Ask the UK of the Day
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- renderedred1
due to lack of other sports, mainly football i am watching cricket. i have no idea what's going on. and i understand baseball, thought it was similar, but those points man, overs, wickets and all that - nothing is clear.
is that the idea? confuse people until it's tea time?
*and yeah, what kind of game pauses for lunch and tea LOL- stick with it, there's a nerdy world of wonder waiting. It's not quite so esoteric as it seems. And the food intervals are key pinch points in the *action*Fax_Benson
- something genuinely thrilling will probably happen at some point - maybe Sunday afternoon. All the more thrilling for the relative tedium that precedes itFax_Benson
- ^will try, i just have to understand how points are counted first... i think :)renderedred
- commentators sound like a monty python sketch i swear!renderedred
- 2 x innings each. Dismiss other team (10 wkts) twice to win. Chances improved by batting 1st and scoring big = pressure on opponent. Draw acceptable outcome.Fax_Benson
- assuming you're watching the test matchFax_Benson
- so i'm to watch this until sunday every day to experience something significant? yes :) who's the favorite in this nz or en?renderedred
- i heard (over tea break) england is playing "frantically" whatever that means.renderedred
- but there are elements similar to baseball thorenderedred
- Eng would have been slight faves but are without more of their better players, so not much in it. frantically = shitFax_Benson
- it's well worth the effort but yes a little confusing if you didn't grow up playing/watching it. This test match is 2 miles from my house.fadein11
- Wish I'd gone now, a couple of friends have.fadein11
- Only the English could invent a game so interminably dull that it takes four days to reach a draw.face_melter
- That's a bit unfair. The only "Only The English could.." here is "..make a sport that has to stop and have the field covered up every time it drizzles".Nairn
- Cricket is one of our greatest gifts to the world. If you can't see the joy in a beery sat afternoon at a packed test match in the summer sun, it's your lossFax_Benson
- +1 faxfadein11
- GuyFawkes1
why you guys so calm with your old karen cunts?
these guys are great
- BaskerviIle0
^ renderedred
The best parts aren't really about the cricket:
- 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
- renderedred0
am i wrong or is nz actually doing really well? this conway fellow is good...
- grafician0
Can you explain Boris please?
- tailors hate him.fadein11
- Brits hate him********
- if onlyfadein11
- imagine your so polite your a retard. you are the UKkingsteven
- its calculated --- he bumbles to get empathytrooperbill
- because someone percived as a clown, can't also be seen as cold and calculatingNutter
- ^kingsteven
- ask Hartlepool, who'd've thought...MrT
- WTF is wrong with this dude?utopian
- He's like the slow version of Donnie Trumputopian
- As much as I dislike bojob, he's nowhere near the same domain as Trump - he's far from daft.Nairn
- A labrador in sheep's clothing.Nairn
- drgs1
Do people eat this
- The latter, for sure - it's a staple of ad hoc snacks for young teens - moreso a bun that you cavitate then stuff with crisps, in my experience.Nairn
- The former is a toast sandwich? I've heard of it, but it's not something I've ever encountered. Not entirely convinced it's not a joke...Nairn
- 1 can happen, but with lots of butter / jam etc. the contrast of soft bread with crunchy bread is well sought after by chinese tourists.shapesalad
- "very tempting to the appetite of an invalid"
https://en.wikipedia…drgs - Had many a 'crisp piece', but never a bread sandwich.PhanLo
- Shitty supermarket finger rolls with the sides split open, a la https://vole.wtf/but… is how remember these.Nairn
- They're even better with butter, right?
I mean, of course.
Everything's better with butter. Even butter.Nairn - Used to really like salad cream rolls, with butter (obvz)PhanLo
- I'm all for a crisp sandwich, but crinkle cut make a better one and Seabrook if I'm being really particular.MrT
- Potato Chips in bread. Holy shit that is sad.monospaced
- a bit like cheese in a spray can : PMrT
- @mono - it's a daft playground snack kids invented. Don't knock it 'til you try it.Nairn
- The entire cuisine is based upon austerity and povertyjmckinno
- Second atrocious, prepare for cancer.********
- @nairn I understand. ;)monospaced
- 1. Never seen let alone tried.
