a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin
b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me at the bottom of the same page. Actually this goes for adults' drawings too because a few people have sent me theirs and they're hilarious
Karellen
2 days ago
[ - ]
Can't believe no-one else has made a comment about how great the form id "230" (tooth-hurty) is, yet. Bravo.
pavel_lishin
2 days ago
[ - ]
I hope that Peter, Caitlin and Leslie aren't reading this - if you are, STOP IT.
One of the minor villains in my D&D campaign is a literal living nightmare - one of three. Each one is named after a time of night when they appear, and this one is named 2:30 - because he really likes the nightmare where your teeth all fall out.
He's the spookiest one of them all, but the least dangerous.
This is very nice! Is it open sourced by any chance? Most kids in the world don't speak English, and it would be nice to be able to contribute translations.
Is citizenship required for submitting a claim, as the instructions imply?
Also, the tooth chart is an adult chart (32 teeth), not a child chart (24 teeth).
silisili
2 days ago
[ - ]
Neat idea!
This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood.
Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out.
I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that.
When I got home, my parents said it's no problem, just write a letter explaining what happened and the tooth fairy will understand. And that worked.
Being a deviant, I decided to test it a few days later with another letter in secret, to no avail. And that was my first inclination this whole thing wasn't real.
throwaway2037
2 days ago
[ - ]
When I was a kid, I also tried the "small stone" trick under my pillow. (Of course, I announced it to my parents: "I'm going to see what happens if...") I think I got Monopoly money instead of real money. Still, it didn't dent my faith the Tooth Fairy.
like_any_other
2 days ago
[ - ]
The hubris in thinking the Tooth Fairy of all beings couldn't tell you didn't have any extra teeth missing...
jahsome
2 days ago
[ - ]
I think maybe you were using 'deviant' in a tongue and cheek way, but I think the way kids are naturally inclined to limit test and push boundaries in service of learning more about the world is among the most beautiful things in human existence.
Hopefully that's not the part of thr story you feel embarrassed about.
lupire
1 day ago
[ - ]
I don't know why you'd think that a fairy, with the power to fetch teeth from under your pillow and deposit payment undetected, and the power to monitor for for written letters that don't even emit denta particles to scan for, would lack a fraud unit.
Lio
2 days ago
[ - ]
Oh god, I just put in a made up claim for a tooth lost in Timbuktooth, just to test the system and then I saw this...
Knowingly making a false claim is a criminal offence under Section 17B(2) of the Teeth Finance & Renewal Act (1978) and you may be prosecuted, jailed, or blasted into space.
What do I do? What do I do?
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Okay, calm down, let's take this slowly. First things first: do you already own a spacesuit?
Lio
2 days ago
[ - ]
Yes! They were on special offer in the centre isle of our local Lidl last week. Between the angle grinder and trombone section.
b3lvedere
2 days ago
[ - ]
Thank you for making my day just a little bit better. Excuse me while i clean my desk before the coffee stains ruin it. :)
Lio
1 day ago
[ - ]
This comment has brough me much joy! ...and, er, sorry about your desk. :D
thih9
2 days ago
[ - ]
I like that you can select a wisdom tooth too. Adults having their wisdom teeth pulled out should absolutely use that website to file a claim.
amluto
2 days ago
[ - ]
I’m confused. Traditionally, the Tooth Fairy pays for baby teeth, but the form shows numbering for permanent teeth.
Should there perhaps be a way to indicate the type of tooth and a chart showing numbering for baby teeth?
xico
2 days ago
[ - ]
There are some many kids with mesiodens and such that the diagram should also have little weirdly shaped bumps all around also. Also there shouldn't be an age limit for tooth fairies! I'm sure someone's great grandma would love the chocolate!
pavel_lishin
2 days ago
[ - ]
This is very cool.
My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money.
