Hmm, apparently true. "On September 28th 2021, 'UK' stickers replaced 'GB' stickers. If your vehicle still has a 'GB' sticker, you’ll need to change it to a 'U… (View Post)

We may be missing a trick. The (percieved) increased use of UK may be simply down to the rise of the internet ".uk" suffix. For example, here is the BBC Politics 97 site from 1997, before t… (View Post)

https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?endDate=2025-12-31&partial=False&searchTerm=%22United%20Kingdom%22&sortOrder=1&startDate=1800-01-01 286739 mentions since 01/01/1800. Peaks were a… (View Post)

...but this is kind of the problem. The use of "United Kingdom" as the shortform name of the state has been around since the 1940s at least, but a lot of presumably intelligent people (such… (View Post)

Before CGI and (I think) all the lightning effects were hand-animated. I used to know a guy who knew the guy who did the lightning effects in "Highlander" by hand. If you see menacing cloud… (View Post)