Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
- Started 5 years ago
- Last post 2 months ago
- 108 Responses
- moldero18
are dentists a thing there yet?
- https://media.tenor.…scarabin
- LOLgrafician
- https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- lmao scarabingsea_sea
- aahahah lolsted
- https://media.tenor.…pango
- I knew it would come to this lol.garbage
- check will ferrels teeth.trooperbill
- teeth are illegal in the UK. have been since the late 18th century.face_melter
- lol facefadein11
- Teeth singular, right?Nairn
- Until a few years ago, this kind of comment always irritated me. Along with "British food is shit". I mean, both can be true... but compared to the US?!Nairn
- have you tried their freedom fries? it's pretty good.pango
- garbage1
Is this passable for fish and chips? It's a disgustingly good fried cod.
(not my photo) but the pub at the end of my street is pretty killer, and it will be nice to be able to go there whenever America gets great again.
- Those fries are proper crunchy!grafician
- They're so good. They're at my corner pub, which probably gives away where I live, but I don't care.garbage
- ^only if we come to visit, you're goodgrafician
- All are welcome, just as soon as the world stops ending itself.garbage
- looks good but what is the green thing?kingsteven
- here you generally need to ask for cod in a normal chippy... fish and chips (fish supper) usually plaice. most will have 3-4 options for fish.kingsteven
- pub grub usually cod tho. good they've got the tartar sauce. do they do mushy peas?kingsteven
- Wait, you're in the Seattle?!grafician
- The green thing is the thing you throw away. And yes, Seattle. So what's the normal fish for fish and chips?garbage
- it's different all over the UK, cod is the 'traditional' fish for fish and chips. here it's plaice, some areas its haddock. i'd often go for whiting. which iskingsteven
- essentially just a smaller kind of cod. cod is overfarmed wild and bred in farms so it's often 2x the price to buy and many folks don't realise the difference.kingsteven
- When I was a kid I used to catch, clean and cook whiting. That takes me way back.garbage
- garbage4
I figured I should follow with a picture of my own. Took a tedious trip down the most frustrating street in the city to get a shit ton of CFA.
I forgot what my question was. (loving these threads, btw)
- oey_oey0
Can I have a glass of wa-ha?
- grafician0
Who is Banksy?
- The chat is that he is supposedly the skinny, white, dude from Massive Attack.face_melter
- But who knows?face_melter
- You mean 3D?! No! Noo!grafician
- That’s interesting because robert del naja is colo(u)rblind; Banksy’s art is almost always black and whitescarabin
- @scarabin aren't you a designer? black and white and a little red is the most effective way to make something pop mategrafician
- He was also a street artist... but i guess everyone was back thenscarabin
- Yeah that doesn't stick for so many reasons, we might never know who Banksy is...grafician
- Banksy is a collective.garbage
- grafician-2
Why isn't Stormzy PM?!
- scarabin3
How do your children survive with so many readily available Kinder Eggs?
- maquito7
Why do you wear soccer shirts all the time?
- This is a fantastic question.garbage
- show support for the tribe. why do americans wear polo shirts all of the time.trooperbill
- Nobody wears polo shorts because of the sport.monospaced
- It's a bit of a Eurotrash thing too.
I cringe to fuck when abroad and I see some invariably subburnt twat in a Brit footie top. Trés Pleb. /pretentious twatNairn - the full kit wanker in the supermarket is a sight to behold. can't help staring - "this adult has a job, a car, a family... do they know?"kingsteven
- See chavs, generally.MrT
- garbage0
Can any of you explain the massive bungle-job that was the Battle of Saratoga?
You could have had us.
- sarahfailin0
i seriously lol'd at whatthefunk's opening post!
- hotroddy2
Do you think you'll live to see England in a world cup final?
- Rugby, Football or Cricket?Chimp
- I might have seen England win Italia 90 if it wasn't for Paul Parker: Perhaps I would have if it wasn't for Paul Parker: https://www.youtube.…Chimp
- @Chimp (vid unavailable, but assuming it’s the german goal in the semi) nothing wrong with what Parker did; it was Shiltons fault for being so fucking old...Wolfboy
- ...and leaden of foot. Don’t forget he couldn’t out jump an Argentinian midget when he was 4 years younger.Wolfboy
- elahon0
What's the deal with "spotted dick"? I've had it, and it's tasty, but that name, man.
