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  • What is the best ‘temporary’ thing in the UK? – 21 items that have grossly outstayed their welcome
  • What’s the most pathetic way you’ve experienced classism in the UK? – 17 petty ways people have been kept in their place
  • What would make you go back to the UK?

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

What is the best ‘temporary’ thing in the UK? – 21 items that have grossly outstayed their welcome

The dictionary definition of the word ‘temporary’ is ‘lasting for only a limited period of time; not permanent’. But it seems that there are plenty of buildings, processes, rules a...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

What’s the most pathetic way you’ve experienced classism in the UK? – 17 petty ways people have been kept in their place

The UK has changed in a lot of ways in recent years, but the constraints of classism don’t appear to have disappeared. Your_Mums_Ex wanted to hear how classism still shows up in sm...

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

I was talking about Tetbury. Don’t know of a Yetbury. To those who have just read my post. Nr to Highgrove.

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

Somebody asked historians about their favourite piece of obscure UK history – 19 fascinating stories almost lost to the...

The UK is a country with an enormously long history, which means that we end up mainly learning about the big hitting events, like the Battle of Hastings, the Industrial Revolution...

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thepoke.com /1 week ago

People shared the ‘one small difference’ in the UK that would make their lives so much better – these 21 go straight to...

There are many big things we’d love to see change in the UK, from actually managing to finish HS2 to a swing away from the politics of nastiness and division, but they might take a...

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thepoke.com /1 week ago

People shared the things that definitely are ‘British but don’t feel British’ – 100% homegrown phenomena that don’t alwa...

There are some things that are very definitely British: a cup of tea, a sense of irony, hun culture. And then there are thing that we don’t think are British, but actually – and su...

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

Hi AM Yes, there are lots of housing in and nr to Witney but there are all over Oxfordshire and other counties too, Gloucestershire is unrecognisable in some areas. Yet bury? Used...

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thepoke.com /4 weeks ago

‘What’s the most aggressively British thing you’ve ever witnessed?’ – 19 fearsome displays of politeness and eccentricit...

British people are famous for being both polite and mild, and a little bit eccentric. But sometimes we’re so courteous to each other that it turns into a battle. And sometimes we’r...

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thepoke.com /1 week ago

People have been sharing the UK tourist attractions they reckon are wildly overrated – 21 places destined to disappoint...

For a relatively small country, the UK is awash with tourist attractions. Some of them are undeniably world class, like Stonehenge or the Tower of London. But some of them are utte...

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

Oh, I’m totally stealing that for latter use.

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

‘What’s a very British habit or attitude that people rarely question, but probably should?’ – 23 ways our stiff upper li...

British people are a contradictory bunch, on the one hand alcohol-fuelled bantz-merchants who love a laugh, on the other miserable self-deprecators who talk the UK down at any oppo...

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

Are you thinking of’a cream cracker under the sofa’?

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

Are you thinking of’a cream cracker under the sofa’?

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thepoke.com /3 weeks ago

Someone moved to the UK and was baffled by the Brits using inanimate objects as insults – 21 beautifully British barbs

There are so many things to get used to when you emigrate. There may be a new language, there’ll definitely be new money, different customs and accents, strange food, and on top of...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

‘What do tourists get wrong about the UK?’ – 21 ways we are not a nation of tea-swilling queue obsessives

Tea, queuing, bad teeth and an insatiable love of Greggs. That’s British people down to a tee, right? Well, maybe there’s more to us as a nation if you dig a deeper. AskUK subreddi...

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

survive15: Saw an article on BBC this very morning about a Whistl logistics centre which appears to have devastated a community, The worst thing about that in my opinion is that...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

A Brit asked how to give her American boyfriend the ‘true UK experience’ and these 17 A++ suggestions will make you prou...

Time now to return to the cultural divide, nay chasm, between the UK and the US after a British woman asked people for their tips on how to give her American boyfriend a ‘true UK e...

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

BBC Sounds - outside UK

Hi Gab and I’m sure someone will be able to help you in this forum…

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bristolpost.co.uk /1 month ago

American living in UK shares 4 vital things that happen in England

Ashley, an American in England, shared four essential British cultural differences that baffled her when she first arrived, from pub etiquette to ordering eggs at breakfast

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

‘What minor things anger you far more than they should?’ – 23 irrational but intensely felt annoyances

A brief glance at the news will tell you that there are plenty of things in the world worth getting cross about, and yet somehow it’s the little ones that really tip people over th...

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survivefrance.com /1 week ago

Current visa accommodatio requirements for UK applicants [not US]

I don’t have experience myself as settled here, but I’ve not heard squeals of protest from British people and seen plenty asking about seasonal accommodation for visa application.

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

People shared the British things that are totally normal to us but utterly baffling to visitors – 23 proper eye-openers

There’s no doubt that Britain is a unique place. From morris dancing to hun culture to places with names like Bishop’s Itchington, we have a wealth of weirdnesses to be proud of. H...

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bbc.com /1 week ago

What would make the UK a better place to live? A new project aims to find out

People are being asked to leave voice notes explaining changes they would like to see.

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manchestereveningnews.co.uk /1 month ago

'I'm an American in the UK and there are 3 British things I can't live without'

An American TikToker who lives in the UK has shared the three types of food he had never even heard of before moving here - but that he now "can't live without"

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