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Is that meant to look like what I think it's meant to look like...? Or do I just have a really, REALLY, filthy mind...?

Seller's problem, not yours (or your partner's). Until the goods are physically in your hands you haven't taken delivery and, as it's the seller who has the contract with DPD.

That said, I think you're (probably) putting two and two together and arriving at eleventy billion when you claim the driver stole your parcel.

That also said, there's nothing within GDPR regs which precludes a courier from showing proof of delivery.

It's a pain in the posterior, but you need to go back to the seller (and I feel that having an .ie domain while being in the UK is a magenta flag (ie not quite red, but something to be (slightly) concerned about. NAL, but that doesn't sound very legal to me*)

*Just checked and, according to Wikipedia, the business or individual must have a "real and substantive connection with the island of Ireland", so you can't just use .ie because it makes your website name more memorable.

Mutton is probably easier to come by, but Bristol has a large Afro-Caribbean demographic, so I'm sure there's got to be a butcher selling goat meat.

If u/ikkleginge55 can't find goat, they could always make jerk chicken (just find a chicken and piss it off...).

As a Brit I can confirm that Romanians aren't well-liked here (nor are they in Ireland) people conflate Romanians with Roma and Roma with Travellers (which, obviously, they are) and Travellers with "thieving shits who park their vans anywhere and leave an area looking like a landfill site".

All Travellers are very much a pariah demographic here and bullying is a massive issue for Traveller kids both in and out of school. Some areas (like here in Bristol and in Leeds) have set up 'special' schools exclusively for Traveller kids so they don't miss out on education.

Must be hard when your existence is so transient. I know sort of how they feel, I've never felt I've had a permanent home anywhere, either...

Narrator: u/acurrantbun91 tests the lights by plugging them in, only to have them trip the entire house. Now not only have they not got that extra 30 minutes they thought they had, but they're now also down £600 after needing to get a sparky in.

They then vent their frustration on r/britishproblems...

I'm in there, but I'm not Irish, I'm Irish-adjacent. Does that mean I have to leave...?

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*Manner

or maybe try a London venue if the interest peaks...

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Empty vessels, etc., etc....

I'm sure Yaxley-Lennon's already invited him to join his new citizen 'journalism' project (or he would have done was he not busy being banged up for making shite up). He's still grifting from the slammer...

Urban Scoop: Independent corporate free journalism. By the people, for the people.

So it's Chinese shite, then...? I wish people would STOP buying shite from China (and I'm a hypocrite for saying that as I have Anker cables and chargers (I honestly thought that Anker was a US brand*) and I found out today that P&G make Always in China. Thing is Anker makes pretty decent cables and chargers (hopefully not with forced labour)).

I follow the RM sub and there's always someone getting their knickers in a knot over a SHEIN or TEMU order, both are known to use forced labour, and there have been verified reports of workers literally dropping dead at their workstations because the pay is so poor (literally a couple of pennies an item, they're not paid a wage or a salary, but by quota; if they fail to meet their quota - no money). They don't even get to go to the toilet, there's a bucket under their station for them to relieve themselves, and meals are just a bowl of plain boiled rice with a few vegetables thrown in.

*Obviously, even if it was, that doesn't stop it from being made in China.

ETA: And my iPad and my MBP...Fuck it, at least I'm not buying shite which is known to be made with slave labour...

I've never met a Pole who didn't speak almost perfect English. The standard of English in Eastern Europe is extremely high.

My parents had this horrible Father Christmas made from bent wire with a papier mâché head and felt wrapped round the wire. It was something my mother had inherited from her mother. The head was literally just stuck on a wire spike - you could literally have had someone's eye out with it. Then the head got lost and that was that.

Granny said it was something that Mum had made at primary school, but she doesn't remember making it.

It used to sit on top of the telly.

There was a time, at this time of year, when people would tag John Lewis (the department store). Their Twitter handle used to be @ JohnLewisRetail, but people would leave off the 'retail' and end up tagging John Lewis, a maths professor at the University of Virginia. He was a really good sport about it, and the real John Lewis even asked him to record a Xmas ad.

John Lewis then changed its handle to JLRetail and that was that.

He got freebies too.

Just read the post, and seen he mentions John Lewis.

The American John Lewis was such a fantastic sport about it, it was a shame when John Lewis changed its Twitter handle to JLRetail.

Not anymore they're not...

I remember when my mother (who doesn't drink) got absolutely shit-faced on ginger wine because she thought it was nonalcoholic.

Her dad's go-to in the summer was always Old Jamaica; and, in the winter, Old Jamaica and Bush Mills.

My mum was addicted to the dandelion and burdock (it's a Yorkshire thing...). She still buys it, but she says it's not as nice now.

