The one joy I can take from this morning is being part of the collective action when the drivers in my one lane of traffic worked together to keep out the twats who went in the wrong lane going the other direction, who blatantly tried to skip past it all but got stuck, especially when they would've been better just waiting behind me when I was last in my queue.

No, even if you have an unnecessarily large range rover (for my suburban London area) with illegally tinted windows and custom licence plate, you can't just indicate and try to force your way in. We're now going too fast for you to do so as our light has turned green but yours hasn't, as it does every time.

Yes, please hit my car exactly where my wife scratched it accidentally but we don't want to pay for the repairs, where it'll clearly be your fault.

Declining childhood independence over the years (%):

Driven less by internet brainrot, and more by media "stranger danger" as well as loss of wild spaces near homes for kids to roam and explore unaccompanied by an adult

The whole article is worth a read

Two times I've been asked where I'm from by a stranger it's been from a roadman. One asked if I got spare change for the bus so me being the generous person I am, give him some. He said "aw thanks mate". I said no worries mate, then without missing a beat he said "where are you from, you from around here". I said um yeah just down the street. He nodded and then we had a friendly convo for maybe five minutes. It's also happened when I walk past one or some of them.

Maybe I'm irrational, but he boils my piss.

They're singlehandedly keeping the whole country running.

New screen and digitizer for £50 and 20 mins work, I'm so happy my phone lives on!

I'm a complete mess after three or four of these

The first full moon of November is known as the beaver moon, and this year it is also the second of three consecutive supermoons. Here is all you need to know.

I think I used to be "Dangerous Hill 12%" but now I'm all "Give way"

Choose your satellite map of choice:

https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Portishead%2C_Somerset&params=51.484_N_2.7626_W_region%3AGB_type%3Acity

Zoom in to town overview level, and follow the river up.

Take a guess at where the source it is, and see if it aligns with where you end up

I'm an 80s child I remember there was a lot of talk about it.

I'm Greek + English, used to live in the UK years ago, and I visited again see a friend in a new city. What surprised me was how everyone (not literally, but a very large portion) seemed to have their own distinct look.

We went into a busy McDonald's and about a quarter of the people there were dressed head to toe in Nike or Adidas tracksuits, baseball caps, trainers with the bubble soles, and loads of gold jewellery, such as bracelets, rings on multiple fingers, the works. It was always in combination. They looked a bit like white gangstas, or early Eminem cosplayers. One of them was playing this kind of funky house music that had pitched-up vocals on their phone. All of these people were young, middle aged and old.

I mentioned it to my friend and she just laughed and said, "Yeah, that's just the style here." Wherever we went, up town, in a bus, in a chip shop, there were people dressed like that everywhere.

Is that actually a thing? Do different UK cities have their own fashion vibe and I just never noticed?