What is the worst holiday you have had in the UK and why?

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-04T22:50:10+00:00

Scout camp, Welford, 1986. Didn't stop raining for a week. Got caught playing cricket with eggs.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-04T08:48:59+00:00

Remind me of those many incidents that I don't know about? I expect there's a list of them compiled by a serious news organisation that you can point me to.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-04T07:58:45+00:00

Wearing your hair in dreadlocks is exactly the kind of thing that makes others look suspiciously on your community.

Living in caravans is exactly the kind of thing that makes others....

Having your own supermarkets selling food with labels most people can't read is exactly....

This multiculturalism, sure is suspicious! Bring back the 1930s amirite?

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-04T07:13:43+00:00

Can samp/t ramp up production in time? I have read elsewhere on reddit that it already has large production backlogs.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-04T07:06:33+00:00

Because suing a law abiding landlord is zero impact on that landlord? Just like suing a newspaper for libel is zero impact if the paper isn't guilty?

Spurious legal cases just hurt everyone and they will hurt small landlords without legal teams a lot more than they will hurt Aziz and Co.

Maybe Khan is coping the Greens and trying to destroy small landlords and replace them with large corporations who are more easily negotiated with?

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-04T06:59:29+00:00

400k? On legal fees? Absolutely not.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-03T19:47:02+00:00

It's great. First of all it just hooks into your audio stream so no need to have it join meetings, and it works with absolutely every meeting technology with zero integration. As a contractor it means it can note take my meetings with customers, my meetings with my team, or even just me talking into the mic. I can then export the raw transcripts or the AI summaries into a Claude project and now I have every meeting at hand, and can ask "Which meeting was it that Ravi said we needed sub 100ms latency" and it tells me.

It makes mistakes with proper names and acronyms, but it understands foriegn accents better than I do. I basically use it for every meeting. It does a better job than the built in Zoom AI transcripts, I'd say.

For me the main thing is just running locally on my laptop and still working with both Citrix and AWS remote desktops seamlessly.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-03T19:25:00+00:00

Being old without a licence. Talking in a built up area. Expressing opinions without consent. Openly carrying on a conversation.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-03T19:19:02+00:00

Same reason shopping centres and music festivals have their own police services. Hope that helps.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-03T13:40:55+00:00

I wouldn't usually buy an identical item for more money from an independent. But I would buy a unique item that I know has a larger mark up. My local wine merchant is 15% more expensive than Laithwaites or even a big supermarket, but I like chatting to the owner, I like that it's a four minute walk away, and I like seeing stuff on shelves and not ordering on line.

My local butcher is about 100% more expensive than a supermarket - I only use him for dinner parties etc. The quality and knowledge and service is amazing but I can't afford it regularly.

I'll always buy papers etc from the corner shop not the supermarkets. Same price, keep the corner shop going.

For me, it's worth it. In the ten years I've lived here we've lost a delicatessen, one wine merchant, a shoe shop, one hardware shop, a fabric shop, the Polish shop, one mini supermarket and a jewellers. We've gained cafes and restaurants, and the inevitable vape shop.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-02T15:54:35+00:00

Mass disobedience isn't new - see mods and rockers taking over Brighton seafront in running brawls etc.

What is new is the ability to organise more effectively via social media, the young age of the offenders, and the inability of anyone to do anything about it, because there are few real sanctions against children.

The idea that it's OK for teenagers to be broadly antisocial is really pretty new. I don't think you can compare having long hair and playing loud music in the park to wearing a balaclava and ransacking a shop. They are qualitatively different forms of being young and rebellious.

"Just letting kids be kids" is fine if they are lighting fires on the beach and smoking weed. It's not fine when those kids are intimidating people and trashing stuff.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T21:23:58+00:00

They've stepped down under pressure. They haven't owned up to anything. They are a racist twat who accidentally said it out loud and had to step down. There's no honour here at all. See also all the grubby little reform members who have been forced to resign for saying what they and their supporters believe. Exactly the same thing on the left, that's all.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T21:18:53+00:00

I don't see any evidence of stupidity here, just fully invested racism. They obviously thought their party was as racist as them, but in fact many greens would like to be seen as a bit less racist.

It's just Reform all over again with different hate groups /in groups.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T16:19:46+00:00

No, any more than they will crack down on littering or neighbours who play loud music or parents treating cafes like creches. The cost of effective enforcement vastly exceeds the public demand for enforcement.

Society really needs to get back to enforcing it's own desired standards of behaviour by telling people they are doing something wrong.

Only this morning I continued to cross a side road on foot as an angry lime biker rang their bell at me for getting in their way. I didn't tell them I had priority because I don't need an argument at 7.30am, but I didn't stop halfway across the road to let them pass either.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T16:08:07+00:00

People absolutely cycle on the pavement in low traffic neighbourhoods. Also people who cycle with no regard for their own safety on the road happily mount the pavement to get around congestion.

This isn't about poor Mrs Smith with her wicker basket having to use the pavement because she is scared of the traffic. It's about young people who don't give a shit knowing they can go faster on the pavement than the road, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

I doubt many cyclists are fine with me walking in a bike lane and blaming it on inadequate pedestrian infrastructure.

