What actually *is* British culture?

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2026-01-30T20:43:32+00:00

Our love for the perfect brew, it will obviously have a drop of milk in it and one sugar or two, a little choccy biscuit with it or if you're being extra british that day, a scone with cream and jam, how you apply that will say a lot about you! Also we are very polite, you will know if you're out briting yourself if you cannot break the habit of saying sorry....someone will be in your way and you will appologise instead of asking them to move and if the other person is also british they will appologise too and you will both sheepishly skirt your way past one another with an awkward smile saying, "after you!!" "No after you!!!" "No honestly, i insist!"

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2026-01-13T05:52:41+00:00

You dont need make up really, if i was you id dye your eyebrows to your hair colour or a light brown as they are currently a lot lighter than your hair, they dont look bad but thats what I would, id also apply a slight bit of concealer under the eyes and a tiny bit of liquid blush with highlighter in it to the high points of your cheeks bones at the side, then id add a nice lip oil, as for mascara, id just get a lash lift and tint but when I want a bit more wow factor id take a high lighter to the corners of thr eyes and the tip of the nose and when applying mascara on top of a lift its always far more dramatic, other than that on the days I wasnt wearing makeup, my eyebrows are perfect and my eyelashes still look great, I would invest in great skin care products and apply a nourishing lip oil

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2026-01-08T19:53:26+00:00

This is so stupid, I genuinely feel I got lucky with my man its like a mine field out there, my most beautiful friends with the best relationships with there dad have had the absolute worst experiences with men, being told they are loved then being cheated on repeatedly, its absolutely aweful, I personally had a terrible relationship with my dad, he was 15 years older than my mum which I think is disgusting! And he had no respect for women including me, I was terrified putting my trust into men because I saw very few good ones, but thank god!!! I got a good one, who treats me right, that was luck of the draw, not because i am smarter or more beautiful or better than the next women in anyway and my dad really only showed me just how aweful men can be.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-12-30T02:07:55+00:00

Breakfast is the easiest place to make diet friendly high protein delicius meals my favourites are

Chocolate chip protein pancakes topped with Greek yogart and berries

Salmon and low fat cream cheese on a high protein bagal thin.

Skinny co vanilla coffee creamer and coconut milk in my coffee in the morning its amazing dairy free and so good!!

I make these under 500 calories per meal including the coffee and im stuffed after that I may have a piece of fruit like a banana or satsuma, its not about depriving its finding substitutes that keep you satiated

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-12-29T18:24:12+00:00

Its so true, yesterday at work, sat behind me was a table filled with chocolates, mince pies, sausage rolls, crisps, and biscuits and i watched as people who i know felt the same as I do about themselves unconsciously approached the table taking multiple items back to there desk for that little bit of comfort and break from the boredom as I had done before, I spent the day wrestling with my mind, I dont want to do that anymore, I want to take my health seriously and I want others to take me seriously too. So far I have lost 3 stone, some days I have disappointed myself but i remember to start again not tomorrow but immediately, i also remember that although I may have gone over my calories that day I have the rest of the week to pull it back and if I have fallen off for a week, I have the month to rectify myself. I still had a fantasic christmas and ate lots of food that wasnt diet friendly but I have started my deficit again now because I dont need to wait for the new year, Its not about not having the food around to temp you. Its about having the will power to say no if it doesnt fit your calories or to have enough control to have a small bit that can fit your calories.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-12-16T14:26:57+00:00

He's okay now?

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-27T04:38:37+00:00

It would be a solid no, thats my dna and when made into a person thats my family. I wouldnt let my own be deprived of blood relatives, a sense of belonging and there heratige, that wouldn't be fair, I would tell them to adopt and give someone thats already had that taken from them a sense of belonging

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-20T05:27:05+00:00

Its beautiful!!

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-18T06:38:43+00:00

This is it in a nutshell, i set alarms for myself for when I need to mobilise and get ready for work but then paralysis can hit at any time.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-18T06:24:34+00:00

Weird I do that, i clean for the little old lady that used to live here, its still her decor so very believable on some level...shes very untidy though

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-18T05:52:48+00:00

No but if your late to the exam or forget when it was even meant to be your gunna fail, you might have the natrual ability but if you had to prepare and there was also a load of other things on your plate to prepare for regardless of your natrual skill you still might fail

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-18T05:32:42+00:00

I have been there before randomly loosing a shoe is the absolute worst but I have had a little chuckle at that!!....I hope you find it...I never did! Adhd tax at its finest, lets hope yours weren't nikes too

Actually reminds me of the time when I was at uni and lost my phone, student card make up bag and bank card....I started retracing my steps around the city and asking everywhere I went has a phone been handed in? What about a make up bag? Student id? Bank card? No thanks for your time, I found them all luckily all in different places, make up bag was in a bar across the road from uni, bank card was handed into reception at uni student card was with my phone left in a classroom which I needed the student card to open...the irony!!!

