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“Got some idiots in ‘ere.”

The stupidity of the complexity of the Tax Credit system in 1 minute 1 second:

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"Wagner’s vast ring piece"

Superbly childish but also supremely funny. Read the comments.
(Hat-Tip: Why, That’s Delightful!)
Update: More Amazonian amusement here, here and here.
(Hat-Tip: This commenter on The Yorksher Gob)

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Like a new character in a soap opera

Listening to an old episode of Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive while trying to work out what is wrong with my Matlab script and liked Dave Gorman’s description of Cameron:
“He is sort of like a new character in a soap opera, and they have signed him up for five years but the writers haven’t quite worked [...]