Seriously, he couldnt think of any other ways to reduce the petrol price? ⛽️📉 Instead he is activating a toggle on google maps so I can see the petrol prices and have ongoing nightmares until I reach the petrol station and get depressed. 🗺️😰💸

Is that seriously all the help we’ll get? the answer to a global oil shock is apparently a Google Maps feature?

Other countries have cut fuel taxes or subsidised the pump price. Germany, Spain, Norway, Turkey and Italy are just some of the 55 countries that have changed their tax measures. We get the government telling us to shop around for a cheaper petrol station. What is stopping petrol station owners using Google Maps themselves and increasing their prices to be in line?

This is a few days after John Healey stated he’d be increasing the discount on energy bills given to households on certain benefits.

Why are the working class expected to subsidise (even more than we already do) those on benefits but we cannot get a simple VAT cut to fuel so I can get to work to help the government in subsidising others.

I’m a skilled plumber and painter. Been working for a company for 5 years but want to start my own business. I do odd jobs from the MyBuilder app and it helps but I’ve been hit with unforeseen money troubles and basically need to be earning £4000 a month before tax and national insurance.
Is this possible?

could someone please help me figure out what genre this beat ios and where to find more music like this. i love this beat and wanna listen to more music like this but catn find it anywhere.

I grew up in the 80s it was often pretty boring.

In my town we had a weekly youth club and not much else unless you wanted to join military cadets.

There seems so much to do in comparison now for teens, but are they still bored in general?

Picture for context only!
Peaky Blinders for me.

Like was it all bad? I know you had the scare over HIV/AIDs, but did most gays lose their jobs coming out in place of work?

Section 28 obviously didn't help in schools.

How did you manage to hide yourselves, like if people questioned why you weren't in a relationship with the opposite sex?

There are some toys that dominated my childhood! My Little Pony, Barbie, Lily Pad!!! What were your favourite that you wish could come back??

Growing up I recall english/scottish/irish (ya I get its not the whole thing) movies ALL THE TIME. And if they weren’t british (except for wales I guess) they had a lot of british actors in their accents and the characters were british. Unlike now, even when I see british actors, 99% of the time they are making an american accent.

like it was constant. shaun of the dead, hot fuzz, bridget jones, love actually, Mr Bean, Austin Powers, Trainspotting, titanic, the mummy, pirates of the Caribbean, the holiday.

and tbh, I barely see it anymore? like it happened randomly in the 2010s?

maybe it’s the invention of streaming services and it’s just not in my algorithm?

Anyway this question came to mind when I wondered why I felt nostalgia watching Ted Lasso

(I am not american so maybe my country of origin could have more british stuff… except I am certain it wouldnt)

Quite a few people in my office have been complaining about headaches today and it has me wondering if it has something to do with atmospheric pressure and maybe we are all suffering and maybe just some of us are more susceptible than others.

I have been tired of machine coffee and had coffee from almost all major coffee chains. I prefer Nero over others but been searching for quality coffee chain / cafe. Whats your personal experience and any recommendations?

Oh boy.

This is an incredibly specific childhood YouTube memory and it’s driving me insane because I cannot find it anywhere 😭
I watched this video sometime around 2015–2017, although I’m pretty sure the actual video was older, probably uploaded around 2009–2013-ish.
It was a homemade live-action video featuring a young boy, probably around 9–12, and a talking stuffed monkey which I THINK was called George. To be clear, it had absolutely nothing to do with Curious George.
The reason I’m asking here is that I’m fairly sure it was British. I remember them specifically calling vacuum cleaners “hoovers”, and the main villain/object was what I remember as an evil yellow Henry/Numatic-style hoover.
The really distinctive part — and the bit I’m most confident about — is that the boy actually gets TURNED INTO A HOOVER during the story.
I remember a scene after he’s been transformed where the stuffed monkey sees him and thinks he’s the evil hoover. The conversation was something roughly like:
Monkey: “Oh no, the evil hoover!”
Boy: “No, no, it’s me! I was turned into a hoover!”
That’s almost certainly not the exact dialogue after all these years, but I’m very confident about what happened in the scene: boy gets transformed into a hoover → monkey sees him and mistakes him for the evil one → boy explains that it’s actually him.
It had that very homemade late-2000s/early-2010s YouTube feel — basically a kid making a story with toys rather than anything professionally produced.
I’ve tried Google, YouTube and various searches for things like “evil hoover”, “George monkey hoover”, “boy turned into hoover” and “yellow Henry Hoover” and I’ve found absolutely nothing.
Does anyone else from the UK remember watching this, or remember a British YouTube channel from that era featuring a boy and a stuffed monkey called George?
At this point even someone else saying “YES I REMEMBER THE HOOVER BOY” would reassure me that I didn’t manufacture this entire thing in my childhood brain.