My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p
willvarfar
2 days ago
[ - ]
I just went through the claim process and it explains that the sewer rats will be notified if you swallowed a tooth
ocdtrekkie
2 days ago
[ - ]
Sewer mermaids does strain credibility a bit, you have to admit. The human-scale rabbit which delivers gifts in eggs is far more credible.
hnbad
2 days ago
[ - ]
Oh, I'd like you to know that there is (internationally at least - I know the US likes its anthros) very intense debate around the issue whether the Easter Bunny is a human-sized rabbit or just a very fast rabbit-sized rabbit strong enough to lift a basket. I've also at several times heard kids argue that there's more than one rabbit involved or that the Easter Bunny is assisted by his family.
There's plenty of prior art depicting rabbit-sized Easter bunnies painting and loading eggs onto baskets and most kids have heard of the idea of Santa Claus having a workshop staffed by elves so I guess it's no big leap (or hop?) to deduct that there must be more than just one bunny involved, although you can argue about the relative time cost of hiding presents in multiple places compared to having to sneak into a building.
xico
2 days ago
[ - ]
Just for the confusion, in France, Belgium and areas around, it's bells, flying back from Rome, that bring chocolate to the children. The bells on churches fly there and are silent for some time and then come back on Easter with the sweets.
pavel_lishin
2 days ago
[ - ]
Funnily enough, just 30 minutes ago, my child accused me of lying to her about the Easter Bunny.
ascorbic
2 days ago
[ - ]
Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain.
if i had to hazard a guess, that’s probably the exact response the design system is hoping for
donalhunt
2 days ago
[ - ]
Should also incorporate "mind the gap" some how...
lupire
1 day ago
[ - ]
Does the UK government have any enforce power to dissuade unofficial use?
matteason
1 day ago
[ - ]
It's as much a licensing issue as anything I think. GOV.UK uses 'GDS Transport', which is a custom cut of New Transport, a commercially-available font [0] which is available for the low, low price of £10k per weight for unlimited impressions. I've never seen any enforcement though (doesn't mean it doesn't happen) and it's pretty common for services not on *.service.gov.uk to end up using it anyway
Suggestion: change the 'missing teeth' form line to include an ordinal count or something. I was surprised to learn when filing my form that I had "Missing teeth: 30"!
blatantly
2 days ago
[ - ]
Not fooled! The site is too fast and didn't require 16 factor auth to get started. It also didn't ask me for 5 different government identifiers. Nice try tho.
benwerd
2 days ago
[ - ]
A little context for those who weren't aware: tooth-stealing ferrets are an ongoing, serious problem in Britain.
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
And not a single politician is addressing it. Shameful.
noneeeed
2 days ago
[ - ]
I love how closely this matches how GDS built flows work, not just the visuals. The careful step by step pacing, the direct wording, it's all absolutely spot on.
Perfect.
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Thank you! I design GOV.UK (and GOV.UK-adjacent) services at work so this was a bit of a busman's holiday
noneeeed
1 day ago
[ - ]
Aha, I did wonder. The language was just so spot on.
Keep up the excellent work.
TZubiri
2 days ago
[ - ]
Very creative and well executed.
When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :(
But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :)
So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist
egypturnash
2 days ago
[ - ]
This note has horrifying implications. Did the tooth fairy go spelunking in your stomach and/or intestine? Are they sieving your sewer pipes for teeth just in case?
They must really want those teeth bad.
CoastalCoder
2 days ago
[ - ]
It's less nefarious than that.
Every tooth contains a government-installed tracker.
egypturnash
1 day ago
[ - ]
That's no more comforting to imagine. Possibly less so.
Willingham
2 days ago
[ - ]
Absolutely love the work done here! Only change I would make is change "rubber" to "eraser" to help more English speaking children understand the content (:
LeoPanthera
2 days ago
[ - ]
Since it's a spoof of gov.uk, "rubber" is correct!
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Oh god I knew this would be contentious
I've just changed it to 'eraser' but actually I should make it conditional on your navigator.language...
mbreese
2 days ago
[ - ]
I applaud your commitment to this bit. Thank you for making the world a nicer place.
rob_c
2 days ago
[ - ]
Given the source of truth is British English, the maths says no.
cpfohl
2 days ago
[ - ]
Ooh! Perfect opportunity to ask a question I’ve definitely not spent an inordinate amount of time wondering about without bothering to look for an answer!
