Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- sarahfailin5
Why don't UK websites use "biscuits"?
- Because the language is English and we invented it. Live with it. ;)Morning_star
- lol morningfadein11
- Sconeutopian
- So you call them cookies. We invented those.monospaced
- Cookie comes from Dutch and was in use in both the UK and American colonies but had more staying power in the US.i_monk
- Web Cookies are named after Magic Cookies (UNIX) but the origin of Magic Cookies isn't clear.i_monk
- drgs1
Do people eat this
- The latter, for sure - it's a staple of ad hoc snacks for young teens - moreso a bun that you cavitate then stuff with crisps, in my experience.Nairn
- The former is a toast sandwich? I've heard of it, but it's not something I've ever encountered. Not entirely convinced it's not a joke...Nairn
- 1 can happen, but with lots of butter / jam etc. the contrast of soft bread with crunchy bread is well sought after by chinese tourists.shapesalad
- "very tempting to the appetite of an invalid"
https://en.wikipedia…drgs - Had many a 'crisp piece', but never a bread sandwich.PhanLo
- Shitty supermarket finger rolls with the sides split open, a la https://vole.wtf/but… is how remember these.Nairn
- They're even better with butter, right?
I mean, of course.
Everything's better with butter. Even butter.Nairn - Used to really like salad cream rolls, with butter (obvz)PhanLo
- I'm all for a crisp sandwich, but crinkle cut make a better one and Seabrook if I'm being really particular.MrT
- Potato Chips in bread. Holy shit that is sad.monospaced
- a bit like cheese in a spray can : PMrT
- @mono - it's a daft playground snack kids invented. Don't knock it 'til you try it.Nairn
- The entire cuisine is based upon austerity and povertyjmckinno
- Second atrocious, prepare for cancer.i_was
- @nairn I understand. ;)monospaced
- 1. Never seen let alone tried.
2. About twice a year.Hayzilla
- grafician0
Can you explain Boris please?
- tailors hate him.fadein11
- Brits hate himnb
- if onlyfadein11
- imagine your so polite your a retard. you are the UKkingsteven
- its calculated --- he bumbles to get empathytrooperbill
- because someone percived as a clown, can't also be seen as cold and calculatingNutter
- ^kingsteven
- ask Hartlepool, who'd've thought...MrT
- WTF is wrong with this dude?utopian
- He's like the slow version of Donnie Trumputopian
- As much as I dislike bojob, he's nowhere near the same domain as Trump - he's far from daft.Nairn
- A labrador in sheep's clothing.Nairn
- utopian0
How are things generally in the UK at the moment?
- That's an awkwardly broad question to answer. Right now, 'generally ok'?Nairn
- 'tis but a scratch.Morning_star
- yeas not too bad. things opening up. nobheads on the streets and in pubs... pretty normaltrooperbill
- GuyFawkes1
why you guys so calm with your old karen cunts?
these guys are great
- renderedred0
am i wrong or is nz actually doing really well? this conway fellow is good...
- sorry i'm still on cricket :)renderedred
- https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn
- cherub0
Does anyone ever really expect the spanish inquisition?
[Y]
[N]
[???]
- 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
- BaskerviIle0
^ renderedred
The best parts aren't really about the cricket:
- scarabin1
What brand/type of tea should i be drinking and serving?
- risky question mate
https://www.youtube.…grafician - You'll probably get more grief regarding how it's made than which one it is... I like Yorkshire Tea but that's bleedin obvious.MrT
- I’ve heard good things about yorkshirescarabin
- Also, what is the best biscuit for tea?scarabin
- So many possibilities... for me a bourbon, choc digestive or (I'll get flamed no doubt) a fig roll.
