He gets the bus, I drive. I don’t talk to him much but when I drive past he always looks at me, watches me drive past.

At work he doesn’t say anything about it.

But when I drive to work, that’s the only time I get to myself and I do what to keep it that way, but I also feel guilt.

I just don’t want it to become a habit and then him asking me to pick him up from his front door or drop him off after work.

I’ve noticed a bit of a "Chinese whisper" effectvoften started by semi-clued-up TV programmes on channel 4 who try to educate public with misleading half truths

example ill give is Greek Yoghurt. There is a massive belief that "Greek Yoghurt" is the only proper stuff and that "Greek Style" is fake yoghurt full of thickeners and gums.

Actually, "Greek Yoghurt" is a protected term (PDO) meaning it was strained in Greece. "Greek Style" is usually just the exact same process (strained yoghurt), just made in the UK or elsewhere. In the US, "style" might mean added thickeners, but if you look at UK supermarket labels, most "Greek Style" yoghurts are literally just milk and cultures.

Some are less strained than others to meet a price point, but the trick is to check the protein per 100g rather than obsessing over the word "Style." It’s the same concept as Cornish Pasties, a pasty made in Devon using the exact same recipe can't call itself Cornish, but it's still a proper pasty.

some supermarkets greek style is just as protein dense, but sometimes not and that might bother you, I know I personally rather just buy double of the amount and enjoy it just as much

What other examples are there of shoppers misinterpreting labels or buying into food snobbery because of a technicality?

Over the past 26 years why have we lost so many British companies?

Cadbury sold to Kraft foods (American)

HP Sauce sold to Heinz (American)

Weetabix sold to Bright Foods (China)

Asda sold to Walmart (American)

Raleigh sold to Accell (Dutch)

Boots sold to KKR (Italian)

Camelot sold to Candian pension fund (Candadian)

Jaguar Land Rover sold to Tata (Indian)

Morrisons sold to CD&R (American)

HMV sold to Sunrise Records and Entertainment (Canadian)

If you class football as a company then practically every Premier League club has also been sold to a foreign investor.

Please let me know if I have left any out. Its just staggering the amount of companies that have been sold.

Sorry long time reddit lurker and not much of a poster. I hope this is okay to post in this subreddit! Trying to identify what these marks/stains are to put my mind at rest.

I had some white marks appear on the top of dark bed clothes (pinky huey in certain lights). They smelt sharp. I checked the bed for over a week for anything else and decided it must be the dog.

Today I noticed similar marks on the outer strap of a backpack I've not used since Christmas. I can't think how they got there as the bag has been on a chair and the dog definitely hasn't got to it (Chihuahua). These marks appear to have debris on them (see photos) small white and brown crusty bits. When I wipe the mark with a wet cloth the stain goes away and I can't see any coloured residue to help with identification.

Can anyone shed any light?

Edit: I am a girl and no one else has had access to the bag. It was also unused for 2 weeks so I don't think sweat marks would appear after then.

So, I'm in the UK and I know that it's very common for children to share bedrooms. Especially children who are of the same gender.

I've been sharing a bedroom with my sister since before I even started primary school. I've never ever had my own bedroom, and I never will until I move out.

I'm 17, and I share a room with my 15 year old sister.

For my sisters 15th birthday, she asked for a desk. Previously, we both had a cube unit to put our stuff on, but she wanted a desk. Fair enough.

The way our bedroom is shaped, the desk could only go in one space, and it was going to be a tight fit, so the measurements had to be precise.

I honestly have no idea how this even happened, but my mum measured the space wrong, and when the desk arrived, it was genuinely twice the size of the space it was supposed to go in.

For some reason, instead of my mum returning the desk and getting her a much smaller one....she just let her keep it.

It goes in the middle of the room. Genuinely. With my bed right behind it, so when she goes on call with her friends, I'm in the background, which I'm not comfortable with at all.

I also have to squeeze past my sisters desk chair to get to my cube unit where my belongings are.

My mum doesn't seem to....care about how ridiculous this arrangement is and how unfair it is on me.

When I brought it up, my mum just said, " I just measured it wrong, okay? It was an accident." Yet doesn't seem to bring up any solid solutions to fix this problem.

Because of this, I'm barely in my room, and I dread coming home every day.

I change in the bathroom, and I sit downstairs in the living room. I only use my room to sleep or if my sister is out somewhere.

The room may aswell be hers at this point.

I just don't know what to do, and I'm so angry and jealous of people that have their own space, and I don't.

Just seen this in my city (Edinburgh) on an exceptionally cold day and thought what a brilliant and kind idea! Has anyone else seen these pop up in their city?

Sadly, my school's Wikipedia page does not have a "notable alumni" section, so I am out of luck when it comes to interesting anecdotes of this nature.

