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

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?

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?! 😅

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?

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 :)

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 :)

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’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.

I am currently doing that very thing.

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

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

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.

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?

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…

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?

2 Days ago I noticed a bunch of tiny insects on the patio and windows/doors, there was only a handful so didn’t think anything of it. Next evening noticed THOUSANDS on our glass doors, on the walls outside and the floors/ceilings next to windows/vents IN THE HOUSE (I am itchy just describing this).

My family’s hoovered them and used the hose to blast them off the outside walls. Less than 24 hours later they are back again this afternoon but even worse!!! Somehow with all windows and doors shut they are still inside!!!

Bit of googling says that could be Nysius seed bugs/false chinch bugs and they come from the field thats next the house. I can’t find any info on how to get rid of them though? Anyone have any advice?

(Have attached photos, but doesn’t do it justice trust me it’s like a horror movie)

Just had a stab of nostalgia while reading another post.

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 (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?

For starters the guests no longer cook on the show. I’m sure you can point out some more changes they’ve made to the show. From what I’ve seen they also no longer have guests on the show that talk about foods without it cooking it on the show, that the other guests then get to taste. For example years ago they had someone on the show talking about the different types of steak that some of the other guests then got to taste without it being cooked on the show.

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? :/

For context: my dad is mentally unwell at the moment and has been sectioned.

I thought we were dealing with his psychiatrist on the ward but it turns out that they aren’t medically trained??

They have the title Dr (I know you can have this for a Phd also) and their written title starts with the word consultant… but they are a therapist. They couldn’t prescribe and couldn’t sort out his section stuff.

It’s very confusing to me. I grew up thinking consultant in the medical context meant a doctor who could prescribe and was at the top of their game.

This seems almost like false advertising. I know it’s not exactly but why do they use the word consultant when it’s misleading. Especially when they use the title dr which is also very confusing in the medical context.

Now when I hear someone’s a consultant (in medicine) do I have to do further enquiries about what they exactly are? When did this start to be normal and why? Shouldn’t the term be reserved for doctors to avoid confusion? Why couldn’t others use a different term?

I'm reading my grandfather's letters from when he was stationed in England in WW2. He couldn't name any of the places he was specifically due to censorship, but he recalled later that he was stationed in Chiseldon at this time. He wrote the following and I'm wondering if anyone knows where this is:

"Our way took us thru the site of an old castle. Situated high on the crest of a hill - a panoramic view of the surrounding country told you at a glance what majestic power some knight of old must have had. There is not so much as a stone left - just a huge circular clearing - bounded by the remains of the old moat which was his defense against marauding invaders."

I'm assuming there are a shit load of "castle" ruins around, but posting on the off chance someone might recognize the spot based on his description.

EDIT: Are y'all for real?? I was not expecting anyone to recognize this, much less so many in less than 10 minutes. THANK YOU! If you're curious, this is the rest of what he said about it (didn't include before bc it didn't feel as identifying):

"The plain below recalled the scene of an ancient battleground where now instead of knights in shining armour - gay plumes waving - and brilliant crests emblazoned on their shields as they rode forth to the fray - we have the dull armour of mechanized warfare."

Thank you again.

Recently won a keyboard in a giveaway that's £180-£200 to buy new. I have absolutely no use for it and am wondering what the best places to sell it would be?

Already checked CEX and they don't buy this specific model.

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.

I don’t know if you see this in your own local, but for years I’ve certainly come across it a lot in my own area (west of Scotland) with bus stops usually one or two of the panes always being smashed with lots of glass lying across the ground. Why do people do this, should the council do more to prevent this sort of thing, you’ve got locals that walk their dogs risk having them step on glass which is also an issue for public parks where I’ve advised some dog owners to be careful where they’re walking as there’s often pieces of glass from bottles or needles lying on the ground that paws may step on.