I have a handful of friends I’ve lent around a grand to before, one considerably more than that. With a repayment plan set up, which was followed, but I don’t really know or care what it was used for. Avoiding high interest rates on credit cards I assume.

That’s not how it works in the UK. Everyone progresses through school regardless of how you perform.

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Citation needed

Left deliberately vague for comedic effect

Not normally my thing, but these places need to turn a profit during the less prime time drinking hours. I wish they had a specific bar for cocktails and another bar for beer though, to get the amateurs out the way.

In the UK I’ve previously heard it called a CRB check, but seems it’s been updated to DBS now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_and_Barring_Service

Why are you translating into American?

Pubs aren’t restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it’s not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they’re persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.

They’re absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they’re feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.

If you’re in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.

We live in a society

In a similar vein, the opening credits to Animals of Farthing Wood will stick with me forever.

Check your pension fund

A teapot, no. A racecar, sure, did it a while back and then basically stopped talking about it.

John Green talks about it often

Look up ant cordyceps, learn how some fungus can move around, and then have trouble sleeping for a few days.

I love the ambiguity of what you’re supposed to throw in the river

This was a breath of fresh air during the doom scrolling

I’m enjoying Connect

Great time to buy an F1 team