Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- cherub0
You don't have a king because the queen had no brothers. Ok, I follow so far.
But it doesn't explain here why and when prince charles would become King. Is it for sure going to happen or could the monarchy pass to another female?
Explain like I'm 5. Lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explain…
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- Liz doesn’t trust Charles so she’s going to stay queen til she dies.PhanLo
- eldest child with a wangkingsteven
- The eldest child of the Monarch becomes the next Monarch regardless of gender. If the eldest doesn't want the job it goes to their own eldest child.Hayzilla
- cherub0
What exactly is a tinker? Where can I find one?
- someone who made and fixed pots and panshans_glib
- so i guess you need to look in the souks and bazaars these dayshans_glib
- they find youkingsteven
- that sound scary, kingcherub
- I went to Tesco in Newport and there was a horse tied up, apparently abandoned, and my missus said it likely belonged to tinkers nearby. I never saw them.cherub
- i got a flyer through the door a couple years ago that advertised "we find lost trees"... if that's not a threat well, i dunnokingsteven
- ^i lol'dcherub
- stoplying0
I watched the episode of The Crown last night where Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace - it used the song "Whine and Grine/Stand Down Margaret" and it has me wondering - what's the meaning of whine and grine? A play off wine and dine?
- stoplying0
Based on the amount of sports betting/gambling advertising I see on Premier League jerseys, how prevalent is gambling among your average British citizen?
- It IS prevalent - 2:1
It IS NOT prevalent - 11:4Morning_star - <doesn't know anything about football>
I think that shit's for the int'l, asian market
</doesn't know anything about football>Nairn - Team sponsorship got fucked up the ass about 15 years ago. Shit's crazy these days.Nairn
- However much it is, I bet it won’t be as prevalent as it is down under.MrT
- Considering all adverts during matches say 'bet responsibly' I'd say they have a problem with people betting irresponsiblyIanbolton
- MrT: I read that the country has less than 1 per cent of the world’s population but more than 20 per cent of its slot machinesIanbolton
- It IS prevalent - 2:1
- 5timuli0
I’m Scottish, but is this a joke?
(Found today in a recipe book I bought 20+ years ago for £1.25)
- scarabin2
Why do you call it Scotland Yard rather than Scotland Meter?
- 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
- Nairn14
Why did you vote for Brexit, you fucking idiots?
- I chortled.Continuity
- :Dkingsteven
- LOLpango
- They got confused by bus adverts.garbage
- our benefits system is not reciprocated in other eu countries so we got an influx of people taking advantage of it. cheap foreign labour undercutting uk biz.trooperbill
- #cringefadein11
- Cameron got cocky after success in the Scottish Indyref. Migrant influx from the middle east (islam is v unpopular amongst the non chattering classes).Phrenological
- Pressure on public services (health, housing). Wages driven down by freedom of moevment laws. Gypsy street beggars,Phrenological
- Mission creep from the EU. ... loads of reasons budPhrenological
- lolNairn
- because they want independence.....
LOLpango - another Doris account?face_melter
- Unsure whether this is Robo pretending to be Scottish, Kuz, or some entirely unconsidered entity.Nairn
- Yeah, if anybody verfies Phrenological we'll have a lead.garbage
- oh it's Robo, as was Doris and Shabby. Blatantly obvious surely?fadein11
- You got jealous of our massively stupid bigotry in the US?CyBrainX
- cherub0
Are there any other sites like gumtree that are immensely popular in the UK that aren't known about/used outside the UK?
- I don't think so. I don't think we had a successful consolidated classified sales competitor over here.Nairn
- (I worked on such a thing back in 1999 or so as a part of my job at the time).Nairn
- I meant websites in general not necessarily just classifieds.cherub
- "like gumtree" as in useful as fuck. I love gumtree.cherub
- Did Loot ever go online?
Auto Trader?Fax_Benson - I mean Russia has livejournal so I thought maybe UK had some equivalent sites not used except inside UKcherub
- cherub0
On a scale from jaywalking (1) to guy fawkes (10), how serious a crime is not paying your yearly BBC usage fee?
