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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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The stagnant growth in the UK is being attributed to the fact that the last time we made something, it was on a Spinning Jenny. GDP is currently based on YouTube likes and fidget spinners. Manufacturing has ground to a halt and the only successful industries are personalized calendars of Kate Middleton and reasons to hate Keir Starmer.


A spokeswoman for the Chancellor countered: 'I do not accept your characterization, we have enabled a 175% growth in molesters and embezzlers. We have seen a twofold increase in flooding. And we are doing a booming trade in international war crimes and exporting forever chemicals. The UK is a world leader - just not in anything you would be proud of'.


The Chancellor is struggling to boost growth - unless by growth you mean NHS waiting lists. The only positive is that bioengineers have managed to turn Fatbergs into perfume. Provided the UK has an unlimited supply of unwanted fat lumps, this industry will continue to grow. So there is a use for James Corden after all.


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A new paper released by researchers at The Department of Grant Maintenance at Nottingham University claims that walking can be beneficial for human health. The news is set to quash years of accepted ideas about the advantages of remaining sedentary until you have to lie down to sleep.


Walking, researchers discovered, can in turn help with activities such as walking. ‘Our data shows that the more a human walks the more they are able to walk,’ said one scientist from the group at Nottingham. ‘Let’s say a human being walks only 500 steps a day. We have discovered that by doubling that number, the person is actually able to walk for a 1,000 steps. By such means of calculation we were able to calculate that should a person add, say, 9,500 steps a day they would be walking 10,000 steps.’


The researcher, speaking from a structure that resembled a tower made of some form of hard, white, elephant-sourced material, spoke of the need for humans to not remain stiffly motionless all day every day. ‘Not getting out of bed is just not as healthy as we previously thought.’ But the scientist warned that there is a limit. Why? ‘Because there is a limit to everything except, it seems, the expansion of the universe.’ That, he added, is also good for human health due to the fact that a universe folding in on itself would eventually eviscerate all atoms. ‘And thus we wouldn’t be able to walk.’


Numerous past generations spoke of the benefits of ambulation on two legs and, before the invention of the motor car, would even walk to Tescos. Indeed, Tesco in Latin means ‘the store to which one must walk.’ And the motto of one of the legions deployed to Brittanicus in the second century AD was ‘Qui non ambulat est kunt.’


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