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Said to my other half just wee in the shower like a normal person and she said normal people don't wee in the shower? Some thoughts from the nation would be good please. EDIT: thank you all for your comments their are enough conflicting views to keep this one going for the next 6 months. Just to note I don't bypass the loo just to wee in the shower I only wee in the shower when I'm getting showered.
I’m an English fella and I always thought Scottish and Irish people hate us, but is it actually true? I felt it in particular when the Scottish lads came down during the World Cup.
Edit: could Welsh people stop messing the same thing over and over again repeatedly in the comments. NO, you weren’t forgotten about. I haven’t personally seen or heard of anti-English sentiment from Welsh people. Sure, it exists. But it comes across predominantly form Irish and Scots, and I’ve seen it personally, but not from the Welsh, hence why Wales isn’t included in my Q.
Edit 2: could you stop sending me hundreds of messages along the lines of “you need to read some history” and all this kind of thing. I’m well aware of our history, i know about the oppression and colonisation along with the advantages we’ve had. I know about The Troubles. But that doesn’t explain why people just hate “The English”. I’ve already explained past experiences I’ve had. Even when The Troubles happened, I was just a child. So like the majority of other English people, I don’t see what we’ve done which has harmed others? It’s like you are saying I need to pay a price for things my ancestors did? And even then, maybe they didn’t. Maybe they were also completely unconnected from any atrocity.
Edit 3: okay folks, I will need to just ignore all messages sent to me that keep telling me things like I’m a “knob”, “dumb fuck”, “cunt” for “being ignorant about history”. I’ve already explained numerous times that I’m well aware of history. But it doesn’t give anyone the right or justify abuse being dished out to people simply because they are English.
So, the background:
I'm recently wheelchair bound and today was my first day out in my wheelchair by myself. Coming home, I coincided with the children being let out from the local school - no previous issues. Rolling myself down the road, some of them began to chant the lyrics to Chamillionnaire's 'Ridin'' at me and laughing ("they see me rolling', they hatin', tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty"). Two of the boys then overtook me and began chanting the lyrics back at me, laughing and blocking my way until a parent with her child stood between us and the students moved on. I wish I'd been ballsy enough to say something but a) I couldn't think of anything witty, b) I felt weirdly vulnerable, and c) I was just a bit shocked. I just went home and cried instead.
I'm tempted to email the school and let them know. I got a good look at the boys and made a note of their distinctive rucksacks as they were leaving. It's not a large school so I'm sure they'll be able to identify them. But, am I being oversensitive or melodramatic? Is this just kids being kids and I should let it go? It's not like they shanked me or anything.
So, people of the UK, are we pro-emailing the school or not?
For me it’s “can’t park there mate” I hate seeing and hearing that so much. It’s not funny at all.
By non-obvious I mean none of the usual NHS, music, royalty etc. We know they are popular worldwide. I mean things that are lesser known but still quintessentially British.
My favourites are obscure sports or events such as gurning contests and the epic display that is the Coopers Hill (I believe the place is called) cheese rolling.
Comedy such as Faulty Towers, Vicar of Dibley, The Royle Family, Mr Bean and stand up in general.
Also bonfire night done old school where a community just gets together on a patch of land and burns a big pile of wood with sparklers and toffee apples in hand. None of these OTT council displays. Safer but IMHO charmless.
ETA: woke up for a night shift a couple of hours ago after posting this this afternoon and never felt so patriotic 😄
So I'm going through a bit of a rough patch at the moment and I have nowhere to live. The last few nights I have been sleeping in my car.
The first night I slept near a beach in a parking space next to a road, I woke up to quite a few people just staring at me in the early morning although nobody said anything to me once I got up and sat outside.
The second night I decided to find somewhere quieter so I parked in a carpark near some woods where I grew up and had no issues. However last night I stayed in a small supermarket carpark in a dark corner and a member of the public woke me up while recycling. She knocked on my window and told me I wasn't allowed to sleep there and she was going to phone the police. I told her that there were no signs anywhere forbidding me to park (there isn't, it's in a really small village) and I basically told her where to go.
But it's got me thinking, can I be fined for doing this?
Edit: I'm overwhelmed with the help everyone has offered me. Thank you so much. You're all amazing.
Edit 2: Please don't think I'm ignoring you, I am reading as much as I can. I just can't reply to everyone, I've had so many messages. Thank you, a lot of you have lifted my spirits when the last few weeks have been tough I've been a complete mess for the last few days. The amount of offers for help I've had has been unreal.
From the moment the the first lockdown was announced there's been people clamouring for everyone to get back to school/the office/[insert whatever] because they can't cope with their own company for a short amount of time. There seems to be a lot of sympathy for this, and it's understandable given that some people need others to function. I'm besmused and slightly frustrated, however, to see that such sympathy rarely goes the other way: to the introverts for whom sitting in a noisy classroom, office, factory, hospital, or whatever is torture. The relentless contact for most of their life causes the same or similar reactions in introverts as solitude does in an extrovert, but there seems to be no understanding, sympathy or willing to alter things amongst the noisy loudmouths. Am I alone in this observation? If not, why is this the case?