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What Is THE Most Forgotten UK Hit Song That You Still Adore?

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They’re a little earlier than what you were wanting, but here’s a few from the early to mid ‘90’s - World Party - Is it like today? - Dubstars - Stars - Altern-8 - E-vapor-8 - Saint Etienne - Like a Motorway

Is being a taxi driver actually profitable in UK?

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How long ago was that?

What’s your favorite British insult?

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I’ll always have a soft spot for - “Go take your face for a shit!”

What's a Brits option/experience with South Africans?

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Only met one who I thought was tidy, Mike, loved his Lamb chops, smelt of lamb everyday lol. Every other was rude, ignorant and racist.

Why has the taste of UK Coca Cola changed recently?

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I think it must be production changes as opposed to recipe. I’ve had a few that tasted off

Why has the taste of UK Coca Cola changed recently?

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I’m speaking in general terms, not specifically about full fat coke. I don’t know what they’ve done, but I’ve had several cokes over the past year that tasted off. Perhaps in the case of ‘normal’ coke they’ve altered the way it’s produced, I don’t know, somethings isn’t right.

Why has the taste of UK Coca Cola changed recently?

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Sugar tax is having the effect of brands changing recipes to low sugar levels so those high sugar products don’t get priced out of the range of other competitor products. I never understood people who said you cannot tell the difference between diet and sugar free drinks and their full fat equivalents. It turns out that many people cannot distinguish the difference. Unfortunately, I can taste stuff like Ace-K and it tastes disgusting. So while brands change their recipes, which I find revolting, the flip side is, I do not consume as much crap.

What UK film that is more than 30 years old, do you think still holds up as relevant to today?

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It quite old enough.

What UK film that is more than 30 years old, do you think still holds up as relevant to today?

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Noel Coward, is that you?

What is the most niche specialist you have come across in the world of work?

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I was going to say Pilkinton

What is the most niche specialist you have come across in the world of work?

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That sounds cool.

Can you help me win a bet with my 13yo son who says 'literally nobody in the world has heard of Pulp or Jarvis Cocker'?

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You might as well have told him about Accrington Stanley.

Would you judge someone going to a english country pub all by themselves for a meal?

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Do what makes YOU happy. Ignore bores and do you own thing, be independent and enjoy yourself.

Why is LSD a class A drug?

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Truthfully, drug classification is all over the place. Some should be classed higher, and some higher classified drugs should potentially be lowered. As other have mentioned, it can be down to how the drug was perceived at the time of classification. Also, LSD is literally mind bending, I found it fun, crazy, some don’t.

Who has actually managed to live the 'Simple Life' in the UK?

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There’s something about the way you wrote “They even had a sitcom called ‘The Good Life’” that makes me feel old, lol. Like you’ve unearthed some old artifact.

What do Councils generally do with pets ashes?

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Pot hole repair.

Is COVID really to blame for developmentally delayed kids, still in nappies etc?

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No, I think it depends as much on what parents do at home with children as much as anything. It’s well known, that kids with a lot of support at home typically do better academically and in the social aspects of schooling, such as being toilet trained etc. Lazy parenting, leaving it to someone else to deal with, often teachers and TA’s. It’s utter bollocks. Teachers should be teaching. Parents should be fucking parenting.

At what age did you feel comfortable ordering a pint on your own and just watching the world go by?

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Early to mid 20’s.

Who is that person that makes you turn off the TV or radio as soon as they come on?

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Paddy McGuinness - the BBC’s inexplicable fascination with the simpleton is just baffling Nick fucking Grimshaw - Talentless twat. Both Gregg James and Scott Mills run rings around this goon. Mills should’ve had the Breakfast show over Grimshaw.

What did your mates have at their houses, that now you're a grown up doesn't seem that fancy, but to you as a kid seemed fancy AF?

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One kids had a Soda Stream.

When did travelling in the uk become do expensive?

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Where have you been? Trains have been extortionate all my adult life (last 30years). Not sure what they were like before that. But apparently, and this could be wrong, some of our rail franchises are owned and therefore subsidise the rail in other countries, thanks Maggie (Free market capitalism)

A British friend just told me that in UK you guys never dub foreign content (series, movies or animes). Is that right or she's just trolling me?

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British person here. Wife and I only watch foreign movies or shows in their own language using subtitles. Dubbed stuff is just so wrong.

Should I have moved my car from outside a neighbour's house (public road no drives)?

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Well done

Why would someone have all these aerials?

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Ham radio or spy.