Is maths in British English plural? Like, should that be “the maths say”?
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
It's always "maths" not "math" but we'd always say "the maths says" and I've never questioned it until right now
timthorn
2 days ago
[ - ]
It's still singular. Maths is just a contraction of mathematics, but without an apostrophe.
cpfohl
1 day ago
[ - ]
Thanks! Now I have more questions, but they're better. This is good progress.
speerer
2 days ago
[ - ]
Just like "the science says" (but unlike "the English say" ;) ).
chupasaurus
2 days ago
[ - ]
Mathematics is uncountable (:
dullcrisp
2 days ago
[ - ]
And dense!
avs733
2 days ago
[ - ]
Given the (highly memed) state of dental health in the UK it seems reasonable they would be responsible for this.
harripa
2 days ago
[ - ]
As has already been pointed rubber is common British English, but perhaps more interestingly the etymology of name of the substance comes from this usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser#History
chupasaurus
2 days ago
[ - ]
Even in Soviet textbooks for English in elementary schools (which are garbage by any standard) both variants were presented (:
chrisweekly
2 days ago
[ - ]
I have a TEFL certificate (Teacher of English as a Second Language) and I'm a native speaker and avid reader -- and this was the first time I ever encountered "rubber" as a synonym for "eraser". The benefit of the latter term is it's unambiguous and easily understood.
chupasaurus
2 days ago
[ - ]
I agree on eraser being superior.
I have an even weirder example from Russian language: file, folder and pocket are 3 out of dozen different words being used to describe a plastic envelope for documents in various regions and people don't understand each other. I remember only one more.
tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under his pillow. He published the form as a PDF (linked from the homepage) and I turned it into a digital service
Someone on Bluesky told me about our first successfully-fooled child yesterday: "I can confirm that form TF-230 worked flawlessly, and my cynical, streetwise 8-year-old son was utterly baffled by finding an envelope with his application form and a handful of coins in the letterbox this afternoon."
lukecarr
3 days ago
[ - ]
Awesome, great job on the site! I saw it on the Slack, and was surprised at the level of detail in some of the pages like the tooth selection screen :D
It also got a good chuckle from those I shared it with at work! :)
avs733
2 days ago
[ - ]
My hope, and the hope of the six other parent friends I just sent this to, is that this will still be up in a few years.
Made my and several friends evenings. Thanks.
NooneAtAll3
2 days ago
[ - ]
okay, I got fooled (by the coat of arms, primarily)
I truly thought UK gov did a joke to support children...
theginger
2 days ago
[ - ]
How timely is this.
Just minutes ago my child handed me a tooth to go under their pillow, then I find this.
abalaji
2 days ago
[ - ]
Gotta start 'em young on dealing with government bureaucracy.
blatantly
2 days ago
[ - ]
If it doesn't cost $200 of your time to claim $12, what is government for?
rcambrj
2 days ago
[ - ]
This is remarkably adorable :)
Check the tooth colours in dark mode though, "white" is very much not white (it's black).
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Ah how have you set dark mode? I haven't got a dark theme via prefers-color-scheme or anything so whatever is setting it might just be brute-forcing white to black or something. I'll fix it if I can!
If you implement dark mode yourself, you can add `<meta name="darkreader-lock" />` to prevent Dark Reader from triggering.
p3rls
1 day ago
[ - ]
It's nice to see people treating real websites as something beyond SEO farms for users
joshdavham
2 days ago
[ - ]
This is really creative! Thanks for sharing!
sam_goody
1 day ago
[ - ]
One day short of April's fools!
Or is it a timezone thing (The sun doesn't set over English empire, so no point waiting for tomorrow)?
Or, is this a real Government website and I am just being cynical?
ThePowerOfFuet
2 days ago
[ - ]
Looks super cute, but doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin apparently only blocking CF Insights (clicking the big green button does nothing).
