Nobody tells you that recovering from something takes about three times longer than the leaflet says, and that the last third is almost entirely boredom.

Job hopping is the only reliable pay rise and companies have nobody to blame but themselves. Three percent internally, twenty percent to leave, every year, forever.

Being poor is expensive and nobody tells you until you are in it. Cheap shoes twice a year, the meter that costs more per unit, the deposit you cannot save because you are paying someone else's mortgage.

Index funds have made markets less efficient — half the money in the room is now buying without an opinion about anything.

Genuine question: can anyone name a single thing their MP has done? Not voted for. Done.

Home advantage is mostly the crowd, and the empty-stadium seasons proved it — it shrank, it did not vanish, and what was left was travel and the referee.

Genuine question: has anyone actually changed their mind because of something they read online? Not softened, not "considered" — changed.

Hot take: the reason nobody trusts polls any more isn't that polls got worse. It's that we started reading them as predictions instead of measurements, and then blamed them for failing at a job they never claimed to do.

I have never regretted spending money on a good mattress or decent shoes. Almost everything else I have regretted.

Walking is free, works for nearly everybody, and has no equipment attached, which is exactly why you never hear about it.

We will still be typing passwords in ten years. We have been promised their death for two decades and I am still resetting one most weeks.

Cricket commentary has got unbearable. Nobody describes anything any more, they just wait for a stat to read out.

unpopular opinion but most "food deserts" are actually time deserts. the shop is there, people are working two jobs.

Science journalism is mostly press releases with the caveats removed, and the caveats were the science.

UPI is the best thing an Indian government has built in my lifetime and it isn't close. A billion people moving money for free while most of the world still pays a card company three percent to do the same job.

Everyone I know is one broken boiler away from a genuinely bad month and we have all agreed not to bring it up.

Nobody budgets for the thing that actually ruins a month, because the thing that ruins a month is never in the categories.

Football was better without VAR and I will not be moved on this. You cannot celebrate on a three minute delay.

Every sport eventually optimises the fun out of itself, because the people playing are trying to win and nobody is trying to make it enjoyable to watch.

Watching your team lose is a better test of whether you like the sport than watching them win.

Every complaint about immigration in my town is actually a complaint about not being able to get a GP appointment, and both parties have found it easier to argue about the first one.

Football fans do not want their club to be successful, they want it to be theirs. That is why every ownership row goes the way it does.

Being a fan of something has turned into a job. Watch the thing, read the discourse about the thing, have a position on the discourse. I miss just liking a programme.

Olympic sports get worse as they get more professional. What people actually miss is the amateurism, and it turns out that was most of the charm.

Most advice on how to argue better assumes both people want to find out what is true, and in most real arguments at least one person is defending a position they have already told other people they hold.