Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
- Started 5 years ago
- Last post 2 months ago
- 108 Responses
- 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
- DaveO1
This cracked me up being an ex pat:
- 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
- cherub0
How long until we send Welshies into space?
- 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)
- Gardener0
postcard from the Welsh town in 1908
- 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?
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ********1
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
- utopian1
Is Boris as big a clown, douchebag and freeloader as reporter?
Boris Johnson has told friends he is broke and has to accept free holidays and meals from donors.
- ********-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 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
- cherub0
Does anyone ever really expect the spanish inquisition?
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