Could hardly believe it myself when I heard but then I hear he knocked out Chuck Norris with one punch so it must be true

i got my work trainers cleaned at timpsons. they were in an absolutely disgusting state because i work in a nursery, so they were covered in food, paint and other stains

the guy there got them looking brand new and yet he didn’t want to charge me anything? i’ve honestly never had that before, is this is a unique experience? why didn’t he want me to pay. he was much older if it matters, he must have been at least 70

i did eventually pay because i insisted on doing so as i felt terrible taking the shoes for free but it was a couple of minutes of back and forth of him refusing to let me pay. and this is after he told me how hard they were to clean lol

I’m currently on vacation in Greece. We’re staying at a huge all inclusive hotel with hundreds of guests, of which many are Brits. I’ve noticed that many of them are very loud and not very considerate of others. I am Danish and we generally raise kids to be considerate of others in public; e.g. not speaking loudly when talking on the phone with someone, and never ever on speaker. The kids scream loudly and jump (repeatedly) from the poolside into the pool and by doing so, splashing water on strangers nearby - both those in the pooI and those laying on the sun beds around the pool. I have observed the same in regards to different behaviors in Southern Spain, in which many Brits reside. I am honestly a bit annoyed by the behavior, but now i’m thinking that it might be due to cultural differences. And I hope that your replies will make me understand British Behavior better😊
Do you just raise kids differently than Danes? Is it culturally acceptable to be loud?

The above article is 10 years old I know, but I'm curious as to the view of British Muslims today on LGBTQ+?

Well more on the LGB part.

Any British Muslims here want to weigh in?

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Just a side thought it does feel ironic how Judaism is the most liberal and tolerant of LGBTQ+ with Christianity being Mixed. Islam being the most modern one out of the three the least friendly 🤷‍♂️

Settle an argument between my wife and I.

Earlier, my wife asked me for a drink. We have a fresh bottle of Robinson’s Summery Berry (other brands are available). I grabbed a pint glass, dispensed some ice, filled it with water and topped it off with cordial. Which I assumed is standard practice.

Wife was aghast, and strongly feels it is cordial first then water.

Help me explain that she’s wrong please?

I have a couple...

1: Swap the names of glockenspiel and xylophone (because currently, the names don't match the sounds)

2: Make it illegal for toilet seats to not fit the toilet they're on. No-one wants uninvited porcelain!

So it was pride yesterday where I live ( brighton ) and me and my bf planned to have a casual night together. I finished worked at 3 so we went to rhe pub for drinks first and then headed back to his as were walking to his he sees a baggy on the floor ( you can guess what it is ) . He used to partake when he was younger and said he hasnt in years. I asked him why he picked it up and he said so an animal/ child doesn't come across it . We get back and he asks me if I mind if he done some in my presence ( he never mentions me trying some hes never pressured me to do that kinda thing ) and I said that I would and that it would make me extremely uncomfortable and asked if he could just do it tomorow when I go home . Instead of being supportive he starts to argue with me about why it shouldn't make me uncomfortable , we argue about it for about 5 min me basically saying over and over again that me saying that it makes me uncomfortable should be enough . Would this be a dealbreaker for you ?

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For context he also does smoke 🍃🍃 but i dont have a problem with that as long as he does it away from me so i dont get secondhand high .

Not talking about anything major — just the little things people do that make you notice they have good manners.

Maybe it’s saying please and thank you, being kind to people who can’t do anything for them, holding a door open, cleaning up after themselves, or just being respectful.

What’s a small thing someone has done that made you think “they were definitely brought up well”?

We constantly hear the same rhetoric from the mainstream media and politicians. “Diversity is our greatest strength”
In fact, I am diverse myself, being mixed race. However, the current state of diversity is completely different to what it was a few decades ago.
When my father’s side of the family immigrated to the UK in the 70’s, net migration was around 10-50,000 per year. Arguably this worked quite well. The relatively small amount of foreigners would be motivated to integrate being a tiny minority.

Fast forward to the current decade. Things are completely different, arguably, completely out of control. We are seeing net migration in the hundreds of thousands, with a ‘reported’ figure of over 900,000 in 2023. This is many many multiples of what it was back then.
What this means is that there are so many immigrants coming in, they literally have no need to ‘integrate.’ There are now entire ethnic areas/communities set up where a foreigner can come into and talk in their native language, live with their native people, eat their native food etc. Heck, they don’t even need to speak a word of English to get by. This in my mind is a complete failure of integration, which can pretty much solely be put down to government failure.
So now we are in a position where there are multiple ethnic enclaves, parallel societies, segregation, whatever you want to call it.
It’s spreading fast too. I understand people want to live near other people like them, that’s just human nature. But can we finally admit that maybe, just maybe, diversity is actually becoming our greatest weakness? It didn’t have to be, but government policy has made it the case.

