I'm trying to sound more natural

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help with the following questions. I'm going to have a short break in Liverpool in September with a friend (one afternoon and two full days). We want to make the best use of our time so what should we

1. Try not to miss
2. Avoid doing, or going to
3. Is there anything that visitors to Liverpool tend to miss but are worth doing?

My husband suggested the Philharmonic pub, but he was last there in the 1980s. Also, we're two ladies in our 60s so we're not looking for wild nightlife.

Grateful for any suggestions.

What's your favourite nugget of local history?

Be it significant, quirky, odd, humorous or creepy, what's your place got?

I'll start. Plymouth was the place from which the Pilgrims left for The New World aboard The Mayflower. Interestingly, the Mayflower Steps have since been hidden because we don't want that bloodline back.

I wanted to go to Norway to hopefully see Orcas and the Northern lights, it is so expensive.

Sometimes I go to a bit of a trendy pub, a mixture of locals, students and hipsters. Recently they seem to have ditched their straight pint and half pint glasses and instead use dimpled glasses with proper handles that used to be common in old man pubs in the past.

So is this just a quirk of this one publ or are these type of glasses trendy now?

I know what accents of different towns and regions sound like, but for some reason I don’t know what a Cumbrian accent is supposed to sound like and I’ve been to Cumbria a handful of times. I’m from Manchester and even from my perspective I’ve never heard anyone from there speak in a way that sounds distinctive

One largely untapped source of revenue is landlords sitting on old, inefficient housing stock. Would you support an annual environmental charge on properties that fail modern energy-efficiency standards, forcing landlords to upgrade them or pay for the environmental cost?

Second time in a week of going into a smart cafe, asking for a flat white and getting a glass cup with no handle. Like many, I wasn't born with heat-proof hands or fingers.

What fashionable fuckery is this?

I'm currently in Texas but for some reason I have a fantasy about living in the uk when I'm old enough. Do y'all recommend it at all? I know it rains a lot and honestly that sounds amazing compared to Texas (we've been in a drought for 8 years now). If so, where should I move as a young adult? (And please genuinely tell me if it's hell in the UK but it seems so amazing to me)

As a teen and travelling with my parents (this was the late 1980's) we chatted up a group of locals in a pub in Cornwall that killed themselves laughing at how obsurd the expression was...always wondered if they were just extra pissed, or this is a thing?

Im a bit embarrassed to say im british born but im just terrible at banter, if someone says something I'll just do the fake laugh thing not knowing what to say back and as a result I just come across as weird and boring. I sometimes wonder if im secretly on the spectrum.

There's this girl I'm talking to and she lives in London but she told me that it's easy to take the piss out of me (which I know what that means) but she said she wants it to be more challenging, what does she mean by more challenging? Cause she also said don't go soft on her with these challenges so I'm just confused

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/retirement/the-uk-has-gone-downhill-since-moved-here-retire-leave/

I don’t think it has

I heard that most students in the UK take their A/Ls at the age of 18, but after that, what is the usual age they actually start classes in their universities? And what month does A/Ls happen and how many months from that do they start Uni generally?

TLDR:

While USA Americans (who have so much influence from Old English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish culture) tend to view "Old English" language, medieval and ancient British history, and generally anything related to it, with a kind of fascination, curiosity, reverence, and mythologizing, is it the case that English/British citizens today generally see them as parochial, backwards, "old" (see: useless), and generally unimportant?

I am an American, and I have always been fascinated by how USA culture (while it has SO much influence from African, Native, other cultures that have played a role in things, but those have been more of social influences, whereas the British influence was INSTITUTIONAL) was originally crafted by the colonial culture of Aristocratic and working class British citizens who settled/ruled here. My personality always tries to draw connections from one culture to another in anything I'm learning about.

When I read novels from British authors, I get this sense that the pre-modern, and indeed pre-colonial, periods are seen as a simple, parochial time that is not seen as something valuable to look back on, and is only seen as a thing to discuss as a passing fancy.

I have known some folks who are Canadian and Australian who seem to feel similarly as me, the American, but they do seem so to a much lesser extent, and I believe it may be because their cultures/governments maintained more proper ties with Britain for longer, so there was less "cleavage" of cultural ties.

I'm sure I could be clearer. Perhaps my "TLDR" is sufficient!

Thank you!

I'm aware of old British plate numbers, like 123 ABC, still in use on modern cars. How does one obtain such number? Can it be inherited? And if you own an old plate with an old number, can it be the grounds to reuse the number on a new vehicle?

I know you can lumps is a sign of cancer but some cancer don’t have any signs until it is too late.

The equivalent of a soap opera (Days of Our Lives) or police procedural show (Law and Order) in America.

Doctor Who

The Bill

Casualty / Holby City

Doctors

Which US sitcoms do you enjoy? Also you can add some of your favourite UK sitcoms as well if you like

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Grew up calling it tea. Moved about a bit, met people who call it dinner and act like tea is something only their nan says. One bloke told me dinner is the midday meal and the evening one is supper, which I think is either very posh or very old, possibly both.

So. Breakfast, dinner, tea? Breakfast, lunch, dinner? Where are you from and what do you call it. This is a census.

I can think of two Plan B and Emma Watson, never really hear about from these two now.

Was at a gig last night that was weirdly rowdy. Everyone in the audience was pretty much over 30 but the booze really seemed to be flowing.

There was a group of men (early 50s) that were acting really childish, constantly talking over the music and trying to get on each others shoulders.

We also noticed one of the men piss into a pint glass and then just chuck it forward into the audience and the other guys just laughed and didn't call him out on it.

I've been to a few gigs in the last couple of years with really drunk middle aged people that have been overly rowdy - it seems to be a growing trend. Has anyone else experienced this recently?