Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- scarabin2
Why are there only three seasons of Father Ted?
- because the s3 wrap party was quite the party :(kingsteven
- not UKfadein11
- Well, Black Books thenscarabin
- No kingsteven. Dermot Morgan was simply moved to a more remote island, and he's just resting there.garbage
- Father Ted is a British show tho. Linehan is currently working with top TERF scientists to reanimate the cast.kingsteven
- Whoa, i didn’t know he was anti-transscarabin
- ^ yeah, he's a fucking arsehole. Got thrown off Twitter for deadnaming someone if I remember correctly, amongst other things.face_melter
- Linehan is a shithead, but Father Ted still keeps me warm. It's one of the few times I divorce the art from the artist.garbage
- The day after recording the series' final episode, (Dermot Morgan) Father Ted suffered a heart attack at his home in south-west LondonGardener
- No Gardener. Dermot Morgan was moved to a more remote island, and he is simply resting there.garbage
- Oh damnscarabin
- misterhow0
Is this the end?
Following further evaluation this morning, The Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision.
The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.
- Followup question: Do any of you have sarcastic Queen Mum impressions?garbage
- The fact that Charles and William are on there way to Balmoral doesn't suggest the most positive of outcomes.Morning_star
- *theirMorning_star
- never thought i'd see the day..zardoz
- She lived a really long and great life.utopian
- She's just fucking with the breakaway Sussex's Grand Tour.Nairn
- Couple of babies and she'll be fine. Get them blended up nicely.PhanLo
- SoonYakuZoku
- scarabin0
Is it true you put barbecue sauce on french toast?
- And you call it “eggy bread”???scarabin
- no and no :|kingsteven
- Phewscarabin
- nofadein11
- WOAH Kingsteven! I think you'll find the answer is no and yes. And Scarabin, you may be thinking the sauce is BBQ, but it is actually Brown Sauce or HP Sauce.Wolfboy
- HP Sauce
https://www.hpsauce.…Wolfboy - What is the best thing to put HP sauce on?scarabin
- Food. It's that good I don't need to round it down. But if you insist, a bacon butty.Wolfboy
- Cool, coolscarabin
- sausagesfadein11
- I went to school right next to the main HP factory (no longer there). The smell at break times was sometimes unbearable.fadein11
- https://i2-prod.birm…fadein11
- I can imagine it was a bit much; like when you drive into a brewery town.Wolfboy
- Hah, i have heard it called eggy bread as a colloquialism, but they would know what its actually called. right? People put HP on it? i have not lived.kingsteven
- sauce?sarahfailin
- The best thing to put HP on is the shelf.Nairn
- ^ pretty much. actual tamarind sauce is great though.kingsteven
- I keep meaning to give that a try. K, i'm buying a bottle from one of the SE Asian food shops I'm blessed with near home.
Thanks for the recommend!Nairn - HAGGIS! Haggis is the best thing to have with 'brown (HP) sauce'.microkorg
- i_was0
To the Scots: Is it common for men to wear skirts in Scotland?
- At weddings and (national team) football/rugby very common.Brabo_Brabo
- (where skirt=kilt)Brabo_Brabo
- Yes for tourist areas and also at events where alcohol is consumed in great amounts.PhanLo
- I want to wear a skirt, but whatever day, I'm not gay by the way. This one: https://www.zalando.…i_was
- The Scotch dont like it when foik call kilts skirts. Akin to saying the wearer is a tranny. It could get violent.Brabo_Brabo
- Ay i_was i support youscarabin
- i_was you kept telling us your not gay. are you trying to tell us something?pango
- what's the different between skirt and kilt?pango
- To the English: Do you wax your vaginas before or after you Morris Dance?mrAtor
- renderedred1
due to lack of other sports, mainly football i am watching cricket. i have no idea what's going on. and i understand baseball, thought it was similar, but those points man, overs, wickets and all that - nothing is clear.
is that the idea? confuse people until it's tea time?