Or a Mitsubishi.MrT - For British-style Black Tea - Yorkshire Gold, scarabin. I keep trying alternative 'better' teas but meh. Whatever you do - NOT Tetleys or fucking Lipton.Nairn
- Every time I go abroad I take a bag filled with enough teabags for at least 2x the days I'm away. Actually, anytime I leave home, even in the UK.Nairn
- ..er.. I don't mean 'every time i leave home' like 'when I go to work or for a walk in the park'. That would be a bit weird.Nairn
- I also take tea-bag supplies on hols.MrT
- teabags are the devil's work. loose tea is the only tea to drinkhans_glib
- I worked at one of the Rothshchild's houses a couple of years back, and he offered to make me a tea but I refused saying that I preferred my bagged YT to hisNairn
- ...no doubt infinitely-better leaf tea (i'd brought a flask of my own stuff to drink thorugh the day). He looked at me with total bewilderment.Nairn
- Yorkshire Tea is my brand.Hayzilla
- Surprised there's so many votes for Yorkshire, I'm really not a fan. Either 2xPG tips bags or 2xTwinings Earl Gray, I like it strong.kalkal
- 2x bags of PG is exactly my long-trailing emergency runner-up to a Yorkshire Gold :)Nairn
- risky question mate
- 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
- i_was-2
Hey I have a question: do most English eat English breakfast? or you English people here do you take an English breakfast? or are they many English who will never have English breakfast and find it absurd?
- An English Breakfast is just a good, hearty British Breakfast as would be found - with variations - all across the UK. Most don't start each day with one.Nairn
- Fucking Covid. I can't remember the last time I had a full breakfast fromin a cafe.Nairn
- And next time I go to a hotel the fucking buffet breakfast will probably be extinct.
Bunch of fucker.Nairn - If you're a cab or truck driver, you probably start the day with a full english.
Lucky fat fuckers.Nairn - It’s more of a weekend treat.Chimp
- lol, okay that was clear!i_was
- I eat them as a treat. But some folk rock them every day. Like Nairn said 'Lucky fat truckers!'PhanLo
- Yeah the odd weekend treat. Got to include black pudding though!MrT
- English Breakfast is also a kind of tea to enjoy with your English Breakfast.inteliboy
- @MrT defo black pudding, I also like HP sauce with it. PerfectPhanLo
- I ate it nearly everyday. I think they eat it often but keep in mind it's alot of ingredients, not the easiest thing to cook nor the cheapest. The black puddingcherub
- and mushrooms are so so good. The whole thing is good but esp that.cherub
- it made more sense in the past when you could be working down t'pit or losing limbs in a steel works. Not so if you're a knitting influencer or latte artist.MrT
- Second best brekkie next to pancakes.
Reserved for hangover days.Projectile - The best is when you banged a girl, and you take her for hungover breakfast at a greasy spoon (the place to get English breakfast)Projectile
- Fuck me cherub you had an English Breakfast everyday?! You must have some health issues or be a labourer. Once a week max is wise.Hayzilla
- I find the question almost impossible to understand so I can't comment.Hayzilla
- English breakfast for most English people is more like a rare treat. It's like asking Americans if they really have 50 waffles with bacon and maple syrup everykalkal
- morning, difference being is we don't.kalkal
- MrT4
- im a hard porridge covered in milk chocolate kind of guy- oh and party rings!trooperbill
- party rings are truly food of the godshans_glib
- party rings are pure pricks. Attractive, from afar yes, but ultimately nasty bitches with too much makeup.Morning_star
- I am northern and I really do like an ant sandwich.MrT
- Hard bastard is for dunking in your Hot 'n Brown Ditch Juice. Read the instructions.NonEntity
- ...follow the dunking procedure. Once it sinks to the bottom and disintegrates it is rendered sweetly turd-like in texture.NonEntity
- Is hard porridge a HobNob? That's my jam.Hayzilla
- You mean cookiesHijoDMaite
- can I have my time back please? (and a cookie for my troubles?)PonyBoy
- With what do you have an issue at the end, that wasn't evident at the beginning?MrT
- i_was1
What are the main differences between the south and north of England? for ex. is the south less industrialized?
