December 5, 2019
2019 Foot in Mouth Award
Every year, the Confused.com Plain English Campaign awards single out the public figures who have made the most baffling comments over the last year.
The winner this year was the UK PM Boris Johnson – who beat off a stiff challenge from US President Trump
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Not only did the prime minister this
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November 27, 2019
One-Liner Wednesday — #45
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
November 6, 2019
One-Liner Wednesday — #42
“Something quite bad happens when we start to go out into the adult world and start to choose love partners. We think we’re out to find partners who make us happy, but we’re not. We’re out to find partners who will feel familiar. And that may be a very different thing because familiarity may be bound up with particular kinds of torture.”
— Alain de Botton, The School of Life
