Category: Amusing
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‘My mother-in-law put a curse on me’: Some terrible tax excuses
That’s right, it’s back! HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has released its annual list of worst excuses for missing the self-assessment deadline. This year the excuses do not disappoint. They are wild, weird and wonderfully imaginative. Excuse number one: My mother-in-law is a witch and put a curse on me… Excuse number two: I’m too…
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Cloth ears
Boarded a flight the other day and an automatic announcement intoned that as the plane was refuelling, passengers should keep all their electronic devices switched off, seat belts unfastened and blinds up. So I sat there with people around me on their phones, seat-belts on and blinds down. So, I couldn’t help wondering, had the…
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Who owns what?
A lighter subject than what is normally written on a Monday on the subject of “Did you know?” Did you know that Lea and Perrins is American, that Tetley Tea is Indian (maybe not surprisingly) that Jaffa Cakes are Turkish that the Financial Times is Japanese and that Manchester United is American. Lastly and…
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Parent Trap
“Someone asked me what the toughest thing was about being a parent. I told them I would have to say it’s the children!”
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Growing Old
You know your growing old when you find yourself telling the shop assistant that you only want a phone to make calls with.