2020 has been, for the most part, a year to forget, but thankfully British Twitter has kept us laughing all the way through. Here are the very best tweets from this year:
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Tfw your Piccadilly line service is haunted by a Victorian shoe shine boy
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I just aggressively removed two bottles of prosecco from our trolley, proclaiming crossly “Neither of us likes prosecco. It’s bloody horrible” The gentleman moved away from me at speed. We had not met before. It was neither my trolley nor my husband.
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Just tried these on, tried to walk away and I stumbled
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Just witnessed a child in a zero waste shop yell ‘LENTILS’ before opening the lentil pipe and allowing them to gush forth. Chaos. Lentils everywhere
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watching The Masked Singer with my dad and he goes “I think it’s Madonna” yeah Ray it’s definitely the world’s best selling female artist of all time with a net worth of $600 million singing on ITV at 7pm on a Saturday night dressed as a hench yellow duck
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2020 is cancelled
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didn’t realise this wid get so much attention but it’s from @AquariumNZ they post naughty and good penguins of the month every month and it’s great content (I reccomend) xxx
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My postman has left his sack on my doorstep. What does this mean? Am I the postman now?
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will someone please tell me what he is wearing????
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A guy who I was meant to go on a date with has now cancelled on me three times. I just sent him a message saying ‘I swear I just saw you in a corner shop in Notting Hill’ and sent him this and he blocked me 😂
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Who knew? Uh.... literally every woman who’s ever worked with a man.
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"What's England like?"
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lost my phone in the alps in a club and someone handed it into the bar ! i found this vid the next day and i love her please twitter help
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No matter how many times I watch this video, it makes me laugh every single time. [sound up]
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[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Birmingham Aldi: Went in to buy just some coffee and butter and bread, Left with twelve sheds
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Quick question: Is it "for fucks sake" or "for fuck sake" ? It's for a work email so has to sound professional.
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I don't make the rules sorry
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CRYING omg they did not see her there
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social media jobs be like: Do you know your TikTok from your Facebook? have you ever heard of or seen "a computer"? Then you just might be perfect for our SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR job, running every online element of our business £13k, Slough
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Me in primary getting up to collect my star of the week certificate for assembly
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Still haunted by my GCSE German speaking exam when the examiner asked what I liked doing and I said reading and she asked what books I liked and I panicked and said the name of the only book I knew the title of in German. Yeah, that one.
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why is the best story of 2020 being ignored, is what i want to know
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Why was every school disco DJ like this
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Wow I love Enya
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be honest lads why r u all actually like this
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My mum, a northerner in London, keeps calling central London the “town centre” 😡😡😩😩
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welcome to england
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This week’s Guardian restaurant column is about a northern chip shop. This comment has kept me awake. I. I just. What.
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Do you remember when Bridget Jones was considered a loser for having a full-time job in PR and having our own flat in zone one London and being single at 32 😂
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Where the hell is this and what have they done with London?
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https://t.co/aNcTCXB8ad
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at what age does buying a round of tequila shots for a group of friends turn from being a generous act of love to being a pain in the fucking arse for everyone
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Me guessing the masked singer
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A small 13 (maybe 12) year old boy just yelled at me ‘you’re too fit to be taking out the bins’ and he is so right
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Trains are cancelled cause of the wind, but uni expects me to still come in??? What makes them think I’m stronger than a train
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the one gay extra in 1917
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what if Greta Thunberg is in a kind of Ferris Bueller situation where she just wanted one day off school and it’s spiralled out of control
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imagine raising a child with a manny or brum accent “Daddeh am oongreh” nah g stay hungry loool
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When the platform is announced at Euston
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It appears that my husband and I haven’t managed adaquately explain our relationship to the children. They thought we were brothers 🤔😂
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just nibbling on a free sample at Costa and asked the server what the cake was and she said oh that’s just someone’s leftovers they’ve put on the counter so that’s wonderful good job me
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my friend only shaves if she knows she’s 100% going to be having sex bc ‘there’s no point peeling a tattie if yer no going to mash it’
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Katy Perry: Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? 13 year old me:
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Sometimes I think I’ve got my shit together and then I remember we still only have a cheese grater I won in a cracker
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My customer service voice vs my real voice https://t.co/1FBTyOPIG1
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If Princess Diana was still alive I think Beyoncé would’ve sent her the Ivy Park collection
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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Titanic (1997)
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Girls Aloud in 2006
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Babe are you ok? I said ‘auto glass repair’ and you didn’t say ‘auto glass replace’ ?
