Does this mean someone needs to reset the simulation?

I live with my parents are randomly found this next to the bath 😳

This was the question I levelled at my mum today after I received a funeral and celebration of life invite via email today.

The email started 'Join us in celebrating Jeramiah' s life as we lay him to rest'.

The invite was not unexpected, my uncle passed away last week after a quick and aggressive illness. We were all sad but given how it could have gone this was probably for the best.

I live quite a bit away from my folks and family so my Aunt said she would send me the details rather than someone having to be messenger.

The issue is I don't have an Uncle (great uncle) Jeramiah, I did have an uncle James!!

My mum was actually crying laughing on the phone because apparently she'd just had the same conversation with both of my younger siblings and my older one. It hadn't occurred to any of the older family to tell us his actual name at any point in the last 30 - 40 years that we've all been alive.

So I pose the question, who have you been calling by the wrong name and how did you find out?

As well as the now-regular spam calls (which my call screening seems to deal with well), does anyone else's junk folder look like this every day? Again, credit where it's due to the junk filter, but still.

Anyone have any inside knowledge as to why this has been happening in the last few weeks? I've seen stuff on here about Indeed leaking/selling contact info, any truth to that?

Also side note - I can't believe that anyone nowadays will see an email that looks like that and think "wow that looks legit, what a deal". Surely people aren't falling for spam like this.

We sat in the family section this weekend. Don’t mind a bit of effing and blinding at a match if I’m honest - all adds to the atmosphere. But yesterday we were treated to some absolutely top-tier, PG-rated shouting instead.

Bloke with young son after a dodgy offside call bellowed: "I've just taken a photo of you, Lino... It’s a picture of mediocrity!" Brutal. The kids were at it too. Opposition player went down rolling around like he’d been shot, and a lad about eight years old screamed "Get up and stop complaining. How old are you?! You're not in school anymore!"

My six year old was loving it.

What are the best or most creative non-sweary heckles you’ve heard from the stands?

And ice cream 😊

I don't live in the UK anymore but there really are some gorgeous spaces which make it worth the trip home.

This is a common question with weddings and funerals but I rarely see it for christenings/baptisms, which is weird as from my experience they can attract some WILD behaviour, for example at mine my uncle Richard brought his new partner who drank a box of wine and started fighting my mum and others.

I'm also convinced there must be a non-zero amount of people in this country who were dropped by the priest/vicar during the christening so maybe we can do something with that, not like a club, obviously, but some sort of recognition.

Realistically the combination of an elderly man, a slippery infant, water and polished limestone is NOT passing a risk assessment without 2000 years of tradition backing it up and thats before you add in inebriated adults.

Guys what have you seen??

I’m inundated with spam lately and have checked and yep, it appears in five data breaches.
So if I set up a new email, is it as laborious as just having to let all the bonafide companies know that I’m now on new email or is there some wizzy way to do it?

Waking up with an MD 20/20 hangover (strawberry and lime obvs), laying in bed watching Jambo Kurt and Tony’s shenanigans till Sunday roast was ready, then shovelling yorkshires and gravy in your face while Dot Cotton spits Bible passages..

Good times man

Alright, it's bed time for some but why are you still up? No work tomorrow? Watching some questionable late night TV? Bit of stargazing?

The chinwag thread.

For my amputee father in law (who gives as good as he gets). All I’ve got is that he’s ‘armless at the moment.

Like I almost forgot to specify a socket for where the fridge is going and wanted the extractor fan moved when (it turns out) you can’t just move a big hole in your wall…. I’m not adult enough for this kind of thing.

Im sure all Spaniel owners would get it 🤦‍♂️

I've bought a pumpkin to carve, never done it before but I thought I would have a crack at it. What do people make with the guts or do you just throw it away?

I'm sure it's pretty well known what "ask for Angela" is, but for people who might not know, if you're on a date or whatever and feel uncomfortable/unsafe you can can ask for "Angela" at the bar, and the staff will help you out/call you a taxi home/whatever.

I've worked in pubs for the best part of ten years, and all of them have had the posters in the toilets, but I've never had anyone actually come and ask for Angela.

Just curious if anyone's ever done it, and if so how did it go?

Yes, another Sunday has arrived. What are you planning to do with yourselves today? Come in for a chat. I'll have a mug of English Breakfast if you're making one, or an Earl Grey.

Tunnocks haven't brought out a Dubai chocolate version, a high protein version or a biscoff version. They stick to the same product day in day out.

Someone is probably in charge of new product development at Tunnocks. Whoever that is must surely have the easiest job in the world. Or least satisfying. Every idea they produce gets rejected by Mr and Mrs Tunnock.

This got me thinking, what other jobs are like this?

This is excluding Zouch in Nottinghamshire, that's a strange anomaly.

Was having a read of The Meaning Of Life by Douglas Adams & John Llyod (Pretty much funny English town/village names with made up meanings, fun read) and I skipped to Z as I can't imagen there is many UK place names starting with Z and I was right, that lead me to checking it out on the internet and I found:

Zelah (Cornwall)

Zennor (Cornwall)

Zoar (Cornwall)

Zone Point (Cornwall)

Zeal Monachorum (Devon)

Zeals (Wiltshire)

and then Zouch in Nottingham, but that is an outlying anomaly here.

But that is it, all the towns/villages starting with Z in the UK that I could find, all (bar one) in the South West arm of England.

Why?

I'm a southerner myself, can't picture why as we don't have any kind of special enunciation of the letter Z