Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena

by Philomena Cunk

The national National Theatre is one. It’s designed to be so ugly that people are glad to be inside watching boring plays. It’s in an architecture called Brutalism, which means punching, and is why it looks like a skinhead.

But before there was everything, there was nothing. Empty. Timeless. Without motion. Or energy. Or hope. Like parts of Plymouth.

Trains use up less resources than other forms of transport because they tend to be cancelled, which is better for the planet.

Democracy means that it doesn’t matter who you are, your vote matters exactly the same: not very much.

Farridge says he’s a man of the people. Maybe that’s because he’s a man, and belongs to the human race, who are people. So it’s a bit of a low bar. Which is, ironically, where you’ll often find him.

You could say the train was the most revolutionary animal that mankind had ever domesticated, until the Furby.