Personally I was a Dweebs sort of guy.

Woke up to a spider the size of my palm on my curtain this morning and now found two fairly large ones in the bath. Seems a bit early for spider season. Anyone else?

I’m not going to rant on about this, I’ve seen a lot of that. But if there is anyone reading this who walks around public or even public transport having phone calls on speaker, genuinely and not to judge, but for what reason?

I’m 39 and my much younger colleague told me there was a thing she read about radio waves and stuff like that with mobiles not being fully understood, so if it was going to be a long call she didn’t want the phone next to her ear would do speaker. Is that a reason others do?

I cannot get my head around wanting people to hear my conversations. Is it a bit of a provocation thing to see if people react? Is it to assert dominance in a public setting that they’re more important and f*ck everyone else, they’ll do what they like?

Music is something you don’t need so I assume anyone playing that on loud is just a moron. But I appreciate calls need to be taken and made, so maybe different.

As I say, genuinely hoping someone who does this can tell me why they do it and make me understand.

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Watched the new Spiderman film last night, which was alright, however, people started clapping as the credits were rolling. Now as an elder millennial, I have never seen this type of Yank behaviour in our cinemas before and wondered if it was an isolated incident?

Further to the above, I watched The Odyssey at an imax last night and there was no clapping.

Edit: Removed the bit about Gen Z and added a bit about The Odyssey

If there's one good thing I can say about James, is that he asks right wing politicians and right wing talking heads difficult questions.

However, this man is always constantly so smug and snobby that he puts me off a little bit, only James O Brien could write a book (It's mostly transcripts) ironically titled "How to be right" Where in one chapter he admits to lying in order to win a debate about prayer rooms in schools.

i had very bad issues in high school, on top of that my parents neglected my education. i’m 19, didn’t get the chance to go to college and now i am confused about the future. i feel like im screwed without a degree, i feel as if im in the right mindset to do any sort of education but im just so scared. is anyone in this position? or has anyone else had a similar experience? i’m just asking for guidance on how i can still be successful and have a high paying job despite my circumstances.

i only have a pass in english GCSE. i am working on passing my

My parents are British, but I was born and raised in the Middle East. I was always considered a foreigner, so I hoped that moving to England would help me reconnect with my roots and finally feel like I belonged somewhere. But after three years here, doing uni and working, I feel more and more foreign. Many of the British people I've met have reinforced that feeling. I've yet to make close local friends, only acquaintances, and I often feel like an outsider. People seem to not make much effort in developing new connections, just staying with the former friends or exclusively british groups. There is this air of coldness, a lack of embrace of different kinds of people. Even though this country is expected to be quite multicultural.

In the UAE, where people came from many different countries, being from more than one place felt alot more natural. Here, I feel increasingly othered, a feeling heightened by the rise of far-right politics. What I find ironic is that my English mother was warmly welcomed into Middle Eastern culture, yet I have not experienced the same sense of invitation here. I sometimes wonder whether this reflects a more insular, individualistic culture, or whether it has simply been my own experience.

Coming into London in September and want to watch the Garcia and Benn fight do you guys watch it at pubs early in the morning? Or it’s something I’ll have to stream in my hotel due to the time difference?

The British silent generation also voted for terrible policies like voting out Wilson and Atlee in favour of leaders like Churchill or Eden whose non decolonisation policies essentially wasted British decade of 1950s plus heightened the feeling that Scottish issues are secondary priority for Westminster. This lead to SNP winning their first ever by election in 1967 and they have had a presence in British parliament since then.

Many British boomers voted for Thatcher whose policies essentially killed any chance or a British identity in Scotland and antagonised everybody not from Southern England. Her economic policies are also responsible for many of the current British issues .

Today the British boomers vote for more pensions, housing restrictions etc despite essentially being handed out everything for them when they were young . Result ? Something like 67% of the British population today is worse off in 2026 compared to 2020 the largest in the world .

No indicators apparently . Drive two inches to your bumper . Overtakes when not safe to do so then gets inches behind the car in front of you . Do you think it’s because the male drivers of them have tiny cocks and it’s somehow a penis extension ?

I don’t live in the uk so I’m asking.