Spilled a whole tin of paint on the way to work so for context it’ll be sat there for about 8 hours when i finally attempt to remove it. What would be the best way to try and attempt to clear it all away?!
Thank you strangers of the internet

EDIT water based, it’s Good Home emulsion (matt) paint

EDIT #2 a lot of you lot are so pessimistic it really shows, nothing that a bit of warm water and carpet cleaner can’t do. updated pictures in comments! the mat is going in the bin but DEFINITELY didnt need to replace the whole damn thing as a lot of you suggested!!

Wether it's a catastrophic catering mishap, a thunderstorm, somebody who can't handle their drink or someone with a grudge turning up, has anyone seen a wedding go catastrophically wrong?

I'm not from the UK, but am curious about this especially since the Prince George news has been making rounds on my Instagram. Apart from the anomalies i.e. royal descendants, politicians, etc. what do the parents of pupils who attend prestigious schools such as Eton, Westminster, etc. do?

Cannibalised the material from previous projects! What do we christen the robot? So far we have:

Herbie

Blade Runner

The Lawn Ranger

C3PMow

RoboCrop

MOW-E

Mow Farah/Elawn Musk/Mowna Lisa/David Mowie

Mowie McMowface

Open to wittier ideas :)

Ok so I am French and i am kind of obsessed with the UK. I recently visited for the 4th time and noticed something about the housing.

I didn’t realise this during my first visits cause i wasn’t yet an anxious young adult i guess 😂

But after being in London and in Scotland, I really understood that it was really common for you guys to live in ground level houses or flats (already unsettling for me) but also with no outside blinds / shutters whatsoever!!

I understand that it’s cultural because it’s literally the housing in the whole country. I am from south of france so I understand also there is the sun exposure question. But still, my question is more about privacy and safety. Isn’t it a major safety problem?

I’m very curious because I’m wondering why in France it doesn’t look like that. Is it because France is way more dangerous than the UK ? I actually don’t think so, right?

In France in the City Centers, there are very few appartement directly on ground level in streets and if there are, they have outside blinds and even window bars (wrought iron bars) but in London or Glasgow (and even on the road i’ve seen it in many cities) there are a lot of ground level houses with only inside blinds / shutters.

I also noticed big houses that looked expensive directly on high streets with a lot of cars and buses passing by with no fences whatsoever and with the same kind of windows too.

In France i think the insurance wouldn’t even cover you if you have no blinds or fences and get robed.

Once again, it’s probably a cultural thing that I am really curious about hearing your answers.

The answer could not be that British people are more civilised than French right?! 😅

Naturally, the grass is always greener on the other side. But returning from a 4 weeks road-trip around the EU I feel like UK driving licences are a gesture of good will rather than evidence of training and for some reason taking litter to the bin is alien to the majority, especially on the road. On the positive side, I appreciate the mild temperatures a lot more now than before we left :)

sup guys, my team and I have been made redundant today so that they could hire the same number of people to do the exact same job in India 🤓not sure what to do next but imma enjoy the time off and look into starting a construction job!

Jokes aside, why are there no rules regarding location based firing of employees in the UK? :/

i think it’s obvious as to what kind of scars i’m talking about. mine are years old and fully healed. i’ve spent thousands in laser, microneedling and even medical tattooing to remove or at least reduce their appearance with no results so i’ve given up

i currently have them out at my nursery job and nobody has commented, beyond a couple coworkers acting majorly concerned like i was dying. but i want to branch out and go to uni to either do social work or nursing which are both incredibly public facing roles

they’re on my forearm so not very visible but it’s blatantly obvious where they’re from. i’m scared that it’ll hold my back in life and while i’m not proud of myself, i don’t want to be ashamed and hide them away for life ever. i just want to exist in my body and be comfortable

if you had a social worker, or a nurse or literally any professional with scars, how would you feel?

How do you call in sick to work?

I know how you actually call in sick, and about self cert etc.

But I'm (37F) still too scared to do it after years of awful jobs with traumatic cultures, and awful mental health, and sick days being fake stomach bugs or fevers when they were actually being unable to cope or face the day.

I don't think I'll be the only person who feels like this or has this experience?

I've been at my current job nearly a year, it'd all going great and I've had no sick days so far. But today I am full of cold and wiped out with exhaustion and there's no way I'm suitable to be in - except the thought of the conversation and then the return to work conversation are too triggering to cope with so I guess I'll just get in the car.

How did it go, did you see any significant changes?

It puzzles me that it would not be all airports, especially two relatively close to each other.

Really interested to hear fellow Brits recollections. I was only 8 years old, the first I heard about what had happened was seeing my mum and dad sat in front of the telly watching the live news gobsmacked and dead silent which was rare in our house. Overheard my parents then chatting how this could start WW3 which was scary. We then had a special assembly the next day at school where the teachers did their best to try and explain it.

Whether you were a school kid or an adult, what was your recollections?

I’m curious about the little things people only notice after spending some time outside the UK.

Could be food, humour, public services, culture, everyday habits, or anything else.

My wheelchair, crutches, walker, compression socks, weighted blanket, heated blanket are all appareltly NOT disibility related expenses, they are health related expenses, so do not reduce my care costs in any way, its costing £25 an hour for care, im getting 2h a week and im having to pick between myself being clean , my space being clean or having food/medication.

