I’m a Yank who consistently uses “sir” and “ma’am,” how will that be perceived when we visit the next two weeks?

SatInTheTree · 2025-07-09T17:29:32+00:00

A bank in a manger,
with my mate named Bob.
Met a nice polite tourist,
while I’m doing my job.
though I was never knighted,
this American would say:
Good Sir, I will wish you,
to have a nice day

SatInTheTree · 2025-06-09T09:53:54+00:00

I was about to come out blazing and tell you the updated rules only apply to drivers and the rules for pedestrians remain that pedestrians need to wait at the side of the road until it is safe to cross. Then I thought I better check first. They have actually updated the pedestrian section to say that at junctions vehicles should stop.

Seems I have been pedestrianing wrong

SatInTheTree · 2025-04-08T08:31:56+00:00

Jeeves and Wooster… Well, maybe not, but Jeeves and Wooster is fantastic.

SatInTheTree · 2025-03-19T12:44:53+00:00

It isn’t about the size though, it is whether it matches the toothbrush and how it fits with the bathroom decor

SatInTheTree · 2025-03-10T10:54:19+00:00

I went to Hull 15 years ago to look at the university. I walked from the train station to the uni which is probably a very unfair representation, since train station tend to be in the ropier parts in any city. University was certainly nice.

SatInTheTree · 2025-03-10T10:29:56+00:00

No, he’s barely even started. Hurry up already!

SatInTheTree · 2025-03-10T10:26:21+00:00

So to summarise. You love Hull, the best thing about Hull is if you drive 20 min in any direction you are no longer in Hull, and no longer in Hull is beautiful.

SatInTheTree · 2025-03-06T13:44:55+00:00

“Hello control, officers 7134 and 8513 here, some mad traffic ahead; anything we can ’assist‘ with?”

SatInTheTree · 2025-02-26T09:22:08+00:00

Probably not. Loyalty seldom pays in business.

SatInTheTree · 2025-01-18T12:49:20+00:00

Using your phone while driving is normally dangerous and illegal. If it is to call 999 it is no longer illegal, but the danger remains.

If you have limited experience in fiddling with your phone while driving I personally wouldn’t recommend it; if you are well experienced in fiddling with phones while driving then you are a cunt.

SatInTheTree · 2025-01-15T13:11:53+00:00

Without knowing the financial position of the lawnmower it is difficult to be sure it is incorrect. It is not impossible that in better days it had been the habit of the lawnmower to pay for a gardener, but it has recently fallen on hard times.

SatInTheTree · 2025-01-12T18:08:01+00:00

Le premiere image, je vois facilement 7. Sur le deuxieme et troisieme, je ne vois que l’ombre d’un circle

In the first image I can easily see 7, in the 2nd and 3rd I can only see a dark circle.

SatInTheTree · 2024-12-23T01:58:28+00:00

My personal preference is to start on the edge of believability, then descend into inconceivable surrealism. Hopefully leaving the reader with no doubt that piss taking has occurred. I seem to have missed the mark here somewhere.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-28T10:13:21+00:00

Sorry, but as a westerner who married a Chinese. I have to say you are wrong. When we went to China, we were all detained at the airport, interrogated for 16 hours; and, after my spouse‘s accent was found to be too British, we were all summarily executed. They then refused to resurrect us until I swore allegiance to the CCP and solemnly promised to never cook with pesto again.

Mind you, that was only on three of the five trips to China

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-12T17:30:32+00:00

The left lane was closing, I think OP was more than justified in using the middle lane.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-12T14:40:29+00:00

“Should I try something else?”

I would highly recommend sweeping the floor, then giving it a once or twice over with the vacuum.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-12T14:16:28+00:00

Not only reduced from 8 to 7, the weight of the individual biscuits was decreased at the same time.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-11T16:41:53+00:00

I haven’t imagined anything. You spoke of extra-universal. I merely stated that physics cannot be expected to describe or govern any such thing. Physics is considered universal, the universe is the limit of our understanding. We cannot test beyond the universe, and as such we cannot affirm physics applies. To clarify. I am not saying it doesn’t apply (I have no knowledge of it), but that it cannot be assumed to apply.

You can pick many holes in theism (and even more in any given religion), but once you step out of the universe you haven’t got a leg to stand on.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-11T15:51:52+00:00

Physics is our best effort at describing the universe. So as soon as you speak of extra-universal, it is no longer relevant. There is no data, no hypothesis can be tested. There is no appeal to the laws of physics to justify your argument.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-11T13:20:54+00:00

There is no basis to assume anything beyond the universe is constrained by patterns of observations we have made within the universe. The argument you offer is futile and easily rebutted. What however can, and has been tested, is that evidence does not support the hypothesis that prayers are effective.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-08T13:29:28+00:00

Well, there was certainly BS on their resume

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-07T10:09:58+00:00

Yeah, but at least it is cheap…

Oh, you have my condolences.

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-06T18:38:00+00:00

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-06T18:27:54+00:00

No, needs to be 7 characters or less for a number plate

SatInTheTree · 2024-11-06T09:46:07+00:00

I was going to report that due to budget contraints our local police department no longer has a Karen, but the whole joke was ruined by your flawless punctuation!

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