If you moved away to Spain, and watched BBC I think you still have to pay it. Would you?
- we don't have a TV licence as there is enough streaming/DVD's to watch and most terrestrial is pretty grim, especially the news!Gardener
- so probably a 6Gardener
- Why would you watch BBC at all. There's honestly far better content on YouTube than all these networks offer.shapesalad
- Unless you're a brainless sheep and need generic entertainment and news pumped into your smooth brain cells.shapesalad
- You would think the licence fee steep if you only looked as far as Primetime BBC1. The breadth of stuff it funds is vast and really important, imo.Fax_Benson
- So BBC gets no money from none of yous? : ocherub
- "The BBC is largely financed by annual television licensing fees, which are paid by those who own TV sets..."cherub
- Ok well I'll just have to ring BBC and tell them nobody owns "television sets" anymore. Yesterday's technology yeah?cherub
- Interesting model, I didn’t know that. Our CBC is funded by all tax-payersGnash
- License fee is worth it for the radio and documentaires alonewoowahesque
- some of things it covers
https://www.tvlicens…Fax_Benson - a % also goes to competitors via Freeview, Freesat. And it helps prop up local journalism through its regional TV / Radio.Fax_Benson
- and you get access to an amazing archive of old content.
And zero commercials.Fax_Benson - The documentaries are really well done. Check out this one on El Salvador's street gangs https://youtu.be/EMq…cherub
- I've not had a license for years, nor do I watch BBC any more. I used to love it, but i find the spend on big budget pop crap obscene.Nairn
- Also, jaywalking isn't a crime in the UK (as too most of the civilised world), so your scale starts from zero.Nairn
- Ok well I can't think of a minor UK crime. Use your imagination.cherub
- Haven't paid for TV licence for maybe 5 years now. Just dont watch terrestrial TV. Fuck the BBC and their Paedo coverup.microkorg
- You dont need a licence for listening to BBC radio.microkorg
- Aye, thankfully - Radio programmes/Podcasts are the one area BBC still has a load of value for me.Nairn
- Haven't watched BBC in 15 years since working for the cunts. A national waste. Anyone that I know that's had to go to court for evading the case is thrown out.kingsteven
- Only thing I watch on the BBC is Match of the Day, but overall podcasts and Radio make me think why am I paying for a TV licence. It's habit more than anythingIanbolton
- Even radio though - the budgets are huge. I listened to some sci thing last night and presenter flew to Hawaii for about 10 minutes of interview. Why?Nairn
- Payment is honor system?monospaced
- ^ That's why I'm wondering too. Seems hard to enforce, no? Even if you click on a youtube video someone else uploaded, if it's BBC you're supposed to paycherub
- eh? That's not at all how it works. BBC can't charge for content on YouTube.Nairn
- Every occupied household has is assumed to have a TV, therefore billed every two years. If you don't watch BBC, you don't pay. If you do, you're supposed to.Nairn
- Sorry, billed annually,*checked* every two years. Check is 'honour system' - they come to your door, ask you, you're not supposed to lie.Nairn
- These days it's actually a bit easier to catch people as many people watch online. in the old days they'd just hassle you with letters and imply they could scanNairn
- ..your house with roaming 'TV detector vans'. They were bullshit. https://www.lightstr…Nairn
- They're actually quite a toothless commercial (but gov't mandated) organisation - like vampires, they can't cross threshold of your houseNairn
- ..without permission. The just *imply* they can, and so catch out a few gormless home biddies each year watching daytime TV without a license.Nairn
- They're actually quite nasty, so I leave it as long as I can every two years and get letters with ever-increasing amounts of warnings in red ink.Nairn
- Sorry, 'threats', not warnings.
I've barely had a cup of tea yet, which doesn't help when there's no edit feature here.Nairn
- MrT1
Is there any Marmite left there?
They've run out of it everywhere in Australia.
- utopian-3
Is British food really that bad?