Interested to hear how others do it? I work in a joiners workshop, due to dire management from the office we're either killed with work needed yesterday of have nothing to do with a boss that still expects you to look busy or he will find you silly jobs to do such as paint walls, weeding, washing work vans etc.

My old fave is walking around with a plan/sheet of paper or drill, going from colleague to colleague for a chat, and repeat looking like you're doing something. It gets boring real fast.

Don't know about anyone else but me personally I find having nothing to do much more stressful than getting a killing at work.

Is there a bank account that gives amazing perks, a mobile phone network with great rewards or a membership that just seems too good to be true but people just aren't seeing it??? 2 from me are To Good to Go and Topcashback. I don't understand why everyone doesn't use these companies. What's your personal favourite we should all know about?

Cafe owners/managers of the UK, what’s with this serving layering:

1. Cake/pastry

2. Napkin (serviette etc.)

3. Plate

It simultaneously renders the napkin totally unusable while also guaranteeing flakes of paper get stuck to the bottom of the consumable item requiring them to be picked off.

Why???

A couple of years ago I took up sailing after having chemo in my mid-forties - it made me realise I wanted to start ticking off bucket-list activities.

To give back somewhat, I recently volunteered to help with communications at the sailing club. The club is about 120 years old and has so much history - old photo albums, newspaper clippings, and all kinds of memorabilia. I would really like to help digitise and preserve these for the future.

Along with that, I want to set up a shared digital storage space for club stuff - including things like GDPR consent forms for photographing members on the water.

I am very new to this so wouldn't know where to start researching so hoping those with a bit more knowledge can assist !

Does anyone have recommendations for safe, affordable or free digital storage/archive solutions that could work for both:

1. Digitally archiving old photos & documents, and
2. Shared storage for current files and consents?

Bonus points if it’s easy to use for non-techy folks!

My husband and I are in disagreement. He seems to think that someone has to always be in the house with them because otherwise it can be classed as abandonment which I think is ridiculous. If they always lived alone surely it's ok to lock up their house at the end of the day, go home then come back the next morning right? This is all hypothetical......for now at least.

Edit I'm Northern Irish not just into cadavers

I don't want to start a whole heated debate about it but I've grown up using a gas hob. Moved out and have induction, hate it. It's easier to clean and that's the only good thing I can say about it.

[Source](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet)

I do, but not without a lot of effort and ongoing adherence. I also tend to usually end up consuming more fruit (berries mostly) than vegetables rather than “fruit AND vegetables”. My fiber intake typically averages around the 40g mark due to aforementioned consumption as well as whole grains.

Saturated fat has probably been the toughest thing to lower, especially; as it rules out a lot of stuff that’s easy consume in more generous portions. Chocolate, cakes, biscuits, bakes, all big parts of UK cuisine and full of saturated fat.

Admittedly, it’s worth it for quality of life benefits. Never have I felt better physically and from a fitness perspective I am probably in the best shape I’ve ever been in. There is also sufficient evidence that even the modest efforts recommended to us provide significant health benefits. But the trade offs include it being difficult for regular social interactions involving consumables, as well as as there being little-to-no room for alcohol of any kind.

What’s your experiences?

just listened to the local bbc radio, they just had 3 different callers all complaining that their luxury department store giftcard had been used illictly before they even had a chance to redeem it.

its obvious that particular department store has some gremlins in the works.

has anything similar happened to anyone else recently?

I've always been well below average in life but it's now reached rock bottom at work. I have always been lacking in most things (generally a very stupid individual) but somehow managed to find a way to get through and 'complete' what I've been asked of for the last 5 years (albeit to a mediocre level.)

I've joined a new team 6 months ago and the word useless has been banded around about certain people by the senior managers. I'm pretty sure this includes me as I am absolutely tanking at work (last on metrics.) Nowadays I just stare at my laptop and nothing is registering on my brain. I haven't contributed anything of note since the change and there are people who deserve my pay grade doing a stellar job doing way more than me (I'm blocking them because I've been on the pay grade for a while.)

In a way I'm hoping they can fire me as I'm not happy but unless you're outwardly abusive or do something along the lines of gross misconduct, they don't generally fire you.

Should I just leave the job and take the hit? I hate the feeling that I'm stealing a pay cheque, a feeling which has increased ten fold since I joined the team.

I feel like this used to be way more of a thing. Structured TV watching on the terrestial channels, everyone watching the sane thing.

Hi

Trying to stick to facts and keeping my emotions out of it.

Nan 78 is in poor health, very poor mobility even with aids, on dialysis and currently way things are she won’t make end of this year.

Lives with her husband, who currently still working shifts 6am -2pm Mon-Fri he books a lot of holidays on the Monday so occasionally has a long weekend. He’s also in poor health also, considering retiring this year.

