Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- pango0
why?
- whatthefunk2
- Good for the cash money money.PhanLo
- https://i.ytimg.com/…Nairn
- Yes! And Irish LOLHayzilla
- 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
- 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
- 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
Is it true there is no prenuptial agreement in the UK?
- No.Morning_star
- There of course is the option but seldom taken.Hayzilla
- 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.
- cherub0
Chavs, how do they work?
-How would you define a chav?
-What the fuck is it with chavs and burberry? Is burberry like their spirit animal or something?
- what year is it? i miss chavskingsteven
- ha, a friend got ticked off recently because she described a bunch of post-hipster Hackneyites as 'chavvy' - apparently that was not PC of her, lolNairn
- chavs are basically the white underclasshans_glib
- mmm, it's a bit more nuanced than that - they're definitely part of the white underclass, but they're a product of it, not it in its entiriety.Nairn
- This is why I asked for a definition.cherub
- derogatory term for young people from lower income families c. 2000-10. britian's last true fashion sub culture. now kids come pre-lobotomised/ tiktok enabled.kingsteven
- eh, I remember chavs not being a new thing in the early 90s. Or 'charvers' as they say in certain parts.Nairn
- Funny - where my gran lived there was a distinct difference in the kids I 'grew up with', some of whom would definitely fit the chav description. Neds, rather.Nairn
- I got totally shit-faced on Bucky, sitting in the drizzle on a 70s era Catholic school's steps, when I was about 15. Poor Gran just thought I was ill...Nairn
- ..tried to give me a 'cure' made up of something like milk and a drop of whisky the morning after. i winced like fuck. Grandad knew it was electric juiceNairn
- For me, coming from sunny Spain, it was an interesting cultural dip.Nairn
- yeah, not at all new to the 2000's but that was the era of the chav, synonymous with the impending death of subcultures and the middle class :)kingsteven
- now it would seem youth culture is just cyborgs wearing an homogenised amalgamation of hip-hop and terrace fashionkingsteven
- In the north west they are called scallies. Basically a shit taste in sports cloths and bad attitude to life. You can even have rich chavs too.Chimp
- cherub1
Why?
- colin_s0
is brexit real
- grafician0
Whois gonna be the next James Bond for certain?
- cherub0
Please tell me this is a joke video. Is it?
- I've just been trolled by someone named Jade.cherub
- she sounds dumb as fuck...posh 4 shoutopian
- maybe she just hit the bottle?utopian
- Ok now she's trolling. How am I supposed to take posh advice from someone who talks like this? https://youtu.be/9Z8…cherub
- Do Americans have a version of "Posh"?Hayzilla
- As in, how would you describe someone like Frasier?Hayzilla
- Our lack of ever having a royal class means there isn't a true sense of "posh" here since our highest class isn't royalty or close to it... our highest class ischerub
- probably our most loved movie stars or celebrities. But they don't all share identifiable mannerisms like the British posh. Another high group, which fraziercherub
- could be classified as would be rich, stuck-up "snobs." But they don't all have Frazier's pretentious mannerisms. Like here https://youtu.be/HPD…cherub
- Elliot and his wife are very superficial, very rich snobs but the way they talk isn't so noticeable from other Americans.cherub
- utopian-3
Is British food really that bad?
- Of course not.MrT
- nope its yummytrooperbill
- Nope it’s actually quite good.Chimp
- NoHayzilla
- Definitely not, we rinsed our colonial territories for some mighty fine cuisine. Most of it evident in some form of another in our high streets.Morning_star
- Define badOBBTKN
- lolcherub
- 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
- SimonFFM0
How do UK citizens pay VAT and custom fees on goods I ship from Germany? Things have changed after brexit, but I cannot find it easily described anywhere. My UK clients don't know it either.
- You usually have to record the value and type of items being shipped on the consignment note. HMRC review the note and decide if needs import tax.Morning_star
- Don't sell to UK yet.grafician
- proably start here ...
https://www.gov.uk/g…Bluejam - Thank you, Bluejam. I know client needs to pay and told him, but who collects vat&fees? DHL or does he have to pick up at an office?SimonFFM
- you get a card from customs saying you need to pay a fee before they'll send on the packagetrooperbill
- Thank you for explaining. BTW, I remember when they said, there'll be free trade between UK and EU even after brexit. Politicians... sigh.SimonFFM
- scarabin2
Why do you call it Scotland Yard rather than Scotland Meter?
- MrT1
Is there any Marmite left there?
They've run out of it everywhere in Australia.