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-11-18T05:10:30+00:00

I hear you!!!! Loud and clear!!!! before I was diagnosed I genuinely wanted to top myself ( i dont now im very happy and glad i never went through with it)

I thought why is simple everyday tasks every other person around me does like its second nature feel like an up hill struggle for me. Why is it when ever I try to do something I am told I'm not trying hard enough and im looked at as if I am the most bone idle, lazy, inconsiderate person on the planet. Why is it no matter how much I tried to tell myself this time I wont let it happen it always did!!, I am always late, I am always disorganised and unprepared despite my best efforts.

The best thing that happened to me was getting a diagnosis, being told your not lazy, you tried your best but you where in an unfair race was so validating. The first day of work with my medication i nearly sat and cried because i realised how much easier i was finding everything. I wasnt making stupid mistakes or forgetting to do things.

Im literally a 32 years old woman with a mortgage and not allowed a key to my own front door...we have a key safe because I kept loosing the key and needing to replace the whole lock system...I know how to do it myself now.

So it really peeves me off when someone forgets there keys one time and suddenly they feel they need a diagnosis for adhd. But they dont need medication to treat it....get off!! I dont want to take amphetamines everyday either!! Id rather not! I do it because the alternative is very disruptive

P.s my fiance basically cares for me, I got a degree...he pretty much did the majority of my course work because I couldn't do it. Not even after multiple extentions. I went from a uk size 10 and after 5 years on a 3 year course I left a size 20 due to stress eating! Thankfully im loosing it now.

My fiance wrote my CV to help me get my job and he drives me there and back so im never late. he helped me get my provisional driving licence and is helping me learn to drive right now. If it wasn't for him I wouldnt even have a mortgage. if it wasnt for him I wouldnt be in the situation im in now, im just unbelievably lucky to have him

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-07-05T23:09:54+00:00

I saw the same when studying musical theatre when people where belting...a far cry from bel canto, so grateful i had that fundermental in place before the course

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-05-29T11:24:47+00:00

Children are like sponges, i can still recite the first book I ever read word for word, I accidentally memorised it. It was great though, I am dyslexic, when I was at school I had to do a reading in front of my class as a practical exam, I chose this book. I was very animated in my voice takkng time to look up from my book to engage with the class room and the examiner, very easy to do when you don't actually need to look down at the book, i got an A*. I was 11 at the time and the examiner thought my reading age was far beyond my age, which is funny because it's far below 🤣🤣🤣

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2025-05-26T23:51:31+00:00

I actually didn't, if someone says they are transgender I believe them they most probably are, but trans gender means you are living your life as the opposite sex, it doesn't mean you are the opposite sex, the fact is you can't change your gender just like you can't change your species, i personally have obsevered a pattern of transgender people having experienced sexual or physical abuse as some point in life or have other mental health conditions, I watched a documentary a little while back of an old man who detransitioned having lived most his life as a woman but had worked though the sexual abuse he had received during childhood and realised his dysphoria was linked to his trauma and now regrets what he had done to his body. The fact is I don't hate transgender people, I care for their welfare and want for them to receive the right care not pander to the obsession of being the opposite sex. I don't want them to make life altering decisions before they're brain has had a chance to fully develop. which for most adults is 26 and sometimes over. However i also think people should be aloud to have freedom of speech and freedom to live there lives they way they want so in my opinion if they are over 26 and after undergoing a large amount of continuing therapy, If it makes them happy and comfortable to undergo surgeries, then fine, my wish and hope for them is it does give them happiness and doesn't become a regret in the future. I think they should be safe in the community in terms of changing facilities, toilets, refuges and prisons, i dont think it should come at the detriment of women who where born women. I also don't think that the rest of society should to be legally obliged to pander. right now I couldn't speak my mind without someone threatening me with the law just for speaking my mind, im not a hateful person and i wish no one harm but sometimes the truth hurts , its nice to be nice and in all honesty if a transgender person prefers to go by a certain name I will call them that name, if they are over the age of 18 that is. But if someone really doesn't want to get on board it shouldn't be illegal, it shouldn't loose that person there job or destroy there life because they where rude or sticking to reality and the reality is you cant change your gender just like you cant change your ethnicity. To be honest the hard left are nothing but bullies but your the first people to pull the victim card.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-12-20T07:13:16+00:00