*and yeah, what kind of game pauses for lunch and tea LOL- stick with it, there's a nerdy world of wonder waiting. It's not quite so esoteric as it seems. And the food intervals are key pinch points in the *action*Fax_Benson
- something genuinely thrilling will probably happen at some point - maybe Sunday afternoon. All the more thrilling for the relative tedium that precedes itFax_Benson
- ^will try, i just have to understand how points are counted first... i think :)renderedred
- commentators sound like a monty python sketch i swear!renderedred
- 2 x innings each. Dismiss other team (10 wkts) twice to win. Chances improved by batting 1st and scoring big = pressure on opponent. Draw acceptable outcome.Fax_Benson
- assuming you're watching the test matchFax_Benson
- so i'm to watch this until sunday every day to experience something significant? yes :) who's the favorite in this nz or en?renderedred
- i heard (over tea break) england is playing "frantically" whatever that means.renderedred
- but there are elements similar to baseball thorenderedred
- Eng would have been slight faves but are without more of their better players, so not much in it. frantically = shitFax_Benson
- it's well worth the effort but yes a little confusing if you didn't grow up playing/watching it. This test match is 2 miles from my house.fadein11
- Wish I'd gone now, a couple of friends have.fadein11
- Only the English could invent a game so interminably dull that it takes four days to reach a draw.face_melter
- That's a bit unfair. The only "Only The English could.." here is "..make a sport that has to stop and have the field covered up every time it drizzles".Nairn
- Cricket is one of our greatest gifts to the world. If you can't see the joy in a beery sat afternoon at a packed test match in the summer sun, it's your lossFax_Benson
- +1 faxfadein11
- scarabin2
Why do you call it Scotland Yard rather than Scotland Meter?
- kingsteven0
real talk
what is your regional chip shop speciality?
- chips in a soft bread bun. Nether understood it myself. Chip butty the call it.shapesalad
- Does that have butter on it? Does that make it a “butty”?scarabin
- yup, slang for sandwich coming from the constant ingredients of bread and butter.Wolfboy
- we have chip butties here too, generally not buttered. there are a few things like saveloys that are unique to england and seem to become less common up northkingsteven
- or pea fritters (i've only seen them in the south). here you wouldn't get a half chicken or a pickled egg in a chippy and if you ask for a pastie you'll get akingsteven
- deep fried burger made of potato and pork. scotland has pizza crunch and various other glorious deep fried monstrosities. feel like im only scratching thekingsteven
- surface though. i've heard mince meat in a bap is a thing in certain parts of scotland. i dont think i've ever been in a chippy in wales but they must be up tokingsteven
- some mad shite. i need an infographic :Dkingsteven
- I'd say, as a rule of thumb, the further north you go, the more things they batter and stick in the fryer.Wolfboy
- that makes for an easy infographic https://i.imgur.com/…kingsteven
- chats. small new potatoes cut in half then deep friedtrooperbill
- A fad in the early 2000s of sticking chocolate bars in the deep fat fryer up here in Scotland. Best was Biscuit Boost!microkorg
- 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
- 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
- scarabin3
How do your children survive with so many readily available Kinder Eggs?
- diabetestrooperbill
- It's a good population controlChimp
- lolmoldero
- scarabin1
What’s the difference between a “ham” and a “shire”?
- The Queen, by law, can kill the inhabitants of a 'ham' whereas 'shire' residents are merely slaves.face_melter
- What’s the deal with Birminghamshire?scarabin
- You know the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3? It's like that but everyone sounds like Ozzy Osbourneface_melter
- *packs bags*scarabin
- I am a resident of Birminghamshire and can confirm that my neighbours are Black Sabbath, Napalm Death and Godflesh. We have interesting barbecues, especially...Morning_star
- ...when Ozzy and Robert Plant get on the acid.Morning_star
- I know that area Morning_star, isn't it this neighbourhood?: https://www.youtube.…Wolfboy
- Ha ha. Yes, that’s the house down the road that no one talks about.Morning_star
- This is the best thread.garbage
- cherub0
So I'm listening to a live debate by parliament on the gender recognition act.
This question is for you scots.
I once asked where the toughest men in the uk were, geographically, and was told by someone on this very forum... "the toughest men in the uk are from the extreme north (Scotland)" ...further down south you go toward Brighton the more LGBT culture you see. So I took that to mean perhaps Scotland is more traditional with respect to gender.
Two scottish MP's that stood up to speak in this debate. One lesbian, one gay. If we broke this down into percentages, that's an LGBTQ representation of 100% by Scotland.
If parliamentary representation is based on the populace, are 100% of Scottish people gay and lesbian? If no, why are 100% of your politicians in this debate from the LGBT community?
Scottish Muslim population is no larger than 2% and Scottish Jewish population is currently less than .5%
What would be the outcry, if suddenly your parliament became ENTIRELY (100%) Muslim? Or Jewish?
Wouldn't it go something like... "wtf, how did this happen?" "Muslims taking over Scotland ffs!!!"