Claim for a missing tooth
(tf230.matteason.co.uk)
351 points
by: lukecarr
4 days ago
74 comments
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Really glad everyone's enjoying this!
If anyone does use it with their kids:
a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin
b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me at the bottom of the same page. Actually this goes for adults' drawings too because a few people have sent me theirs and they're hilarious
Karellen
2 days ago
[ - ]
Can't believe no-one else has made a comment about how great the form id "230" (tooth-hurty) is, yet. Bravo.
pavel_lishin
2 days ago
[ - ]
I hope that Peter, Caitlin and Leslie aren't reading this - if you are, STOP IT.
One of the minor villains in my D&D campaign is a literal living nightmare - one of three. Each one is named after a time of night when they appear, and this one is named 2:30 - because he really likes the nightmare where your teeth all fall out.
He's the spookiest one of them all, but the least dangerous.
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Séamas gets the credit for that one :) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/16/will-th...
salviati
2 days ago
[ - ]
This is very nice! Is it open sourced by any chance? Most kids in the world don't speak English, and it would be nice to be able to contribute translations.
In any case, nice job and thanks for sharing!
matteason
1 day ago
[ - ]
Yep! https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service
Localisation is a great idea, I've created an issue: https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service/iss...
lupire
1 day ago
[ - ]
Is citizenship required for submitting a claim, as the instructions imply?
Also, the tooth chart is an adult chart (32 teeth), not a child chart (24 teeth).
silisili
2 days ago
[ - ]
Neat idea!
This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood.
Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out.
I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that.
When I got home, my parents said it's no problem, just write a letter explaining what happened and the tooth fairy will understand. And that worked.
Being a deviant, I decided to test it a few days later with another letter in secret, to no avail. And that was my first inclination this whole thing wasn't real.
throwaway2037
2 days ago
[ - ]
When I was a kid, I also tried the "small stone" trick under my pillow. (Of course, I announced it to my parents: "I'm going to see what happens if...") I think I got Monopoly money instead of real money. Still, it didn't dent my faith the Tooth Fairy.
like_any_other
2 days ago
[ - ]
The hubris in thinking the Tooth Fairy of all beings couldn't tell you didn't have any extra teeth missing...
jahsome
2 days ago
[ - ]
I think maybe you were using 'deviant' in a tongue and cheek way, but I think the way kids are naturally inclined to limit test and push boundaries in service of learning more about the world is among the most beautiful things in human existence.
Hopefully that's not the part of thr story you feel embarrassed about.
lupire
1 day ago
[ - ]
I don't know why you'd think that a fairy, with the power to fetch teeth from under your pillow and deposit payment undetected, and the power to monitor for for written letters that don't even emit denta particles to scan for, would lack a fraud unit.
Lio
2 days ago
[ - ]
Oh god, I just put in a made up claim for a tooth lost in Timbuktooth, just to test the system and then I saw this...
What do I do? What do I do?matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Okay, calm down, let's take this slowly. First things first: do you already own a spacesuit?
Lio
2 days ago
[ - ]
Yes! They were on special offer in the centre isle of our local Lidl last week. Between the angle grinder and trombone section.
b3lvedere
2 days ago
[ - ]
Thank you for making my day just a little bit better. Excuse me while i clean my desk before the coffee stains ruin it. :)
Lio
1 day ago
[ - ]
This comment has brough me much joy! ...and, er, sorry about your desk. :D
thih9
2 days ago
[ - ]
I like that you can select a wisdom tooth too. Adults having their wisdom teeth pulled out should absolutely use that website to file a claim.
amluto
2 days ago
[ - ]
I’m confused. Traditionally, the Tooth Fairy pays for baby teeth, but the form shows numbering for permanent teeth.
Should there perhaps be a way to indicate the type of tooth and a chart showing numbering for baby teeth?
xico
2 days ago
[ - ]
There are some many kids with mesiodens and such that the diagram should also have little weirdly shaped bumps all around also. Also there shouldn't be an age limit for tooth fairies! I'm sure someone's great grandma would love the chocolate!
pavel_lishin
2 days ago
[ - ]
This is very cool.