- 'Dick' as an insult is basically an Americanism that got real traction sometime in the 70s or 80. Prior it was a name / pet name with no penile associationNairn
- Well, other food names, too. Blood sausage, mucky dripping, clotted cream, it all sounds gross.elahon
- Blood sausage is Black Pudding - not sure I've ever heard of 'Mucky dripping' (that DOES sounds gross!) and clotted cream is .. well, clotted.Nairn
- Not sure what is worse sounding, blood sausage or black pudding, hahahaelahon
- for those that don't like the idea of blood, white pudding is also available.hans_glib
- spotted dick is a suet pudding, has currants in it (hence spotted) and has to be eaten with custardhans_glib
- And these postcodes have aerosol cheese in cans. The bloody nerve of it.MrT
- Nairn0
In relation to cake and cheese: I'm not a huge fan of Christmas Cake, but yoy lot do realise that there's a world of opportunity to be had by pairing a sharp cheddar with something sweet, right?
A personal favourite is Halva and Cheddar (thin equivalently-thick slices of each in a high fat laminate of deliciousness).
When I've smoked a bit too much and am desperate for some sweet munchies I've been known to spread blocks of mature cheddar with nutella and omg, as I write this I don't know whether to drool or throw up at the thought.
- Yoy lot, oy vey!Nairn
- I love apple slices with cheddar.elahon
- Veda, is an Irish malt loaf traditionally eaten with cheddar. It's incredible, not too sweet but just an incredible combo. I've seen it in asdas around London.kingsteven
- apparently the closer to 50/50 combination of fat and sugar you get the less your body is able to tell you've had too much... we develop a sense for this overkingsteven
- time that affects how we select food. it has been argued that legislation like the sugar tax should actually target foods that are closer to this ratio...kingsteven
- glazed donuts and cheesecake are two examples. but i mean theres no way to regulate a cheese and nutella sandwich :Dkingsteven
- throw a bit of salt or glutamate on there and, done. perhaps even... no. dare i say it? the breath of citrus - a light wafting of delicate lemon mist? *cumsNairn
- Sorry, 'one twelfth hundredth and twelfth of a cup' of light lemon misting.Nairn
- wensleydale is the correct cheese to have with a rich fruit cake.hans_glib
- drgs0
Can you tell an Irelander from a Scot, based only on their appearance?
- no, but the second they open their gob, and the hour after the irish one's not shut theirs, yes.Nairn
- ..whilst the english man's sat in the corner, getting the better end of the joke.Nairn
- haha, there is a grey area and its particularly grey https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- A set of wankers for fafty fie poon? What a bargainscarabin
- Is a “ground wean” a toddler?scarabin
- Or did he mean a “grown” wean?scarabin
- Irish people have webbed hands and feet.face_melter
- 'for the grand-weans' - grandkids :)
this town is like 30 miles from belfast and it's like an alien civilisation to us city folkskingsteven - 'grown wean' might just mean an older kid. Still under 12 or so.Nairn
- Which one of the two were redheaded again?drgs
- Ulster Scots. luv it.Phrenological
- the hamely tongue.Phrenological
- ^ its a shame its been so politicised as the antithesis of the irish language. my mums side is ulster scots and never thought they were speaking anythingkingsteven
- but english. of course if one side has something the other side want their own. i almost forgot about the DUP for a second there ffs :Dkingsteven
- scarabin0
In a very general sense, how do Scots, Irelanders, Welsh and British view each other?
