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>As to why they start talking to you about Japan and Korea, maybe just ignorance. Not really ignorance, really depends on OPs age and who they are talking to. K-Pop is very popular with kids/teens etc. I can't see OP walking into Greggs, talking to a 42 year old woman, and them saying "I can't wait to move to Japan, I love K-Pop so much!".

I saw one on our town, and I feel 50/50 about it. It naturally highlights the ugliness of a lot of closed shops and untidy areas, But then it blows everything out of proportion. Yearly, we get a gold award for our flora (potted/bedded etc). The guy did a tour before it was planting season and mocked how we have a gold but every planter is empty. Some tiny squiggle on a wall by some teen? "Graffiti is absolutely everywhere and it is atrocious!"

Hahaha, that has made me laugh. I am genuinely interested in what I've said in the past to give you the impression that I'm far-right. I always love it when people dig into history and tell me what I do. "Oh bro, you play Runescape". Like yeah, no shit, I'm active in the community, is that supposed to be an insult? You appear to just argue about politics on a daily basis on Reddit, so I will take an even smaller pinch of salt.

I am over 30, and that's exactly how it isn't taught. Stop lying to push your point.

Feels a bit ironic, considering Germany colonised parts of Africa too...

>were basically told in school they single-handedly defeated the Nazis and won World War II You're either not a brit, or didn't go to school. WW1 & 2 are never glorified in school, or portrayed as "Brits single-handedly did everything".

I don't watch TV any more but my wife does and pays for it. Its like £13/month, near enough the same as other services like Netflix and Disney+, but my wife watches TV daily, so seems value. I do hate however when they fuck around with the schedules. When you first get into TV licenses, you are essentially paying 2x the price for 6 months, to "make it easier next year". Feel free to correct me but it works something like this: Jan 24 = £26 Feb 24 = £26 Mar 24 = £26 Apr 24 = £26 May 24 = £26 Jun 24 = £26 Jul 24 = £13 Aug 24 = £13 Sep 24 = £13 Oct 24 = £13 Nov 24 = £13 Dec 24 = £13 Because you paid 2x for 6 months in 2024, this carries over to 2025 Jan 25 = £13 Feb 25 = £13 Mar 25 = £13 Apr 25 = £13 May 25 = £13 Jun 25 = £13 Jul 25 = £13 Aug 25 = £13 Sep 25 = £13 Oct 25 = £13 Nov 25 = £13 Dec 25 = £13 So if you stop requiring it, you then have to go through the hassle of getting back that £78 you paid extra?

My god, don't own cats if that is your attitude.

Honestly, as an ex-NHS admin, some admin staff genuinely don't give a single fuck. It is literally a 2 minute job. Some people take the phone call, then make zero notes on it.

>I have previously sent the letters back but it’s clearly not raising any alarms Job not done... My wife did it for about 10-20 letters and it eventually stopped, but can't tell if it was due to writing "not at address", or the original owner informed the NHS of their new address.

How much meat are you eating if you're buying 10 packs of organic beef/meat lol? 40 packs a month?

Only possibility is £60 bill and using 2x £50 notes lol When I used to work in a customer focus job, I had a lot of Polish people consistently paying with £50 notes, on things that cost like £13-22.

Eh, I've been given plenty of change from shops and they've ended up being other countries currencies. Scummy thing to do on their end but it happens.

I used to work in an emergency dentist and while this was in 2019, we would let you pay another day if you couldn't afford it at the time.

I work in my local authority in adult social care and our last survey for carers, roughly 18% carers use the internet. All information & advice is done via letters/leaflets, because it's how majority of people use them. My amazon returns can be left at a drop off locker.

When I started highschool, we were all given a book to sign that contains the schools policies, signing to agree to them. Reading through, it was stuff like "if given detention, you must turn up" etc etc I never signed it, thinking I didn't have to do it lmao Think I was given detention once and and I did turn up to it, so seemed pointless.