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"who bullied you?" civil servants:
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You won, Cornwall. Enjoy the tier 1, I hope it makes you very happy.
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No one: Girls for literally no reason at all:
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When Hermes emails you to say 'we've got your parcel' it feels more like a threat than an update doesn't it.
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2020.avi
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Bob the builders friends when he's depressed https://t.co/YSq0wBmThy
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News in 2020 NME in 2011 🤝 Really excited about vaccines
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me aged 13 reading a series of unfortunate events https://t.co/PbakodwWjG
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nothing beats a uk election night. i don't want algorithms and shiny graphics i want shadow chancellors losing their jobs on tv in a leisure centre at 3am
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Just caught a glimpse of myself on a Zoom and immediately regretted it
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From Paris to Boleyn
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When you get a shit present for Christmas & you have to pretend that you love it 😭😭
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Me when I delete “Sent from my iPhone” to make the email more formal
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so my mum bought a lamb for £20 so it doesn’t get killed tomorrow and is planning to keep her in the garden with the dogs???? Honestly wish I could say I’m surprised but it’s very her
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Why does every Fairground worker sound the same
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I will never get over the fact Nigella isn't pictured in any of the recipes on her website except for Slut's Spaghetti
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I think it might be me. https://t.co/Polij8JJr1
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the year is 2010 and a woman in Coventry has just pushed a cat in a bin. literally everyone you know online is whipped into a frenzy about it; some call for the return of the death penalty. "That was odd", you think afterwards. Every day of the next decade is like this.
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What’s it like living with anxiety:
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when your colleagues ask how your weekend was after a big one x
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Tips for those of you about to start working from home... 1) Wanking. Get to love it. 2) lunch. It’s a big thing. Your entire day will hinge around this. 3) The Postman. They will appear when you are wanking. 4) Radio on ok. TV on bad. 5) Wanking.
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God bless Americans. Skye this weekend.
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Remember GCSE art exams? I swear art students were stuck in that exam for like 3 days with no food, water or sleep.
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a student I used to teach is now a signed drill rapper. Now I'm attentively listening to his music for any 'my teacher said I won't be shit' lyrics ....cos I too will pull up to studio
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Sobbing
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At Darcy’s 21st theres a video of her getting her cake and everyone singing happy birthday and in the back u hear her cousin screaming “get your titssss out” and then her Aunty saying “josh! That’s your cousin”
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Sharon.avi
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I am 30 minutes into home schooling my 6 year old. I suggest that all school teachers are paid £1m per year from now on.
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bae: come over me: can’t, in self isolation bae: my parents aren’t home me:
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i love how all the pasta in sainsburys is sold out except lasagne sheets even in a pandemic people are like fuck this I’m not making a whole ass lasagne
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Borrowed £10 from a girl I was dating. Paid her back the same day. When it went sour she told people she financially supported me when I had no job.
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day 9 in quarantine: On my way to working from home
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I know this time of self isolation is hard and scary for people but however bad you are feeling- please, please don’t consider starting your own podcast Straight men under the age of 35 are particularly vulnerable to this and we all need to be vigilant of the dangers x
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Had to order Penis Pasta from Ann Summers due to stock piling covidiots. Here's my spaghetti bollocknaise 👍
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everyone making lockdown banana bread
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I don’t know who made this but they deserve an award
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What precautions are you all taking during the global pandemic? My mum is bathing her Tesco delivery
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Me telling my gran over the phone that Boris has corona virus
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As the city empties, our indigenous wildlife is coming down from the mountains around London. Nature will find a way.