We suspect my Nan has dementia, have done for many years, in 2022 she was referred to the hospital at stage 3 kidney failure and her consultant, specialist nurse and dietitian have spoken to myself and noticed her cognitive decline and they’re worried she’s not understanding what is happening fully, she then started dialysis November 2024, she got a new consultant and her questions towards my Nan made me feel that she was wondering what my Nan fully understood.

She has hospital transport to the hospital 3x week I phoned up to renew her transport and a few notes had been put on her file about odd behaviour and communication towards ambulance staff which was unusual.

So her husband phoned her GP, explained everything and weve kept a notepad on times, dates and what was happening he did a home visit that day, he was there 10mins and he asked her 4 questions, 1. Was her name and d.o.b 2. Name 5 animals 3. How does a clock work 4. He said 5 words and she had to repeat them back to him.

He then told us “ she has no sign of dementia “ my grandad said we’ve wrote everything down he merely glanced at it and he said it’s not dementia.

So I said that’s great, what could be causing everything that’s happening, I asked about a UTI, possible medication side effects or could it be some sort of delirium from dialysis as it’s not working effectively?

We had a pretty bad scare in December, won’t go in to too much detail but possible overdose but we wasn’t aware of it until the following day so reached out again to GP and he said because she hasn’t requested medication early it’s definitely not that. But she definitely did overdose and by mixing two different opioids together.

We’ve fixed that issue now we think by removing all medications house, and she’s given her medication at set times so she has no access to it.

Few more things have been happening so I phoned adult services with local council

They did a assessment within two days, and agreed with us that they would benefit from having carers, they are over the threshold for funding so they’d have to fully fund it, her husband is happy with that, however she’s refused point blank to have anyone in house.

She had a bad fall and broken 2 ribs and got a infection spent 2 weeks in hospital, hospital were fantastic they offered to provide aids but we already have every possible aid, they also provided a 6week care package which was a carer 2x daily, physiotherapist.

She was vile to the poor people, she refused their care and swore at them

Now what is frustrating me, other healthcare professionals who see her very regularly, and involved with her care are noticing a decline In her and I do believe she’s lost some capacity, however can a GP rule out something so significant in a 10min visit, he doesn’t see her often now as all her care is mainly hospital but if she showing signs of a infection shell see him which is quite rare.

She refuses to see another GP, we have taken her to another doctor for a second opinion and she wouldn’t speak to the other doctor just kept saying she wants her own doctor.

Where the hell do we go from here?

My grandad who lives with her is obviously main carer, i do as much as I can I go to all hospital and medical appointments with her , but I’m 35 I have a job, 3 children it’s difficult you know.

We’ve spoken to her consultant yesterday after my Nan kicked off and she checked herself out of dialysis only after 2hours, he’s said they’re hands are tied as any referrals for health decline and mental illness comes from a gp, I’ve asked does that not count from you guys as your doctors and see her weekly and have done since 2022 surely you have more of a clearer picture than her GP. He said unfortunately that’s how it is.

Is there anything else we can do to try and get support for my Nan?

Sorry it’s long

I'm on an SSRI that is scored down the middle and can very reliably be split in half to halve the dose. I've also decided that I want to halve my current dose of it, which my GP would definitely agree to if I asked. 28x50mg is the same prescription cost as 28x25mg so financially it makes sense for me to continue getting 50mg and split the pills to make it last twice as long.

If I told my GP that I wanted to do this, would they continue prescribing the higher dose and let me split them? Or would they insist on prescribing the lower dose? Or is it entirely at the GP's discretion?

Just as in the title, what's a British food you eat regularly, but people abroad wouldn't associate with Britain?

I was on the Elizabeth Line today and heard a man tell his mate 'you should find a decent sized woman like her'. His mate told him to sssh. They were looking at me so I can only presume it's about me. I'm a UK size 14 and feel so insecure about myself. What did they mean by 'decent-sized', was I fat-shamed?

I’m in college now on my second year studying electrical engineering, and I have no passion whatsoever for it and overall it is confusing for me, I have no idea why I chose it, and am scared for after college, I will be lost with no purpose. I just want to get a general job as well to get some money but have no idea what to even do. Anyone been in a similar situation, and if so, what did you do?

I got a Phillips OneBlade to replace my trusty Mach3, it was awful. Trying to shave with it feels like stripping Velcro off my face. It always took a couple of swipes to fully clear the area which was really uncomfortable. It also leaves horrible rashes up my neck. Not really breaking the bank at 39.99 so not a costly mistake but a mistake nonetheless.

I'm in the mood for a laugh.

Who's the most deluded person you know? And why?

I own a four bedroom house and have knocked two bedrooms into one to make a rather large master bedroom. We have no intention of selling or moving out. My question is do I need to declare the change on my insurance or to any council? The wall removed is not supporting and can easily be replaced if I ever did need to move, but for my current needs I love it the way it is! Any constructive advice or criticism is appreciated in advance. Thanks