To be fair he's had COVID twice and not required half the number of tissues the current head cold has required. If 2024 Paul travelled back in time to March 2020 he couldn't justify this particular stockpile.

Stop encouraging him to fill my Halloween/ Christmas decorations storage space with bulk purchases!

I wouldn't actually swap him. The problem is that he bulk buys, I declare a moratorium on buying X and forget to lift it. Six months later (when we finally get through all 72 tins of tomatoes he bought) I'm to blame for him being unable to finish making his Bolognese #PasataGate

But on purpose?!

We already had eight boxes of the sandpaper style tissues Sainsbury's jokingly calls "super soft". We're all set for tissues until about June 2027.

It happens to the best of us occasionally. It just happens to Paul a little more frequently than most (as the 1 kg catering packs of allspice, Chinese five spice, and ground cloves in our kitchen can attest to)

Maybe someone like @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social would know how frequently the CJEU do this when they allow an appeal. I was certain it was going back to the GC, the Commission asked for it to be sent back to the GC, but it's now done.

Although in some rare good news for Ireland, having lost the case and being forced to collect €13bn of tax it doesn't want, Ireland will be able to spend some of that money paying for the Commission's lawyers in this case - as well as its own.

And there we have it. The Commission win, the case is over, and Ireland will be forced to spend the money currently sitting in escrow