United Kingdom chat thread V4: lamb rogan josh, £3 meal deals, and brexit - General

Yeah if you dedicate time to it. There's intensive 1-week courses although they come at a cost.

When I was looking the other week, its about 2k for a 1 week intensive course with test.

There's also something to be said for taking the time to actually absorb the information. Passing the test and being confident and competent on the road are two different things.

2 fuckin grand?! I was thinking of just using my wage and doing 2 lessons a week, but I guess that won't cut it. I do drive a moped on the road and have driven a car before, but I'm not sure if that changes anything or not.

It's around £20-30 an hour depending on who you have, and its usually 40-50 hours to be fully trained. If you've driven a car before, that should speed along a few lessons as you'd already be comfortable. Driving a moped is good too, as you're already aware of all the road signs and road rules. Honestly, you might be able to get it done in about 20 hours with your previous experience. Just phone a few driving schools and see what they suggest.

Alright cheers. I may be able to get it cheaper as I know a driving instructor. I've been driving on the road for a year now so I reckon I'll be alright when it comes to actually driving the car. It's the theory I might be shite at.

Surely that estimate is on the high side... it was a few years ago now (10 eep) but it only took about 30 hours for me with almost 0 prior experience

What are our thoughts on the Count Dankula thing? He seems like a tit but imo it's crazy that you can go to jail for a stupid youtube video even if it is offensive. Jonathan Pie had a good video about it (I also went to see him yesterday which was funny as fuck btw).

I've already discussed this in more depth on the SH topic about it, but I'm 100% against a possible prison sentence. Distasteful and edgy humour isn't a crime, particularly when there isn't really a victim in the situation. He wanted his cute dog to act like the worst thing he could imagine: a Nazi. There's no hate crime, there's no sign of it being Neo-Nazism, it's just subjective distasteful humour - the use of the term "grossly offensive" is reaching at best. Furthermore, a court shouldn't be deciding the context of someone else's joke. I'd be horrified if this person was actually jailed for a joke some people just wouldn't find funny.

Can't really add much more to whats been already said, but yeah it's dumb. A part of my own family were direct victims of the Nazi occupation of Poland, and his joke makes me feel nothing. I'm baffled by who the courts think they are protecting with this sentence.

It might have been a different story if he was actually targeting and harassing someone with the video, but it was a joke mocking Nazis and a worst a poor joke. Even if people found it offensive(Supposedly nobody even reported it to the police) if he's not actually promoting hate or Nazi ideals which he clearly states he isn't, why the fuck are the police involved?

Depends on how fast you learn to drive and the area you'll sit your test in mostly. Obviously quieter areas are easier to drive in (no idiots cutting you up and causing you to fail for example). It's doable, but took me ~6 months of lessons (1 a week) to get my license for example.

It is hugely. I passed mines first time last October with 23 hours tuition, no experience beforehand. Doing it in 2 months is easy, even when not dedicating to a one week intensive. Find a free instructor, preferably a good one and do intensive sessions split throughout the two months and hope by the end of it you pass first time. Shouldn't cost you any more than a grand at the max.

The theory is pretty easy. It's mostly "what does this sign mean" and remembering things on the road (like what colour the reflective things on the roads are like red for showing edges of the road, green for slip roads etc). Since you've been driving about, you'll probably already know most of them anyway (like what the different shape signs mean).

It's been said by a lot of people, but it's actually pretty scary that he was arrested, let alone found guilty for it. Considering the court got to decide the context too, really fucking stupid. Seems to be picking up a lot of interest online though, wouldn't be shocked if there are protests over it.

Sound your horn and proceed

I bought a few of those Theory test DVD's and practised twice a day every day. I was particularly worried about Hazard Perception because the videos on the DVD were from old CCTV footage, and half the time I could barely make the hazard out of the pixels. But my test came around and it was just a computer animated video running about 20 FPS, so I aced it.

ayy, back from the interview. split shift doing early morning cleaning front of house, then potwash during the evening. cracking

sounds shit

probably is, but its better than sitting on my arse day after day

i think id rather do that than work a split shift cleaning up and washing plates tbh

doesnt bother me that much, theyre the first place thats given me an offer in about 6 months, theyre only 10 minutes away and ill be doing relatively simple work away from customers, i know its not the best job to take but im perfectly happy with it for the time being

I really wish I had the monet to go to France, total immersion is the best way to learn a language. But I still think the online tools I'm using have value, it is helping me get back into a laerning mindset.

they already have lots of monet's in france

Sorry, subconciously translated to French from the proper word "dosh".

lods emone

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Went, how the kids call, "out". It was horrible.

Everyone in my uni calls it "going aat aat", but they've never seen the Mickey Flanagan sketch so they butcher it horribly and have no idea what they're referencing

I've got a bit of a soft spot for Micky Flanagan, my Granddad who passed away at Christmas is briefly interviewed at the start of one of his DVDs. Amidst all my essex kin saying things like "he's a real guy who says it how it is", it cuts to my Granddad in a suit saying he's "Never heard of him". Micky's a really funny guy, but my Granddad made me laugh more, and now he's immortalised forever on a DVD seen all over the country.