- fairies - South
monkeys - North_me_ - no. the difference is the south has london which soaks up all the cashtrooperbill
- In terms of country side, north is more rugged and rough and so feels untamed and more natural.shapesalad
- South, especially near London, has the most miserable house style I’ve seen. Characterless little boxes. North has old mining villages and market towns.shapesalad
- South has more diversity, more wealth, more class, more education. North is far more friendly and fat.shapesalad
- the main difference is up north they like a creamy head on their beer. down south the head is more natural and fades away quite quickly.hans_glib
- the south is more populated so it's harder to escape the madding crowd. less people and more open space oop northhans_glib
- South is more affluent and less industrial, over crowded, green space is agricultural too. The north is friendlier but obviously has a grudge about southerners.Hayzilla
- "South, especially near London, has the most miserable house style I’ve seen. Characterless little boxes." this is the exact impression I got of the UK. spot oncherub
- Coming from the states, the houses in England look so vanilla it's depressing. The row houses, not the nice ones with gardens.cherub
- So there are nice ones is what you’re saying? Anyway give me an old terrace over a soulless McMansion any day.MrT
- These are nice. http://st2.depositph…cherub
- http://live.staticfl…cherub
- These are an eyesore. http://live.staticfl…cherub
- http://waterspropert…cherub
- ^Can you imagine being a landlord and having tenants fight over which one that get to live in? "I was in queue first for that one!" "NO I WAS!" tenant: "oh shutcherub
- "oh shut it they all look exactly alike u muppets"cherub
- fairies - South
- 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
- scarabin3
I don’t know anything at all about boris, but can i adopt him? Poor guy looks so worn out all the time, like he’s run out of gin and his wife doesn’t love him
Do we like him? He’s so adorable.
- Yes you can. I'll start the paperwork now.Hayzilla
- Don't fall for his schtick, scarabin. He won't stay. He'll just get you pregnant and then drop you for the next one.Fax_Benson
- my mum loves boris, he's like boomer Pikachukingsteven
- My impression is that BoJo is like Trump, except the ditzy and disheveled part is a calculated act and he's not an actual moron. Y/N?garbage
- Very much so Garbage. It's almost like he sums up the current state of popularist politics quite nicely.Ianbolton
- Be interesting to see his party deal with current allegations of cronyism and financial dealings with tax-payers moneyIanbolton
- Be interesting to see the Labour Party offer a viable alternative.Morning_star
- Yeah. Indeed. So are Labour for the regulation of tax payers money and the Tories for pure deregulation? It makes no sense anymoreIanbolton
- The UKs poltical landscape looks like the aftermath of the Somme at the moment. An incoherent wasteland of wasted life and abject horror, nothing was achieved.Morning_star
- @ian Thanks. I seem to recall an interview where he made sure that his hair looked like shit before interviews. And that the whole..garbage
- ..stuck cable glide thing was a publicity stunt.garbage
- Across the pond we just foist actual morons and sex criminals to the top. Happens more organically here.garbage
- 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
- Gardener18
- HAHAHAHAHA... I'm crying!necromation
- Foreskins crumble tube LMAOutopian
- dry potato dry.. don't knock it.shapesalad
- Nothing wrong with Pig Flaps 'n' Wheat!Continuity
- What's in a word? (mystery meat & fat, mostly)NonEntity
- Meat Envelope that's actually made in Devon / Cornwall is usually damn goodNonEntity
- Mince disappointment lol.cherub
- Blackberry Jam Clag with scrambled egg all day.garbage
- These all sound like genital euphemisms. “Ohh yeah, put your buttered tube in my meat prison”scarabin
- https://i.redd.it/ir…scarabin
- Lols. I will do anything for a fat slice of innards prison.MrT
- Brown
LOL!Krassy - my local pub near work has stopped selling Innards Prison and Branston Pickle at lunch ... TRAVESTY !_me_
- Agh my dads wife makes Mince Disappointment all too often.ben_
- Innards Prison rofl!microkorg
- I once played bass for Devon Meat Envelopescarabin
- I haven't seen my wifes Devon Meat Envelope for 7 weeks!Hayzilla