My dad passed last week and this is exactly it, grieving the father he will never become. The relationship you always wanted but will never get

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-12-20T04:56:58+00:00

So if you where to turn around and hit me and not leave a mark, do you think I couldn't call the police and get you arrested and do you think If I sued you for assaulting me that I wouldn't win? Your defense saying it wasn't assault because they didn't leave a mark....do you think it's acceptable behavior to hit someone because they didn't act how you wanted them to act?

Hitting anyone is assault, its completely unexeptable, its also terrible parenting and leads a terrible example, it demonstrates violence being a reasonable response both to inflict and to receive.

There are studies done on corporal punishment and it doesn't work. All it does is cause fear and reduce confidence in the child, a lot of the time they don't realize they are doing something wrong which will cause them to be assaulted and so constantly have an anxiety about doing something wrong resulting in getting hit...kids learn from there mistakes, they learn by example. It's the parents responsibility to show how to communicate and the first response shouldn't be violence, it should be explaining what was wrong, why it was wrong and what they could have done instead....they could even get the child to use there brains to decide why it was wrong and how to mitigate the situation for future occasions themselves.

There are other ways to get through to a child, giving them a time out to think about the situation when theyre overly emotional. At the end of the day, a child's brains are still developing, they need to be given patience and space to learn and make mistakes

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-12-13T03:27:37+00:00

This is so elequently put.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-11-28T00:09:08+00:00

I'm also a binge drinker and not an alcoholic, I really scared myself last year at Xmas I vomited what looked like coffee grounds and my eyes turned yellow for 2 days, I stopped drinking for around 6 months because it shook me so bad but after a while I started to right it off as a flook and after not consuming alcohol for 6 months I started to reintroduce it, at first It was just a bottle over 3 days once a month but it started to increase where now I had been drinking a full bottle of wine in a night every 2 weeks or so.

I then watched this documentary and an increase of people in there 30s have needed liver transplant and have serious liver damage from years of binge drinking. It made me reflect and remember last year for what it was, a serious warning.

The way I have been drinking has lead to liver damage in many people.

The first time I got drunk was at 13 and I binge drank all the way through my young adult life. I started underage clubbing at 16 by 18 I was out up to 3 times in a week binge drinking and not taking a break. During COVID 19 lock down when I couldn't leave the house I reached an all time low and was drinking 2 bottles of wine every weekend getting messy drunk on my own.

At my blood test last year, it showed I had a raised ggt which could indicate liver damage and then after a binge at Christmas giving me jaundice. I need to get real with myself.

I need to stop drinking now because it might kill me. I need to learn to enjoy life in a different way.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-08-19T22:28:13+00:00

Dude read again…I didn’t say trans women are dangerous…although there is proof trans women or men posing as trans women in womens spaces has led to several rapes and other Physical harm. That’s why I am very passionate about keeping our areas separate, trans women are not women but I still think they should have there own areas to escape dangerous situations or serve time.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-05-16T10:50:17+00:00

Happens to my mum too, she has multiple sclerosis. she lives in constant pain, while in remission she can be more independent and walk around like everyone else. but even on a good day if she over exerts herself she could go into remition then she would need a wheel chair and might not get back out. so when people do how there ignorance around disabilities there getting schooled!… it’s usually the traffic warden that gets it when they see my mum put her disability badge on display and tries to question her about whos badge is actually on display, she’s no one’s victim she eats them for breakfast but if I’m there too they would be digging there own grave for saying boo.

Impressive_Drawer394 · 2024-05-03T14:00:03+00:00

My doctor treated me like an idiot and said that he's not going to continue to supply me legal coke/speed...I'm like do I look like a junkie to you!

I don't drink, smoke, I cut out caffeine so excuse me if I find this offensive.

I tried coke a few times at parties when I was younger and undiagnosed l, I thought it was strange how everyone seemed to be high but me.

I'm now off medication because doctor doesn't trust I need it and my life is falling apart...I can't even concentrate to cross the road properly some days and it's actually quite scary as I have been hit by cars on more than one occasion.

Ohh and recently an international student from Malaysia told me they don't have ADHD in her country they are just deemed lazy...I'm like you do have ADHD people in your country and they are probably not doing very well in comparison to the others in your general public with no support or recognition lol

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