My wife loves paper. We use the old ones as base for some cat litter. Quite appropriate when considering much of the news these days. 
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Great under paint cans too. You can blot your brush on faces 
or paint on a mustache or any number of things you can dream up
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Just a fun fact
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Newspaper is also great for drying things out, crinkle some up, place whatevers damp within and leave overnight.
When I worked in the Print Museum we had huge rolls of newspaper to work with for our presses from the 1800’s. I still have a few reams for emergencies 
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Went to my local shopping centre on the bus to try a few of the electronic stores etc for a 30th Anniversary dual sense controller.
No luck so I went a little further down the road to Smyth’s Toy Store, always a good spot for hidden gems and raritys as it’s often overlooked.
They said they almost sold the last one this morning, hang on and they check if it’s still in the back…
While I waited another guy came up and asked another teller if they had the ps5 30th anniversary and if it was possible to buy the controller separately.
They said yes and then the customer disappeared, I guess to let their partner know they could or to get money out. Who knows.
My sales assistant came back with the dualsense in hand and informs me I was very lucky and to have a nice Christmas.
I got the hell out of there before that other guy came back.
I made a jingle all the way turbo man joke in the WhatsApp group I have with friends…
I laugh, I joke, but that same guy just got on the same fecking bus as me 
If you don’t hear from me again you know what happened 
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Who me? No! That wasn’t me in the store. Oh I bet it was my twin brother. Same clothes? Yeah yeah. It’s a running joke. Our mom always dressed us the same and we got so used to it we save time by just one of us shopping for clothes at a time then we buy double knowing the other will like the purchase. It was his day to shop today. I’m just going to work.
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That must have surprised his husband when he took his skirt off.
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You are on your A game today.
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Ah just what my kitchen was missing, the smell of melting plastic as my plates and cutlery are recycled 
Is it possible to have Teflon filtered through the air con as well?
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On my way to my mom’s to stuff myself with food like a P-I-G hog.
Hopefully I won’t fall into a food coma.
Hope everyone can have some time to spend with family and friends.
Love you guys and gals!
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Well I tried it, but I think my microwave is faulty. It melted all my plastic plates and cups OK, but now it won’t reconstitute them. Instead, I have this multi-coloured puddle, slowly solidifying.
I probably need to take it back to the shop.
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Since we’re posting funny videos from the past…
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Are we eating food or last night’s dishes?
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This is the correct way to comment online, fantastic etiquette. All fun, zero hate 
Does your microwave not have a REfrost mode?
…yes.
Not a day goes by where I don’t thank God for the differential girdle spring. Where would we even be as a species without such breakthroughs
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Professor Stanley Unwin - Astronomy Today (1960)
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Guess I’ll add my own two cents to the conversation
The Print Museum in Dublin is a working museum. All machines operated by retired typesetters and printers who worked primarily in newsprint in the 50s-70s.
They routinely bring this up.
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I object to Bodoni as the capital… 
That was some effort for an april fools joke, though. Nowadays, nobody would probably even read a 7-page article.
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The BBC did a good one in 1957, about the spaghetti harvest in Southern Switzerland:
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