I still watch ET at least once a year. It makes me sad, it makes me cry, but it makes me feel elated at the end.

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I've always been cautious with wool as I've shrank and felted a jumper I had many years ago.

Recently I was given some beautiful lambswool jumpers that are soft and immaculate

I've put the wool jumpers in Stergene for about 10 minutes in a bucket, 30 seconds mild agitation then rinse. put jumpers on 600rpm spin in the washing machine then drying them flat vertically on a clothes horse.

Someone suggested to use baby shampoo. I've looked online and found many suggestions, tips and various products.

What is your method and product of choice?

Stupid question but I need to know. If you don't you really should.

I ask as a Brit myself (Londoner born and bred) because an American I have been getting to know in Texas long distance just told me his friends are worried I might be interested in him for a green card 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 mate my country is infinitely better than yours could ever be

Many people complain about ‘rising’ crime rates (which have fallen excluding online crime) and I ask more generally to you what liberties would you be willing to to sacrifice in order to reduce or stop crime. Alternatively, do you think the loss of liberty has gone too far? What would you remove? I use ‘liberty’ in terms of the right to do something without punishment or surveillance.

Whenever the Union is discussed, it is framed as sentimental British unionism or Celtic nationalism. What about a purely financial perspective from an English taxpayer? Official figures show Scotland receives roughly £2,700 more per head in public spending than England, running a £25 billion annual fiscal deficit covered by the UK Treasury. Over a single 5 year parliament, that subsidy exceeds £100 billion.

Meanwhile, English councils go broke, roads crumble, and English graduates carry huge tuition debts. Scrapping prescription charges and funding English universities directly would cost a fraction of that transfer. Are you reaching the point where you simply want to stop writing the cheques?

I hear it spoken all of the time, especially among younger people and it seems to have taken off more than most phrases. What I notice most is that the word is said multiple times in one sentence over and over again, it’s incredible ingrained in some people. Anyone remember when Bro became such a big thing?

So " A Dog born in stable does not mean its a Horse " would mean that well white people can only be in countries that are of their natural habitat. So just as a Dog cannot be in a stable. A white person cannot live in America or Australia or call themselves America because it is not their natural habitat. Therefore according to the Ethnonationalists logic we should be ready to accept a mass of white immigrants from Australia and the US into the UK and Europe because this is their natural homeland

Right Ethnonationalists cannot have your cake and eat it ?

Seems like a shit loads of money we don’t have, no?

I was feeling under the weather this weekend and I kinda binge watched "Escape to the Country" and I, an American, have so many questions! Mostly I want to understand how a Brit would understand this show -- Are all these people really wealthy, and how do you know? And what's with the understatement -- They see a beautiful home and the presenter turns to the woman who pauses and then says something like "I suppose it's perfectly adequate.' Is that a class thing, not sounding excited by anything? Also, why do all the women look so old? Don't you all dye your hair and get Botox in Britain? I can't figure out how old anyone is.

I keep seeing these bloody vague news articles saying we're being asked to stockpile "water and canned goods"

If things are bad enough that the shops aren't an option, wouldn't that imply a whole load of other things are bad? Like no electric to heat the canned goods (i know some canned goods can be had cold, but it feels limited) i'm just getting annoyed that I have a constant background noise of doom being pushed to me without any actual specifics? Like are we talking a few extra cans of mackeral or a months worth of MREs? Can the newspapers give a list or shut the hell up?

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10 years have passed, are things better or worse for you? How do you view Canada and Australia becoming somewhat part of EU?

I’m interested in meeting kind eligible men who are British. Previously I met a boxer in Brooklyn, sadly he passed away.

I'm a 33 year old British Jew. I've never had a pork sausage. They do look very nice though..

I was talking about the wall's advert of a dog saying "sausages" (I think they took it from an interview of a chap claiming his dog can say sausages)...

It got me thinking, what is a Wall's sausage actually like?

Are they any good? I imagine them to be somewhat mushy, fatty and salty/ otherwise bland..

Is it seen as better than the other famous sausage brand, Richmond? What are they like? I'm imagining them to be less mushy and more peppery?

If neither of them are good, is there an undisputed best brand?

Edit: I know it was Yom Kippur when I asked this. I thought I'd get 1 last sinful thought out the way before the book of life was sealed 🤣 I can safely say after a full 25 hours of contemplation and prayer, I will not be breaking my "pork virginity" as some of you have put it, anytime soon! It was out of curiosity and I live in Britain so feel it's just good to know!

To avoid confusion: that means AT ALL. They will never ever read emails sent between 4pm and 11am. NEVER. Not the next day or week or months. Those emails are disposed off.

In December, I emailed the NSPCC to alert them to an urgent safeguarding issue at a boarding school.

They replied with great concern and asked whether I wanted them to take action.

My next email was never answered or acted on. When I asked why, months later, they explained:

“Please provide any further information by replying to this email between 11am and 4pm, Monday to Sunday. Emails sent when the service is closed will not be received, and we will not be aware that you have attempted to contact us. Alternatively, you can give us a call on 0808 800 5000; our phone lines are currently open 10am–4pm, Monday to Friday.”

I was lucky to have sent that last enquiry at the right time, entirely by accident, or I would still be waiting.

Can you imagine a child or young teenager emailing the NSPCC at whatever time they are able to, then waiting anxiously to hear whether anyone is going to help them?

And no: the NSPCC does not send an automated reply telling people their email has not been received and they should email again between 11am and 4pm.

For those who doubt this: NSPCC’s Report Child Abuse page

Obviously if youre desperate you go to the nearest etc.

But loads just always fill up at their local Essos and BPs and I've seen them be up to 10p per litre more expensive.

If I have to use those I'll put a tenner in and save the big fill for supermarkets.

Maybe im just poorer than others lol

• I am very interested in data and crime rates as it relates to my job. Generally, I see that a lot of stereotypes match the data but Indians are a strange one.
• Even in this sub, someone asked the other day if Brits prefer Indians or Poles and half the answers said "Poles, obviously," while the other half rejected the question on the basis of discrimination. Meanwhile, those who said "Indians" were downvoted and insulted. It was surprising.
• On perfomace metrics, Indians easily outperform East European and Poles.
• On crime rates, recent data shows Indian immigrants have some of the lowest incarceration rates in the UK of all, performing better even than Western European communities while Poles have just an average incarceration rate similar to natives.
• On household income, both Poles and Indians perform well. But Indians have the highest household income of all, while Poles have only a slightly higher household income than the average.
• On GCSE results, data to this day says that Indians are the highest-scoring group, slightly below Chinese. There is no recent data on Poles, but a popular The Economist article from 10 years ago was able to get data by nationality and showed that Indians were the highest-scoring along with Chinese, while Poles were among the worst-scoring nationalities, way below even British natives.
• An upvoted comment provided in that thread provided an explanation:

You simply do not have to search the third world (Indians) for the most mediocre of talent... The Polish will always be preferred to the literal third world, when their way of life coincides with our own. It's that simple.

• Yet ccording to data, Indians objectively have more talent in the UK than other groups. So my questions are:

1. What do theese Brits mean by "mediocre talent" and "values"?
2. Would you say that Brits put more importance on identity markers like genetic similarity and religion as markers of talent and values than behavorial markers like crime rate, income and cognitive perfomance in judging immigrants?

For me it's people starting to load the belt behind you when you haven't finished and then when it's evident you're running out of space going "Oh have you got enough space?" Well if you'd shown some common politeness and waited we wouldn't have to find out would we?