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- grafician0
Who is Banksy?
- The chat is that he is supposedly the skinny, white, dude from Massive Attack.face_melter
- But who knows?face_melter
- You mean 3D?! No! Noo!grafician
- That’s interesting because robert del naja is colo(u)rblind; Banksy’s art is almost always black and whitescarabin
- @scarabin aren't you a designer? black and white and a little red is the most effective way to make something pop mategrafician
- He was also a street artist... but i guess everyone was back thenscarabin
- Yeah that doesn't stick for so many reasons, we might never know who Banksy is...grafician
- Banksy is a collective.garbage
- scarabin0
The narrator’s accent in the beginning... he sounds like danger mouse. Where is that from?
- It's Eddie Izzard, back when he was a man.zardoz
- izzard was born in aden (british colony in yemen), raised in northern ireland and then rural wales. a mad combo of lesser heard british accentskingsteven
- Wow, i didn’t recognize izzard at allscarabin
- utopian0
Will the monarchy continue and survive?
- Yeah, there are still enough people who can't think critically.Chimp
- Probably not. The Queen was actually respected some what, the rest of the royal muppets not so muchgrafician
- We will enter a 'bear market' in terms of the Royals while 'sausage fingers' Charles is in the seat, until Will takes over...shapesalad
- and thusly Kate is Queen.. then expect a 'bull run'. That will be the glory days. Then it'll die... but at the last moment Megan will take the throne in a coup.shapesalad
- You know it's super good for tourism, but that's largely as we had granny queen which was charming.shapesalad
- cherub0
Does scotland have a rugby team? If so do you play teams mostly from mainland europe or UK only?
Are there nice beaches in Scotland or is it too cold?
- Some of the best beaches on the world are in Scotland and the north east coast of England (Bamburgh, for example
Not so bam, sadly). Cold though, yesNairn - They do indeed have a rugby team over there. They play in the 5 Nations and against Southern Hemisphere teams regularly.Brabo_Brabo
- 6 Nations eh. https://www.scottish…Brabo_Brabo
- Yep they do. So does Wales, England and Ireland. They play against teams like, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Argentina, Italy and France. Soma have team too.Chimp
- Some of the best beaches on the world are in Scotland and the north east coast of England (Bamburgh, for example
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- drgs0
From what I understand it's impossible to own land/property in UK?
Instead you lease it for 99 years and your children will never inherit it?- ha, there's a reason there's a "landed gentry". We have different types of property 'holding' some are 'freehold' others are timed leases.Nairn
- The former means you own the land, the latter means that someone else does, for whatever period. Can be up to 999 years I think.Nairn
- The latter tends to be more apparent in cities (eg. flats sitting on top of each other) or developments (by corporate construction companies).Nairn
- tbh, I only really came across the term when I moved to LDN where I can begin to understand how the latter arose. it is crazy though. Some people don't know..Nairn
- ..when they buy the property and realise belatedly they have to a) pay someone a periodic fee, b) have a reduced resale expectation.Nairn
- I assume its reflected in the price? Freehold is more expensive?drgs
- Presumably. I think it's more that leasehold tends to be relevant in more expensive places anyway.Nairn
- It's become A Thing in recent years because a lot of housing developments use increasingly employing leaseholds, and people aren't expecting it.Nairn
- ie. 'Leaseholds are indeed A Thing here in the UK, but it's not The Norm, mostly'.Nairn
- You can try and buy out a freehold too - it's not like it's set in stone that you have no chance to own your leasehold. Unless the property owner's a cunt.Nairn
- Which I guess is why construction companies are increasingly using them, to squeeze out another few thousand quid from homeowners.Nairn
- </dullboy>Nairn
- </goodinfo>cherub
- :) Point being - in area terms, most land in England is owned over multiple generations. To the point of disservice to the whole.Nairn
- Royalty, the Duke of Westminster, most other Rich English Cunt. etc etc.
The UK is a much trodden ground, no space left unvouched-for.Nairn - "Land tax is an annual tax levied at the end of the calendar year on all property you own that is above the land tax threshold"
Land tax is not helping?drgs
- cherub0
How do you become a sir?
- Schmooze with the right cunts.
Earn the crown a fuckload.
Be Ben Kingsley (no 'Sir', the cunt).Nairn - To be come knighted by the queen, which will make you a Sir and have MBE, OBE or CBE after your name is easy. Anyone can recommend anyone else for a...Morning_star
- ...knighthood. You need to be nominated by at least two peopl. There are forms to fill in but you must have achieved something for the country, the crown or...Morning_star
- ...your countrymen.Morning_star
- ^Nairn
- If I boldy slay coronavirus I could be a knight?cherub
- Funnily enough if you discovered the cure for COVID the that would likely get you a Knighthood. I know 3 ‘sirs’. One was a biologist who created one of the...Morning_star
- ...very resilient and productive species of wheat for growing in harsh climates, the second a teacher and the last a community leader from St Paul’s in...Morning_star
- ...Bristol. Selfless awesome people every one of them.Morning_star
- Schmooze with the right cunts.
- 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
- 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
- scarabin1
What’s the recipe for beans on toast?
- add worscester sauce and put melted cheese on top.trooperbill
- Mid-browned Toast.
Lurpak butter, lots.
Hot beans.
Perhaps a dash of Yorkshire Relish.Nairn - Oh, and Heinz beans only.Nairn
- Bread, ideally, should be two crust-ends from a thick cut 'plastic loaf' of bread.
Amount of butter should border upon the obscene.Nairn
- cherub0
Anyone in Cardiff today?
He's at the castle, above city centre. The crowds (queues) won't be as bad as London.
- Hold on, I'm wrong. Currently the king is at Senedd (welsh parliament) down by Cardiff Baycherub
- No one cares about the King, it's the lacquer of the the coffin everyone is queuing up for, the buff on that thing is outstanding.shapesalad
- cherub0
I know who Ian Blackford is, I've been listening to him speak for years. But I don't *really know who he is.
So he is the leader of the Scottish National Party(SNP). But so is Nicola Sturgeon. How can they both be the leader? Does the SNP have a devolved branch and a union branch? Or do they co-rule it?
Nicola Sturgeon, as 1st minister of Scotland outranks Ian Blackford or the other way around?
Does a low level position in House of Commons outrank a higher position in a devolved government?
- He's and MP and the leader of the other SNP MPs at Westminster.Brabo_Brabo
- Sturgeon is a MSP (member of the Scottish Parliament). She's also the leader of the whole SNP (and therefore outranks Blackford)Brabo_Brabo
- I wish her would replace Boris and lead the country he's great.shapesalad
- 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
- 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?
- MrT1
Is there any Marmite left there?
They've run out of it everywhere in Australia.