I'd really love to know how primary school teachers are in todays society. I remember as a kid, in year 4, we were playing bowls and as I went to pick up this heavy, fully plated ball, my friend also bent down right above my ball. I lifted it up and it knocked his mouth. Pure accident. His two front teeth started to bleed ever so slightly, but was fine & I was very apologetic. Teacher comes over to me, literally screams at me and sends me to the steps while he's looked after. I'm crying my eyes out, she comes over and screams again, sending me and my friend to the headmistresses office. We spoke to the headmistress, I was still crying, and she completely understood it was a mistake. The teacher was an absolute cunt who shouted at everyone, but it just seemed like no one did fuck all about her and she continued it for years. Also remember a teaching assistant mocking a kid complaining his eyes were stinging while he was wearing eye goggles during swimming, mocking the kid by fake crying. I feel like things like that wouldn't fly at all today.

Independent shops no, but things like the small co-op do. Thiefts are always happening. My towns 11k pop, so depends what you call small ha

Honestly I'm turning 30 soon and still love Shaun the Sheep & the movies. It's just wholesome.

I don't have one and recently bought an electric toothbrush and was too shocked ha I've had to buy an extension plug (2 pin to 3 pin), so will have to charge my toothbrush in my bedroom now.

Probably because you're going to restaurants where cheese is the dessert and not a NY cheesecake or a sticky toffee pudding.

When I was single and living alone, Christmas was really depressing. I'm now married and have kids, and Christmas is exciting, primarily for my kids. It's a holiday for giving gifts and being with family.

This.

I wasn't so certain to trust u/EasyPiece, but u/TunedOutPlugDin confirming my worries with a "This" comment, made me more trustworthy of the comment.

Point 16 is; >More instant service compared to other departments. We have a very quicker response time that customers have ever had. This has no correlation with your boss walking on eggshells with you. It adds no context.

Mine opened like that and I just turned it around.

My American friend visited me once and he said UK McDonalds is significantly better in taste.

Did some looking and there's nothing on the site for the manor I went to.

Ha, that reminded me of a zoo I went to. Granted it was a Monday morning (11am) and we were the only ones at the zoo, the weather was a bit miserable but it costed about £50 to get in. I think we were there less than an hour, as it was fairly small and most of the enclosures were empty. There were no scheduled talks, or 'meet the animals' or zoo keepers giving off demonstrations/feeding. Felt absolutely ripped off.

Yeah, the few around us have all been decorated for christmas, which we've explored. They have also posted on their FB when closed or when the manor is off limits. However, the one we went to had no notice. Even checked their FB now and had zero mention of the upstairs section being closed. We'll eventually go again as were members, but would feel sorry for those who paid to go lol

Yeah, I agree on that it would be difficult to draw a line. Funny you mention theme parks, I was going to add a 3rd example ha Went away to blackpool for a week and their big pepsi max ride was closed for the week and 1-2 others rides. We ended up still paying full price but then how would you calculate the % off lol I suppose it is just a case of "it sucks but deal with it", but then sort of leads onto example b, where they advertise a new section of the park for people to pay and see, but then half of it is closed.

I used to work in the NHS but was invited over to join the local council. I went from 22k/year to 19k/year, but 3 years later, I'm now 31k/year and work from home 5 days/week. If I had stayed in the NHS, I'd probably be on 24k/year and 5 days office.

I imagine I'll get bombarded with horse lovers saying how gentle and kind hearted horses are, but don't horses just naturally have a dickish behaviour?

You either have a very drafty house or you need to see a doctor lol

You can't paint charities with one brush and is explicitly stated in another comment that I only donate to local charities or directly to services such as nurseries. Humble Gaming gives about 10% of the money spent to the charity. Water aid gives 54% Red Cross gives 64%. No shit there's overhead costs, but when you give £10 to water aid, it's gone into the void, or you sign up to monthly subscriptions and get the generic "this is how your money was spent". I'd rather donate clothes to a local charity, or books/toys to a nursery.

**and require volunteers to run the shop.** Don't quote half a sentence.

Yeah, we donate to our local nursery and I know other local charities that help locals too. As a gamer, one of the games I play did a charity and has scummy tactics behind it (via Humble bundles). Literally 0.57 euro getting donated to a charity out of 11.47 euro. https://preview.redd.it/t5uqc4g1ib2e1.png?width=463&format=png&auto=webp&s=73433dab192ca9c48c55cec0e1eab4f11662a88f

Sad to say but it's why I never donate. I do the very rare occasion but it goes for a lot of things. Even charity shops. Most managers are salaried and require volunteers to run the shop.