- "irelanders" lolfadein11
- I'm part each of them... I despise everything about myself.fadein11
- beer brings them togetherutopian
- Irish, sorry :) I’m stoned and saw the term earlier. It stuck in my head for some reasonscarabin
- I get the sense there’s a kind of rivalry between the lotscarabin
- Rivalry is a bit of an understatement and it's very complicated. The English are the common enemy for the other 3 though.fadein11
- Scots and Welsh are British (along with N.Irish) btw.fadein11
- Did i mention this is some really good shitscarabin
- ha, it is fun.fadein11
- https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- The English can be great. Some of my best friends are English. Also, the English can be absolute loathesome cunts who despise everyone that's not them.Nairn
- I don't even think a lot of what we suffer is racism. It's just that in certain cultures - and I'd hazard here, the English particularly - People hate peopleNairn
- You're a Northerner? Fuck you.
You're from outside the M25? Fuck you.
You're from Left Hampstead? Fuck you.
You live two streets over? Fuck you.Nairn - ^ lol, ha - so true...whatthefunk
- ^ very true. some of my best mates are English and other mates are full on Irish republicans. common after a few drinks to get folks shouting BRITS OUT! orkingsteven
- singing anti english protest songs all while smiling and apologising profusely to the english folks in the room "No, not you mate..." etc.kingsteven
- I had the impression the english thought of scotland as like a motherland, the welsh were more rural, and the scots think everyone but them are girly menscarabin
- The most common sentiment is anti-English but it's very much shorthand for the 'landed classes' - military officers etc. You find most northern English folkskingsteven
- will have a similar distrust of the southern English folks. In reality not as decisive as internal religious divides or what team you support.kingsteven
- But generally as you find everywhere: the less gentrified and outwardly welcoming a place is the nicer the people actually are... the only way you find out iskingsteven
- by going there.kingsteven
- Aye - technically I'm Northumbrian English, but that's basically Borders, which is basically Scotland. North of York is a vastly different culture to The South.Nairn
- I visited LDN 2-4 times a year as a kid and it was abundantly clear that this part of the world was entirely different to, and had no concern with, my partNairn
- Mind you, LDN's its own bubble.
Westminster particularly.
Hence Brexit.Nairn - Also - this "I had the impression the english thought of scotland as like a motherland" - absolutely not. If anything, Southerners are basically French.Nairn
- cannonball19780
Why do you say innit
- That's a soft, Southern, shandy-drinking, bastard, English thing. Come to Glasgow and everyone says 'but' at the end of their sentences.face_melter
- ie. '...that fucking' slag wuz pure mingin'. But.'face_melter
- :.)
@face - They still do that? When I was a kid visiting a satellite town to Glasgow they did that. Wasn't sure how permanent it was, but.Nairn - wife's family had a friend who ended every sentence with "hingwing-ah-air". needless to say he was scots.hans_glib
- Oh christ, aye. Last time I was in Glasgow a couple of years ago, it was all I could hear.face_melter
- epic_rim1
When the time of day is 16:00, do you say 16 o'clock or just pass out from drinking all day?
- During these covid times, almost the latter. Give us some credit though - three huppny's worth of warm afternoon shandies get us through to at least 174532Nairn
- The UK doesn't use 24hr time because no-one can count past 12.face_melter
- 24 hrs is written and, i think generally used in the uk - but you'd say 'four o'clock', in the process doing some magical chrono-linguisitc translationNairn
- actually, being british, you'd probably say tea timehans_glib
- _niko2
You say maths and not math but then you say sport and not sports.
explain.
- it's short for 'mathematics' - the study of a group of topics, hence the pluralisation - not 'mathematic', which doesn't really make sense.Fax_Benson
- whereas 'sport' can be defined as any singular physical activity, rather than one or more of a multiple, so doesn't need to be pluralised. Maybe?Fax_Benson
- Fax knowsoey_oey
- ********0
Is Jimi Hendrix English ?
- In a sense Yes.Phrenological
- James, Buster, Jimmy James, Jimi... he went by alot of names during his life. Jimi was the UK era name.Phrenological
- in the same way as the beatles are german and american :Dkingsteven
- sothere0
do you get sick of the rain?
\- depends where you live. South east tends to get continental Europe's weather and is fairly dry. The north / west often gets north Atlantic weatherFax_Benson
- which is shit. The rain in the north kind of traps fine weather in the south in place.Fax_Benson
- i get sick of the grey.hans_glib
- believe it or not you can get sick of the sun. it's all about change in weatherhotroddy