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Do you put on your pyjamas as soon as you get home from work?

Posted by SerendipitousCrow@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 463 comments

MattsRedditAccount@reddit

Crazy lol, I can't imagine just flat-out not answering...I really don't fancy having to drive to the depot if it needs signing for nor do I want to bother my neighbours. Sorry that it's so common from what it sounds like

Do you put on your pyjamas as soon as you get home from work?

Posted by SerendipitousCrow@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 463 comments

What’s the most irrationally annoying thing your in-laws do that they’re absolutely convinced is “helpful”?

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Probably a fairly nice house too? £4k in '71 is about £80k today, and you would struggle to find anywhere close to that cheap in my city (not a particularly expensive city) that isn't a flat (flat = 3 bed terrace split into 2 flats). It's absolutely infuriating the the older generations cannot grasp this, and the fact that renting is so expensive that it's quite literally not possible for most people to save up a deposit.

I’m 30, paying my parents' mortgage, and watching my highly qualified dad (60) get ghosted by recruiters. Does it ever get better?

Posted by mall234@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 285 comments

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I guess it depends, I have written work emails that come off as passive aggressive so I have used ChatGPT to help make it more neutral-sounding, but I think that's different to creating a post on reddit - there's not an expectation of professionalism in the same way, and for a post like this it ends up coming off as inauthentic and possibly entirely fake. For shits and giggles I pasted this comment into ChatGPT to "improve it" and I think what it produced is what I mean, it comes off less personal and more fake-sounding: *I think it ultimately depends on the context. In professional settings, such as writing work emails that may unintentionally come across as passive-aggressive, I’ve used ChatGPT to help rephrase them in a more neutral and constructive tone. However, this is quite different from creating a post on Reddit, where there is less expectation of professionalism. In that context, AI-generated phrasing can feel overly polished, inauthentic, and potentially even artificial or disingenuous.*

I’m 30, paying my parents' mortgage, and watching my highly qualified dad (60) get ghosted by recruiters. Does it ever get better?

Posted by mall234@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 285 comments

MattsRedditAccount@reddit

I don't think this is actually AI but it definitely reads like ChatGPT writes. Especially quotes like >He embodies professionalism and expertise. Just doesn't really sound how a normal human would type up a reddit post lol. GPTZero thinks this text is 100% AI-polished but human-written so maybe OP wrote it himself but asked AI for a grammar check or something

What UK museums do you think are underrated or overrated?

Posted by OpenCantaloupe4790@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 1004 comments

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It has gone really downhill over the years because its been increasingly changed from a museum into a glorified children's play area. I grew up in Leicester so have been loads over the past 20 and have no intention of returning after our last trip, after seeing the simulator and ISS exhibits had been removed to make a big children's activity thing. So I would recommend it if you have young children but if they are older the science museum in London is much better for actual museum exhibits and education. There's a rare Gemini and Soyuz at the Leicester space centre but it provides very little info about them, I only knew their significance because I'm a big space nerd myself and I was shocked that the museum only dedicated a tiny plaque to each of them that explained basically nothing. I remember when they did their big "50 years since Apollo 11" celebration, and all the posters had a picture of the Skylab launch...literally the *only* Saturn V launch that wasn't for the moon missions (and looked very different), the fact that they got such a basic thing wrong I think says a lot about their priorities...

What unhealthy / awful food do you remember having as a kid?

Posted by Dangerous-Land-1773@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 989 comments

What's the worst thing that you have ever heard said by a fellow participant in a UK speed awareness course?

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usually that question is asked to see if we can instil eye drops to dilate your pupil for examination. But ngl it's quite scary seeing the number of patients that refuse because they "had to drive"