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Do you know (or know of) anyone in their 40s who's never had sex?

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I have an aunt who’s 90 and has never had a boyfriend or girlfriend. She lived with her parents until they died when she was in her 40s. She’s never shown any sign of regrets and didn’t take advantage of her freedom from daughterly duties while living alone, so I think she is genuinely asexual/aromantic.

What is the closest you've come to death and survived?

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Got hit by a car that ran a red light just as I started to cross the road. I was incredibly lucky; got away with broken ribs and a broken hand from the way I landed plus a massive haematoma on my thigh from where the car caught me, but if I’d been two steps further into the road I’d probably have been left permanently disabled at best, dead at worst. The doctors were surprised I hadn’t broken more bones as it was.

Where can I do a staycation at end of march?

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Where can I do a staycation at end of march?

Posted by Desperate-Drawer-572@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 54 comments

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Nope. Vacation = vacate your home. Staycation = stay at home, have day trips in your local area. And in Britain, staying anywhere other than your home, with abroad or in another part of the country, for leisure purposes is just a “holiday”.

What does "estate" mean in context?

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“Estate” in a housing sense has three possibilities here: Expensive mansion surrounded by its own extensive land, owned by either an upper class family who has inherited it across centuries, or a self-made millionaire type. Any grouping of streets built at the same time by the same property developer. Common in the suburbs / on the edge of villages; if the latter it can sometimes be looked down on by established village residents for ‘spoiling’ the countryside / green belt, but otherwise there’s no real value judgement attached to living there, just everyday houses lived in by a range of people. Social housing (‘council estate’) often with connotations of being run down / a bit rough / populated by people in receipt of benefits (welfare). As others have said, an estate car is a station wagon.

How do you deal with other volunteers who are complicated people?

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How do I get a new co-worker to stop telling me stories about his life without making him feel unwelcome?

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If he’s got time to tell long winded stories he’s either the quickest, most competent person ever to pick up a new job or he’s got time to learn more. Turn it to your advantage…”oh excellent, I was just going to ask someone to help me with this / do this for me, I’m swamped”. If he has the complete lack of self-awareness to claim he hasn’t got time / is too busy, then you can say “same, we’d both better get back to it then eh?” and just put your head down.

What celebrity do you feel bets represents non-“posh” Brits?

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How do you all sing so well?

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What are the best 'bad haircut' insults?

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When was the last time you used a postbox?

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School Dinner aroma, what was it?

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What things seem to be only big problems on reddit?

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Who is your favourite stand up comedian to watch?

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For anyone that did Jury Service, how was it like?

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Boring, but I got a lot of reading done. Was finally called on to the most boring case in the world, all about low-level bookkeeping fraud. Was genuinely hard to stay awake while the accountant witness (who was dodgier than the defendants, as it turned out) was taking us through his insanely over-complicated system. Had to keep reminding myself there were people’s livelihoods at stake to try to stay focused. Everyone had previous convictions for dishonesty EXCEPT the defendants. We took less than an hour to find them NG.

Who is your favourite stand up comedian to watch?

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Do UK police tend to handcuff to the front or behind?

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Truly awful occurrence. Our paths crossed once or twice in the line of my then-work, he was a real old-school copper, and it was a horrible shock when we heard about it. The A69 still has “risk of overturning” signs as you approach the Styford roundabout.

Do UK police tend to handcuff to the front or behind?

Posted by Delicious_Guess_1481@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 91 comments

How do people in the UK usually plan social events or commitments in advance?