Is HelloFresh a cult?

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You could’ve just said ‘No’ to the shit, like most people.

What's the most egregious price rise you've seen so far this year?

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Tesco used to do own brand mini popadoms for 30p a bag, then upped it to 50p a bag, which was a bastard. Now it’s something mental like 2quid a bag.

What's the most egregious price rise you've seen so far this year?

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And they taste like sick these past couple of years.

What quietly disappeared over the last 20 years in the UK, and no one noticed?

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Accountability - From the top down, from leaders of nations, to politicians, celebrities, social media influencers and Joe fucking public. Ownership - we’re at a point where many of the things you once bought are getting harder to own outright. Films, and music are good examples, but there is a growing problem with items such as cars, whereby some brands have introduced ‘functions as a service’ or ‘features in demand’, heated electric seats, that’ll be enabled so long as you pay BMW £x per month etc. want to own software, nope, sing up and lease it for £n per month. And this also affects right to repair, more and more manufacturers are making repair more difficult and costly, patenting many more components and process, proprietary technology meaning repairs need to go back to manufacturer somehow due to potential IP infringements. Silo’s - where not so long ago the web was a wide open wilderness. Corporations, specifically social media companies are closing off their environments/systems making it harder to find information from outside their apps/sites. Creating massive data lakes of your/out data so sell on. Closing this off protects their revenue.

What quietly disappeared over the last 20 years in the UK, and no one noticed?

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My local newsagent used to stock a mad range of magazines. It was a proper newsagents as you mention, it only sold magazines, papers, had a fridge for drinks and had a sweet counter. It did stock a small range of odds and ends, loafs of bread and milk etc. Then It got bought out and is like a NISA or something, instead of chocolate bars costing 5p more than the RRP, they are service station prices, fuck all magazines and only a few papers. It’s fucked. Locals used to bump into one another, now no one lingers at all. A soulless barren facade.

Sleeping in car uk, what can I do?

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Hope the future improves for you, Dennis and the rest of your family.

Do most of the bedroom doors here have locks or no?

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Locks on bedrooms doors is not typical in the UK.

What is the most WTF thing that happened while you were in education?

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A kid snuck into the science teachers break room, pissed in the kettle. Naturally, the teachers turned it on at some point to make an cuppa and boiled up a water/piss brew. The resulting steam stank the break room and two adjoining classes out with piss stench all day. Another girl flipped out and battered one of the technology teachers, a nice, slightly older lady (quite attractive really). A boy in my year, mitchin off, was hanging out up the woods above school with a bunch of others, dinner bell goes, so some came down to grab some food from canteen. Anyway, they go back up the woods and find this boy laying on the slope, the rope swing round his neck, strangled to death. They weren’t sure if he was fucking about with the rope swing and slipped, as it wasn’t level ground, panicked and died or if it was intentional.

Look how they massacred my boy! 2024 Lynx DMC-EV

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Looks pretty good tbf.

Am I just unlucky, or are tradesman in the UK bad?

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That is why I DIY as much as possible.

GenXers. Are you fed up of being called Boomers?

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“Ruining everything” really?

GenXers. Are you fed up of being called Boomers?

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Only ever seen it in print media in the UK, never heard it spoken. It’s just some lazy collective shit journalists and some online people use. As the user above has stated, the only collective most people use is that they’re a 70’s or a 50’s or whatever decade person/baby.

What are your ‘must haves’ for working from home for under £30?

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Mouse jiggler

What does 'One in the wood' mean to you?

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How many fingers do you have on each hand?

What is it that drives people to comment the same answer that 100+ people have commented before them?

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lol. Reddit never disappoints.

Who is a comedian you once found hilarious but now find a shadow of their former self?

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He doesn’t work with the same writers after he apparently pissed them off.

What’s a “red flag” when visiting a British pub?

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Rottweiler chained up patrolling a flat roof.

Do you recognise the Britain as depicted by Richard Curtis?

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It’s just entertainment. By itself, it’s no more an accurate depiction of Britain than the Famous Five or Rab C. Nesbit. Each have aspects that give examples of British life/culture. Cumulatively, the averaging out of the extremes, they all build a picture of UK life.

What is a UK urban legend that you think has some credibility?

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Had never heard of the Janet Parker Smallpox incident. Cheers.

Is it littering to leave sweets at a grave?

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Yes it is littering. Food stuffs will attract vermin, and the packaging will become litter in time. Why don’t you share them with your family and reminisce about the good times you had with you dad instead?