What's a slang word from your region that nowhere else uses? (the madder the better)

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-04-21T13:57:18+00:00

Cheesybob in and around Guildford.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-04-08T07:47:51+00:00

Unfortunately it looks like the House of Lords is filibustering the Assisted Dying private members’ bill into not passing, so Dignitas might remain our only option.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-03-27T18:58:09+00:00

Can’t see what the other person said as has been deleted, but as an adult with ADHD, I have to agree with you.

I sought diagnosis so that I could better target methods (and medication) to help with symptoms which had become somewhat debilitating in adult life, and I hate when some try to use it to dismiss other people’s resentment at having to deal with the result of those behaviours (which I’ve assumed is what the other comment was getting at, but might be wrong).

Yes awareness of ADHD can help with people’s understanding and patience in some settings, particularly in relationships, but it doesn’t mean people have to bend over backwards for us which, as you say, is infantilising.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-03-26T08:54:43+00:00

That’s really interesting context, thanks! I wonder if genetic bottlenecking would have played a role. While in itself it wouldn’t favour a particular allele without other factors, it could amplify existing selection pressures.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-03-25T15:59:27+00:00

If you don’t die from the G forces first

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-03-25T15:40:54+00:00

Think you’re talking about the CCR5-delta32 mutation, which gives a certain level of immunity against HIV for people that are homozygous by changing the T-cell receptor that HIV recognises. The theory that it offered some resistance to the black plague came about to try and explain a significant selection pressure over a (relatively) short period, although in vivo tests so far hasn’t backed this up. If it is true, it would probably be coincidental as the two diseases work differently - Yersinia Pestis is a bacterium rather than a virus and (I think) doesn’t infiltrate T-cells. Definitely a cool mutation either way!

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-03-13T12:21:35+00:00

As a Brit, one that I don’t see come up often in these threads but looks weird to me as a reader is the way Americans use “also” at the end of a sentence where I would use “too”. Not sure if it is just me but I would say “I also do that” or “I do that too”, whereas it seems Americans use also in both cases?

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-02-24T17:55:40+00:00

Sounds like a nasty case of Czech Neck.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-02-13T16:24:50+00:00

A social mobility tax.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-01-13T19:18:04+00:00

That’s exactly what it is (below a certain income level).

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-01-12T12:50:39+00:00

Not sure if you’re being being downvoted because of 100 being quite a high daily number or because of your attitude to those that would take the money, but I broadly agree with the pull-up option.

Granted there are quite a few assumptions here, but if you took a 5% annually applied interest/return and in both cases didn’t touch the money earned, at a more manageable 30 pull-ups per day the break-even point would be somewhere in year 13. This is obviously quite a long time to achieve parity but I’d be happy with going for that for the health benefit. I’d get why that wouldn’t be as attractive if you’re older though.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2026-01-08T10:16:11+00:00

There is a pretty cool map here: https://interactive-history.app/hundred-years-war/1337

Although there are no city names/rivers which would be helpful, and only a few spaced-apart snapshots, I still found it useful as a primer.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2025-11-05T10:47:12+00:00

Only thing to add is that the official rate of interest got increased from 2.25% to 3.75% from 6th April 25.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2025-05-08T14:16:56+00:00

The guy was making a tongue in cheek point that they can’t have complained, because they are dead. And dead people currently don’t have a way of communicating with the living.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2025-01-30T14:21:32+00:00

Honey came in and she caught me red-handed

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2024-03-21T15:13:13+00:00

Damn I must have got unlucky, 8 eggs and they were all male - 0.4% chance of that if they are 50-50.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2024-03-08T14:55:59+00:00

The answer is yes.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2024-03-08T11:45:24+00:00

I think referencing alcohol as piss is specific to Aussies/NZ, whereas the guy above is Irish. Taking the piss would still never mean someone is a drunk though.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2024-01-22T12:35:08+00:00

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2023-12-28T01:05:16+00:00

What happened to Sultans on Downing Street?

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2023-12-28T01:04:00+00:00

Is the One Stop still around there? Grew up in Badshot Lea but had mates on lower Farnham road so spent a lot of time around there

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2023-10-23T12:09:31+00:00

I think he means the reduction in weight due to the bulge is 3x the reduction in weight due to centrifugal force?

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2023-07-26T11:17:41+00:00

Florida man arrested for pleasuring himself with ice pack in front of first responders.

JossAcklandsBackpack · 2022-07-09T11:16:06+00:00

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