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Thinking of one particular group of friends: one of us will message the group suggesting we catch up. We’ll agree a date, anything from 4-8 weeks in advance (because kids, caring commitments, work etc). If we’re going for brunch/lunch/afternoon tea kind of thing, we’ll decide on the venue and rough timings 2-3 weeks out, one of us volunteers to book a table, the booker subsequently lets the others know the precise time it’s booked for. Couple of days beforehand we’ll establish if we’re just meeting there or somewhere else first. Usually meet 3-4 times a year. We’ve been doing it like this for years. Another friend: either of us will message the other to suggest we catch up. Usually only planning a few days ahead/the upcoming weekend, but it might end up happening a couple of weeks away if one of us already has a commitment on the first suggested day. This has become more spontaneous in recent years now my friend’s children are grown; we used to plan further in advance when she had to arrange sitters. We see each other every 4-6 weeks throughout the year.

What area did you adore as a child/youngster but now you just sigh and shake your head?

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What part of the “as a kid” bit did you miss from the question? You might have been writing a thesis on the decline of British seaside towns as an eight-year-old, but I was only bothered about whether the lights were twinkly enough, the doughnuts had enough sugar and whether there’d be donkeys on the beach or if that was just a summer thing. My awareness of the very concept of shitholeness or otherwise developed later.

What area did you adore as a child/youngster but now you just sigh and shake your head?

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Blackpool. Loved visiting the illuminations as a kid, and all the attractions like the Doctor Who exhibition and Madame Toussauds. But you couldn’t pay me to go back there now, all low-budget stag dos and binge drinking, with so many social problems and so much hardship the minute you step off the promenade.

What’s the most British social rule that everyone follows but nobody admits exists?

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What’s the most British social rule that everyone follows but nobody admits exists?

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What’s the most British social rule that everyone follows but nobody admits exists?

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If you hold a door open for someone and they don’t thank you, you must perform the passive-aggressive “you’re welcome” mutter at the precise second they move out of earshot.

Are we putting our daughter's education at risk?

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What was it like being a British teenager in the 1990s?

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What was it like being a British teenager in the 1990s?

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Yeah, things were definitely a bit more upbeat / positive in the mid- and especially late-90s. The 80s was much greyer, grimmer, all rising unemployment, riots and Thatcher decimating heavy industry.

What UK museums do you think are underrated or overrated?

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What UK museums do you think are underrated or overrated?

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What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you that you’ve had to chalk up to coincidence?

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I was slowly replacing some of my old children’s books that I regretted giving away to a local charity shop in my late teens. Went to a big second hand bookshop - I would have been about early/mid 30s by this time - had a look round, and there were a couple for sale that were on my list to find again. Picked them up, turned to the fly leaf to see the price (the shop used to write it inside in pencil) and there was my name, in my childish handwriting, in the “This book belongs to…” box that Armada used to print in their paperbacks.

Do you use he/she or it for an animal ?

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Why would children be going into school without basic physical skills, like holding a pencil and using cutlery?

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Why would children be going into school without basic physical skills, like holding a pencil and using cutlery?

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Why would children be going into school without basic physical skills, like holding a pencil and using cutlery?

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Do men get creeped out by people the same way women do?

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And that’s just another risk assessment women have to make, and why you shouldn’t take it personally if you know you’re a good guy but a woman doesn’t immediately trust you. We know it’s not all men. But we don’t know which men it IS.

Do men get creeped out by people the same way women do?

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What product spin offs became more popular than the original product?

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How do you deal with being perceived as a threat to people?

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What's the best name you've ever heard given to a pet?

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Those who have bought an expensive mattress, was it worth it?

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What happens to childless old people in the UK who don't own a house?

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I’m thoroughly enjoying the detail and dedication in your posts and I’ve learned a lot so thank you, but just to say that a week in a hospital bed at £800 a day is £5,600, not £56,000.

What happens to childless old people in the UK who don't own a house?

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I took out a mortgage at 48. I had no problems being approved for it but I was very realistic about what I could afford (bought a small house in a not-hugely desirable area - not awful or crime-ridden, just a bit rundown / left behind IYSWIM) and it’s a 19 year term rather than the standard 25 because I’m due to retire at 67 and didn’t want to be worrying about paying a mortgage from a pension.

What do you call these things?

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What is the best quote by a Brit?

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What is surprisingly illegal in the UK?

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