With pubs closing at the rate they are, better to support them 
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Iâm not qualified to comment. 
The following wasnât intended to be funny, but I found it so (though I certainly wouldnât expect any SFer to read the whole thing).
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Perhaps âfunny-in-the-headâ more than anything. Iâd have taken that as a spoof if you didnât tell me otherwise, and I would want to ask how long she and Gwyneth have been working together.
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The lionesses kill but the lions eat first. Typical anti wokerati misinformation 
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Presumably she gets all these products free !
Not my doggy, thankfully, but an amusing, tail
âThe puzzle no one wanted to complete this Christmas,â one user wrote.
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I used to have the same problem, with my homework
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Well done for putting this in the humour thread DrMark.
Unfortunately impressionable teenagers just trying to make themselves the best for their world will fall for this rot.
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I think the French government would approve.
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Reaction in the press here falls into two camps - itâs a young bobo craze, or the French donât binge drink like the Northern Europeans, so itâs not necessary.
Purely anecdotal evidence but the Aveyronnais seem to consume a lot of wine per person at any opportunity, but on average are amongst the longest lived of the French. May be due to the wine mixing with the RoquefortâŠ
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As a hater of euphemisms and sloppy English I was delighted to read the following this morning and I think it qualifies for this thread:
No reasonably sensitive person wants to give unnecessary offence, so I donât condemn all euphemisms. But I donât think âdieâ is an offensive word, whereas âpassedâ is simply ridiculous. Your âloved oneâ (another horror) has passed? Really? Like a driving test? Or a ship in the night? Or an inadvertently swallowed prune stone?
Many diseases used to be forbidden territory in conversation. In the 1950s, it was considered improper to say someone had cancer. That taboo has gone but others have appeared. Men are now said to suffer from âerectile dysfunctionâ, not âimpotenceâ.
I should correct the writer though, much as I admire his/her efforts. Erectile dysfunction is not the same as impotence. Presumably someone afflicted with the former are indeed the latter, but it is possible to have the latter while not suffering from the former. 
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I must admit that, whereas I used to cope ok with âpassed awayâ or even âpassed onâ, âpassedâ makes my teeth hurt
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On the other hand, there are some of which I approve. This from Barry Humphries, of whom I had a very high regard, except when he pretended to be a woman.
Then, in January, the bad news came. âGod has touched the pause button on my life. Various ills and inconveniences have assailed me since before Christmas. I ended up in Sydney being devoured by an enormous Siemens scanner. The company that funded Hitlerâs election had discovered tumours in my spine.
I much prefer the French ways of expressing it, like il nous a quittĂ©, il sâest eteint, il est disparu.
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Iâm with the author on that one - itâs trying to whitewash over something that is a certainty for us all.
âPassedâ also implies that there is something to go on to, which there clearly isnât.