RULES OF DECEMBER 1. Chocolate must be kept behind tiny doors 2. All bells must jingle 3. Days are to be renamed 'sleeps' 4. Shopping is now an extreme sport 5. GOLD RINGS 6. Mariah Carey will follow you everywhere 7. The following emojis are now acceptable🎄❄️☃️🎁 #December1st
8. Deodorant and shower gel become popular gifts 9. So do Frankincense and Myrrh 10. Lords a'leaping 11. All hats must be made of paper 12. All puddings must be set on fire 13. All halls must be decked 14. All screwdrivers must be shrunk 15. Trees must live inside the house
16. TV adverts are now acceptable subjects of small talk 17. All oranges must be brown and made of chocolate 18. Garden sheds become grottos 19. The end of the Sellotape will be impossible to find 20. Michael Bublé appears on every TV channel
21. Robins must lay eggs 22. Batmobiles must lose wheels 23. Thermostat settings become highly contested 24. One horse open sleighs are now a mode of transport 25. So are camels 26. The Argos catalogue becomes a must-read
27. Garish novelty jumpers become high fashion 28. Socks are to be stored above the fireplace 29. Reindeer can now fly 30. You must eat a sprout (sorry-we don’t make the rules)
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Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp are down. For those of you using Twitter for the first time, it’s basically the same but with less avocados on toast and less group chats with 29 people trying to organise a night out while one friend sends dog GIFs.
Oh, and you can only use 240 ch
People desperately search for a new social platform. Uploading their Ibiza 09 album as a slideshow on YouTube. Starting group chats over email, CCing everyone they’ve ever met. Asking people to play Farmville on LinkedIn. Leaving comments on eBay listings just to feel something.
Getting a bit worrying now. People haven’t been able to wish their colleague’s partner happy birthday in over an hour. Everyone’s notifications are flooded with friend requests from Duolingo. The rest of us are trying to figure out if Google+ still exists.
It’s National #PotatoDay so here are the official rankings for every sort of potato:
1. Roast 2. Hash browns 3. Chips 4. Crisps 5. Mash 6. Waffles 7. Jacket 8. Wedges 9. Those fluffy little croquette things 10. Eating a raw potato like an apple 11. Boiled
We’ve made a new drink. It’s blue. It’s tasty. It’s blue. It’s good for you. It’s blue. It’s made from apple, lime, guava, and coconut water. It's blue. It’s boosted with vitamins. It’s blue. It's the perfect subject for a Venn diagram.