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A 30 year old woman was today praised for getting a small, fluffy, white dog, despite still intending to go on and have children. She bought the Pomeranian, popular with various shades of female who have all but given up on even starting to attempt the arduous slog of finding a male capable of being relied upon, from a breeder renowned for padding out the modern lives of the anxious with dependable love.


The dog, which she has tentatively named, Strongandwontletmedown, apparently had no idea that its role was to be that of a companion rather than fetus substitute. ‘Little Strongandwontletmedown is yapping away for all the world as if I’m going to be one of those sorry sights pushing a dog down the street in a pram. I am not,’ she emphasized with just a tinge of evolving bitterness.


Strongandwontletmedown is a white a Pomeranian, a comparatively rare colour in the bloodline. Commentators are expressing fears that this extra level of pure cuteness may .distract the owner from the urge to motherhood. ‘She’s going to get a lot of positive attention on the street,’ said one male serial monogamist familiar with letting down women between the ages of 29 and 35. ‘The constant praise of Strongandwontletmedown’s beauty is inevitably going to mislead the woman into believing she had some genetic role in the dog’s looks and health. I’m worried that when Strongandwontletmedown dies she may move onto cats.’


‘I’ve seen it all before,’ said another tinder jockey. ‘Woman gets dog, says dog is not kid substitute, woman eventually dyes hair orange.’ But others are offering support. ‘By saying she can raise a dog and aspire to produce a human child she’s breaking new ground in the fight for something or other,’ it is thought a few female academics may have postulated. Meanwhile a mother of a teen on Mumsnet simply said, ‘I’ll swap.’


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Despite decades of discussions, MumsNet refuses to tackle the thorny issue of fishing quotas. Said one trawler captain and mother of five: 'I'm not interested in catchment areas, unless they are talking about cod in the North Sea.'


By ignoring mothers involved in commercial fishing, the site has marginalized the 0.0000000001% of their users who own a shrimp boat. Said one captain: 'There are beam trawls, midwater trawls and large bottom trawls. None of which have anything to do with Trans issues.


MumsNet said it will not engage with people trawling for conflict and fake user accounts that smell fishy. One mother struggled to put into words how upset she was: 'I'm gutted...and filleted.'








As the nation bores more holes in their belts to enable them to be tightened ever further and 30p Lee’s spending advice on nutritious meals fails to get traction, the Education Secretary believes that children are starving because their parents had a poor education in geometry under the last Labour government and are therefore lacking the skills to provide the three square meals a day that nutritionists say are essential.


“It really doesn’t matter how large a meal is, so long as it’s square” she told a Mumsnet group during a bingo intermission. “There is no reason whatsoever that pizzas have to be round and it doesn’t take too much effort to seek out the square ones. If the demand for square pizzas goes up, you can be certain that market forces will adapt to ensure most pizzas are square and circular pizzas will become novelties.”


She added that the packaging industry can step up to the mark too, by making square ready meal containers instead of the more familiar oblong ones and the shit and sugar they contain won’t just be equally nutritious, it will probably taste better too.


Food technology teachers are to undergo rigorous retraining under the direction of their maths colleagues to plan how to teach parents attending night school classes how to construct food in the shape of a plane figure with four equal sides and four right angles. Since most plates are circular, they will also learn how to calculate the size of an inscribed square in a circle of known radius to ensure the meals fit the plates.


The Mumsnet audience the Education Secretary spoke to said they thought it was about time the government did something to prevent their kids starving, but asked whether they would get reimbursed for the cash they’d lose from their second jobs if they had to attend night school.


Newsbiscuit asked a mathematician for his thoughts on the plan and was told he wasn’t expert in nutritional matters, but it doesn’t help when the Education Secretary refers to rectangles as oblongs and circles as rounds, however he did say he would consult Euclid's Elements again to see if it mentions any snacks he may have consumed when writing the series of 13 books.


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