My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money.
My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p
willvarfar
2 days ago
[ - ]
I just went through the claim process and it explains that the sewer rats will be notified if you swallowed a tooth
ocdtrekkie
2 days ago
[ - ]
Sewer mermaids does strain credibility a bit, you have to admit. The human-scale rabbit which delivers gifts in eggs is far more credible.
hnbad
2 days ago
[ - ]
Oh, I'd like you to know that there is (internationally at least - I know the US likes its anthros) very intense debate around the issue whether the Easter Bunny is a human-sized rabbit or just a very fast rabbit-sized rabbit strong enough to lift a basket. I've also at several times heard kids argue that there's more than one rabbit involved or that the Easter Bunny is assisted by his family.
There's plenty of prior art depicting rabbit-sized Easter bunnies painting and loading eggs onto baskets and most kids have heard of the idea of Santa Claus having a workshop staffed by elves so I guess it's no big leap (or hop?) to deduct that there must be more than just one bunny involved, although you can argue about the relative time cost of hiding presents in multiple places compared to having to sneak into a building.
xico
2 days ago
[ - ]
Just for the confusion, in France, Belgium and areas around, it's bells, flying back from Rome, that bring chocolate to the children. The bells on churches fly there and are silent for some time and then come back on Easter with the sweets.
pavel_lishin
2 days ago
[ - ]
Funnily enough, just 30 minutes ago, my child accused me of lying to her about the Easter Bunny.
ascorbic
2 days ago
[ - ]
Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain.
[1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/
skavi
2 days ago
[ - ]
if i had to hazard a guess, that’s probably the exact response the design system is hoping for
donalhunt
2 days ago
[ - ]
Should also incorporate "mind the gap" some how...
lupire
1 day ago
[ - ]
Does the UK government have any enforce power to dissuade unofficial use?
matteason
1 day ago
[ - ]
It's as much a licensing issue as anything I think. GOV.UK uses 'GDS Transport', which is a custom cut of New Transport, a commercially-available font [0] which is available for the low, low price of £10k per weight for unlimited impressions. I've never seen any enforcement though (doesn't mean it doesn't happen) and it's pretty common for services not on *.service.gov.uk to end up using it anyway
[0] http://www.newtransport.co.uk/
gwern
2 days ago
[ - ]
Suggestion: change the 'missing teeth' form line to include an ordinal count or something. I was surprised to learn when filing my form that I had "Missing teeth: 30"!
blatantly
2 days ago
[ - ]
Not fooled! The site is too fast and didn't require 16 factor auth to get started. It also didn't ask me for 5 different government identifiers. Nice try tho.
benwerd
2 days ago
[ - ]
A little context for those who weren't aware: tooth-stealing ferrets are an ongoing, serious problem in Britain.
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
And not a single politician is addressing it. Shameful.
noneeeed
2 days ago
[ - ]
I love how closely this matches how GDS built flows work, not just the visuals. The careful step by step pacing, the direct wording, it's all absolutely spot on.
Perfect.
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Thank you! I design GOV.UK (and GOV.UK-adjacent) services at work so this was a bit of a busman's holiday
noneeeed
1 day ago
[ - ]
Aha, I did wonder. The language was just so spot on.
Keep up the excellent work.
TZubiri
2 days ago
[ - ]
Very creative and well executed.
When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :(
But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :)
So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist
egypturnash
2 days ago
[ - ]
This note has horrifying implications. Did the tooth fairy go spelunking in your stomach and/or intestine? Are they sieving your sewer pipes for teeth just in case?
They must really want those teeth bad.
CoastalCoder
2 days ago
[ - ]
It's less nefarious than that.
Every tooth contains a government-installed tracker.
egypturnash
1 day ago
[ - ]
That's no more comforting to imagine. Possibly less so.
Willingham
2 days ago
[ - ]
Absolutely love the work done here! Only change I would make is change "rubber" to "eraser" to help more English speaking children understand the content (:
LeoPanthera
2 days ago
[ - ]
Since it's a spoof of gov.uk, "rubber" is correct!
