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These are all people who are trying to sustain their marriages and families in the most absurd way possible.

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said it is "absurd" and a "ridiculous waste of taxpayers' money" to pay for police officers who cannot be sacked to sit at home.

He appealed for an end to the "absurd and cruel war" in Ukraine, although he disappointed Ukrainians by appearing to swallow Russia's propaganda message of having been provoked into its invasion.

When you really think about it, isn’t the sheer refusal to accept something as mortal as death, that we see coming for our entire lives, just the slightest bit absurd?

And the dynamic between the three central characters in “The Wedding Banquet” looks more like your modern-day polycule than it does an outrageously absurd farce.