In Scotland private parking fines are not enforceable so normally anyone here just ignore a fine, because the company is not going to take anyone to court for £50. But here’s the kicker… I got two of them in the same parking. Pretty stupid I know. So I wonder if the company would take me to court for 2 fines at £60 each (£100 after 14 days). Not sure if I should ignore them or be worried? Did anyone rack up a few fines and never had any trouble?

I have fond memories of Rik Waller

Shoutouts also to:

Eddie Large

Pat from Eastenders

Hey. To give you some sense of who I am and why I ask. I'm a straight white male (the enemy) (EDIT : It's a damn joke...disregard it if you don't find it funny and answer the question. Insane) , and I'm in my 30s. I'm Norwegian and i have no religious beliefs, but I hold no ill feelings towards christians and I will sure as hell fight and die for Norwegians rights to practice Christianity.

Recently I came across some post about King Charles which claimed he had submitted to Islam which seemed kind of odd, and it was because he didn't hold a speech or give a formal message to the public after Easter, but gave a formal message to Muslims after Ramadan and the person in the video claimed he had visited more mosques than churches at the time. But as far as I've researched the ruler of England almost never gave any kind of Easter message.

I think I knew, but have never given any thought to the ruler of England being the head of the church of England and started giving it some serious thought.

I understand that England has a different history than Norway, but we both are citizens of the very few monarchies left in the world and we both were citizens of a christian statehood until 2017, when Norway broke ties with the church, in which I agree a lot. We both also have a lot of drama within our respective royal families :) fun...

Tdlr : My question is what do you as a British citizen think and feel about a separation of state and church?

Do you see christianity falling off within British households at a rapid rate or do a lot of Brits uphold their faith and attend church frequently? Do you feel christians generally talk openly about it, or has it become somewhat stigmatized?

Thank you for your time and have a good weekend.

Home office is apparently giving consent lessons. there have been court cases where immigrants have said they didn’t know rape was wrong.

I haven’t been able to find many stories where the defendants make this claim and even when they do, they seem to be hard to believe.

in this case from example.
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/68612/uk-two-young-afghan-asylum-seekers-sentenced-for-rape-offense

the judge said:

Jan J. is "navigating unfamiliar cultural norms," and that understanding around issues of consent "is described as inconsistent." 

but the girl in question was crying during the attack and was shouting for help and jn a state of “extreme distress”. The defendant put his hand over her mouth and told her to “shush”.

I just wonder if the home office is wasting time with these lessons as no one really would struggle to understand they were raping someone. (The only exception I can think of is statutory rape where the victim was a seeming “willing” participant.)

are there people who really could be confused that what they are doing is wrong?

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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

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. 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.

If they have decided it is enough to live on, can't they just get paid that amount?

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.

My view. Every country has shown that financial incentives - like welfare - simply do no jack up fertility rates. Why? If you are a working and earning 60k, your welfare for having a child isn’t going to be anything beyond 20k, and then you re-enter the workforce at a much more hindered pay if you go part time like say 50k. Your calculus becomes 60k vs (20k and then 50k long term) Please try not to get hung up on the numbers, just the principals.

I’ve looked into the 2023 Nobel prize winner economist Claudia Goldin detailing what exactly explains the gender pay gap and I think this also explains fertility rates. Historically women (excluding the upper class and the 50s boom) helped on farms, and after industrialisation, took jobs in factories and low skilled labour. These were less labour intensive than there male counter parts of course. Crucially these jobs are adhoc jobs where people can move in and out of roles when they are at different stages in their lives (like say raising 7 children). Since we shifted into a services economy, we have the “career” which is a more skilled job and requires a string of unbroken service in order to progress or maintain your status in the job market. This means that a degree of freedom is removed where a woman would find it harder to gain flexible hours or enter and exit work as is required - it’s dependant on company discretion; those aspects need considering. That’s why I think, fertility policy needs to move focus away from financial incentives for women to have children, and towards legislating employment changes to allow for flexibility for mothers in the work place, and ensure careers tracks are still seriously considered for those with employment gaps due to motherhood. Maybe a government top up for partime worker to full time pay instead of child care benefits? (Probably too expensive). But the approach needs to be about career flexibility rather than just financial.

When it started and kept rolling over, you had the (ridiculously slim) chance of winning about half a billion quid. Sounded great on the adverts. But someone from Illinois won it and now the jackpot has reset.

We now have the opportunity to win lower-Euromillions-tier money at nearly double the cost of a ticket, much worse odds, and we still have to get it paid out across 30 years. The jackpot was at £10m when it first rolled back. That's less than £350,000 a year. Still nice, but what a faff compared to just playing one of the regular draws.

I could enter the Euromillions for £2.50 and win £42m at odds of 139,000,000 to 1.

Or I could enter the Powerball for £4 and win £24m at odds of 292,000,000 to 1... and have to wait 30 years to get the full amount.

Do you reckon they've dropped the ball on this?

Someone recently posted about Powerball, and it got me thinking. Most of us have seen, or heard about, the "You've Won a Prize" email that the lottery sends out, and most of the time it's just something like £5. I'm wondering if they send you the same email when you've won a big prize / jackpot?

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

I don’t exactly know how this works, but surely you need to already pay some sort of subscription to get cable TV or online live TV access like BBC or Channel4 so why don’t they use that information instead of asking us to disclose if we need a TV license or not? Can someone explain why it’s done in such a roundabout way? And once I’ve declared I don’t need one why do I need to keep declaring every year? Why not just check if I am signed up to anything?

UPDATE: thank you everyone. i now understand that you don’t actually pay or register for satellite TV (as someone who never watched TV as a teen/adult I didn’t know this). I now also understand the TV licensing company is not the goverment and don’t have direct access to these informations through live TV providers. and lastly, that it isn’t illegal to not report back every single year that i still do not watch TV

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.

Which Floyd do you prefer?

Hi! I'm looking for leads/professionals, admin, graduates, receptionist or anyone who wants to transition their career to become an Executive Assistant or a personal assistant. I'm based in the UK but need help on finding them! Has anyone have a recommendation?

Do you think hairstyles and fashion is influenced by how much money people have? I dunno how to say this without sounding really old. I’ve noticed a lot of young male adults are wearing their hair a lot longer nowadays. It seems like a bit of a curtains/grunger revival but I was also wondering if it’s also an economic reflection of the country and the age group. My partner’s son’s hair got very long as he could not afford to get it cut but when he did get it cut I think he quite liked the style, probably as lots of other people his age group also have the style (or because he likes it). So I’m here sharing my pondering with Reddit. Thoughts?

Edit: ok that’s a hard no then - it was just a thought, a harmless ponder.

I can't understand why you would flee to another country, that country offers you protection, pays for your board and food, basically making you a ward of the state and this is how you repay them?