a press briefing. "I first saw the hashtag while doom-scrolling late at night on the toilet — extreme stress has left me less than optimized for a bowel movement amid all the interdepartmental fighting." He paused. "I saw the energy. I even booked a flight. Packed my wolf outfit. It's a tactical wolf. Very lethal. Very American."
Hegseth said he did not realize something was amiss until he received a message that Epic Fury was go for launch just before boarding his flight.
"I asked if everyone else was on their way to Tehran," he said. "Then the JSOC commander told me to call him on a secure line, and the other commanders started writing, 'Sir, this shit is kinetic,' 'Get off that plane right meow,' and 'Do not go to Tehran!' That's when I finally understood."

WASHINGTON — During his annual State of the Union address to Congress on Wednesday, President Donald Trump promised Americans that he would carry out the “largest quagmire operation in U.S. history” following the launch of a war against Iran.
“We will have a big, beautiful, never-ending war,” Trump said. “It will be the longest and largest ever. Nobody has ever done quagmire like we’re going to do quagmire. The generals tell me that.”
The campaign, tentatively titled Operation War Like Nobody’s Ever Seen, will reportedly combine a massive air assault, multi-division ground invasion, and an undefined end state described by officials as “winning eventually.”
Pentagon planners confirmed the operation would resemble the early stages of the war in Afghanistan but would be “far more tremendous” and “substantially less thought through.”
“We have so many planes, ships, and troops in the region right now,” Trump said. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. It’s incredible. And this time, we’re staying.”
Defense officials clarified that “staying” means maintaining an indefinite troop presence until Iran becomes “a stable democracy, a friendly oil partner, or both.”
“Our models suggest a modest commitment of 140,000 troops for roughly a generation,” said Dr. Meredith Klein, an analyst with the RAND Corporation. “The key variable is whether Iran resists. If they don’t, we could be out in under 25 years.”
Senior planners acknowledged privately that the operation has no clear political objective but stressed that objectives can always be defined retroactively.

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — America’s technological leapfrog into drone dominance stalled this week after the cyan ink in the OEM-compatible tank of an Epson Workforce NCC-1701-D ran low, sources confirmed today.
All efforts to build and deploy small, lethal drones for America’s battlefield advantage have been placed on hold until Darrell, a GS-12 IT specialist currently on leave, returns to work and determines why fault code 093-401 is appearing at every launch, despite the cartridge being brand freaking new.
Maj. Trent “Independence” Bunker, a recent graduate of the Air Force’s Artificial Intelligence Top Gun program, insisted nothing in the XQ-58 system should even interface with a printer.
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PRESIDENT Trump has announced he will directly appoint the next supreme leader of Iran, due to his delusions. These are the qualities he is looking for:
Of Christian faith
Iran has been an Islamic republic since 1979, and what good has it done it? Meanwhile in the same period Christian countries developed the iPod, the air-fryer and Heelys. A man unafraid to say ‘Merry Christmas’ would be a man who the West could work with. If keeping multiple wives is a must for Iranians a Mormon is acceptable.
Proven ratings winner
Trump owes his success to The Apprentice beating every rival show in the ratings, even though it rarely actually did. So priority will be given to applicants with a track record of similar 00s reality TV ratings success, such as the Kardashians, Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino of Jersey Shore, Paris Hilton and Steve-O.
Not Iranian
Iranians are difficult to deal with, insisting on speaking a non-English language while holding allegiance to a country which is not America. They’ve had their chance. Instead white candidates from Anglophone countries will be favoured, especially if clean-shaven, wearing suits, and hailing from Texas-based oil dynasties.
Extensive knowledge of classic Wrestlemania
Trump often finds, when discussing the Middle East, that his mind wanders to 80s wrestler The Iron Sheik who was in fact Iranian. He then continues to discuss his own appearance in the ‘Battle of the Billionaires’ at Wrestlemania 23, which Trump won. Anyone familiar with these events who can use them to steer discussion back to geopolitics is welcomed.
Happy to be known as ‘the Donald J Trump Supreme Leader of Iran’
Branding is everything in politics, and the president does not appreciate rivals attempting to make their names known. The successful applicant will sign away all rights to their own name and identity on taking office and will instead bear the above appellation throughout, even when overthrown and executed in a football stadium.