2. About twice a year.Hayzilla
- sarahfailin5
Why don't UK websites use "biscuits"?
- Because the language is English and we invented it. Live with it. ;)Morning_star
- lol morningfadein11
- Sconeutopian
- So you call them cookies. We invented those.monospaced
- Cookie comes from Dutch and was in use in both the UK and American colonies but had more staying power in the US.i_monk
- Web Cookies are named after Magic Cookies (UNIX) but the origin of Magic Cookies isn't clear.i_monk
- grafician-2
How can you let this happen?!
"Boris Johnson admits he has six children"
- scarabin0
Do you really give trick-or-treaters money on halloween?
How big a deal is halloween where you are?
- It's become a whore of a holiday that sucks the biggest commercial dick. All shops have Halloween themed bullshit. Gone are the days of a ghost story and...Morning_star
- ...bobbing for apples. I prefer to stay in with my kids, take drugs and perform a black mass.Morning_star
- yeah, fuck the amerikisation of halloween and all its shitty ripoffs. i have no part in it, preferring to wait a few days for some propah british pyromania.hans_glib
- +1 for the pyromania. Outside the US Halloween is a retail celebration. I miss fireworks, can't understand what Aus has against them and bonfires ... ...MrT
- It's popularity kind of plateaued in about 2005. Only people with kids under 10 trick or treat. Although since COVID it has pretty much stopped.Hayzilla
- And No... We never give out cash. Ever.Hayzilla
- ********0
To the Scots: Is it common for men to wear skirts in Scotland?
- At weddings and (national team) football/rugby very common.********
- (where skirt=kilt)********
- Yes for tourist areas and also at events where alcohol is consumed in great amounts.PhanLo
- I want to wear a skirt, but whatever day, I'm not gay by the way. This one: https://www.zalando.…********
- The Scotch dont like it when foik call kilts skirts. Akin to saying the wearer is a tranny. It could get violent.********
- Ay i_was i support youscarabin
- i_was you kept telling us your not gay. are you trying to tell us something?pango
- what's the different between skirt and kilt?pango
- To the English: Do you wax your vaginas before or after you Morris Dance?mrAtor
- At weddings and (national team) football/rugby very common.
- scarabin0
What is wrong with your dogs?
- PhanLo-2
Quite liked this
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- cherub0
What is a 'speccy bam' mean literally?
How close did this man come to getting smacked?
- Hahahah
Speccy = bespectacled
Bam = nutter (I think?)Nairn - so, a spectacle wearing weird person/freak?cherub
- I have to be honest I don't know what nutter means.cherub
- Madman. Crazy fucker. Bam is derogatory, but not overly so.Nairn
- Like, if a friend did something stupid you might get call them a 'daft bam' or somethingNairn
- It's short for 'bampot' https://stooryduster…********
- "ya prrrrrrrick"Hayzilla
- Hahahah
- 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.********
- 6 Nations eh. https://www.scottish…********
- 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
- 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.********
- Sturgeon is a MSP (member of the Scottish Parliament). She's also the leader of the whole SNP (and therefore outranks Blackford)********
- I wish her would replace Boris and lead the country he's great.shapesalad
- He's and MP and the leader of the other SNP MPs at Westminster.
- cherub0
So I'm listening to a live debate by parliament on the gender recognition act.
This question is for you scots.
I once asked where the toughest men in the uk were, geographically, and was told by someone on this very forum... "the toughest men in the uk are from the extreme north (Scotland)" ...further down south you go toward Brighton the more LGBT culture you see. So I took that to mean perhaps Scotland is more traditional with respect to gender.
Two scottish MP's that stood up to speak in this debate. One lesbian, one gay. If we broke this down into percentages, that's an LGBTQ representation of 100% by Scotland.
If parliamentary representation is based on the populace, are 100% of Scottish people gay and lesbian? If no, why are 100% of your politicians in this debate from the LGBT community?
Scottish Muslim population is no larger than 2% and Scottish Jewish population is currently less than .5%
What would be the outcry, if suddenly your parliament became ENTIRELY (100%) Muslim? Or Jewish?
