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What’s been the most annoying thing shrinkflation has done for you?

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I disagree - I had one recently and felt that it was far, far too sweet, to the extent that I felt that they were probably 'cheating' and compensating for fewer of the expensive ingredients.

Hypothetically speaking do you think the likes of Euromillions would be better if instead of one prize of £150m it was 150 prizes of £1m?

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As the other commenter noted, assuming you don't have large debts the interest is "don't have to work" money, and depending on the area of the country your standard of living would arguably be solidly middle class, perhaps at the level of a senior but not top-level NHS Doctor? You might be able to have some of - going on several expensive holidays a year - going on lots of extended cheap holidays - putting children through private school - paying for a child's university tuition without taking out the full student loan - buying and maintaining a nice house - getting a higher-range new car/phone/PC every few years - having an expensive hobby - regularly shopping at Waitrose But you're not getting all or even most of those at the same time. It's good if you have modest goals, but for me it is 'work at a job you really like at a low salary' money rather than 'retire immediately'.

What was life like after 2008 financial crash compared to now?

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How much does it cost for a kebab takeaway to buy one of those massive elephants legs of donner meat? What is the meat content?

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For reference, [business rates is £30 billion, 3% of all government intake](https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/where-does-government-get-its-money), more than all the alcohol, gambling and tobacco duties. So it's a sizeable chunk to replace.

What’s an out of date view you hold?

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Link to [sort=controversial](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1tcdgso/whats_an_out_of_date_view_you_hold/?sort=controversial) There are still very few ones that are brutally offensive, but there are some where it's intellectually healthy to pause and consider if they have a good point (although usually they don't).

Is there anything you learnt later in life that everyone else seemed to think was common knowledge?

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Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right?

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And that money earned is not a measure of worth. I feel resentment towards people that went into the highly profitable sectors of finance and banking and make £300,000 at age 30, while there are nurses with more rigorous training, hours, responsibility and worth to society that make a fraction of that. The first group had ambition directed towards something that I value less.

Is homeschooling in the UK just very unregulated, or am I missing something?

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Should theses auditors be banned?

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What’s the most offensive inoffensive thing your colleagues have ever done?

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That seems like the setup for a comedy sketch where it turns out that the family across the road are Mr & Mrs C'leured, and it's the younger generation who are the people seeing it through a racial lens.

What's something about your life that is out of the ordinary?

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Personally, aside from the practicalities and emotions, my friendship groups aren't attractive enough for me to find that appealing. Congratulations on your beautiful friends/low standards.

What age did you buy your first home? How’s it going?

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I'm only a few years in, and on occasion I've imagined what it would feel like to get a modest lottery win and pay the entire thing off. I get a warm and fuzzy feeling. Although I know that 1. That probably wouldn't be the financially sensible option 2. I'd subsequently want to move to a larger property, and therefore simply get another mortgage 3. I won't win the lottery

What are particularly energy-intensive businesses that will be badly hit this winter?

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With the writers of the new Bond film struggling following his death in No Time To Die - what would you do to reboot the franchise?

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And thrillers are a lot easier to write without smartphones. Modern scripts will always need to find an excuse why someone can't phone for help, receive a photo of the suspect, translate or transmit a document, or find out where they are. In the 1950s a spy can be in a Polish castle, holding a valuable memo written in Russian. He needs to get it back to his people, and there's a significant difficulty in doing so. In the modern day, the writer needs to have already had him captured and his resources taken away, otherwise he's one wifi connection away from getting all the info home.

With the writers of the new Bond film struggling following his death in No Time To Die - what would you do to reboot the franchise?

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You missed out *Double O-cademy*, the young-adult drama about the training of spies in their late teens (played by attractive, diverse 20-somethings). Filmed around a British manor house, a mixture of villain-of-the-week storylines and love triangles.

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

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The meat industry will have the farming industry as a whole behind it (for the sake of solidarity), plus the specific support of all those grain farmers that grow food for livestock. Plus they're vote winners in rural areas, and people love the idea of the farmer as the traditional 'common man', even if the majority of the money is coming from agri-business.

What happened to /r/unitedkingdom?

Posted by Longjumping_Thing723@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 201 comments

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I notice more and more posts that could be bot accounts just trying to build up a 'realistic' profile. Then on a future date they can be activated to push a particular agenda.

What happened to /r/unitedkingdom?

Posted by Longjumping_Thing723@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 201 comments

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It's along the lines of the subreddit for World_News got hijacked and spammed with Hentai content. So as a joke people created /r/anime_titties and said it should be for posting high-quality international news. And there was a demand for that space, so it took off.

In what ways have you had “a taste of the high life” that you find it hard to forget but can’t afford to indulge in regularly?

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It's mad when you're a relatively young person and selling high-end goods. I remember that it was a shock to sell more than my annual salary in a single day, in just a few sales.

Do you suffer from AI anxiety?