Estate agents are just utter cunts. I have probably met 1 nice estate agent in 20. Last time I lived in a flat, the inspection results was "while there was no property damage, the property was quite messy". I can't possibly think of what was messy. My wifes hoodie was on the sofa and we had a plate/cup in the sink bowl. Everything else was spotless. The carpet, walls, skirting, no dust or anything, as we do a spring clean weekly and before the inspection.

Not pickup trucks but old people in SUV's. Literally reminds me of this: https://preview.redd.it/ocd260136o1e1.png?width=246&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ce6ad507786aa107178eba61f9c757f3619b786

GP, Dentist or any other professional you may be under can referred you to a Community Dental Services (NHS Service, typically a part of your NHS Trust), which have a DAN service (Dental Anxiety Management), who deal with patients with extreme anxiety with dental services.

1) I used to work with a nurse who also comes from a farming family & was dating a farmer. Her partners family gifted them a house, as apparently her partners families motto is to give a house to farmers in the family so they don't go homeless (some shit like that, it was a while ago). She came into work one day complaining she had to pay things like utility bills & how shit it is, as she only used to pay her parents £40/month. 2) My wife thought hitler won the war. 3) My mum thought every country had their own moon.

I think you asking people about being sensitive over their person data on Reddit is going to give you a non-valid answer. To prove this, some of the top comments on this sub who are sensitive about their data have posts about their city/pet names/pets/age/relationship status etc etc. Some people are just way too paranoid over it. They'll tell you how bad giving your data out is until their blue in the face, but won't tell you of the consequences. Like, I walk my dog with another dog walker. He tells me he doesn't carry his phone with him as it's "how they track you". No one here or the dog walker will give you a valid response on why the fuck anyone in the world would care about tracking a dog walker doing a midday walk in a very public area.

>Like sure, you'll get some Brit who does it now & then but it's typically because they're daydreaming or distracted. Wouldn't also say it's famously absent. Regular pattern I see when people talk about the UK is how nice everyone is.

Spatial awareness Like sure, you'll get some Brit who does it now & then but it's typically because they're daydreaming or distracted. But I've noticed foreigners just lack spatial awareness. A few examples I've come across recently & a lot: 1) Going around Aldi, you're trying to get down an aisle, someone's in the middle looking at stock, you try to squeeze past. Brits would apologise & move their trolly but foreigners seem to give you the look of "just squeeze past". 2) When going to my local library, a group of foreign students would just stand around at the bottom of an escalator chatting, completely oblivious you and everyone else are trying to use it. 3) This weekend gone, I went to a garden centre, around the christmas section. There were an indian couple with their kid, and the kid was playing with a toy. However, they were blocking the path into the shop & there were people behind us. The dad was taking a photo, so sure, let him take the photo of his kid playing with a toy. But he took the photo, looked at us all waiting, then proceeded to start taking more photos. The mum moved the kid out the way and we all pushed past. The dad sighed as if we had just ruined his moment. 4) Lastly, just generally walking. Walking behind an old man? He'll move over and let you pass. Want to tie your shoe laces? You go off to a side.

I don't mind Bing, it's pretty chill. Bing is what Bluey & Bingo are, if Bluey & Bingo weren't the absolute godliest of well behaved kids

It makes sense now, thanks :p But you should definitely be eating fruit & veg ha

I suppose I never included fruit & veg. For instance, if I'm doing a roast or other forms of cooking, I'll just pop out and give them the odd carrot etc, i.e. not purposely buying carrots (just one example) for guinea pigs.

What the hell are you feeding them? Gold-dusted dried fruits? I have 2 guinea pigs and a big bag of guinea pig food is about £5 that lasts 2 weeks, so £10/month. A big box of sawdust or hay is only about £4-6 too. My aquarium is fairly cheap, though Co2 is about £45/2 months Cat food isn't too bad, usually £30/month Dog food is about £50/month Hamster is about halve the price of guinea pigs.

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