Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- Gardener18
- HAHAHAHAHA... I'm crying!necromation
- Foreskins crumble tube LMAOutopian
- dry potato dry.. don't knock it.shapesalad
- Nothing wrong with Pig Flaps 'n' Wheat!Continuity
- What's in a word? (mystery meat & fat, mostly)NonEntity
- Meat Envelope that's actually made in Devon / Cornwall is usually damn goodNonEntity
- Mince disappointment lol.cherub
- Blackberry Jam Clag with scrambled egg all day.garbage
- These all sound like genital euphemisms. “Ohh yeah, put your buttered tube in my meat prison”scarabin
- https://i.redd.it/ir…scarabin
- Lols. I will do anything for a fat slice of innards prison.MrT
- Brown
LOL!Krassy - my local pub near work has stopped selling Innards Prison and Branston Pickle at lunch ... TRAVESTY !_me_
- Agh my dads wife makes Mince Disappointment all too often.ben_
- Innards Prison rofl!microkorg
- I once played bass for Devon Meat Envelopescarabin
- I haven't seen my wifes Devon Meat Envelope for 7 weeks!Hayzilla
- moldero18
are dentists a thing there yet?
- https://media.tenor.…scarabin
- LOLgrafician
- https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- lmao scarabingsea_sea
- aahahah lolsted
- https://media.tenor.…pango
- I knew it would come to this lol.garbage
- check will ferrels teeth.trooperbill
- teeth are illegal in the UK. have been since the late 18th century.face_melter
- lol facefadein11
- Teeth singular, right?Nairn
- Until a few years ago, this kind of comment always irritated me. Along with "British food is shit". I mean, both can be true... but compared to the US?!Nairn
- have you tried their freedom fries? it's pretty good.pango
- 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
- 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 dinernb
- 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
- Nairn14
Why did you vote for Brexit, you fucking idiots?
- I chortled.Continuity
- :Dkingsteven
- LOLpango
- They got confused by bus adverts.garbage
- our benefits system is not reciprocated in other eu countries so we got an influx of people taking advantage of it. cheap foreign labour undercutting uk biz.trooperbill
- #cringefadein11
- Cameron got cocky after success in the Scottish Indyref. Migrant influx from the middle east (islam is v unpopular amongst the non chattering classes).Phrenological
- Pressure on public services (health, housing). Wages driven down by freedom of moevment laws. Gypsy street beggars,Phrenological
- Mission creep from the EU. ... loads of reasons budPhrenological
- lolNairn
- because they want independence.....
LOLpango - another Doris account?face_melter
- Unsure whether this is Robo pretending to be Scottish, Kuz, or some entirely unconsidered entity.Nairn
- Yeah, if anybody verfies Phrenological we'll have a lead.garbage
- oh it's Robo, as was Doris and Shabby. Blatantly obvious surely?fadein11
- You got jealous of our massively stupid bigotry in the US?CyBrainX
- 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 herenb
- 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!
- scarabin10
Why can’t i get through a single episode of Doctor Who?
- loldopepope
- lolgarbage
- LOL!oey_oey
- Each post gets funnier.monospaced
- The old or new Doctor Who ? the old is the shiti_was
- The new. Last i heard was some nonsense about flying space dragons laying magical eggs and now the doctor is a woman?scarabin
- What series of the old stuff should i start on?scarabin
- Fucking lolmaquito
- Oh I don't remember, was looong time ago, start with first episode? Yep and new looks so fucking dumb.i_was
- the new one? cuz its shittrooperbill
- The Tom Baker run is God-tier. Production is wobbly, but the writing is excellent. And Tom just revels in the character, a joy to watch.face_melter
- https://66.media.tum…Gardener
- John Pertwee and Tom Baker era have some great episode arcsPhrenological
- Davidson, McCoy not so great. The newer 'woke' stuff is shite.Phrenological
- Noted, thanksscarabin
- Dr Who has always been shitemrAtor
- 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
- maquito7
Why do you wear soccer shirts all the time?
- This is a fantastic question.garbage
- show support for the tribe. why do americans wear polo shirts all of the time.trooperbill
- Nobody wears polo shorts because of the sport.monospaced
- It's a bit of a Eurotrash thing too.
