Humour

Not to burst your bubble, but chewing gum tells us a lot about humanity

Just think about the staggering numbers of people across the world who, every day, stop whatever they're doing to pop a piece of gum in their mouth

24 April 2022 - 00:01

The other day I received an e-mail from a superfan. She was gushing that we have global inequality, the Covid pandemic, Aids, floods in KZN, Putin pulling a Goliath on Ukraine and yet I still manage to write about holes in my socks and sexually aggressive goat nannies seducing me...

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