I know I did as a late teen early 20's. Now it just doesn't seem safe.

My girlfriend has just started eating digestive biscuits with little blocks of cheddar on top of them, claiming that it's a thing that "everybody does."

This is mental, and a good reason to abandon our relationship, right?

EDIT: TIL that this country is full of absolute abominations.

EDIT 2: I see that my post has reached the hot page, so I'm waiting for Buzzfeed or LadBible to pick up on this... And hi to all you Americans sticking your head through the door. A digestive is a biscuit. It's not one of those vile things you call biscuits, but an actual biscuit. It's primary function is to be dipped into tea and then eaten.

EDIT 3: Shut up, America. (Edit to the edit: To be clear, this isn't for all of you. It's for the group of idiots that have come in, taken this whole thing way too seriously and just been generally rude.)

EDIT 4: For the idiot that accused me of racism, calling somebody "crackers" is not a racist term in the UK. If you call somebody crackers, you're jokingly calling them crazy.

Alchohol is a powerful drug. Kills thousands, ruins lives and families.

Bit tired of seeing all the 'omg why would u take coke in a PUB' posts of late. The judgment I see is so strange. Like 1 is better than the other lol. The irony is incredible.

So seriously, why all the hate for anything and everything that isn't alchohol?

I'm a 27F. I was walking to the a bus stop today in East London. It was only a 10 minute walk but I was harassed by several different groups of men, all completely drunk out of their minds. They made lewd sexual comments about me and thought it was hilarious. I ignored them all and just looked at the ground. I finally get on the bus, and after a few minutes man gets on with food and drink running down his face. I was one of the few people on the bus. He came over close to me and kept demanding that I speak to him. I ignored him but he sat behind me shouting 'England! England! England!' and 'talk to me darling' on repeat for the whole journey. After getting off the bus I met another group of men who winked at me and came too close for comfort. I hate this. Ironically, this is one of the days that has made me dislike living in England the most. Next time there is a big match I am staying home all day. Have other people had similar experiences today?

**edit: I want to say a huge thank you for your supportive comments. This has made me feel a lot better. I'm sorry to all the other people who have had similar experiences.

I cannot wrap my head around it. Standing in line overnight-up to 30 hours to spend a minute looking at a coffin of a woman you have never met and who never gave a fuck about you. It’s absolutely nanas. If anyone can provide me with any good counter arguments I would be keen to hear them.

Imagine the line when Attenborough goes….

For me it has to be the post office scandal. The post office when it was still owned by the government, wrongly prosecuted hundreds of people for theft. It actually sent 39 people to prison.

However, it was revealed that the fault was with the post office computer system that was full of bugs and these people were innocent. When the post office found out about this they instigated a massive cover up and it took the people nearly 20 years to get their convictions overturned.

People went to prison for years, some committed suicide, one women lost her kids and no one at the post office has ever been held accountable.

Whenever, I mention this to people it always surprises me how few have heard about it or don’t know the full extent.

Why do we use an awkward mix of imperial and metric in this country?

My car does 40 miles per gallon but fuel costs £1.40 per litre (insert maths equations meme)

I’m 6’2 and don’t know if I can stand up in a 2m deep pool

At the gym all the weights are in kilos but i’d track my own weight in stones and pounds

Can we agree that 1000 ml in a litre, 1000g in a kg makes infinitely more sense than 16oz in a lb, 14lb in a stone (and why the fuck is pound abbreviated as lb?) and don’t even get me started in quarts and bushels and furlongs

As a sensible person, I hit it with a shovel, but there was no kaboom. Despite plenty of digging around, I still can't extract it with simple shovel leverage. What is it?

Always check you’re muted in Teams…

And The Eurovision song contest has had lots of coverage.

I've always struggled with the American The Office. The UK one wants to laugh at the characters while the US one seems to want you to like at least some of the characters...it's hard to tell watching.

Late night US talk shows are also pretty hit and miss. Rarely do I find anything on them laugh out loud funny.

E: Oops, didn't expect this to be so popular - I figured the mug thread would be today's heavy hitter! Go comment!

E2: I don't think I've ever had a thread with over 2K replies before! Bloody hell!

I live in South Korea and my biggest shocks were:

-all services are done very quickly (groceries are delivered the next day)

-no one adds milk to their tea or coffee (also barely anyone here drinks tea)

-eating out of the same bowl of soup or stew with friends

-slippers in the bathroom

-90% of bread here is all sweet. Bakeries just sell pastries

-awful driving

-pickled vegetables served alongside most western dishes

-almost no obese people

-room salons of all varieties ( hostess bars where you drink crappy whisky, sing karaoke and have sex with prostitutes)

-rarely every any bar brawls or drunken altercations, people are way more sensible when drunk than we are

-nowhere to buy deodorant... seriously...

