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Cake day: February 18th, 2026

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  • Social media is all about comparison

    Someone is happy with their doo-dad, until someone else has a different (not necessarily better) doo-dad

    Someone enjoyed their holiday destination, until they saw someone else’s edited and curated holiday destination, and suddenly, what they were perfectly happy with now seems inadequate

    I don’t gauge my happiness by what other people have, or what they’re doing

    I’ve had nothing, and I have been rich. Apart from the security that wealth brings, the “stuff” that people think is important has never mattered to me

    I have a motorbike that I got second hand that’s almost 20 years old. I bought the first car of my life (I was born in the 1970s) about six months ago, and I got the cheapest car I could find

    I’m happy

    Not because of what I own, but because of what I value

    I pity anyone who is influenced by social media, and if they’re of my age, I see them as weak.

    It’s difficult for kids who have known no different, and they have my sympathy, because I don’t know how they’re supposed to negotiate these waters, particularly when their pathetic parents can’t do any better




















  • I’ve had yanks talk about knife crime, like it’s a justification for their obsession with firearms

    The worst places for knife crime in the UK pale in comparison to the average knife crime rates in cities in the US

    And then there’s the general assault stats

    The US is more dangerous across the board than the UK

    I live in paradise, where shoplifting just about makes the front page. I don’t lock my house up. I have absolutely zero fear of someone breaking into my place

    I’ve had Americans tell me that they wouldn’t feel safe living here, because they’d be worried that people would see it as an easy target for crime

    Fear is so ingrained that they seem to need it

    I suspect that it’s because they can use fear to justify hate, and they really like hating over there.