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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Forget the f-words, ignore the erections: how did an entire plane collectively choose to watch Daddio?

Tip your driver? … Sean Penn in Daddio.
Tip your driver? … Sean Penn in Daddio. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

When a number of factors in a situation go wrong with enough precision to maximise damage, we tend to call it a perfect storm. Pay attention and you’ll hear it all the time; a few days ago, the lack of social housing in England was blamed on a perfect storm, similarly America is currently bracing itself for a perfect storm of election chaos, and outer space recently enjoyed a perfect storm of solar activity. The term, of course, was also the title of a 2000 film where George Clooney sailed a boat in a hurricane.

However, I would like to propose a change. From now on, instead of calling something a perfect storm, I recommend calling it a Daddio. This is a real election Daddio. Wow, the social housing in this country is really Daddioed. Did you see the sun Daddioing the other day?

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