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- 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
- 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
- whatthefunk2
- Good for the cash money money.PhanLo
- https://i.ytimg.com/…Nairn
- Yes! And Irish LOLHayzilla
- pango0
why?
- 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
- i_was0
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
- _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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- sarahfailin0
i seriously lol'd at whatthefunk's opening post!
- garbage0
Can any of you explain the massive bungle-job that was the Battle of Saratoga?
You could have had us.
- 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
- scarabin3
How do your children survive with so many readily available Kinder Eggs?
- diabetestrooperbill
- It's a good population controlChimp
- lolmoldero