Explain yourself, Scotland. Is LGBT the minority or the majority? If it is the minority, why do you elect LGBT politicians as if it is the majority?
click the link to watch, can't embed live video directly
- These are the questions we really to be asking ourselves.palimpsest
- there are 59 Scottish constituencies in parliament. 2 gay MPs. 2% of Scotland identifies as LGBT. Most gay men are obsessed with masculinity,kingsteven
- most gay women are tough as fuck.kingsteven
- You should smoke either more or less crack.Nairn
- Perhaps the voters aren’t idiots who assume an LGBT candidate could only know how to represent LGBT citizens and no one else.nb
- Unfortunately the LGBT politicians in this video didn't do what you just claimed they could do.cherub
- You can't even get them to say "Heterosexual rights" much less defend it.cherub
- you really don't understand how parliament works. this is an e-petition debate (when a publicly submitted petition gets 100k votes there is a debate)kingsteven
- it's compulsory then. that explains why it wasn't held in the normal place.cherub
- The Scottish parliament supported reform in 2017 as did a public consultation in 2020 conducted by the UK parliament and the EU (the current act was judgedkingsteven
- behind human rights standards) so the petition is to stop the gov't dragging their feet and pass the reform that already has supportkingsteven
- because only 7 of the 59 Scottish MPs in the UK parliament are Conservatives it would be a good chance to stick it to them even if they weren't gaykingsteven
- so representational in that the vast majority of scots dislike the gov't - even if you weren't entirely wrong about everything elsekingsteven
- GuyFawkes1
why you guys so calm with your old karen cunts?
these guys are great
- utopian0
How has Brexit effected life in the UK so far?
1) it's a mess
2) no difference at all
3) working out well
4) getting worst- all of the above, and none of themhans_glib
- https://www.youtube.…Bluejam
- prices have gone up but that could also be covid, weve lost tax free postage to the eu for small goods. thats about it so far afaiktrooperbill
- 1+4shapesalad
- 3kalkal
- oh hang on, I'm mixing up Brexit and covid, deffo 1kalkal
- cherub0
Northern Ireland seems to be unraveling. Do you have a plan?
- I would like so much to answer this question but I'm not UKoey_oey
- it's looking like more dark days ahead, hopefully notfadein11
- Have you seen how the UK works? Of course they don't have a fucking plan.PhanLo
- Go ahead, oey. Floor is yours.cherub
- just saw this, it's fine. brexit border controls are impacting the criminal elements of paramilitary organisations and causing a split between theirkingsteven
- child soldier elements and senior members (who get their money straight from the gov't in 'community' grants) its no more fucked than it has been since the DUPkingsteven
- (who primarily represent unionists who voted against the peace process) took the lead in the assembly in 2003 and derailed the whole thing in their favourkingsteven
- the interesting thing is that while the loyalists are falling apart, the IRA's leadership and ideological republicanism is stronger than everkingsteven
- potentially, we could see a violence and crime weighted (even more) on the loyalist side and a shift in perception from moderate unionists on a border pollkingsteven
- thats when it gets messy, but it was pretty clear to most of us the DUP started the process by backing Brexit (and tipping the balance UK wide)kingsteven
- Imagine if successive british govt's had funded a paramilitary wing of the BNP. The British press are quite deliberately only the reporting surface tension.kingsteven
- all this loyalist business is conducted very openly (they believe they are above the law) - they think they're The Sopranos when they're The Wire - Season 1kingsteven
- or the season where stringer bell hooks up with clay davis and avon barksdale goes full retard and i'm bubbleskingsteven
- So the unionists are losing ground?cherub
- the DUP have been loosing votes for years. they exist so theres a single unionist party bigger than SF in the assembly but many voters don't share their views.kingsteven
- at the same time SF in the South looking like, all progressive, and European and and <sigh> I remember when we were Europekingsteven
- I just watched this. Holy crap that was intense. "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right!" https://youtu.be/p2b…cherub
- colin_s0
will your average brit actually give a shit when the queen dies? or will it just be such a media frenzy it will drive people to madness and make them appear in grief?
- I would say yes, although a loud minority will do their best to make it seem otherwise.TOMMYxGUNN
- I honestly think the nation will be more upset when David Attenborough dies.Hayzilla
- Wait, David Attenborough can die?Nairn
- @Nairn This might be the year. He's been having memory problems for a while now.garbage
- The country will morn the fuck out of the Queen especially since her uncle's just died tooIanbolton
- SimonFFM0
How do UK citizens pay VAT and custom fees on goods I ship from Germany? Things have changed after brexit, but I cannot find it easily described anywhere. My UK clients don't know it either.
- You usually have to record the value and type of items being shipped on the consignment note. HMRC review the note and decide if needs import tax.Morning_star
- Don't sell to UK yet.grafician
- proably start here ...
https://www.gov.uk/g…Bluejam - Thank you, Bluejam. I know client needs to pay and told him, but who collects vat&fees? DHL or does he have to pick up at an office?SimonFFM
- you get a card from customs saying you need to pay a fee before they'll send on the packagetrooperbill
- Thank you for explaining. BTW, I remember when they said, there'll be free trade between UK and EU even after brexit. Politicians... sigh.SimonFFM
