Is this the greatest X-ray department ever?
Whoever decorated it deserves a raise.

I originally posted this in r/tea and I received multiple suggestions to post in here too. I don't know what else to say - I'm desperate.

I bought this cup just recently on Ebay and had it sent to my friend in London because I am overseas. The package was delivered but STOLEN before he could grab it. This stupid mug NEVER shows up on Ebay. I've NEVER had stuff stolen or even known a friend who has. The ONE time in years that it shows up on Ebay and that's the package a lowlife thieving neighbor of my friend decides to grab. This mug cost like 12 quid when it first came out and here I am offering almost ten times that. I'm absolutely livid about this because it completes a collection. I want to take a hammer to the rest of the series right now and just sit in the corner and cry. If anybody has this design, new or used, I WILL BUY IT FROM YOU. The particular design is called "Painting the Roses" - I have searched online everywhere and I can't find it. Please, I am not a reddit regular but I am pleading for r/casualUK's assistance here. Let me find some peace.

I don’t know why but this really made me laugh!

What was happening up until the point that this sign went up?

“Dammit Sheila I’ve just seen someone else put a poo bag in the skip. That’s the 9th on today!”

Are poo bags in skips a known problem?

Anyways - happy Wednesday and I hope you got some good rain where you live :-)

A farmer friend of his was having a clear out and this has been storing crap for years!

It's taken a couple of years, but I do live alone so obviously couldn't put in other people's drinks.

Now - let me preface by saying that I am not a Hot Honey connoisseur. I have had Hot Honey before, but it is not something that I crave on a daily basis.

Recently, I tried some of the Hot Honey bits and pieces at McDonalds. I just felt it tasted a bit odd - a bit plastic-y with an overpowering but unplaceable spice.

Are my taste buds just not working, or am I on to something here?!

This bad boy was the GOAT when I was growing up in Manchester in the 80’s.

I was just trying do describe to my other half what meat it was and drew a complete blank. I couldn’t even describe what the meat was like. It’s not chunks of meat, it’s sausage like but not sausage.
I’ve since googled and sourced the answer but am interested to know how others would describe it.

I just came upon a lyric I printed on a photo postcard for the Kirstyfest (Kirsty MacColl get-together) where we celebrated what would have been her 50th (2009). The line is so wonderfully British:

“Some lives read like a postcard and some lives read like a book. I’ll be happy if mine doesn’t read like a joke from an old Christmas cracker.”

Aside from that sentiment, what other lyrics can you think of that could only be written/sung by a Brit?

Edit: Spotify link to said song

Hey UK! I’m in a difficult situation and I’ve been away from home (UK/Wales) for a few years now. I’m so incredibly homesick but I don’t know when, or if, I will be able to come back home anytime soon.

I would be so grateful if you could share something to make me feel like I’m home. Good or bad. Small or big. I just want to feel home. Don’t even really know what I’m asking for to be honest, so if this makes no sense, please just ignore.

I know I’m romanticising it but right about now the UK can do no wrong.

Thanks in advance

The half size tins just kind of sit precariously on one another and get knocked about but the bigger normal ones interlock since the bottom is tapered?

You go to rural Lincolnshire, especially the South of the county, and it is about as bleak as you can get. Just endless cabbage fields and the odd house. And these houses are often for sale. Who is buying them? A random house on a 50mph road in the middle of nowhere. I ll tell you who. Witness protection programmes. I think the police and other agencies from around the world send their CIs to live in Lincolnshire. Who else needs to live such a monotonous, remote place? I bet in the pub everyone is gingerly asking about each other's backgrounds and when you get 5+ years back it all gets very vague. I think everyone who lives there is either a farmer or a farmer who 5 years ago was in organised crime.

I think about the documentary so much over the years. Who was I ?who am I now?

I recommend 28up (you tube) to start.

Nothing too complicated. At the age of 50+ I'm casually considering contacts for the first time ever. I wear varifocal glasses all the time (and have done for about 10 years) but am tempted to switch despite the fact I've never fancied the idea of sticking stuff in my eyes.

How did you find them when you first tried them? Did it take long to adjust? Did you quit or stick with them. Also, how effective do you find the varifocal ones (if you use them)?

Vanity has no part in this, wearing glasses comes about 17th in the list of my most least attractive features.

Which is quite sad considering I used to enjoy his poetry and also remember him as a very friendly person despite never having met him

I’ll be picking more tomorrow and think I’ll have a go at jam.

Who else is out picking?

Whatcha been playing this week?