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do you think the pub is thinking about us
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My son lost a tooth last night. I just saved myself £2
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“I don’t want to see any of you out there, I run my toe up the crack of yer ass” #janeygodleyvoiceover #nicolasturgeon #COVIDー19
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positively phenomenal use of the BBC News theme tune. Little does she know this is actually how we make the news
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I'm coming out of my cage That's a £30 fine
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Prince William after hearing Prince Charles has got the covid
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“What are you up to today?”
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God designing 2020
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Took this photo at my local park this afternoon. Makes me livid 😠
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UK rappers in Drake’s comments whenever he posts on IG
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Loved this moment in the Queen’s speech.
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Aww, so cute! Some local children made this for all of the doctors in my hospital 🥰
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I can’t believe it really is house every weekend
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I bloody love Jamie Oliver’s Keep Cooking and Carry On because he says you can substitute ingredients for ones you do have in the cupboard. I made his Aubergine Curry Dal with Herby Flatbreads tonight.
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Told my mum she was the best mum in the world this morning and she goes ‘well what about my mum?’ so now I’m sat here having to slag off gran to save an argument
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A child in my village drew this and put it in the window and honestly same
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Best chat up line ever, if you’re a postie ! #coronavirusuk
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Adorable moment man interrupted by his son on live TV
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Greg Wallace, aggressively pushing out farts in various poses, whilst maintaining eye contact.
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I thought the personalised message was for the driver not the pods 😂 oops
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Omfg best one yet 😭😭😭😭
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My youngest has been banging on about “prank week” and has been royally pranking us all day. Little does she know, her father is the prank master Both of them panicking now, the bonus is that their sadness has brought a hush into the house.
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I think about Brooklyn Beckham's photography book quite often
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Why does young Katy Perry look exactly like jay from eastenders
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Saw this home learning sign a parent had put in their window.
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i’ve had such a nice day with my book. took it outside. took it back inside. rested a cup on it. put it on the shelf. took it off the shelf. didn’t open it but
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My Nan’s best friend lives at the end of the garden, so they open their adjoining gate (best friend goals), take a chair and sit and talk to each other either side wearing their masks. It was today I found out that this is the mask my Nan has been wearing.
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Another day another stupid Excel chart
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must admit it’s really nice not having my bank statement look like JD WETHERSPOON - £6.05 JD WETHERSPOON - £11.49 JD WETHERSPOON - £4.99 JD WETHERSPOON - £7.15
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Hows everyone’s lockdown going I’ve just bought a dildo signed into me mums eBay account
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Do a dramatisation of this next, @ITV
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Emmanuel Macron gets ready to scare Fiona Bruce when she turns around.
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hermes when they realised everyone will be home for months so they can’t pretend they tried to deliver the packages anymore
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lockdown is really making me forget about my favourite hobby - looking at restaurant menu PDFs in anticipation of eating there 😔😔😔
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hermes proper fucked me off yesterday
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Just walked in fae the shop with heidphones in and nearly had a fucking heart attack. My mother has finally lost it
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girl are u the stock market? because you are behaving erratically and you fucked my mate’s dad
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feminist fuckboy on a date
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Facebook is unrivalled hahahahah
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My boss’s new chair... 🧐
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Not fixed the big one though, have you
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I hate it here
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how I imagine the uk walked into brexit negotiations
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Today in things I didn’t expect to wake up to
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Why are trains so expensive? You going that way anyways, just drop me off
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Surely someone on the phone in work didn’t just say ‘Q for cucumber’ 🤣🤣🤣
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weird looking brother https://t.co/W1Nw7XwmGJ
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Worst. Lanyard. Ever.
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There’s one guy on hinge who keeps insisting I come to his for a drink and refuses to meet out. It’s not my skin you will use for leather couch
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excel waiting for that covid
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When ITV need to cast something
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Not the second one😭 are you dating Alfie moon? https://t.co/GjGc5WCKPU
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think i might buy this and go as mrs hinch's settee for halloween
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thinking abt the mad clutch control peppa pig’s dad has you know always drivin up that steep hill
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Morning of my dad's wedding, I was 14. Why do I look like a disgraced UKIP candidate
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the virus will be over by Christmas and on Christmas day the virus and the scientists will meet in no man's land for a game of football
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Love this picture of Adele being driven around by Noel Gallagher
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RIP to all the kids that died for our entertainment on Raven on CBBC❤️
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white middle class streetwear photographers be like ‘ i know a spot’
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Me in my bedroom after watching George Sampson win Britain’s Got Talent
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Just when I'd got over Prince Charles and his sausage fingers, along comes Noel Gallagher with the feet of a newborn baby.