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> I do worry it will be more difficult to get intern / first jobs, as the sort of work you do there is more congenial to being done by an llm. This is my worry. Unless AI keeps getting more and more competent, the professional landscape in 15 years will have too few people suitable to be recruited for middle-ranking roles. No staff members who've done the 'grunt work' to truly understand the systems that they are working with, instead leaning on flawed systems.

What is something you’ve found recently that was a complete rip off?

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As noted, senior salaries are dwarfed by other budget items. Plus a big issue with manager salaries is that if someone is experienced enough to be a senior manager in an organisation with legal responsibilities, hundreds of thousands of stakeholders, and a budget of over £100 million, they can get a job in the private sector that pays a six-figure salary that is higher. If you want to retain talent and give people something to aspire towards, you have to pay them more, or we'd be left with a lot of senior council roles with inexperienced or under-performing candidates. (Of course you can say that we *still* get under-performers, but that is outside the discussion of salary).

What business practice do you simply not understand?

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What’s the most unreasonably expensive thing in the UK right now?

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I think that the numbers suggest that it's isn't a major impact. And other countries like France have decent rates of second home ownership. Other countries have continued to build more houses in line with their population growth and the phasing out of old housing stock. And we've not.

How do I backtrack out of being an excel wizard?

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Yes. OP, either 1. Up-skill yourself (probably somewhat in your own time), then understand and build on the work done. Doing this thoroughly and promptly will require a lot of effort. Clear your schedule. This way you could set up a nice career. And even if later on you don't use these skills or go down the path, you're potentially benefitting your immediate reputation and pay packet. 2. Get another job, disappointing and screwing over the people you were working with, who might later bad-mouth you in your sector. 3. Tread water and make excuses with the ongoing stress about being caught out, until it all falls apart. Then you're blamed, and you face the extreme upset and emotional toll of that. This is a great opportunity, and you have to either seize or abandon it.

What is your ‘total speculation’ UK theory?

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Viewing it as the result of political systems, every person in charge goes "working on climate is expensive. If we grow the economy, we'll have more money to work on it." But we either don't get the growth we want, or we're trapped in spending 'spare' money on other things. Many tech bros want general AI because they think it's the only way we can escape the cycle with some miracle economic boost.

What's the most patronising piece of advice you've ever received?

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Everyone can spend their money however they please but, in your opinion, what is the biggest waste of money purchase?

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Everyone can spend their money however they please but, in your opinion, what is the biggest waste of money purchase?

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> 60 sounds like very far away when you are 20 but it catches up to you quick ! There's also the habit of some people to say "I don't mind dying earlier, who wants to live in their 80s as a sick old person". When the reality is that if you eat well, exercise moderately and generally keep mentally and physically busy, you can often be very healthy and active in your mid-70s, while if you don't look after yourself you can be a wreck with multiple life-limiting health problems by the time that you're 50. Someone in their 60s can have a much lower quality of life than a person in their 80s (although it does depend on genes, luck and circumstance).

What's a company secret you can share now because you don't work there anymore?

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Do you think "AI" glasses will actually take off?

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Watching that Simon Reeve Scandinavia doc. Anyone else wonder why we don't try and emulate their societies more than the one over the 'pond'?

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One alternative is lower service standards. Revive the winter fuel allowance, and free transport passes. Put a minimum price on GP appointments. Get the NHS to limit spending on massively expensive end of life care, and authorise councils to reduce legal obligations to keep spending very large amounts of money maintaining the welfare of people aged 80+. Centralise care homes into large institutions rather than individual council homes, even if it moves people far from their community. Introduce an assisted dying bill with rather low standards for anyone with a progressive condition aged 80+. Terms of thousands would die years earlier than they would with current service standards. I'm not saying that these are the right or good policies to follow (or electorally possible), but they are things that the government could put on the scales when working out how to balance things.

The year is 2025 in the Threads universe. It's been 40 years since the attack. How is the UK/British Isles doing?

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Mutation-wise, cancer killing most people by the age of 50 isn't the worst part. The worst part would be the rates of miscarriages, non-viable babies and people having to face up to the reality of being unable to support children that show serious disabilities.

What’s the worst own goal you’ve seen by a company in pursuit of a few extra quid?

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What do you think the decline of modern foreign languages at school?

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> And you don't really need to, because most of them speak English anyway. This is a frustrating privilege. For years I've been going on city-break holidays and simply never had to learn the local language because every service- and tourist-industry person i've met knows English, and anyone else jumps at the opportunity to practice their English rather than listen to me scrape by in whatever I know. The exceptions being 1. the occasional proud French person who is just as offended by my mangled French, as they are by the idea of speaking English. 2. A person with no English that speaks a radically different language that I have trouble pronouncing, even if I learn some words for my 5-day trip.

Money Laundering Suspicion - should I report to Police?

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When did the UK workplace become so puritan regarding alcohol?

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I'd change that 'anyone' to 'sometimes' or at the most 'often'. There's plenty of employers that are absolute in policies, especially if the decision would be made at a high level and local management are not given leeway by HR.

