Your daughter is welcome here. We have plenty of problems here in the UK, some of those are shared with an increasingly fascist thinking world, but we also have a long history of refusing to accept it. Look back at the eras of punk, two-tone, heavy metal, new wave, you’ll find cultural movements where minorities were embraced for their differences and our shared hatred of being oppressed and divided.

When I grew up, the National Front were openly posting up outside football stadiums trying to recruit young men to turn this country fascist. In many ways, it’s the same thing as is happening now, only they do their recruiting on social media. In some places it was able to fester, but in many others a combination of blacks, gays, punks and the everyman found themselves allied with a common hatred of fascism and we drove them out.

I was a Londoner then, but I agree with the person suggesting Manchester as a safe spot too. I knew Blackburn a little, 30 years ago, and it was a town with some problems, but generally decent people. Maybe not where I would choose were I gay. I think most places have a decent enough group of kind people though, and I would even say to look specifically for the places where the punks and the weirdos hang out, people are safe and welcome among us whoever they are.

My daughter is 10 now, but your comment triggered a memory I had buried so deep it was all but forgotten.

The rule was that we put the child on its back, undo her diaper and fold the front down, blow on her exposed nethers and then close the diaper again and wait. She immediately pees, every fucking time, I change her, she stays dry for longer, I get some fucking sleep.

I just reminded my wife of this ritual. We laughed. Take this forgotten knowledge from survivors of the bad times, whoever might read this.

I use Feeder too, it’s entirely satisfactory.

This is a very well known phrase in England, but it refers to football (soccer) and rugby. I have never heard this in reference to American football and cannot even imagine how the meaning would translate.

The meaning of it comes from football being a supposedly gentle game of skill, but played and loved by the common people and with a long history of bad behaviour on and off the pitch, versus rugby being a rough, bruising, injury riddled sport that was played by aristocratic rich kids in private schools who are all excellent young men destined for greatness.

Of course this is mostly oversimplified bollocks, but with just enough truth behind it to make it funny.

Same here, though I would be lying if I said I wasn’t at all concerned about what might be going on under there.

Solution: never find out.

His beak is pretty orange.

28 stores is small by UK supermarket standards. Sainsbury’s alone have over 1400. I can’t reasonably consider Booths reflective of trends across the country, perhaps for the reasons you suggest.

OP’s question as to whether the UK is rejecting self checkout on any level isn’t really addressed by the example in this article.

Though the BBC is obviously identified most with UK, it in fact has many international publications. This article focuses on the US, with only a reference to “Booths in the UK”, a very small supermarket group I have never heard of before.

Self checkout in the UK is commonplace and largely popular, though some of the general customer criticisms in the article are familiar to me as a regular user of them.

As someone with no interest in canning whatsoever, I just want to thank you and your fellow mod below for contributing your niche expertise and no doubt enormous amounts of time and passion to the internet.

People call modding a thankless task, and at times like this it must surely feel that way, but countless people will have silently thanked you as they benefitted from your expertise and willingness to share it freely. You represent what humanity and science and education should really be about, for that I deeply appreciate your efforts.

It’s not a beauty or anything, but Trossard just has bags of end product.

The top third of him looming over the side of the stadium to peer within.

He worked hard toward and sacrificed sporting success for half his time at Arsenal to ensure the financial stability that things like the stadium sponsorship provide, I’m sure he’s happy to see that continue rather than name the stadium awkwardly after him. He really doesn’t seem like much of a sentimentalist.

It’s been about 5 years since I’ve really engaged at all with most of Reddit, the API drama and renewed push to populate the alternatives seems to have achieved exactly what you describe. I even think the small barrier to entry for registering an account in the Fediverse is filtering people.

Many of us have been longing for something like this to happen.

It’s true, any developer in any space knows that core functionality is often built quickly, while refinement and beautification can swallow up enormous amounts of time.

Combined with my experience being that the dev guy and the UI/design guy are rarely the same person, and the former is way more inclined to create things for fun and give them away.

Oh, yes please!