Ask the UK of the Day
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- drgs-1
I thought it was a joke?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo…
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Drool! Fuggin love black pudding!sab
- Pass on the black pudding. What the frig are those circular things at the bottom?kalkal
- 1 - yes, 2 - no, 3 - I think this was your main meal till tea, if you worked in the field. Lunch was a snack on the go, as people relied on natural lightmaikel
- Oh my... I usually have juice and water for breakfast until 11am, I see this and it makes me want to puke!OBBTKN
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- that's not a proper english breakfast - there's no fried bread ffs.
no idea what those two small discs at the front are. hash browns are a us import.hans_glib - its the - get cancer and a heartattack as fast as possible - breakfast.neverscared
- @hans, US import or not, you can't deny some sort of fried potato is an excellent breakfast addition.Continuity
- Never ate a real english breakfast, only the vegetarian version. fucking love it. sometimes I do it for the family with meat as well.oey_oey
- for me since I'm vegan I pass the egg but recently I saw a recipe for vegan fried egg so I will have to try it.oey_oey
- "vegan fried egg"
Do tell us more!palimpsest - -1 needs to use the sausage as a breakwater for the beanskingsteven
- I get this when I’m in full England but at home in America it’s bacon and eggs, home fries and toast at a diner********
- Tomatoes are not breakfast? Ever heard of BLT's?jagara
- MDRpalimpsest
- @continuity, you've clearly never tasted the pure unaldulterated joy that is fried bread, or you'd never have said that.hans_glib
- hash browns are lovely, but not in a full english. they belong in the yank version, with that sad excuse for bacon they have over there, and eggs over easyhans_glib
- toast and jelly.hans_glib
- ulster version of this is usually the same with more bread. agree with the hash browns, this one is particularly huge too, latke territorykingsteven
- i do love a full english, but there's a lot of shitty versions. Decent quality sausages and bacon make it extra special. Fried bread I've never gotten into thoIanbolton
- I still wanna know about the vegan fried egg.palimpsest
- I got my answer: https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest
- Goodness, hans - I figured you'd know those were white pudding at the bottom there.Nairn
- ^ oh yeah, didn't spot that. What the hell's white pudding?Ianbolton
- ^ Not-black pudding, obvs.Continuity
- Only thing that looks shit on this plate is that undercooked bacon. Fuck sake.
But still want to try a bit of everything else.Ramanisky2 - you have to be american. that's how proper bacon should look. tbh it should be collar not back but no-one eats collar any more :(hans_glib
- @detritus, doh, of course! it looked suspiciously industrial so i mistook it for some sort of oaty biscuit horrorhans_glib
- I want to try some of this collar bacon. Provided it isn't normally smoked, and just cured, one could probably easily make it at home, too.Continuity
- Collar is good, but less common (in AU anyway). Proper bacon for me is streaky.MrT
- Typical 'Scottish Breakfast' if you go to a decent B&B. You'd get cereal, then some toast and jam, then you'd be asked what you want for your fry-up.microkorg
- Sets you up for the day if you're going to be out all day hiking in the highlands ;)microkorg
- So does cold-soaked instant mash.palimpsest
- I ate this almost daily in Wales for over a month when I was there. It was the only noteworthy food I ate in the UK. The mushrooms are missing from ur pic,cherub
- the sausage is heavenly, the hashbrowns don't belong, and the black pudding is delicious. Beans are filler, if u are a large lad.cherub
- That's a bowl cloggerstoplying
- 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 romehans_glib - mary & liz / the armada
raleigh/drake
cromwell
restoration
colonies
ww1/2hans_glib - not forgetting robert the bruce
william wallace
wat tyler
tolpuddle martyrs
wars of the roses
jacobiteshans_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
- Imagine being a sharecropper one day, and the next day someone taps u on the shoulder... hey bud we're going to war. get ur lochaber and follow me.cherub
- (the poorest recruits would not have much more than a dirk and some farm implements as weapons)cherub
- also: the reference that garbage made is mentioned at 12:05 in the videocherub
- @hans: alfred and the cakes, agincourt, raleigh/drake, wat tyler, and tolpuddle martyrs ...were complete surprises, never heard of em. I don't even know basiccherub
- British history, apparently.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