Have you ever heard of "Sick Building Syndrome?"

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Not who you were replying to, but; 'Safety' is easier to get sued about, and the liability established. But businesses are not under an immediate threat of being sued because too many of their staff are coming in when they are snotty.

What's something that used to be normal in the UK that would feel absolutely insane now?

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It's the Alf Garnett and Al Murray problem: a very clever man plays a character like the pub landlord to mock the bigoted, but ends up retiring the character once they realise that the bigots are laughing along and failing to see the irony. The whole 'only gay in the village' joke was mocking a character with a chip on their shoulder who engaged in performative behaviour. But in playgrounds across the land, any effeminate boys were mocked with the catchphrases out of malice and spite. It's a real conundrum.

What's something that used to be normal in the UK that would feel absolutely insane now?

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I reckon that the rise in minimum wage has reduced the number of lowest-level jobs like that, which to be honest feels like a shame because there were slight boosts in productivity in having assistants to do some low level tasks, and they often were first in line for jobs one level up. I can understand the reasoning for raising the wage, and the move to paperless offices and online resources means that there's far less filing and secretarial work that needs to be done.

Spain has just experienced a 10-hour blackout. If something like it happened in the UK, especially in London, how do you think it would have played out?

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Where are people of the UK buying their kitchens?

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Got my units from DIY Kitchens, own fitter. He was happy (not ecstatic) about the quality, but I can't recall him suggesting anywhere better in the price range. 2 years since install it has held up very well, with no issues. Got the Laminate worktop from Worktop Express and I am happy with the quality and the price was reasonable. I had seen the company recommended in lots of places. Laminate plank flooring from a local company. Tiles from Tile Mountain, but that's really down to finding the style that you want. Tap and sink by Rangemaster (ordered from Victorian Plumbing). The research I did suggested not to skimp on these parts; buying good quality and thickness stainless steel. IKEA is apparently good for the price and price range, but it's all custom sizes, and you'd want to find a fitter that is comfortable with it. If you can get a recommendation of a good local fitter and feel comfortable with it, try asking the for their preferences.

Why are these sanitary bags so old fashioned?

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Why are these sanitary bags so old fashioned?

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I think it's less that the period is unladylike, but that any icky bodily secretions are. It's stereotypically far more acceptable for a man to talk about going for a poo than a woman. The cultural standard is that women are more socially 'constructed' than men, in clothing, makeup and manners. In most contexts it's more acceptable for men to be grubbier, have simpler haircuts and clothes, and display more visibly the consequences of their base biology. This is particularly exaggerated with periods, because it's a particular association of femininity, and a break in the illusion of women's level above baseness.

What's that one seemingly insignificant thing that manages to drive you nuts?

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I think the point of the 'show an addressed letter' system used by various organisations is to indicate that you actually are at that address, because you can access what's put through the letterbox. Otherwise someone could claim on any address while never setting foot in the property. There must be a better way of doing this, but I believe that's the logic.

What's that one seemingly insignificant thing that manages to drive you nuts?

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And you know that within 2 years Google are going to be offering businesses the option of paying money to have negative reviews excluded from these AI summaries, and certain products recommended when you search to buy an item. The business model for many AI products is going to be a disguised 'curated' experience.

You just won the euromillions jackpot. How are you going about quitting your job?

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Tell people that I won the equivalent of my annual salary, resign and say that I'm taking a 6 month career break to re-assess where I am and possibly re-train. Work my notice and buy some drinks for people, but I won't get the same level of hangers-on if people think that I'm still going to be budgeting myself.

I'm rewatching Harry Potter, the dursley's house is that stereotypical for an English home?

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At risk of doxxing myself in the future, I was approximately the same age and in the same area :) Lovely cycling around the (admittedly bland woodland) of the Look Out, and convincing your parents to take you to Coral Reef for the wave machine. As you say, the zoning was distinct: The families going to Garth were certainly looked down on compared to Ranelagh or Charters.

I'm rewatching Harry Potter, the dursley's house is that stereotypical for an English home?

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Ultimately depends on the definition of middle class, but the size of the house matters. In the 90s home ownership was still quite realistic for working-class people even in the South East, and outside of the dense suburbs lower-cost housing estates were still built with quite a few detached houses. Look at the size of the house they used for the external shots in the films; it's semi-detached via the garage, and the overall dimensions are quite small. It's exactly the house I'd expect to be owned by a plumber, shop manager, teacher or young family that would fall solidly into the British working class rather than established bourgeoisie.

Why do they show 2 year old repeats of Have I Got News for You on prime time BBC1?

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Why do they show 2 year old repeats of Have I Got News for You on prime time BBC1?

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As a curious aside; over twenty years old, and there's a mention of Putin as Russian leader. In case anyone else was curious, at around 26 years he's the longest serving Russian leader since Stalin. 5 more and he'll beat Stalin's record and become longest since the Tsars.