- Of course not.MrT
- nope its yummytrooperbill
- Nope it’s actually quite good.Chimp
- NoHayzilla
- Definitely not, we rinsed our colonial territories for some mighty fine cuisine. Most of it evident in some form of another in our high streets.Morning_star
- Define badOBBTKN
- lolcherub
- cherub0
Please tell me this is a joke video. Is it?
- I've just been trolled by someone named Jade.cherub
- she sounds dumb as fuck...posh 4 shoutopian
- maybe she just hit the bottle?utopian
- Ok now she's trolling. How am I supposed to take posh advice from someone who talks like this? https://youtu.be/9Z8…cherub
- Do Americans have a version of "Posh"?Hayzilla
- As in, how would you describe someone like Frasier?Hayzilla
- Our lack of ever having a royal class means there isn't a true sense of "posh" here since our highest class isn't royalty or close to it... our highest class ischerub
- probably our most loved movie stars or celebrities. But they don't all share identifiable mannerisms like the British posh. Another high group, which fraziercherub
- could be classified as would be rich, stuck-up "snobs." But they don't all have Frazier's pretentious mannerisms. Like here https://youtu.be/HPD…cherub
- Elliot and his wife are very superficial, very rich snobs but the way they talk isn't so noticeable from other Americans.cherub
- cherub0
Is it true there is no prenuptial agreement in the UK?
- No.Morning_star
- There of course is the option but seldom taken.Hayzilla
- whatthefunk2
- Good for the cash money money.PhanLo
- https://i.ytimg.com/…Nairn
- Yes! And Irish LOLHayzilla
- scarabin4
Do your web browsers use biscuits to improve user experience?
- You mean the Cookie Path? we like to use the full term - Biscuit SidewalkMorning_star
- Indeed. They use a specially coded version of Digestive. Although, in Scotland browsers are, by law, required to use sausage rolls instead of 'cookies'.face_melter
- face_melter has forgotten that the snp has now insisted on the use of bridies to ensure a proper scottish experiencehans_glib
- [scarabin has left the chat]Nairn
- Well, it was sausage rolls when I lived in Scotland. Granted, that was over 10 years ago, the price of progress I suppose.face_melter
- I think that he meant Crumpetsutopian
- cherub0
Chavs, how do they work?
-How would you define a chav?
-What the fuck is it with chavs and burberry? Is burberry like their spirit animal or something?
- what year is it? i miss chavskingsteven
- ha, a friend got ticked off recently because she described a bunch of post-hipster Hackneyites as 'chavvy' - apparently that was not PC of her, lolNairn
- chavs are basically the white underclasshans_glib
- mmm, it's a bit more nuanced than that - they're definitely part of the white underclass, but they're a product of it, not it in its entiriety.Nairn
- This is why I asked for a definition.cherub
- derogatory term for young people from lower income families c. 2000-10. britian's last true fashion sub culture. now kids come pre-lobotomised/ tiktok enabled.kingsteven
- eh, I remember chavs not being a new thing in the early 90s. Or 'charvers' as they say in certain parts.Nairn
- Funny - where my gran lived there was a distinct difference in the kids I 'grew up with', some of whom would definitely fit the chav description. Neds, rather.Nairn
- I got totally shit-faced on Bucky, sitting in the drizzle on a 70s era Catholic school's steps, when I was about 15. Poor Gran just thought I was ill...Nairn
- ..tried to give me a 'cure' made up of something like milk and a drop of whisky the morning after. i winced like fuck. Grandad knew it was electric juiceNairn
- For me, coming from sunny Spain, it was an interesting cultural dip.Nairn
- yeah, not at all new to the 2000's but that was the era of the chav, synonymous with the impending death of subcultures and the middle class :)kingsteven
- now it would seem youth culture is just cyborgs wearing an homogenised amalgamation of hip-hop and terrace fashionkingsteven
- In the north west they are called scallies. Basically a shit taste in sports cloths and bad attitude to life. You can even have rich chavs too.Chimp