Ask the UK of the Day

  • Started 5 years ago
  • Last post 3 months ago
  • 108 Responses
  • drgs-1

    I thought it was a joke?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo…

    • Your wiki links to something fairly comprehendable, if not likeable.
      < That is.. I don't know what that is. But it is an obscenity, a mistake.
      Nairn
    • The English have been derided as 'Rosbifs' for centuries for a reason.Nairn
  • misterhow0

    Is this the end?

    Following further evaluation this morning, The Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision.

    The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.

    https://www.royal.uk/statement-b…

    • Followup question: Do any of you have sarcastic Queen Mum impressions?garbage
    • The fact that Charles and William are on there way to Balmoral doesn't suggest the most positive of outcomes.Morning_star
    • *theirMorning_star
    • never thought i'd see the day..zardoz
    • She lived a really long and great life.utopian
    • She's just fucking with the breakaway Sussex's Grand Tour.Nairn
    • Couple of babies and she'll be fine. Get them blended up nicely.PhanLo
    • SoonYakuZoku
  • 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

    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
  • 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
  • Ramanisky22

    looks delicious .. but a couple of questions

    is this really a brekky for 1 ??
    and is this a regular everyday brekky ??
    damn the eggs and sausage alone and I’m good.

    • Yes & absolutely not.Wolfboy
    • It's like a treat breakfast, but some folk will have that every single day.PhanLo
    • ^ Pheeeeew... thank you.
      Fuck, now I’m hungry.
      Ramanisky2
    • What exactly is that burnt toast looking thing?Ramanisky2
    • Black pudding
      https://en.wikipedia…
      PhanLo
    • tomatoes are not breakfast.
      one third of that is not food.
      imbecile
    • Love black pudding_niko
    • This is a pretty excessive example and +1 for a treat. A couple of unexpected items in the bagging area for me, but black pudding is not one of them!MrT
  • cherub0

    How much of the "Jacobite rebellion" story is taught in school in the UK? I don't mean university, I mean grade school, like age 14 and under. Would you be expected to have heard of "Jacobite" as part of your basic UK history?

    Like, I would expect the main bullets points of basic schoolboy british history to be something like:

    -The norman conquest
    -The transition from unquestionable royal rule to citizens having "rights"
    -The Magna Carta
    -Charles I bursting into the House of Commons to arrest MPs and then getting beheaded for it
    -The acts of Union
    -Having America, then America deciding to "see other people" lol
    -Some wars and revolutions I'm forgetting, maybe Culloden, maybe not.

    I'm asking all this because recently went down a DEEP rabbit hole having to do with Boleskin house on the shores of Loch Ness. Which led me to Colonel Archibald Fraser, who built modern Boleskin house to annoy someone as part of an inner clan feud. The cause of that feud having to do with the Jacobites losing the war they fought in 1746, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie.

    If you're from Scotland it's probably taught even in grade school. If you're English or Welsh... I dunno. Was it taught to you? Are the words "Jacobite" and "Culloden" foreign to you?

    For reference: The Battle of Culloden


    • American with the most Scottish surname imaginable, my dad made it clear early on that we were "not one of the French Scots".garbage
    • blimey i'm too old to remember properly but
      vikings
      bodicea
      alfred and the cakes
      norman conquest
      magna carta
      crusades
      agincourt
      henry viii /break with rome
      hans_glib
    • mary & liz / the armada
      raleigh/drake
      cromwell
      restoration
      colonies
      ww1/2
      hans_glib
    • not forgetting robert the bruce
      william wallace
      wat tyler
      tolpuddle martyrs
      wars of the roses
      jacobites
      hans_glib
    • ^ that plus... a fair amount of crossover into other subjects, i.e. English Literature where we studied the War Poets and Geography where we looked at fuedal...Morning_star
    • ...systems and the politics of the age and in Biology where we studied vaccines and the histoirical context.Morning_star
    • yeah you're clearly younger than me so you got the more interesting way of looking at history in a wider context than just a dreary rote of dates and deeds.hans_glib
    • ^^^I was surprised to see how feudal the clan system was.cherub
  • i_monk0

    Should you microwave your tea before or after adding the milk?

    • You absolute savage.Morning_star
    • they get upset over stuff like that. tea is a really big deal, it's like american football. a national pasttime that everyone takes pride in.cherub
    • If you go to the British Isles and you want to make it 100% clear that you're a foreigner ask everyone where the microwave is so u can make tea.cherub