To ask posters who are not in the UK

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To say so in their OP?

At least 3 threads I've read today posters have been given excellent advice and then come back to say '"Oh I'm not in the UK. It's different here."

FFS.

ooooooo so this is where all the other expats are...

OP YABU

If we're going to have a marker next to our name can we have "Tubbs" crossed out so everyone knows we're not local and can safely be shunned?

It's all a bit 'herod' isn't it? ;) where does it end? Ethnic profiling?

I've though about this and obviously advice isnlaways dependent on circumstances, it may depend on whether you are in uk, where you hail from originally, how many DC's you have, whether you are pregnant or TTC so the answer is....

Arrrrghhhh!! get thee hence to Nethuns, or whatever your local equivalent is! (ours is BubHub - offensive on so many levels... )

Oh no no for me.

But I think the OP might feel more at home there.

"it's been 371 minutes since I last ate a biscuit"

Then she will know exactly what she is dealing with.

Bubhub = genius

We need a Bell smiley/emoticon.

I feel like a leper ringing that bell.

How about having little National flags available to go next to our names to show where we are.

am liking the Tubbs suggestion, or perhaps the MN logo could have the tag line 'This is a Local site for Local people'

Only if all the UK posters start every post with "I am in the UK..."

Actually I should probably say

I shall say when I return to the UK at the end of the month

blimey I'd no idea we were inconveniencing people so much. so sorry!

(can someone please explain the Tubbs thing, I am )

Brithish comedy called League Of Gentlemen featuring a shopkeeper called Tubbs who has a 'local shop for local people'.

Apologize for the spelling of British - I have been away for a long time.

How about having little National flags available to go next to our names to show where we are.

That wouldn't work for me. Sorry. I'd select my flag based on where I feel I am. Already gets me into trouble on a Swedish forum because 'you don't live here so what do you know' (currently in Macchu Pichu, moving on to Athens shortly or perhaps Mongolia, haven't quite decided)

at kladdkaka's fabulous jet-setting lifestyle!

Glad someone else asked about the Tubbs reference. My only association with the name Tubbs is that it's a brand of snowshoes.

(clearly not in UK)

Sadly it's only in my head. :(

Damn, was going to live vicariously.

Ah The League of Gentlemen. A very screwy "comedy" that mostly had me going "wha'??" and looking like so I wouldn't have got the reference at all. I do have a sense of humour but that failed to tickle it, sadly.

I don't much like the flags idea either - I don't want to be under an Aussie flag, tbh. Even though in another couple of years I will be taking the citizenship test here, I'll still feel British through and through.

Most of the time its not relevant. And even when it is, and you mention it, people don't read the post properly and then get arsey when you point it out.

I posted a ranty AIBU, specifically saying that I neither wanted nor needed practical advice as I'm a forriner and it probably wouldn't translate. Half of the posters gave me advice anyway, half the rest said what the fuck do you want then. It was AIBU, I wanted people to confirm just how perfectly right I was in my ranting, obviously!
But you can't win.

Does my name explain where I am?

Not really.
It could be just a fancy way of saying you don't like brazilians.

Just ring the bell!