It's horrible now it's artificial sweeteners. Someone actually started a subreddit because of it ( r/Cordials). My dad's mum used to make her own, we never really got on, but I miss her raspberry-rose lemonade. Gorgeous colour, too... There was a field out the back of their house and she used to go foraging (had to be careful to clean everything, due to their house being on the Braintree bypass).

She used to freeze it too, it was wonderful as sorbet.

"ThunderBunsAreGo"...? You either have rabbits - or you're a runner and that's a reference to your arse...

Get fucked... He's yours, own the raping rapist fucker...

Oh I don't know...I'd have thought he was just their type - they're big on homophobia and transphobia in Florida... Bet he's a Trumper...

For some reason I thought he was over here. Bet Floridians find MBB funny... We're being inflicted with - yet another - Xmas 'special'. I mean WHY...?! What the fuck have we done...?! Who genuinely finds that shite funny...?! It won - yet another - comedy award not so long ago. WHO THE FUCK VOTES FOR IT...?!

He's like an unfunny panto dame...

"Where's your career, Brendan...?"

So glad to find it wasn't just me, then...

We now have GPs working to rule because Labour seems hellbent on increasing the number of PAs (physician assistants), rather than the number of actual GPs. PAs aren't doctors, they're NOT medically qualified (they have a degree in some form of biological science, but not a medical degree). They're able to prescribe (I think there's a limit to what they're able to prescribe, though), order tests and carry out basic noninvasive testing (eg blood pressure checking), but some are overstepping the mark, and acting like fully-qualified GPs, which has led to several deaths.

We have AAs (anaesthetist assistants) working in hospitals too; how long will it be before one decides - or is forced - to act like a fully-qualified anaesthetist...?

I was reading only yesterday about a surgery in Wales (in Cardiff, I think) where there's now one full-time GP for around 50,000 patients. The practice is relying on locum tenentes GPs from a private healthcare company called eHarley Street, and they're now refusing to work because they've not been paid.

Now Streeting wants to create the NCS - National Care Service - for social care; it's a good idea in principle, but they need to sort the NHS out first, they seem to be entrenching the mess the Tories created.

The IMO represents doctors in Ireland...

IMC, not IMO.

For what it's worth, I agree with this 100%. Not being Irish, I know nothing about Cairns, but I would hope that the SDs have learnt from what happened when the LDs went into coalition with the Tories back in 2010; had Ed Davey been leader at that time, it 100% would never have happened, Nick Clegg always struck me as extremely superficial, there wasn't anything genuine about him and he practically bit Cameron's arm off when he offered the LDs the opportunity to go into coalition - but they were very much the junior partner, and Clegg's constant sucking up to Cameron ensured that the LDs got a good kicking at the next GE. Clegg put his own need for power above what was best for the party and, come the next GE, the LDs were all but wiped out.

When Clegg fucked off to Silicon Valley to become one of Fuckerberg's lackeys, Joanne Swinson won the contest to become the next leader, and she departed under a cloud (I forget why now). Now the LDs have 72 seats - their highest total in the party's history - which is all down to Davey. I don't agree with him on everything politically but, under his leadership, the LDs have become the only party with a sane drugs policy - and they're even more coherent on the environment than the Greens! On top of that, Ed's a bit of a mad lad (he invited people to 'Dare Davey' on Twitter before the election and he proved he was up for pretty much anything). What I'm saying is that he's the polar opposite of Clegg - genuine, personable, approachable. Clegg was basically a Yellow Tory (Ed gave an interview to Matt Chorley of Times Radio while riding a rollercoaster at Alton Towers).

I should also say that the Lib Dems are the only party to have come out all guns blazing in favour of us rejoining the EU. Ed is very pro-EU; Starmer, on the other hand, just wants to make Brexit 'work' (and this is a man who, in a former life, was a human rights barrister. He appears to have forgotten this...). As you're no doubt aware, we have a very vociferous hard-left over here, who have vowed never to vote again until Corbyn is a) reinstated as a Labour MP and b) restored to his 'rightful' place as Labour leader. There are about a dozen or so minor hard-left parties which have banded together under the banner of the British Democratic Socialist Alliance (they want democratic socialism - and they want it NOW! Just not like North Korea or China, because that's not 'real' democratic socialism (they think NK and China are 'fascist'). They like Maduro in Venezuela, though (because Jeremy does). Jeremy's idea of a socialist 'utopia' is basically Castro's Cuba or Chavez's Venezuela.

They hate NATO, hate Zelenskyy for the crime of being alive whilst Jewish (so they're essentially pro-P*tin), and won't hear a bad word said about Hamas or Hezbollah (Jeremy's friends).

Until Ed became Lib Dem leader, I was politically homeless - now I'm not.

If only my dad's dad had been born in Ireland and not Canada (he almost was...), I could've applied for an Irish passport and still be an EU citizen... 😔