Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- grafician0
Whois gonna be the next James Bond for certain?
- cherub1
Why?
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- oey_oey0
Can I have a glass of wa-ha?
- scarabin1
How many maths are there?
- How many mathematics are there?Continuity
- Onescarabin
- The 's' at the end of the word would suggest otherwise. Hence, the abbreviation 'maths'.Continuity
- 3 main branches. Functional analysis, abstract algebra and topology&geometrydrgs
- 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
- 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
- pango0
why?
- _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
- 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
- grafician0
How long until you kick Boris out?
- When the inbred old fuckers who run this shipwreck of a country decide he's outlived his usefulness the press barons will decide who they want next.Wolfboy
- My guess is 9 months to a year. The next PM will be Sunak or Gove.Wolfboy
- he's doing a great job! how dare you :)fadein11
- Sunak looks pretty good actuallygrafician
- on TV, but Sunak is a tiny person, shorter than Macron. Not that there's anything wrong with that but it's going to play against him within the party for sure.kingsteven
- Sunak and Macron sound Romulan or somethingscarabin
- I'd trust a Romulan more than I'd trust Sunak.Wolfboy
- 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
- scarabin8
Why do give the US shit about not using metric but still measure your weight in “stone”?
- hahautopian
- And is it true you won’t measure your dicks in cm?scarabin
- human height in feet and inches too, weight, pints and miles. i think all other contexts its metric? right?kingsteven
- Scarabin's got a valid point.pango
- How heavy is a stone anyway? A big Stone or small stone?pango
- What about a rock? or a pebble? or a group of seagulls?helloeatbreathedrive
- I am 160lbs, please count me in stones.garbage
- Are Yank/UK lbs the same? Pints are different & I think stones might be. And that's before we get on to the height of a horse. Fuck all that imperial bullshit.Wolfboy
- is UK stone bigger or US stone bigger?pango
- i didn't think they used stone in the states. just lbs. and i think it's always just 14lbs (which are the same)kingsteven
- Yeah, I'm wrong on that. The lb is the same and there isn't a US stone. But dogs can look up. @Garbage You're 11st 6lbWolfboy
- I cant believe American pints are 20% smaller. Something that screws with Brits in N.Ireland our spirit measures are 35ml rather than your 25, no idea why.kingsteven
- American pint is the same as anywhere.monospaced
- apparently not - US is 473 ml UK is 568 mlkingsteven
- ^ that is true.pango
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- sadly some restaurants here serves american pint and some serves regular pint.pango
- we kind of just adopt everything....
even when buying produce... some labels use lb and some use kg... T_Tpango - ok but what is your weight in kidney stones?!%sted
- I'M 11st 6lb stones?! Metric please, otherwise I'm calling Jenny Craig.garbage
- 11 6 is mid 70s kg. Teeny tiny lightweight for a man.Phrenological
- ^ you mean pretty much bang on healthy BMI for someone 6' 4" :Dkingsteven
- In Ulster - 35ml is approx 1/4 Gill (the traditional unit of spirits). Scotland the traditional uni was 1/5 Gill, hence the size difference.Phrenological
- Lolcannonball1978
- @Phren Nah, I'm actually just in really good shape.garbage
- 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
- 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