No pay or benefits
Healthcare, security in employment, pensions or working rights are not, and have never been, part of Trump’s vision for the world. The contract for this position will not therefore include any. The successful candidate is encouraged to take advantage of all opportunities to loot wealth and stash it in offshore accounts, as are the current US cabinet.
IT would just be like so wrong to deprive teenagers like me of my socials because I have grew up with it and there is all what you learn from it, right?
Social media is a vital part of young peoples life’s nowadays. In the future we will need to know technology to get a job. If your boss tells you to watch TikTok and you don’t know what that is, you’ll get the sack. Thats just the Real World.
In any case AI will have taken all the jobs and its all vibe coding now. What point am I making here? Dunno.
Social media is also important for our education. I’m reading comments on Insta all day and thats learning me good spelling. It would be wrong to deprive us of such a voluble learning resauce.
Anyway its like totally addictive so we can’t stop using it if we wanted to. Is that actually more of a bad thing about it? I don’t know because at school I’m usually on Snapchat instead of learning how to construct an argument. The Government needs to do something about that.
Also banning me off social media would be wrong because its how young people communicate these days, you feel me? I mean, yeah, mostly we just put emojis next to videos, but sometimes we really open up emotionally and use a sad face.
Of course theres harmful content out there, but you can just make it illegal with a law. Someone made a fake nude of a girl in my form group, and I’m like totally against that. Its wrong to compare ordinary women to professional porn stars with much better tits.
So after reading the arguments I’ve done here, I think you’ll agree we must not ban under-16s from social media. Even if its just so we stay online in our bedrooms rather than talking to you about our clueless bullshit.
IT’S claimed that your urge to discover new music stops after 30. Have you really become a tedious old music reactionary, or are a lot of new acts a bit crap, like these?
EsDeeKid
Topping today’s charts is this balaclava-clad council estate resident, suggesting British rap could be dominating the world if we’d just got Jeremy Kyle guests to produce music. The rumour about him being Timothée Chalamet’s alter ego has done a lot for his profile, but it suggests a weird internet mystery fuelled by TikTok morons is more interesting than his music. You’d be inclined to agree.
Benson Boone
The appeal of X Factor novelties can wear off quickly – these days Rhydian and Wagner feel like a fever dream that’s thankfully ended. However across the pond they insist talent show embarrassments are still in demand, and so we have to hear this weasel missing its balls on the radio whether we like it or not. It seems the future is American Idol show tune-core, when we should have cut our losses with Kelly Clarkson.
PinkPantheress
ICYMI: a singer talks over a better Underworld track, wears a lot of tartan, and is generally kitsch. Ms Pantheress tricked the BRIT Awards into thinking she’s our best producer by opening up GarageBand on her iPhone, the equivalent of hitting the irritating DJ keyboard button in music class. The band Klaxons similarly impressed the BRITs before disappearing entirely; let’s hope the same doesn’t happen to her. Or not.
Lola Young
It’s easy to hate products of the BRIT school, especially if you unfairly include this artist’s family connection to the person responsible for the bloody Gruffalo. Lola is noted for saying ‘f**king’ too much, like Gordon Ramsay trapped inside a genre-bending pop-indie hopeful. Whatever’s happening here, it’s perfectly ignorable, even making us wish fellow BRIT annoyances Rizzle Kicks would return. Oh, wait.
Sleep Token
An odd mix of metal, R&B and ambient, all mushed together while wearing scary masks. Hard to describe, but imagine you’re having a sex dream about Slipknot with R Kelly providing the mood music. Metal has always been for losers on the fringes of society, who’ve clearly been starved of embarrassing bands like Iron Maiden for too long and have now latched onto these crooning chancers. Suddenly your old Def Leppard CDs don’t seem so uncool.
sombr
Some musicians appear out of thin air, and sombr suddenly mysteriously appeared on Gen Z social media with the sort of vapid pop only liked by a River Island employee. Once you reach adulthood, sombr’s horny teenager shtick has little relevance, unless you’re looking for a middle-aged crush. For that purpose, brooding, high-cheekboned, 20-year-old sombr is excellent.
Djo
With Tame Impala busy up his own arse missing award ceremonies and thinking he’s a rave godfather, there’s luckily a boring and smug arsehole trying to replicate him. Joe Keery has effortlessly and unfairly tripped into a music career thanks to starring in Stranger Things. Sadly it suggests we’re finally accepting that actors-turned-musicians are all we have left. You’d think we’d have learned our lesson from Bruce Willis.
