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We’ve all had that useless colleague, the one who swans about looking and sounding important but never does any actual fecking work.


For more than a century, Britain has had a special warehouse to store the worst examples, safely keeping them away from the workplace. Located in central London, the House of Commons has brought relief to hundreds of businesses over the years.


‘I didn’t realise how much she was pecking at my head,' said Jenny, a sales manager from Wolverhampton. ‘Then she got this ‘job’ as a – get this – Member of Parliament (hashtag made-up-jobs) – and swanned off. It was like a weight being lifted. The company’s doing really well now.'


Sadly, with the rise in access to higher education and crap TV like Love Island, the nation is teeming with useless people, and 650 places is nowhere near enough. Plans are under way to build a second House of Commons to house the useless. Possible sites include Cardiff, Edinburgh and Epping.


Last word goes to ‘Robert’ (his real name), one of the warehoused useless people: ‘We do really vital work here. I like pointing at cartoons and ordering them to be painted over to make children cry, but I also fight crime with a video camera. We’re all in different gangs. My gang’s the best. If I can make enough children cry, then they’ll make me the leader of the gang, and I’ll be able to make speeches on telly instead of Twitter. I don’t miss having a job, this is way better. On Thursdays, we have sponge cake and custard.'



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Channel 4 has announced a new gameshow where members of the public choose a shower cubicle that contains a shower unit modelled on one of the thousands of shower variants used in British hotels, disrobes, enters the cubicle and works out how to start the shower and set the temperature while being filmed by upwards of twenty cameras.


'British hotel shower controls are notoriously difficult to operate and extremely variable in terms of the way they work - is it a push, pull or twist, if the latter, which way?' said a commissioning editor at Channel 4.  'Obviously the participants will be naked for as long as it takes he or she to soap all over, rinse off and wash their hair, including conditioner,' he added.


The show is open to men and women of all ages, 'but we prefer women, of course,' he added.  The show isn't about gratuitous nudity, the channel argues, but is a fun vehicle to educate the viewers on the myriad ways showers in British hotels operate, 'with a little bit of fun stress thrown in,' said the editor.


The Palace refused to comment on rumours that Prince Andrew has offered to host a junior version of the show.


Photo by kevin Baquerizo on Unsplash

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