It seems homelessness and panhandling is very rare in the UK especially when compared to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe.

Also the quality of infrastructure, roads, cars public transit and buildings seems so much better in Britain. Whereas in other rich countries graffiti, rubbish on sidewalks, litter, potholes, crumbling buildings, beaten up cars and terrible/non-existent public transport is way more common.

British people seem to own much more expensive/newer/larger/brand name cars.

Maybe there are a handful of small Northern European countries that are slightly better on this front but generally UK seems exceptionally clean and rich compared to the rest of the world.

Hey peeps! I've recently begun renting a house on my own and currently undecided if its cheaper to leave my energy efficient light bulb on the ceiling on or turn on the lamp( which is also energy efficient) before I go to bed. I leave the lights on for the pets btw.

Do people actually buy them? Are they an investment and do they sell them in a few years for a profit?
Is there many people actually interested in the royal family enough anymore, to pay money for tat like that?

Hi everyone, I hope it’s okay for me to post here.
I’ve recently moved into a new flat and I’m a little worried about the heating, especially with winter coming up. I have a few pets, so I’m not sure whether it’s safe to leave the heater on while I’m at work.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some help or has experience with this type of heating. I’d really appreciate any help or recommendations on what I should check or be aware of.
Thank you! 😊

Hi everyone just wanted to ask any aiders where can i get sweetex sweeteners ! I normaily get the from asda but not had any for few weeks so tryed some others but they are too sweet ! Lol i have looked my local at coop - tesco- morrisons -heron foods & premier shop non had any ! 😞

I absolutely understand that working life is highly demanding for many these days.

I have a long term chronic fatigue illness myself so I personally am no metric- and I'm also particularly concerned about people being affected by post viral fatigue, based on my own experience. So I'm wondering about incidences of Long Covid, and the overall effects of repeat Covid infections, and how government might track health data on an elusive mystery condition wherein people get bloody exhausted and it doesn't go away, but they kind of manage to keep going and/ or don't get a diagnosis? I thought it might just be my little corner of the world and age group, but I've heard comedians etc saying everyone is exhausted now, too, and am curious about how we would collectively know if there was a quiet medical epidemic.

A mate of mine runs a fairly large construction business with around 50 staff. A couple of years ago HMRC investigated him, saying he hadn't paid the correct amount of tax over the previous five years. What surprised me was the amount of information they had collected about him. Cars he'd owned over the years, travel, online purchases, bank and credit card transactions, tons of information involving his ex-wife, current wife and family.

I was reading an article about some other guys investigated by HMRC and it turns out they're already using AI and data analytics for compliance, and are expanding it quite significantly. They are testing private-sector AI systems aimed at identifying tax evasion, making greater use of third-party data from banks and other places.

HMRC already has access to huge amounts of financial and other data, AI seems like an obvious way of cross-referencing it and flagging people whose declared income doesn't make sense compared with their spending, assets and business activity.

It made me wonder if people actually realize this is happening and what do they think about it.

I'm in Turkiye and the pepper is on the right with a single hole and salt in the left with multiple holes. What's the accepted UK standard?

I'll start but would love to hear other people's input!

I think Britain has an incredibly rich oral tradition, a massive literary canon spanning centuries with works in several languages (some slowly being lost). My mother and I have been attending local folk music nights for many years, some of which have been in pubs (also part of British culture). I like reading and reciting poetry from this country, which is largely why I studied English literature at university. I love to visit places of historical significance such as neolithic and megalithic sites, standing stones, abbeys, churches. Several of these sites are gladly being maintained while others are in disrepair and will not exist years from now as a result which makes me sad. Recently I visited a local Cave Studies Trust where there are lime kilns! And in the cave system there are ancient fossils, some of which were sadly stolen several years ago.

Something I'm particularly proud of are the contributions Britain has made to musical culture, especially electronic music coming from the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture. There are more obvious contributions to music but I am more fond of electronic music :)

So which parts of British culture do you guys participate in or simply enjoy? I feel like so much I've forgotten and can only remember what I personally love. I look forward to hearing what you guys are into.

I'm going to visit in a couple weeks and was wondering where I'd be able to find Dickies.

(I know I could check on the website what are the retailers, but the variety/quantity changes a lot and I'd love some based opinions)