A long, thoughtful read - not exclusively UK, but mostly.

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  • topherclay@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “Riley is pretty. He walks slightly hunched, like the prettiness has been beaten into him with a stick. When Riley was young, his dad subjected him to a Myers-Briggs personality test.”

    "Whales have triggered two separate panic attacks for Riley. The most intense one, a near-hallucinatory episode, occurred during his wedding ceremony. His father-in-law mispronounced his name in the service, calling him “Ripley”. Suddenly, the groom was beset by proliferating associations from Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, whose whale display featured a preserved foreskin the size of a standard door. Riley entered a catatonic state at the altar. "

    This whole thing is just so weirdly written.

    • Patch
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      7 months ago

      That reads oddly like the Dr Evil’s Childhood monologue.