Wouldn't it go something like... "wtf, how did this happen?" "Muslims taking over Scotland ffs!!!"
Explain yourself, Scotland. Is LGBT the minority or the majority? If it is the minority, why do you elect LGBT politicians as if it is the majority?
click the link to watch, can't embed live video directly
- These are the questions we really to be asking ourselves.palimpsest
- there are 59 Scottish constituencies in parliament. 2 gay MPs. 2% of Scotland identifies as LGBT. Most gay men are obsessed with masculinity,kingsteven
- most gay women are tough as fuck.kingsteven
- You should smoke either more or less crack.Nairn
- Perhaps the voters aren’t idiots who assume an LGBT candidate could only know how to represent LGBT citizens and no one else.********
- Unfortunately the LGBT politicians in this video didn't do what you just claimed they could do.cherub
- You can't even get them to say "Heterosexual rights" much less defend it.cherub
- you really don't understand how parliament works. this is an e-petition debate (when a publicly submitted petition gets 100k votes there is a debate)kingsteven
- it's compulsory then. that explains why it wasn't held in the normal place.cherub
- The Scottish parliament supported reform in 2017 as did a public consultation in 2020 conducted by the UK parliament and the EU (the current act was judgedkingsteven
- behind human rights standards) so the petition is to stop the gov't dragging their feet and pass the reform that already has supportkingsteven
- because only 7 of the 59 Scottish MPs in the UK parliament are Conservatives it would be a good chance to stick it to them even if they weren't gaykingsteven
- so representational in that the vast majority of scots dislike the gov't - even if you weren't entirely wrong about everything elsekingsteven
- scarabin3
I got one of these in a trade. I wanna try it. What’s the best way?
- Trade it in again for Marmite!
On toast is the traditional Aussie way I believe, but I'll let an actual Aussie confirm that...MrT - I like Veg/Marmite with peanut butter but that's not universal.MrT
- ^ wow!oey_oey
- On toast or a cracker.Chimp
- On toast, with peanut butter is a delight. In a stock certainly adds richnessIanbolton
- Buttered toast, spread it thin.
I need to try it with peanut butter, that sounds fucked up.sausages - on toast, with butter, and only use a tiny bit per slice, like half a teaspoon even if that...inteliboy
- https://www.196flavo…inteliboy
- Wat a sec, why are you asking UK about vagina mite?sausages
- Make suet pastry with proper beef kidney fat. Roll out thin. Spread veggie/marmite on 1/2 of it. Grate cheddar cheese on it. Fold in half. Roll, fold. Cut intoshapesalad
- Cut into 2cm stripes. Bake. Enjoy.shapesalad
- Lightly spread over buttered toast. Get fancy and put an avocado on top of that. That’s my go to breakfast when avos are in season.thumb_screws
- Vegemite > marmite. Anyone disagrees I’ll meet your in Woolies car park and fight you.thumb_screws
- spread on toast, place strong cheddar on top, melt with one of those chef's blowtorches.Fax_Benson
- Put in a cheese toastie.slappy
- Put it in bin, go out and treat yourself to a hot dog from a gas station.Nairn
- Anallybezoar
- Nairn the only honest mf here********
- wash it down with some bleach..and after that ... bleach.neverscared
- On a cracker between two steamed bunsfuturefood
- Lol @NaimKrassy
- I love how y’all are suggesting taking this intense (nasty) stuff and basically saying to eat it straight (on toast). :)monospaced
- Yeah, sorry i confused this stuff with marmite. Gonna try it on some buttered toast and some pb’d toast whenever my stomach wakes up and i get hungryscarabin
- Thanks all!scarabin
- Marmite is the original and best, Vegemite is simply the copy. Let's hope I get the right Woolies car park...MrT
- Had it on toast w/ good butter. I can dig it. Honestly i think it could be used to help lend a meaty umami flavor to seitan. I sprinkled shallots on at the endscarabin
- I specifically remember vegemite tasting like burnt crap, and marmite only tasting marginally better. Avoid both.cherub
- Miso on buttered toast. Then a B12 supplement. Just as good.shapesalad
- Trade it in again for Marmite!