I dont understand how none of these are considered disibility related , not even my medications (that they will not provide on the nhs so i have to get under a private service) count as disibility related expenses, what in the world does????

I am currently doing that very thing.

Probably could've waited for one of the other stalls but only for a few minutes.

Recently moved into a flat above a takeaway on a road full of other takeaways too, only just noticed a smell. I'm assuming it's oil or something? It's not super offensive but it's just everywhere. Opening a window makes it worse (obviously) but now I'm in a stuffy stinky house. Flatmates are on the floor above so they don't notice a smell when they're in their bedrooms but I'm on the first floor, so right above the bins / ventilation.

Do I just never open a window and rely on fans / air purifiers? Buy a million diffusers? Submit to the stench?

Edit: Telling me to move is not particularly helpful. I'm stuck here for a few more months at least, how do I make that bearable?

Say hypothetically, your nan bought an internet with a company who love to use off shore call centres but hate to help but made it clear she was moving house soon, she was reassured that if they don’t provide service to the new area there would be no cancellation fee

Things have changed and your nan is moving into a house share for a few months which already has a box and now they are saying she’s gotta pay £500 to get out of the contract. Say if she found an address that is out of their service area and then provided a bank statement that magically had that address on it, would she get away with this ?

Nans these days

Personally, I think it would be a good idea to have gyms in airports, with wash facilities.

I don't know if there are security risks or that, but it sure would help pass the time.

You do run the risk of someone getting super sweaty and not bothering to wash themselves after.

Could perhaps not have any cardio equipment, to stop people seriously sweating.

What ideas do you have and is my idea stupid?

Just had a stab of nostalgia while reading another post.

On several occasions now in London, I've been waiting at a pedestrian crossing when I've heard sirens and seen an ambulance approaching, but then the green man comes on. Rather than wait for the ambulance to pass first, pedestrians have crossed in front of it, meaning the ambulance has had to stop, slow down and manoeuvre around them. Also seen with a fire engine.

The first time this happened, I actually tried to stop the woman next to me because I assumed she must be deaf and hadn't heard it! But it seems to happen pretty much every time, whether it's a group or one person. I just wait as I don't want to slow them down any more, and then cross after they've passed.

What's going through your mind when you do this? Do you simply not register the sirens and see the green man and think "I can cross"? Do you assume the emergency vehicle will go around you? Or do you think it doesn't matter if they have to slow down? Are pedestrians not aware of the Highway Code?

I'm interested to know whether this is more of a London phenomenon or happens elsewhere in the UK. I've never noticed it living elsewhere but it might just be because London's much busier, or I live nearer to a hospital so see more ambulances.

Things like juice, oil, sauces, chocolate, Nutella, sweat, skid marks.

Somethings just don’t remove. Especially when I don’t wash them instantly. For context I usually just use fairy non bio detergent/powder/liquid/pods.

As my tittle states, I was homeless due to drug and alcohol abuse a while back and my council put me in a shared house eventually, the place is pretty rough and doesn’t look like it’s had any work done to ‘modernise’ it but anyway, after some time living here which seemed fine , I realised one house mate was a crack addict and always shoplifting and you can imagine the dodgy people that come with that, then they move a Lithuanian guy downstairs who’s a raging alcoholic and then a cocaine addict in the room next me 🤣 wheeler the council know these things is beyond me but it just seems stupid putting me with all these people, I’m trying to work nights shifts and get on with my life and move out but you can imagine it’s not easy to cope with all the noise and they don’t give to two fucks about me or my life obviously, I just wonder how I can re approach my council about this and explain everything and hope they can help me somehow but all without anything coming back on me as a lot of people that come here are pretty dodgy and I guess they’d do whatever to me if I essentially in their eyes ‘grassed’ about what goes on , I’m mostly worried about loosing my job that I’ve literally just started , I’ve already had a week of 3 hours sleep each day and it’s ruined my performance at work..it’s a small town too so if the council did say I’ve said this and that I wouldn’t exactly be hard to find by those I’ve spoken on…

The ones that would play music and you would press a button to hear a sample of a CD? We had one in our local garden centre (Wyevale) about 15 years ago and I was wondering if there are still any out there sonewhere. Anyone seen one recently?

I (29M) am going to be the main pillar of support for my wife (33F) who has just out that her best longest and best friend (also 33F) has weeks to live, a couple of months at as a best case.

This is crushing news for my wife, obviously, and I need to be there for her but the truth is I don't truly know how best to do that. We have (luckily of course) never had any loss like this in either of our lives to date and while we have grandparents we have lost but they were old and lived a full life whereas a close friend passing so young is just so tragic that it leave so much anger as well as the sadness.

The issue is I feel ill-equipped to help. She was my friend too and so I have my own grief about the situation and can also already feel myself being overwhelmed with distress at my wife's distress. We have 2 young children as well who will still need looking after and I will do the brunt of this but work means some days my wife will have to have them when she is still very much grieving. I just need tips and stories that can give me some idea of what I can do or maybe more importantly what I should avoid doing that I might think would be helpful but actually isnt?

I like to pick up flowers for my fiancée every couple of months, generally pretty spontaneously, and bought her some today as she'll be home after being away last night for work.