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I felt guilty signing up to your Glinner update for free last week, but your £50 offer means I’ve now cleared my conscience with a Mumsnet flannel wash. I’d love to contribute more because I’ve watched silently from the sides and seen you go into battle in a way that I can’t. However it would mean having to give up my craft gin, and there are limits to my radicalism. I write for the Mirror newspaper but my job is to cheer the old dears up, not put the fear of God into them about sexual deviants in M&S loos. So while I need to use my Twitter account for work, I’m relieved to be somewhere I can be free to talk. In the meantime, I’m doing all I can, quietly from the inside, to stop the relentless march of the wokists…

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Oh hey good for you. Keep doing what you can and thank you!

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Wonderful ☺️, Graham is being generous with subscription, it seems 😀, hope to see substack family growing then. Fingers crossed 🤞

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All the Scots who support you are also clearly alcoholics and eat nothing but deep fried Mars bars (I’ve never seen one when in Scotland).

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The fried Mars Bar thing used to be a joke, based around how much we love deep fried food. I mean, my generation of Scots certainly did love frying things when I was growing up. I loved deep fried pizza and chips (pizza suppers) and deep fried haggis (haggis suppers) from the chippy. Loved fried tattie scones and black pudding, back in the day, and I was born and raised in Glasgow. These days, my diet is vastly improved, but I'd still give a deep fried tattie scone a go if one was on offer.

But yeah, it was a joke, that's all, the Mars Bar thing, blending the notion of how much we love sweet things and frying things. Then some eejit decided to actually try it. Last time I visited Glasgow, years ago, they were selling deep fried Mars Bars in some of the chippies, I can only surmise for the tourists. So I tried one and it was DISGUSTING. Not even slightly edible, really really bad. I hope the notion died the death it deserved to die, but they did try it for a while, based on a self deprecating joke that some eejit decided was actually true :(

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Perhaps the Award could consist of a deep fried Mars bar? It would be richly deserved.

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Laughing. Yes, that would be a punishment for sure.

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I’m an East Coast Scot. We are all ashamed by the Deep Fried Mars Bar nonsense.

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Deep fried pizza?! Wow - I've always thought pizza was greasy enough without being deep fried!

That said, I'm rather partial to deep fried camembert 🤷‍♀️

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Deep fried pizza is yum.

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I'm taking your word for it.

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Hilarious! Can’t wait for Awards Season!

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Worth every penny! If the Superfans Club reaches the 1,000,000 mark (I seriously hope it will) will the subscription be reduced to 50p?

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If it passes the 1M mark, we'll have won the damned Culture War!

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Great value! Will switch to this when I’m paid next week 😊

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Brilliant!

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I was on the daily free, but just joined monthly subscriptions now

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