Friend dislikes TV show you recommended and by extension you

A FRIEND who did not enjoy the TV show you recommended has now started to take a dim view of you as well, they have confirmed.

Martin Bishop, who barely made it through the first ten minutes of the TV show you enthusiastically advised him to watch, is beginning to wonder if letting you into his life was a massive mistake.

Bishop said: “I’ve known you for years and always thought you were a cool person. But if watching that programme is how you choose to spend your free time then maybe we should start being mates with other people.

“The acting was poor, the writing was clunky, and the premise ridiculous. As I watched it I thought to myself, ‘Only a complete moron I would want nothing to do with would find this entertaining.’ Then I remembered you said you’ve watched every season multiple times.

“My feelings towards you soured immediately. All of the experiences we’ve shared that bonded us were swiftly undone, and our compatibility in other areas became irrelevant. I even started to dislike myself for ever hanging out with you.”

He added: “Don’t try to smooth things over by telling me it picks up in episode two, and recommending a different show you think I’ll like will only make matters worse. It’s over between us.”

France to return to monarchy

FRANCE has announced it has failed as a democratic republic and is to return to good old-fashioned monarchical rule.

Following the deposing of prime minister Michel Barnier after just three months, the country has decided to face facts, cut its losses and go back to the golden years of divine sun kings.

Jacques Brun of Brive-la-Gaillarde, washing down a handful of snails with a glass of Beaujolais, said: “Eh, why not? Trump is in, we can see which way le vent souffler.

“It would seem the world returns to preposterous, vainglorious idiots seated upon thrones of gold and attended to by giggling sycophants in wigs, and we did it first and did it best. Time to get a Louis in.

“Unfortunately we rather extinguished the royal line with our typical zeal a couple of hundred years ago, but we’re French, we’ll pick somebody who looks sexy in a crown. I rather fancy Léa Seydoux myself.

“Then we’ll plunge ourselves back into full decadence whether sexual, artistic and gastronomic. It will be a century of rococo excess and powdered, aristocratic deviancy. The whole of Disneyland Paris will not be enough to contain their orgies.

“The rest of the country? We can get f**ked, we had our chance. It’s back to peasantry, cholera and an average life expectancy of 35.”