I cringe to fuck when abroad and I see some invariably subburnt twat in a Brit footie top. Trés Pleb. /pretentious twatNairn - the full kit wanker in the supermarket is a sight to behold. can't help staring - "this adult has a job, a car, a family... do they know?"kingsteven
- See chavs, generally.MrT
- MrT4
- im a hard porridge covered in milk chocolate kind of guy- oh and party rings!trooperbill
- party rings are truly food of the godshans_glib
- party rings are pure pricks. Attractive, from afar yes, but ultimately nasty bitches with too much makeup.Morning_star
- I am northern and I really do like an ant sandwich.MrT
- Hard bastard is for dunking in your Hot 'n Brown Ditch Juice. Read the instructions.NonEntity
- ...follow the dunking procedure. Once it sinks to the bottom and disintegrates it is rendered sweetly turd-like in texture.NonEntity
- Is hard porridge a HobNob? That's my jam.Hayzilla
- You mean cookiesHijoDMaite
- can I have my time back please? (and a cookie for my troubles?)PonyBoy
- With what do you have an issue at the end, that wasn't evident at the beginning?MrT
- cherub0
On a scale from jaywalking (1) to guy fawkes (10), how serious a crime is not paying your yearly BBC usage fee?
If you moved away to Spain, and watched BBC I think you still have to pay it. Would you?
- we don't have a TV licence as there is enough streaming/DVD's to watch and most terrestrial is pretty grim, especially the news!Gardener
- so probably a 6Gardener
- Why would you watch BBC at all. There's honestly far better content on YouTube than all these networks offer.shapesalad
- Unless you're a brainless sheep and need generic entertainment and news pumped into your smooth brain cells.shapesalad
- You would think the licence fee steep if you only looked as far as Primetime BBC1. The breadth of stuff it funds is vast and really important, imo.Fax_Benson
- So BBC gets no money from none of yous? : ocherub
- "The BBC is largely financed by annual television licensing fees, which are paid by those who own TV sets..."cherub
- Ok well I'll just have to ring BBC and tell them nobody owns "television sets" anymore. Yesterday's technology yeah?cherub
- Interesting model, I didn’t know that. Our CBC is funded by all tax-payersGnash
- License fee is worth it for the radio and documentaires alonewoowahesque
- some of things it covers
https://www.tvlicens…Fax_Benson - a % also goes to competitors via Freeview, Freesat. And it helps prop up local journalism through its regional TV / Radio.Fax_Benson
- and you get access to an amazing archive of old content.
And zero commercials.Fax_Benson - The documentaries are really well done. Check out this one on El Salvador's street gangs https://youtu.be/EMq…cherub
- I've not had a license for years, nor do I watch BBC any more. I used to love it, but i find the spend on big budget pop crap obscene.Nairn
- Also, jaywalking isn't a crime in the UK (as too most of the civilised world), so your scale starts from zero.Nairn
- Ok well I can't think of a minor UK crime. Use your imagination.cherub
- Haven't paid for TV licence for maybe 5 years now. Just dont watch terrestrial TV. Fuck the BBC and their Paedo coverup.microkorg
- You dont need a licence for listening to BBC radio.microkorg
- Aye, thankfully - Radio programmes/Podcasts are the one area BBC still has a load of value for me.Nairn
- Haven't watched BBC in 15 years since working for the cunts. A national waste. Anyone that I know that's had to go to court for evading the case is thrown out.kingsteven
- Only thing I watch on the BBC is Match of the Day, but overall podcasts and Radio make me think why am I paying for a TV licence. It's habit more than anythingIanbolton
- Even radio though - the budgets are huge. I listened to some sci thing last night and presenter flew to Hawaii for about 10 minutes of interview. Why?Nairn
- Payment is honor system?monospaced
- ^ That's why I'm wondering too. Seems hard to enforce, no? Even if you click on a youtube video someone else uploaded, if it's BBC you're supposed to paycherub
- eh? That's not at all how it works. BBC can't charge for content on YouTube.Nairn
- Every occupied household has is assumed to have a TV, therefore billed every two years. If you don't watch BBC, you don't pay. If you do, you're supposed to.Nairn
- Sorry, billed annually,*checked* every two years. Check is 'honour system' - they come to your door, ask you, you're not supposed to lie.Nairn
- These days it's actually a bit easier to catch people as many people watch online. in the old days they'd just hassle you with letters and imply they could scanNairn
- ..your house with roaming 'TV detector vans'. They were bullshit. https://www.lightstr…Nairn
- They're actually quite a toothless commercial (but gov't mandated) organisation - like vampires, they can't cross threshold of your houseNairn
- ..without permission. The just *imply* they can, and so catch out a few gormless home biddies each year watching daytime TV without a license.Nairn
- They're actually quite nasty, so I leave it as long as I can every two years and get letters with ever-increasing amounts of warnings in red ink.Nairn
- Sorry, 'threats', not warnings.