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Absolutely love going into Lush now that their employees don’t come anywhere fucking near me
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I think about Stormzy’s commentary on Jolene at least twice a day
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Next door with top class grass banter.
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Why does this photo look like Priti Patel is the new market inspector in EastEnders?
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Michaela Coel's cheekbones are the only structure this country has rn
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Is Banksy ok ??
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you write like groovy chick https://t.co/LIt11irAUH
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young tories when people don’t want to be friends with them
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me judging everyone on instastories
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Jess Glynne and her mates getting turned away from sexy fish
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Love this picture of a family of evacuees fleeing World War 2 - shows that even in a crisis family is everything.
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Britain 2020
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My daughter a nurse went to check her bank account and she has 36 claps left to last her till the end of the month.
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Everyone just needs to appreciate how funny this is
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This is a British schooling in a video
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I shouldn’t have to feel this anger alone.
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#EatOutToHelpOut is trending in the UK and I am proud to hear such valuable sex advice reaching the masses.
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Lorraine Kelly should’ve won a BAFTA for this. I honestly thought I was watching Jodie Comer in Killing Eve
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Me on Zoom, not listening to anything you’re saying https://t.co/FCVD1WyqwU
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Yeah I’m a gamer
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My furloughed housemate coming in for some casual 4pm chit-chat
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I think we need to stop calling it 'working from home' and start calling it 'living at work'
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Just farted on a zoom call and it lit my name up. I've been betrayed
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boris: "the common sense of the british people is going to get us through this" the british people:
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When you order your girlfriend a personalised gin glass and get the option to add a note......
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this was our last credible news source
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My plans 2020
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"I once took my wife and child on an hour's drive to test my eyesight"
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at primary school someone i sat next to confessed to me via note that she had a big crush on Hercules from the 1997 animated film Hercules but ONLY when he dives into the Styx and becomes an old man. i felt sick about it for weeks. anyway i wonder if she’s doing well. this is him
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legends say that only a construction worker who is pure of heart may retrieve it
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BBC staff have just been sent a wellbeing survey and I'm fairly confident this wasn't meant to be one of the questions
184.
So Iceland have just released DipDab ice lollies and I left the sherbet on the side because I didn’t want it and now my mum thinks I’m dealing x
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Sorry Charlotte but I’m gonna have to call bullshit on this one...
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One of Enid Blyton's more adventurous stories https://t.co/wHXdwQolly
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Still can’t believe I went for dyslexia screening but missed my appointment cause I read the date on the letter wrong
188.
Honestly I’ve carried a child for 9 months for Sam to size compare her to a hoagie
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are you ok with this @NandosUK
190.
Tricky start to the season for Pollen FC
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screaming at this email from my nan x
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Me hearing that I can’t see my friends or family but CAN go for a £1 thong haul at primark from 15th June
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Would you like to start with scales or your pieces?
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Can’t see my cat approving of this substitution.
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Government: cleaners are allowed but not your parents Me:
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Dominic Cummings dresses like a combination of every character from the 1st season of Skins x
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British kids in schools if they finally change the history curriculum to feature colonialism:
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Stretch marks on my bum but the bum ain’t stretching????
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British media reporting on the Black Lives Matter protests tomorrow. 🗞🤦🏽♂️
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Bit worried all the mermaids are currently falling in love with slave owners
201.
Proper fiat 500 this like but how the fuck do we have 2 hands since birth yet me left hand is literally useless it makes no sense it’s been knockin about for 20 years an I can’t even brush me teeth with it without nearly harpooning meself
202.
Why’s he wearing Hagrid’s boots