All I Want for Christmas Is a Risk Assessment
Once you describe Santa’s job to an HR department, the entire operation collapses under the weight of policy, training, and paperwork.
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untypicable Turns One: Still No Idea What We’re Doing, but Apparently the Terrible Twos Are Coming
untypicable turns one this week, and like all one-year-olds, we’re still confused, sticky, and occasionally brilliant by accident. Here’s what we’ve learned about writing, patience, and pretending to have a plan — on a Sunday, no less.
October 31st: The Annual British Siege
A cultural comparison of Halloween etiquette — one nation turns its entire suburb into a theatrical production, the other treats it as an unscheduled home invasion.
Mindfulness for the Chronically Irritated
A practical guide for those who want to be calm, compassionate, and spiritually centred — but also think most people are idiots.
Confessions of an IKEA Allen Key
Ever wondered what an IKEA Allen key thinks about its short, twisted life? This surreal monologue reveals the tragic tale of a hexagonal tool born for assembly and destined for abandonment in the back of your junk drawer.
Things I Would Use a Time Machine For
What would you do with a time machine? Save the world? Kerry Freeman would rather slap Henry VIII, steal hats, sabotage tea-making, and rewrite the Domesday Book out of pure spite.
Five Times I Dropped Myself In It
A well-meaning comment here, a helpful suggestion there—and suddenly you’re running a cross-departmental project you didn’t ask for. Five moments of workplace self-sabotage, told with wit, regret, and a touch of spreadsheet trauma.
How to Win at Board Games by Ruining Friendships
Board games: the perfect blend of fun, competition, and lifelong grudges. This laugh-out-loud guide shows you how to weaponise Monopoly, betray your allies in Risk, and ruin friendships over obscure Scrabble words — all in the name of victory.