I've barely had a cup of tea yet, which doesn't help when there's no edit feature here.Nairn
- whatthefunk2
What exactly are chavs, are these people considered chavs, why chavs?
- Council Housed And Violent.Morning_star
- That's the Spice Girls, you twat.face_melter
- I wouldn’t say they were Chav’s. More like scutters. Your typical Chav is a little more embracing of counterfeit high end fashion labels, particularly Burberry.Morning_star
- that's a pretty diverse picture.oey_oey
- Is this a CHAV or a Scutter? https://hips.hearsta…scarabin
- These people ex pats from the USA.utopian
- Sportsdirect bag, lol, I think the one on the right is even more vilei_was
- This is reason why as a English gentleman my ex-girlfriends and now wife have all been foreign babes.shapesalad
- Kate Middleton is the only UK girl worth dating.shapesalad
- There's a certain type of person who states bluntly they'll never date their own. Typically implies any perceived failing lies with them.Nairn
- As for the photo, up North they're just..
http://viz.co.uk/201…Nairn - if the lighting wasn't so typically grey and depressing any of these individuals could be American.fadein11
- 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
- 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.i_was
- @nairn I understand. ;)monospaced
- 1. Never seen let alone tried.
2. About twice a year.Hayzilla
- garbage4
I figured I should follow with a picture of my own. Took a tedious trip down the most frustrating street in the city to get a shit ton of CFA.
I forgot what my question was. (loving these threads, btw)
- scarabin3
I don’t know anything at all about boris, but can i adopt him? Poor guy looks so worn out all the time, like he’s run out of gin and his wife doesn’t love him
Do we like him? He’s so adorable.
- Yes you can. I'll start the paperwork now.Hayzilla
- Don't fall for his schtick, scarabin. He won't stay. He'll just get you pregnant and then drop you for the next one.Fax_Benson
- my mum loves boris, he's like boomer Pikachukingsteven
- My impression is that BoJo is like Trump, except the ditzy and disheveled part is a calculated act and he's not an actual moron. Y/N?garbage
- Very much so Garbage. It's almost like he sums up the current state of popularist politics quite nicely.Ianbolton
- Be interesting to see his party deal with current allegations of cronyism and financial dealings with tax-payers moneyIanbolton
- Be interesting to see the Labour Party offer a viable alternative.Morning_star
- Yeah. Indeed. So are Labour for the regulation of tax payers money and the Tories for pure deregulation? It makes no sense anymoreIanbolton
- The UKs poltical landscape looks like the aftermath of the Somme at the moment. An incoherent wasteland of wasted life and abject horror, nothing was achieved.Morning_star
- @ian Thanks. I seem to recall an interview where he made sure that his hair looked like shit before interviews. And that the whole..garbage
- ..stuck cable glide thing was a publicity stunt.garbage
- Across the pond we just foist actual morons and sex criminals to the top. Happens more organically here.garbage
- scarabin4
Do your web browsers use biscuits to improve user experience?
- You mean the Cookie Path? we like to use the full term - Biscuit SidewalkMorning_star
- Indeed. They use a specially coded version of Digestive. Although, in Scotland browsers are, by law, required to use sausage rolls instead of 'cookies'.face_melter
- face_melter has forgotten that the snp has now insisted on the use of bridies to ensure a proper scottish experiencehans_glib
- [scarabin has left the chat]Nairn
- Well, it was sausage rolls when I lived in Scotland. Granted, that was over 10 years ago, the price of progress I suppose.face_melter
- I think that he meant Crumpetsutopian
- grafician0
Can you explain Boris please?
- tailors hate him.fadein11
- Brits hate himnb
- 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
- i_was-2
Hey I have a question: do most English eat English breakfast? or you English people here do you take an English breakfast? or are they many English who will never have English breakfast and find it absurd?
- An English Breakfast is just a good, hearty British Breakfast as would be found - with variations - all across the UK. Most don't start each day with one.Nairn
- Fucking Covid. I can't remember the last time I had a full breakfast fromin a cafe.Nairn
- And next time I go to a hotel the fucking buffet breakfast will probably be extinct.
Bunch of fucker.Nairn - If you're a cab or truck driver, you probably start the day with a full english.