Sidenote: i keep seeing comments about milk being sold in bags, can someone explain to me what this tomfoolery is?

I don't use facebook, but a friend has notified me of a thread on our local community group concerning my car. My road is Victorian terraces and as such no one has driveways, we all park on the road. Space is limited, and as such you park wherever you can, even if that means leaving the car halfway down the street.

The post shares a picture of my car, and the poster asks if anyone knows who's car it is, and raises concerns that it has been abandoned. I'm not sure why she suspects a three year old car in good condition to have been abandoned...

There are over sixty comments at time of writing. The vast majority are also "concerned". Some ask if it's been reported to the police, another has apparently looked it up and confirmed that is is taxed and MOT'd. Others share stories of cars left outside their houses, leaving them unable to park outside their own home (of which they have no entitlement).

The post has now been up for over 24 hours and the consensus seems to be that it does not belong to anyone on our street as they would have become known by now. Several commenters are expressing extreme annoyance at this prospect.

Should I be worried? These people seem to be working themselves into some sort of frenzy over something perfectly innocuous. I work from home, have everything I need within walking distance so simply don't use my car that much. We are also in tier four, so I really don't think this is that strange?

Last Thursday me and my family lost our whole house to the fires in Birmingham. We have two young children and they are struggling aswell but honestly they are the reason I'm still here, as I lost my dad in March and my nan the night after the fire, 2026 is really testing me!

We did have house and contents insurance and currently dealing with them, they are looking to rehouse us as the house has been determined inhabitable and needs to be demolished, but they are only offering unsuitable travellodge or place in Wolverhampton which is no good for work and once the kids go back to school.

We have contacted water who have closed our account and council won't do anything about council tax until we have policy number which was in the house.

We just don't know what the next steps are or what to do? Can anyone share some advice please

i personally think a big fat yes. I used to be a tiller and luxury wet room fitter in Oxfordshire and i went to many houses 'of the other half' One lady owned '27' houses in bicester all £800-1200 pcm. Not only that, a transport company and a warehousing company...

Mind, she was a lovley lady compared to some and was truly grateful of the work we had completed.

Should cannabis be legalised in the UK?

I'll admit it: I hear about Extinction Rebellion, their protests, blocking roads and raising awareness of just how screwed the world is, and I can't help but think "They're doing the right thing no matter what."

Don't get me wrong; I drive a car, have a gas-heated home, take a few flights a year (in non-pandemic times), I'm as wasteful a consumer as every other average Brit. I am, however, too much of a cowardly non-confrontational... average Brit to join their protests or actively support them.

Anyone else? Or am I alone here?

Edit to add: Not just Extinction Rebellion specifically, but I guess the other climate catastrophe protest groups like Insulate Britain.

Starting this off by stating I’m NOT a vegan. I have been, but some stuff crept back in. What I couldn’t fathom, at that time or now, is why the idea of meat substitutes or or certain cruelty free products trigger such extreme vitriol from people, esp on the cesspool of Facebook, and occasionally here/IG. Name calling, accusations of hypocrisy, pedantry about the shape of a patty or sausage. It used to really bother me, and let’s face it, vegan poking was fun in about 1998, but I can’t help wondering how this has continued for so long. Anyone?

Edit; ‘It’s not the products it’s the vegans’ is a bit of a common reply. Still not really sure why someone making less cruel or damaging consumption choices would enrage so many people. Enjoying some of the spicy replies!

Another edit. People enjoy fake meat for a variety of reasons. Some meat avoiders miss the taste and texture of meat. Some love meat, hate cruelty. Some meat eaters eat it for lighter / healthier meals. It’s useful to have an analogue to describe its flavour. Chicken, or beef just helps. It’s pretty varied. The Chinese have had mock turtle for decades. There’s even a band from 1985 called that! Hopefully save us having to keep having that conversation. (Sub edit) some vegans DO NOT want to eat anything that’s ‘too meaty’ and some even chastise those that do.

Final edit 22 days later. This post really brought some of the least informed people out of the woodwork, to make some crazy and unfounded statements about vegans, ethics, science and health. I think I can see the issues a little more clearly after this.

Thanks for commenting (mostly).

For me it’s when someone in a car who has clearly the right of way insists on letting you go first. Especially at junctions. It causes confusion all round,nobody knows who’s going to go first and raises the chance of an accident and everyone ends up taking longer to get out. Just take your flipping right of way and go on with your day. I won’t hold it against you or think you are a bad person.

My name is Adam but all my mates call me Glen because we were booking a holiday once and I was giving my details, told the lady I was called Adam and she said "Sorry, did you say Glen?" And it just stuck 😂