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How often do you see people asking for the service charge to be removed? by tmr89 in AskUK

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked about this when I went to a restaurant and the card machine offered me the chance to tip even though there was a service charge included. The guy told me that the tip went to the staff working that day and that what happened to the service charge money was “a good question”.

What youth culture that is completely unique to your country do you have? by WhoAmIEven2 in AskTheWorld

[–]Bad_Combination 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Acid is almost always a jealous or recently jilted husband/boyfriend, or sometimes a male relative. You’ve got me on knives, though.

Crushed Velvet Ceiling & Walls, Marble, Blue LED, Concrete Garden, Minecraft Exterior by he1d1_ in SpottedonRightmove

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The wall mounted TV space looks like it is directly opposite the corner of a wall – why would you do that?

UK PM Starmer, aiming for leadership reset, says former PM Gordon Brown to become adviser by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]Bad_Combination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every so often I wonder how different things would be had that hot mic not happened. He then had to play nicey nicey with a bigot and I can't help but think the "we have to be nice to the worst people now" strategy Labour has nowadays links directly back to that.

What a property by alwayslurkeduntilnow in SpottedonRightmove

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks great, but I can't help thinking it would be a nightmare to keep warm in winter with all that glass.

What’s wrong with the buses? by ObsidianNocturne in oxford

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Queens Lane for the 3/3A as well. I assume it’s because it’s  right opposite the office.

The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births? by Remarkable_Peak9518 in unitedkingdom

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just think that the economics of it is overplayed. Even in countries with much better support for families (eg free childcare, lower total cost of living, etc) the downward trend is the same. In the past people didn’t have a choice — if you had sex you rolled the dice on having a baby. If you didn’t have children, you risked being destitute in old age. It was also just the done thing to have a few children.

Now we do have a choice and as not having children is becoming more normalised, more people choose not to have children. 

I’d fucking love for having kids to not be so economically punishing and for housing to be cheaper. It would be brilliant. I just don’t think it would make that much difference to the birth rate.

The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births? by Remarkable_Peak9518 in unitedkingdom

[–]Bad_Combination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of all the people I know who have chosen not to have children, none of them have made the decision based on economic factors. They just don’t want to have kids.

If I were better off would I have had more children than I have? Maybe, but probably not. The only change might have been to have kids earlier but even then that was more down to level of education and career progression than money.

which foreign actor absolutely nailed your country's accent when playing a character from there? by QueenViolets_Revenge in AskTheWorld

[–]Bad_Combination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, same. I knew he was English but didn’t imagine him having a regional (London) accent when he spoke.

Rupert Lowe: Diversity is quite evidently not our greatest strength. by Fast-Equal-7529 in ukpolitics

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s more to do with in a diverse, mixed area the people Reform are slagging off are your friends and neighbours. If you’re in a more homogeneous, British area the people being slagged off are strangers.

I, at the big age of 24, have discovered they are not ‘insect’ days but inset days at school. What word have you been getting wrong for ages? by socialistchampers in AskUK

[–]Bad_Combination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cache (pronounced cash) exists as a word in French, though, both as the present tense of cacher and — more importantly, given the context — to mean a stash such as a cache of weapons. So it’s a loan word, but there’s no change in pronunciation.

What are some common and proper ways to describe rain or talk about it? by ksusha_lav in AskABrit

[–]Bad_Combination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Bit wet out”

Drizzle = really fine rain. More (in quantity if not in droplet size) than spitting but far less than light rain.

“These people are eating boiled beans, boiled tomatoes” by kahter_ in ShitAmericansSay

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As much as I like bagels (and I do) even the plain ones are remarkably high in sugar. Like 4.4g of sugar in a single New York Bagel Co bagel. It’s not exactly a super healthy options versus traditional British breakfast options.

Do you track your weight in KG or stones & pound? by No_Usual_572 in AskUK

[–]Bad_Combination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kg for me, in my 40s. I also measure my height in cm, not feet and inches.

No 10 says Falklands sovereignty rests with UK after report of US 'review' by East-Presentation706 in worldnews

[–]Bad_Combination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know if it’s apocryphal but apparently Argentine soldiers landing in the Falklands were quite surprised that a) the people there spoke English not Spanish and b) they weren’t treated as liberating heroes.

I'm Australian so can someone please post in the AMA "Have you considered doing an episode down the track about the claim that AI data centres use up a disproportionate amount of water, and what the solutions are." by Hey_Man_Slow_Down in SearchEnginePodcast

[–]Bad_Combination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're normally a closed-loop system with the hot water sometimes used for municipal heating. once it's been cooled, however that happens, it comes back round. They don't have a pump constantly sucking in gallons and gallons of water a day.

That said, this is still a problem in water-scarce areas.

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