Lucky fat fuckers.Nairn - It’s more of a weekend treat.Chimp
- lol, okay that was clear!i_was
- I eat them as a treat. But some folk rock them every day. Like Nairn said 'Lucky fat truckers!'PhanLo
- Yeah the odd weekend treat. Got to include black pudding though!MrT
- English Breakfast is also a kind of tea to enjoy with your English Breakfast.inteliboy
- @MrT defo black pudding, I also like HP sauce with it. PerfectPhanLo
- I ate it nearly everyday. I think they eat it often but keep in mind it's alot of ingredients, not the easiest thing to cook nor the cheapest. The black puddingcherub
- and mushrooms are so so good. The whole thing is good but esp that.cherub
- it made more sense in the past when you could be working down t'pit or losing limbs in a steel works. Not so if you're a knitting influencer or latte artist.MrT
- Second best brekkie next to pancakes.
Reserved for hangover days.Projectile - The best is when you banged a girl, and you take her for hungover breakfast at a greasy spoon (the place to get English breakfast)Projectile
- Fuck me cherub you had an English Breakfast everyday?! You must have some health issues or be a labourer. Once a week max is wise.Hayzilla
- I find the question almost impossible to understand so I can't comment.Hayzilla
- English breakfast for most English people is more like a rare treat. It's like asking Americans if they really have 50 waffles with bacon and maple syrup everykalkal
- morning, difference being is we don't.kalkal
- i_was1
What are the main differences between the south and north of England? for ex. is the south less industrialized?
- fairies - South
monkeys - North_me_ - no. the difference is the south has london which soaks up all the cashtrooperbill
- In terms of country side, north is more rugged and rough and so feels untamed and more natural.shapesalad
- South, especially near London, has the most miserable house style I’ve seen. Characterless little boxes. North has old mining villages and market towns.shapesalad
- South has more diversity, more wealth, more class, more education. North is far more friendly and fat.shapesalad
- the main difference is up north they like a creamy head on their beer. down south the head is more natural and fades away quite quickly.hans_glib
- the south is more populated so it's harder to escape the madding crowd. less people and more open space oop northhans_glib
- South is more affluent and less industrial, over crowded, green space is agricultural too. The north is friendlier but obviously has a grudge about southerners.Hayzilla
- "South, especially near London, has the most miserable house style I’ve seen. Characterless little boxes." this is the exact impression I got of the UK. spot oncherub
- Coming from the states, the houses in England look so vanilla it's depressing. The row houses, not the nice ones with gardens.cherub
- So there are nice ones is what you’re saying? Anyway give me an old terrace over a soulless McMansion any day.MrT
- These are nice. http://st2.depositph…cherub
- http://live.staticfl…cherub
- These are an eyesore. http://live.staticfl…cherub
- http://waterspropert…cherub
- ^Can you imagine being a landlord and having tenants fight over which one that get to live in? "I was in queue first for that one!" "NO I WAS!" tenant: "oh shutcherub
- "oh shut it they all look exactly alike u muppets"cherub
- fairies - South
- scarabin1
What brand/type of tea should i be drinking and serving?
- risky question mate
https://www.youtube.…grafician - You'll probably get more grief regarding how it's made than which one it is... I like Yorkshire Tea but that's bleedin obvious.MrT
- I’ve heard good things about yorkshirescarabin
- Also, what is the best biscuit for tea?scarabin
- So many possibilities... for me a bourbon, choc digestive or (I'll get flamed no doubt) a fig roll.
Or a Mitsubishi.MrT - For British-style Black Tea - Yorkshire Gold, scarabin. I keep trying alternative 'better' teas but meh. Whatever you do - NOT Tetleys or fucking Lipton.Nairn
- Every time I go abroad I take a bag filled with enough teabags for at least 2x the days I'm away. Actually, anytime I leave home, even in the UK.Nairn
- ..er.. I don't mean 'every time i leave home' like 'when I go to work or for a walk in the park'. That would be a bit weird.Nairn
- I also take tea-bag supplies on hols.MrT
- teabags are the devil's work. loose tea is the only tea to drinkhans_glib
- I worked at one of the Rothshchild's houses a couple of years back, and he offered to make me a tea but I refused saying that I preferred my bagged YT to hisNairn
- ...no doubt infinitely-better leaf tea (i'd brought a flask of my own stuff to drink thorugh the day). He looked at me with total bewilderment.Nairn
- Yorkshire Tea is my brand.Hayzilla
- Surprised there's so many votes for Yorkshire, I'm really not a fan. Either 2xPG tips bags or 2xTwinings Earl Gray, I like it strong.kalkal
- 2x bags of PG is exactly my long-trailing emergency runner-up to a Yorkshire Gold :)Nairn
- risky question mate