Financially pressured millennial can only afford to cover entire body in tattoos

A MILLENNIAL unable to afford a car or house deposit is barely able to cover the cost of his all-over ink, he has confirmed. 

Ryan Whittaker, aged 28, blames the cost-of-living crisis, the Tories, and bizarrely money saving expert Martyn Lewis for being unable to buy his own home, and insists the hundreds he hands over monthly to his personal tattoo artist has nothing to do with it.

He said: “Before you start, I don’t eat avocados, I don’t buy takeaway coffee and I get my Netflix subscription through a dodgy Fire stick like everyone else.

“But come on, my tattoos are my own affair. What’s more personal than your own skin? So if I feel I need to spend another £250 to add Squirrel Girl to the Marvel montage on my back, that’s my business.

“At the end of the day, the minuscule amount of edge my tattoos give me are more important than transient things like possessions, food or basic shelter. Plus they might make women want to touch my penis.

“With this ink I’m investing in myself. And with the amount I’ve laid out so far, I’m easily worth as much as a second-hand Ford Focus with no more than 65,000 miles on the clock.”

Tattoo artist Jose Turner said: “Sometimes I double the price halfway through a piece. What’s he going to do, stop me right there?”

How to turn any conversation to 'Vote Reform!': a guide for arsehole uncles this Christmas

UNCLE? Aged 50 or above? Then Christmas is nothing more than an opportunity to win Nigel Farage the next election. This is how to hijack every topic: 

“Mmm, the turkey is delicious” 

An easy jump to Reform due to the ubiquity of Brussels sprouts. As you skewer one, angrily say: ‘That’s all we’re getting from Brussels this year, thank God!’ before outlining the many Brexit benefits the BBC has ignored and how only Reform will ensure we stay out. Ignore your relatives realising they’re in for a lot more of this.

“At Christmas, we think of others rather than ourselves” 

Even non-Royalists watch the King’s Speech out of morbid curiosity, and it’s surprisingly straightforward to shoehorn Reform in. Charles is speaking from a hospital chapel which is the perfect opportunity to say: ‘I’m surprised he’s not doing it from a mosque!’ Before explaining that Reform is the only choice if you don’t want to live under Sharia law.

“Shame it’s not a white Christmas” 

Ignore the bait. Instead veer off on a tangent about global warming, its non-occurence desite what might appear to be scientific evidence, and the net zero hoax. Then launch into a loving hagiography of Nigel Farage that, if another bloke had said it about a fellow male, would have caused you to label him a ‘poof’.

“These kids are always on their phones, mind you our John’s no better” 

Phones? Technology. Technological genius driving the world forward? Elon Musk, philanthropist, whose $100 million makes Reform’s glorious victory in the 2029 election inevitable. Unlike unelected Brussels bureaucrats dictating British laws this is foreign interference that’s good.

“Oh, is the penguin back in it this time? I like the penguin” 

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl does indeed feature the return of Feathers McGraw who, as a non-indigenous species, is a foreign criminal. ‘Reform would have made sure he was deported!’ you crow, breathlessly, running in from the garden where you’ve been having a fag.

“Now that Leona Lewis Christmas song, I do like that” 

At this point family are sticking to the safest of subjects. They’ll learn. Agree One More Sleep is ‘a classic’ and that Ms Lewis, of mixed-race, is a ‘very pretty girl’. And therefore you are not racist, which is an unfair assumption about Reform voters and Nigel specifically. ‘The lies they tell about him,’ you sigh.

“The tree’s dropped a lot of needles this year” 

Requires lateral thinking, but What did the EU ban in 2017? Vacuum cleaners rated over 900W. What do we have, post-Brexit? Powerful vacuum cleaners that will easily suck up those annoying pine needles. And this, simply, is why everyone must vote Reform.