Also weird from my UK point of view: it's fucking freezing out them I'm not opening the windows. I do get that it's nice to have fresh air and you can always put the window in the vent position, but even when it's really cold you can feel it.
Because you have an enormous library of music, available on any device, instantly without having to download it and transfer it to the device you want to play it on. Also collaborative playlists are pretty sweet, and artist radios to help discover new music based on an artist you like. The vast majority of people don't want to get their PC out to do all this stuff manually.
Spotify completely stopped me pirating music, never looked back.
We have grey squirrels in the UK, although they're not native. They're responsible for the decline in native red squirrels, you rarely see them now unless you go to particular areas.
Just to be clear the law doesn't say you have to scan your face. That's just one option to verify a persons age and websites (and users) are choosing that method. I believe other options are to use a credit card or maybe show some kind of government ID. It's all fucked but the government aren't making people scan their faces, that's just one viable method.
I think "buzz" is used a lot to people near Manchester too.
People from Bolton (UK) get very defensive about the exact pronunciation of Bolton too. I heard this conversation several times between two colleagues:
Colleague 1 (c1): "... that's because you're from Bolton"
Colleague 2 (c2): "It's not Bolton, it's Bolton"
C1: "What? That's what I said, Bolton"
C2: "No, you said Bolton, it's Bolton"
C1: "You're saying the same thing, Bolton"
C2: "No, Bolton"
C1: "That's what I'm saying!"
Me: "what. the. FUCK"
If you've ever seen Brooklyn Nine Nine and Jake would say "Nikolaj" and then Charles would correct him saying the exact same thing, it was exactly like that, but saying "Bolton" instead.
Also I heard several people from Wigan say "A packet of crisp" and not "A packet or crisps".
Also forgot about this one: I used to live in South Wales, and people would say "Premark" instead of "Primark". They'd think I was the weird one for saying it like Primark.
