It won't kill you to wear a mask, but you could kill someone else if you don't… Do we want to be a nation of murderers? #SaveLives #WearAMask 💙 #NHSBlueHeart

Poor retail customer service is often a big problem in the UK

Yup. We need less plastic all round

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We want to thank @JeremyClarkson for sharing his #ProstateCancer diagnosis and treatment in #ClarksonsFarm, raising vital awareness with the millions of men and families watching 💙 ➡️ Check your risk in 30 seconds: bit.ly/4eddDbA 📸 (Image: Amazon Prime)

⚽️🏈 Why Do Americans Call It Soccer? Blame England. Americans get a lot of grief for calling it soccer. It is, the argument goes, a typically obtuse piece of American exceptionalism, a nation so convinced of its own importance that it renamed the world’s most popular sport just to be difficult. The rest of the world calls it football. The Americans call it something that sounds like a position in a law firm. How very them. Except it isn’t them. Not originally, anyway. The word soccer comes from Association Football, the formal name given to the game when the Football Association was founded in England in 1863. A few decades later, schoolboys at Rugby School and then Oxford, with that particular genius the English have for mangling perfectly good words, took “Assoc,” short for Association, and bolted on the suffix “-er,” a standard piece of Victorian public school slang used to make anything sound more cheerful. Rugby football became “rugger.” Association football became “soccer.” The English invented the word. They used it cheerfully for decades. It appeared in British newspapers and formal writing well into the twentieth century without anyone apparently clutching their pearls about it. There is a lovely wrinkle here, too. “Soccer” was largely the word of the upper class, while the working and middle classes preferred “football.” So when the upper class began losing its grip on British society from the 1960s onward, “soccer” went down with it, quietly dropped the way you abandon a phrase once it becomes unfashionable, and then pretend you never said it at all. By the time America was building its own professional leagues, “soccer” had become entirely natural there, partly to distinguish the sport from American football, which had arrived earlier and planted its flag on the word “football” with the confidence of someone who got there first and has no intention of moving. So the next time someone sneers that Americans can’t even name the sport correctly, you can point out that Americans are faithfully preserving a word the English coined, used for generations, then quietly abandoned and somehow turned into evidence of foreign stupidity. Which, when you think about it, is a very English thing to do. Stay connected, Follow @Gandalv

After looking at comments I accept there is a third category: the cretinously gullible.

I have to say that Clarkson's Farm is one of the finest pieces of television ever created. I started watching it for Jeremy doing stupid Clarksonesque shit, but then it became something deeper and more important to an entire community of Farmers across the UK, and subsequently to us, those who forgot how important farmers are to our country. Clarkson himself, never afraid of being made to look like a knob, opened our eyes and his to the warts and all reality of farming. The show laughs and cries at and with him. Crafted drama could never carry the same pathos as watching a Journalist becoming a farmer.

Just paid the corporation tax for my one man limited company, as I like to get it paid as soon as my year end accounts are done, so I know what’s what. It blows my mind every year that I pay more corporation tax in the UK than Starbucks do! 🤯

So true!!! Even if it’s not your cat 😹😹😹

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Awwww. Even if it is #AI (who knows these days?)

Real question: do I have any rights to not be filmed by people wearing augmented glasses? Is there any way to tell them non-confrontationally to not film me or my child? The law in many places means you can’t record a conversation without the other person knowing.

Wildcats once declared extinct give birth for third year in a row Scottish wildcats released by Saving Wildcats have produced wild-born kittens in Cairngorms National Park for a third consecutive year

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I have put restrictions on my kids phones so they can’t use them before 7am or after 8pm except to make calls/send texts. They can’t download apps without me approving and they’re not allowed: WhatsApp Instagram TikTok Snapchat X It’s called parenting, some should try it.

👍👏 #MagnaCarta

this 81 year old rather loves this - especially the "best" part