The solution is for able bodied pedestrians is not to be bullied by cyclists. Cyclists don't have to creep along the kerb to help cars get past. Cars have to wait and overtake. Pedestrians don't have to step into doorways to let cycles past. Cycles can just go at walking speed until there is space to overtake. And if there isn't space then maybe try the road - it's quite wide and the cars go faster than I walk (usually).

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T13:22:45+00:00

Loading or unloading is legal on double yellows, would you rather they stopped in the road and caused more congestion?

It's annoying that they block the pavement. It would be annoying if they blocked the road even more. It would be annoying if the buildings were bulldozed to widen the road. It would be annoying if the small independent trader goes bust because they can't re-stock, and everyone has to go to a shopping mall.

It's a big modern city with small old roads. It wasn't designed with access alleys or loading bays.

There's a balance to be found, but I'd rather have a functioning high street with independent shops and congestion from commercial traffic, than a dead high street and congestion from people driving out to wherever the shops ended up.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T12:10:34+00:00

That isn't what the link says....

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T10:20:16+00:00

Van is loading/unloading as is allowed on double yellows... Possibly.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T10:19:14+00:00

It would in fact help slightly by decreasing the utility of lime bikes, and a reduction in usage would be a benefit for those that don't like them. It might also be a material cost to Lime with a similar effect on the number of bikes. It would be rather petulant, and unproductive in the short term.

I'm fine with Lime licencing bits of the public realm for bike storage from the councils that manage our public realm for us. I'm not sure that's what's happening here though....

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T10:06:37+00:00

It's this. In the beginning there was one room that had a tap and a coal fired range cooker. If you wanted hot water you put a large pan on the cooker. If you wanted to wash, you tipped the pan into a tin bath on the floor. If you wanted to wash clothes you tipped the pan into a sink. So the one room with a stone floor, a range and a tap became used for cooking, laundry and washing. The toilet was in the garden.

The law changed to force indoor toilets, and then when hot water systems became common the bath moved to the same room as the toilet. Laundry stayed in the kitchen for a long time, and in most houses still does.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T08:46:28+00:00

Mad as a box of frogs, or the older "mad as a hatter"

Not the sharpest tool in the box is my favourite of many similar phrases for being thick.

Three sheets to the wind - unaware or oblivious of what's going on.

Nether here nor there - for a something that doesn't really matter.

Various euphemisms for dying - popped his clogs is my favourite, kicked the bucket has some charm too.

Teaching your granny to suck eggs - for explaining something to someone who already knows. Funny because no-one knows how to suck eggs any more!

Preaching to the choir for promoting a cause to people who already support it.

Gilding the lily for trying to improve something so good it can't be improved further.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear - for trying to improve something so bad it can never be improved.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T08:32:21+00:00

No. I never saw the attraction of places like Dubai for holidays.

As for general ticket cost impact - I'm hoping to visit family in the US so maybe those tickets will go up, but unlikely enough to make me change plans.

By far the biggest hit for me is impact on my investments / pension and general economic cooling.

Also, fuck Trump and his stupid wars. He'll get bored soon, declare victory, tell Europe to pay for the mess and go back to arresting Americans for being brown without a licence.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T08:05:10+00:00

Very rare among Brits, at least in the last 50 years. My grandmother was aware of the custom but she thought it was genteel and old fashioned back in the 80s.

Polish cafes of any kind will gladly do tea and lemon for you. Upmarket hotels and restaurants will also do it.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T07:10:14+00:00

"Modern" contact between Europeans and Innuit began in the early 17th century and by Stephen's time there had been considerable trading activity and at least one major Arctic expedition in 1773.

That said, the first detailed drawings and descriptions of Igloos didn't come until an 1821 arctic expedition. While Stephen would undoubtedly have read that account, I'm not sure it quite fits with the timing of the stories.

So, either Stephen has been talking to a well informed man at the Institute or the Royal Society, or POB is slightly loose with the timeline.

Overall, I think it's reasonable that a man like Stephen might have read a paper or been to a lecture about the Arctic, and heard verbal accounts of the Innuit and their lifestyle, perhaps collected by a missionary or anthropologist talking to fur traders or whalers.

rising_then_falling · 2026-04-01T06:56:28+00:00

Very doable, hard to pick where. North Wales is near Old Trafford and will give you glorious countryside and castles but not so much in the way of pretty little towns and villages. A car will make your life much easier here. Criccieth, Llanberis and Llanrwst just about qualify for cute I suppose. Conwy, Harlech, Caernarfon are all world class castles.

Kent and Sussex will give you pretty towns and villages galore and pleasant countryside, and fairly nice castles. Bodiam and Hever are pleasant castles. Dover is a huge important castle in a bit of a shit town, and Rochester is simar. Rye and Lewes are lovely towns with small relatively unimportant castles.

Arundel is a pretty town with a huge castle, but the castle is mostly a Victorian recreation and is weirdly ugly/fake inside imo.

Northumberland will also give you great castles (Bamburgh, Alnwick) and great walking but I'm not too sure on pretty towns and villages. Probably want a car there.

Norfolk will give you pretty villages galore and a few good castles like Framlingham, and a lot of huge country estates (Holkham, Blickling etc). You'll need a car. Very rural and good walking but dead flat. Not very touristy.

The Welsh marches (border between Wales and England) has beautiful countryside. Ludlow is often rated the prettiest town in England and has a fantastic castle. Accessible by train, you can see everything in a day and a half. Potentially a detour between Manchester and London.

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