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‘I don’t care what the sales are so long as they’re healthy.’
‘If there’s global warming then how come there’s a cold war?’
‘I want you to know I’m seeing someone else.’
‘Things have changed since I was a lad.’
‘Unless one of them comes up and
says hello to you in the street…’
‘The enemy are virtue-signalling to us, sir.’
Alice in Cineworld
‘Well at least we always left a tip.’
‘How many shopping days are there till Brexit?’
‘I don’t think you can take the sound of
your own voice as one of the tracks.’
‘We are innocent Russian tourists on riding holiday, looking forward to a good hack…’
