Even in the US you have to wait a few weeks for doctors and a few months for specialists. The difference is that in the UK you don’t go bankrupt or get sicker/die because you don’t have insurance to even go to the doctor or pay for expensive treatments, surgery, and prescriptions.
It's the same with my doctors office. It's a practice with several doctors and mine is almost always booked 1-2 months out. If I'm really sick and need to see a doc then I only get whichever one gets a free minute first, however long that takes.
For our local clinic we just have to ring up that morning to book an appointment for the day. It’s usually a pile of people ringing at 8:30, but you’ll see your gp that day.
I have been using the Matt Smith Doctor Who outfit as my Halloween costume for 4 years not because I don’t wanna pick a new costume and it’s simple and I like it
Cunt is not as commonly used as Americans seem to think. It's still the worst word we have and is generally only used if you want someone to fight you.
There's part of me that thinks it shouldn't be offensive, due to the fact it refers to female genetalia, and why would we encourage that. Coupled with that female empowerment should reclaim it.
But. I'm in a really small minority and society isn't there yet.
In the comfort of my own home, or my mates home, I'd happily call them a cunt, but we've both got children so we don't.
We've been really open with my daughter and swear words. She came home one day, she was about 6 or 7. She said she'd heard a swear word. She was coy about it, said it started with a C. Straight away, my wife asked "was it cunt?". Turns out my daughter heard two new swear words that day.
It's one of those things that never crosses my mind that I might need some day. So I never bought one, and always boil my water in a multitude of other ways.
It would be interesting to have a native Brit arrange all their specific insults in order of increasing offence. They've some great words... pillock, bell end, todger, sod, numpty, berk, munter etc...
It gets complicated when you think that in different regions/dialects the level of insult changes. If you’ve ever heard someone from Norfolk call you a silly bugger you’ll know it hurts. Second issue is that these regions can literally be “in the next town”. Brits don’t exactly agree on words.
Our TV (and general broadcast) regulator has done surveys about this very thing to produce guidance about swearing on TV. Here is a summary. The full results comparing each word is in the pdf inside (but its quite long).
Not native so this is based on several years of social anthropological close observation of natives. (I live here). :)
Terms that not have been independently verified are excluded from the study. (I haven't heard a few)
Probably feels British to the American majority because Peugeot does not sell in the US, and only watch media that is in English so they would almost exclusively only see these cars in British media
There was real venom in the last sentence, even through paper, photographed and transmitted over the medium of the Internet, I can still smell the salt.
It was set up to carry the Kings correspondence by Henry VIII - later on monarchs allowed people who could afford it to pay to have their letters carried too, but it was very expensive still, until by the mid 1700s most could afford it, then the Victorians introduced the penny Post and almost everyone could afford it then.
Because the company has been granted the Royal Style (means they can use Royal in their name) then they can use it for all their services, not just transporting correspondence for the Royal family.
Incessant ridicule. At my school there were also two teachers called Pratt. Of course we differentiated them by calling them Utter Pratt and Complete Pratt respectively.
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u/sarcytwat Nov 07 '19
The car, the note, the parking, the pratt, the royal mail, the postbox. So much Brit.