Stuart Langridge on Nostr: In 2010 somebody made a Facebook group asking "can this pickle get more fans than ...
In 2010 somebody made a Facebook group asking "can this pickle get more fans than Nickelback" (it did), and in 2022 the Daily Star asked whether a lettuce would last longer than Liz Truss's prime ministership (it did). This is a meteoric rise for greengrocery, from pop star to prime minister, in just 12 years. How many politicians have managed that?
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