THE death of a boy’s grandmother has provided a timely opportunity to prepare for the loss of his beloved cat.
The parents of six-year-old Noah Bishop are treating the bereavement as a gentle introduction to mortality before he faces the more devastating prospect of the death of Felix.
His father Martin said: “Obviously it’s been very sad, what with my mum dying and everything. But it’s also turned out to be quite useful.
“Felix is going to die one day, and we’ve been really worried about how Noah will cope. Thankfully he’s had a practice run with his nan.
“In grief terms it’s like her death was an emotional starter and the cat’s will be the main course.”
While many families take a different approach to explaining death to their children, the Bishops believe their tragic loss has worked out quite well.
Mum Eleanor said: “Frankly, Thomas hated visiting his grandma. He thought she was boring and said her house smelled funny. But he absolutely adores that cat.
“I’m just relieved this happened in the right order. Not having to visit the old bat’s stinky bungalow is just a bonus.”
A WAVE of refugees from Dubai is coming, and as ever kind-hearted Britons will do anything they can to help. Here’s how you can give them a home:
Clear the back bedroom
Have you got a largely unused back bedroom, some black mould in corners, that you can open up for an ex-resident of Dubai’s exclusive Il Primo tower? Stack cardboard boxes in a corner as a reminder of their former home and change the sheets if the cat’s been sleeping on them. Leave the exercise bike there, like the gym they used to have.
Secure them a job
Used to a busy lifestyle of maintaining their tax affairs in Dubai, they won’t want to be idle. So get them a minimum-wage evening-and-weekend-shifts position at the local Spar, which will provide not only the dignity of work but a wage and uniform. They’re used to being up late anyway to avoid the punishing desert heat, so it dovetails perfectly.
Provide social opportunities
There may not be 83rd floor cigar bars overlooking the glittering city, but Warrington can provide the same thrills; there’s a flat-roofed pub on the estate which has a lock-in where you can smoke, Jorden hasn’t got a Lamborghini supercar but he has got a pretty modded-up Golf, and Preston Brook Wharf is a lot like Dubai Marina if you’ve had a few.
Substitute leisure activities
Sadly their days of quad-biking around the desert at the weekend are over, but the dunes at Blyth aren’t dissimilar and a stolen BMX can usually be bought for less than £30. And while camels are unavailable, a side-hustle walking rescued greyhounds and picking up their shit will unavoidably remind them of when they used to have disposable income.
Provide their favourite foods
Accustomed to luxury, an approximation of the same can be obtained from any branch of Home Bargains. Snap up bars of Dubai chocolate from the reduced section, get a frozen microwave curry to simulate the dining experience of the Michelin-starred Tresind Studio, and for dessert? Spray a meringue gold with Halfords Gold Metallic Car Spray Paint.
Impose extreme restrictions on free speech
One aspect of Dubai living your guests will certainly miss is not being allowed to criticise their hosts on pain of imprisonment. Reproduce this by threatening to beat the living shit out of them if they dare utter a single word of complaint about their circumstances. Their cringing smiles of fear will really give them – and you – that wonderful Dubai feeling.
We’re always told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and that being too quick to judge people we’ve just met is a bad thing. But what if someone is such an obvious collection of red flags that you immediately know they’ll never be your bestie? It does happen, as they’ve been discussing […]
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Being dissatisfied with your job, or even downright hating it, isn’t unusual, but most of us manage to grin and bear it. However, sometimes something that happens that finally breaks the camel’s back and the towel is well and truly thrown in. They’ve been discussing righteous quitting on the AskUK subreddit after GoldenGolgis posted their […]
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Dating is a brilliant way to get out and meet new people. And this often involves encountering people who are very different from you. Wealth is one of the biggest divides when it comes to dating, but there are lessons to be learnt from these experiences. Angelus12345678 wanted to hear about them, so they put […]
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No-one likes talking about America’s war on Iran more than secretary of war Pete Hegseth, not least this totally unhinged rant which was both very funny and utterly terrifying. Actually, maybe just terrifying. Except – and you’ll never guess – it turns out Hegseth. is rather less reluctant to talk about the war when it […]
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To the studios of BBC1’s Question Time, where Donald Trump’s war on Iran was naturally top of the agenda. One-time Tory party leader wannabe turned shadow cabinet minister James Cleverly was on the panel, as was journalist, author, Guardian columnist and much else besides George Monbiot. And the Guardian man had a few stern words […]
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