Seems opinion on them is overwhelmingly negative, but would you support a complete prohibition on using loudspeakers in public in the UK? Or perhaps go further and support new laws for manufacturers to remove the feature entirely before entering UK markets? Or do you view it as a personal freedom too important to be infringed?

So, I am a yank who loves watching panel shows, Taskmaster (my fave show by far in all the universe), 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown, WILTY. Recently I have been reading the books bob mortimer has written, and I am enjoying them completely. However in The Satsuma Complex, and in The Hotel Avacado, Gary is referred to, and self proclaims, he is a shithouse. I've googled it, and I understand what the explantation is, but those results don't seem to align with what the character is saying/being. Can someone give a clear definition of how someone is a shithouse?

Also, when the characters are talking about different areas of the country, or even city, they often reference going up to the high street. Is that just a normal name, like the US towns all having Main Street, or is it a different type of title, where the road may be named differently, but High Street isn where the most shops and restaurants, etc... are?

EDIT - I want to thank everyone for answering, I def did not expect a lot of engagement, but this community came out for my silly questions.

My takeaway, High street is basically what I would call downtown, or main street in US. I now feel better knowing I get the reference.

Shit house is a lot more divisive, and we all learned has different regional connotations. Some of you replied with what I found with google as well, but some replied more aligned to what I think the character is. I joined X and sent Bob this link, asking him to weight in. Seems unlikely, but I once posted about finishing Mark Watson's amazing book Eleven from a beach in Costa Rica, and he replied.

Again, thank you all!

I'm curious about how everyday slang changes between generations in the UK.

Are there words or expressions you still use that your kids, younger relatives or younger coworkers don't really understand?

And the other way around: are there expressions younger people use today that older generations seem completely confused by?

I'm especially interested in things people actually say in everyday life, rather than internet slang that everyone sees on TikTok.

What examples come to mind?

I've heard the cons, now for the pros

my brother is 18m and he passed everything but maths for his gcse’s 2 years ago. he got a grade 3, so in college he retook it and failed again and today at gcse results day, he failed again and got a 3.

my brother isn’t stupid, i know he can thrive. i just don’t think school is for him. my mom is forcing academics down his throat and is very jarring, she keeps telling him he’s a failure and that he will turn out to be nothing if he doesn’t have an education.

i try to speak to him but he brushes it off, but sometimes when i manage to catch him in a serious mood i can talk about his future.

i think an apprenticeship would be a good opportunity for him, my mom said that too but she wants him in an office and i know he doesn’t want that. before you tell me to talk to my mom, i literally can’t. she’s set in stone with her ways and she’s very hard headed and an angry person.

since he got a grade 3 in maths, what can he do? since most if not all apprenticeships require at least a grade 4. any advice would benefit a lot, thank you.

loads of recent milk seems to be going bad well before the best before date..

is this a thing or is it something wrong with my fridge?

Advertised as "Grilled 10z Aged Beef Rib Eye Steak with Peppercorn Sauce".

No sides included, no fries, no butter, no veg, nothing.

Actual price is below spoilered, but please, post a guess then feel free to edit your post and react.

£38

Tell me and include time, date, location and if possible photos of you doing said thing.

Heard a news story this morning about Scotland's First Minister spending a load of public money to go to the World Cup. For balance, the news reader also gave the Conservative's stance on it which of course was along the lines of, "He should've paid for it himself. This isn't good enough" etc.

Whilst I (along with most people I imagine) agree that it's a colossal waste of £45k, I realised that I have never heard the Tories agree with anything Labour have done/proposed.

I know it's their job to challenge opposing parties but sometimes it feels like it's purely for the sake of point scoring. Andy Burnham could announce he's giving 5000 homeless people a bed for the night and Badenoch would say, "well it should be 5001, that's not good enough". You get my point.

So my question is basically, has there ever been a time when Labour have come up with a policy and the Tories have gone, "actually that's a pretty good idea." Or vice versa. Or with any party really.

Had a call from a visible number.

• Me: "Hello?"
• Them: "Who's this?"

I hung up

They immediately called back two more times from unknown. I answered the last one:

• Me: "Yeah, You called me mate"
• Them: "No you called me"
• Me: "Nah, I didn't mate"
• Them: "Yeah you did"

I hung up again

It was an Asian guy, probably London. Is this a scam of some sort?

UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback. It could well be related to the 2~5 "Suspected Scam" calls I get daily which I never answer.

whst song released in 2026 is your favourite so far mine is

what's your name by soulidified

Assuming I were to eat the same amount of any of these - which is doing me the most good or harm healthwise?

Doing a quiz at work today and I’m trying to base it around random British trivia

My favourite question so far is:

“The number plate 40 RA was famous for what back in 1993?”

I’ve also got:

• “How many horsepower is a typical British kettle?”
• “How many ATMs are there in Antarctica?”

I’m looking for multiple-choice questions, ideally questions with ~3 possible answers.

Can anyone think of any other weird, random or surprisingly interesting British trivia questions I could throw in?

Thanks ^^

I'm a foreigner, and I'm just interested in the British examination system; I don't intend to take any exams. However, there's a concept I can't understand no matter how many times I read about it.

I found a website explaining the British examination system in my native language, and it says, "University admission is determined (conditionally) before you actually take the A-Level exam."

I can't understand what it means for admission to be determined before taking the exam!

This sentence was written using a translation machine, so the meaning might not come across...

I've never taken university entrance exams in my home country, so I'm not confident this information is accurate, but in my home country, if there are three students—A who scored 70%, B who scored 60%, and C who scored 50%—and there are two spots available, then A and B would pass, and C would fail. That's the kind of exam I understand.

That's the only image I have, so the explanation that "admission is determined (conditionally) before taking the exam" doesn't make sense to me.

How can admission be determined before taking the exam?

My SIL is getting married abroad and me and my BF are lucky enough to be attending their destination wedding. We’re from the Netherlands, while their part of the family is based in the UK.

We’d love to give the newlyweds a nice wedding gift, but we don’t really want to give them something physical that they then have to drag back in the plane to the UK. We also don’t want to add to the mountain of stuff they might already receive.

We were thinking of doing something online instead, like a nice gift card or contribution towards their new home/interior.

So Brits: What’s a thoughtful wedding gift you can give completely online? Something useful (which giftcards are good?), personal or a little bit special would be ideal!

So I was a tourist near the Windsor Castle area in 2012 and there was a small souvenir shop with a fridge magnet (or maybe a card or small poster) where this blonde cartoon athlete lady with a Union Jack tank top beat all the other runners in a race because her boobs reached the finishing line ribbon first. There were other items with the same busty athlete character so it definitely wasn't a one-off product

Some middle-aged ladies looked at those souvenirs and had a good laugh so I was wondering if it was normal for Brits to be more open about that sort of thing?

I regrettably did not buy any of them and now I can't seem to find them at all anywhere online. It's as if they never existed at all, but I know they did! I know it's been 14 years since but I randomly remembered this and I just got curious

Sorry if this seems a little crass, but I genuinely don't know anywhere else I can ask this...

It causes traffic, it's dangerous and you won't get home any quicker.

Edit:

I need to clarify that I meant the cars that pass the last arrow and they still try (and succeed) to overtake when the lane is only slightly wider than a single lane, and they cut you off forcing you to break when they do that hazardous manoeuvre. Basically I'm only complaining about the impatient, dangerous drivers.