UKCasual

(I'm not making this a regular thing, don't worry).

I used to say sitting room, but like settee, at some point I switched over to living room. I'm a Londoner, but had a Midlands mum.

Following on from the other post, I think if you say settee, you probably say sitting room. If you say sofa, you probably say living room or sitting room . Lounge definitely goes with couch.

Which term do you use, what region are you in/from? I'm not counting front room, because that's a separate thing imo. The front room is the good room, or "the parlour" if you're posh.

Which word do you use?

Growing up, we used to say settee, but at some point, we switched to sofa. I'm a Londoner, but my mum was from the Midlands, so I think that was a regional thing we got from her.

I can't remember the last time I saw one of these. These used to be as ubiquitous as the digestive and rich tea (which incidentally, the finger version seems to have fallen out of fashion too, and they were much better than the round version).

It looks like if you want this biscuit now, you have to search it out. Why did they stop being sold in supermarkets?

Edit: there is one mention of them on Wikipedia about being a variant of Rich Tea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_tea

My second microSD card has corrupted :( I have a feeling I was sold a fake.

I've watched enough Atomic Shrimp to know external storage is a minefield. Argos is an authorised sandisk seller, but so is Amazon and I know they get counterfeits mixed in due to 3rd party sellers. Afaik Argos would only sell their own stock if I buy a card from their stores, right?

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I'm new to Lemmy.wtf, so I hope I enjoy my time here in the fedeverse

I always assumed the term is used specifically to differentiate it from "working days", but talking to my bank today they claimed that "calendar days" doesn't include weekends and bank holidays.

Is there still music and singing at school assemblies?

As a kid I went to a CoE primary school and they used to play classical music as we walked into assembly and we used to sing hymns (a lot of which early on were more like groovy nursery rhymes). Regardless of the religious content of the lyrics, looking back I think that it was actually very cool to have uncritical communal listening and singing.

Is that still a thing?

I'm old enough to remember when the prices went above £1 a litre, all the garages having to get their signs updated so they could have four digits on the price. Some of them using wheelie bin stickers or handwritten "1"s as a stop gap.

Wonder what they'll do this time around, the ones that didn't think far enough ahead to have a full seven-segment display fitted?

Went in this morning on my off day and my supervisor told me that we won't be doing our Easter knockdowns until "at least the end of the week", to her that means Thursday.

One data point isn't a trend but might be worth bearing in mind.

Can't help but think the BBC could have avoided a lot of controversy over the new series simply by using AI to replace Gregg Wallace with Loyd Grossman.

From what I've read is that it was on from mid July until mid August, I'm wondering if anyone has seen them with any luck?

So, a few of my friends and I (Americans) all use a UK spellings for a few words (not all the same ones each), and we've all determined that it must have something to do with interacting with Brits regularly on the Internet during the same years that we were learning to spell.

Is this a thing that any of you do or anyone you know?

Do y'all really drink that much tea?

What is it that you think is lacking or could significantly improve? What about health insurance and workers rights?

Clocks forward folks; off into BST we go.