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Modern tribes

Catherine Bennett takes a tongue-in-cheek look at 21st-century types
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    Modern tribes: the diet guru

    I met 150-year-olds whose longevity can only be explained by the healing power of locally harvested lard
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    Modern tribes: the frequent flyer

    I’d love to pay, but it’s ask for an upgrade or spend the flight in agony, I’m worried my groans would disturb the other passengers
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    Modern tribes: the political interviewer

    With respect, if I could just speak, my point is this, you’re asking us to trust you as a politician
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    Modern tribes: the best man

    Don’t worry mate, what goes on a stag do stays on a stag do and I’m not just talking about your boxers
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    Modern tribes: the sports day parent

    You know I’m not even sure mothers’ races set a good example for kids, all the coming first and body shaming that goes on?
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    Modern tribes: the serial complainer

    Yes I am complaining. See, you just have to take control. I don’t care if it’s embarrassing, that’s what they depend on, people being too shy to make a fuss
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    Modern tribes: the pregnant oversharer

    We were only just thinking it might be a good time when, bam, the stick goes blue. Here, I’ll show you… no?
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    Modern tribes: the born-again royalist

    Do you know that Prince Philip was actually a total feminist, supporting his wife, and apparently he’s brilliantly clever, and so good-looking
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    Modern tribes: the tactical voter

    I just think OK, anything that stops the Tories wrecking the NHS, it’s got to be Progressive Alliance, so that’s Labour for me, but then you’re back to Corbyn...
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    Modern tribes: the staycationer

    Why would you go abroad, with all the awful flights and nightmare early starts, just so you can lie in the sun on white sand next to warm, clear blue sea?
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    Modern tribes: the cat guy

    These scratches? Oh just Tiddles going off on one, they’ll soon heal, I think he was hungry
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    Modern tribes: the spring enthusiast

    Here’s my hellebores in an enamel jug, eight likes, well it was late
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    Modern tribes: the clean sleeper

    After just a week on his emergency Kwaknite Sleepclenze, my energy levels were incredible, my skin looked brighter and tauter
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    Modern tribes: the art gallery show-off

    Slow down darlings, I think the kind gallery man thinks you’re going to spill your drinks on the nude with poppies
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    Modern tribes: the daylight saving bore

    We’ll lose an hour’s sleep this weekend, that’s a whole day of sleep every quarter-century!
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    Modern tribes: the glamper

    I spoke to them about the owls: nothing they can do, apparently, even though it’s not cheap
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    Modern tribes: the boot camp bore

    We played blindfold British bulldog until someone’s nose hit a branch, hilarious, blood everywhere, then we had to do squat jumps until the ambulance came
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    Modern tribes: the foodie

    Of course normally you’d age the wagyu steak for 48 hours to concentrate the flavour, and it had only done 24 but we thought what the hell
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    Modern tribes: the aspiring interior designer

    I’ve gone for a spaceship-style sleeping capsule made of plywood, which I’m going to cover with tin foil I sourced in Lidl
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    Modern tribes: the disappointed celebrity

    What’s Mo Farah got one for? For what? I can run, we can all run, but it’s all Sir Mo this, Sir Mo that, did he ever hold a poorly kiddie?
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