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
Oh god I knew this would be contentious
I've just changed it to 'eraser' but actually I should make it conditional on your navigator.language...
mbreese
2 days ago
[ - ]
I applaud your commitment to this bit. Thank you for making the world a nicer place.
rob_c
2 days ago
[ - ]
Given the source of truth is British English, the maths says no.
cpfohl
2 days ago
[ - ]
Ooh! Perfect opportunity to ask a question I’ve definitely not spent an inordinate amount of time wondering about without bothering to look for an answer!
Is maths in British English plural? Like, should that be “the maths say”?
matteason
2 days ago
[ - ]
It's always "maths" not "math" but we'd always say "the maths says" and I've never questioned it until right now
timthorn
2 days ago
[ - ]
It's still singular. Maths is just a contraction of mathematics, but without an apostrophe.
cpfohl
1 day ago
[ - ]
Thanks! Now I have more questions, but they're better. This is good progress.
speerer
2 days ago
[ - ]
Just like "the science says" (but unlike "the English say" ;) ).
chupasaurus
2 days ago
[ - ]
Mathematics is uncountable (:
dullcrisp
2 days ago
[ - ]
And dense!
avs733
2 days ago
[ - ]
Given the (highly memed) state of dental health in the UK it seems reasonable they would be responsible for this.
harripa
2 days ago
[ - ]
As has already been pointed rubber is common British English, but perhaps more interestingly the etymology of name of the substance comes from this usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser#History
chupasaurus
2 days ago
[ - ]
Even in Soviet textbooks for English in elementary schools (which are garbage by any standard) both variants were presented (:
chrisweekly
2 days ago
[ - ]
I have a TEFL certificate (Teacher of English as a Second Language) and I'm a native speaker and avid reader -- and this was the first time I ever encountered "rubber" as a synonym for "eraser". The benefit of the latter term is it's unambiguous and easily understood.
chupasaurus
2 days ago
[ - ]
I agree on eraser being superior.
I have an even weirder example from Russian language: file, folder and pocket are 3 out of dozen different words being used to describe a plastic envelope for documents in various regions and people don't understand each other. I remember only one more.
matteason
4 days ago
[ - ]
I made this, thanks for sharing it!
Backstory is here: https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk2...
...and here: https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p
tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under his pillow. He published the form as a PDF (linked from the homepage) and I turned it into a digital service
Someone on Bluesky told me about our first successfully-fooled child yesterday: "I can confirm that form TF-230 worked flawlessly, and my cynical, streetwise 8-year-old son was utterly baffled by finding an envelope with his application form and a handful of coins in the letterbox this afternoon."
lukecarr
3 days ago
[ - ]
Awesome, great job on the site! I saw it on the Slack, and was surprised at the level of detail in some of the pages like the tooth selection screen :D
It also got a good chuckle from those I shared it with at work! :)
avs733
2 days ago
[ - ]
My hope, and the hope of the six other parent friends I just sent this to, is that this will still be up in a few years.
Made my and several friends evenings. Thanks.
NooneAtAll3
2 days ago
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okay, I got fooled (by the coat of arms, primarily)
I truly thought UK gov did a joke to support children...
theginger
2 days ago
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How timely is this. Just minutes ago my child handed me a tooth to go under their pillow, then I find this.
abalaji
2 days ago
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Gotta start 'em young on dealing with government bureaucracy.
blatantly
2 days ago
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If it doesn't cost $200 of your time to claim $12, what is government for?
rcambrj
2 days ago
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This is remarkably adorable :)
Check the tooth colours in dark mode though, "white" is very much not white (it's black).
matteason
2 days ago
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Ah how have you set dark mode? I haven't got a dark theme via prefers-color-scheme or anything so whatever is setting it might just be brute-forcing white to black or something. I'll fix it if I can!
notpushkin
1 day ago
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I suppose they’re using https://darkreader.org/ or something like that!
If you implement dark mode yourself, you can add `<meta name="darkreader-lock" />` to prevent Dark Reader from triggering.
p3rls
1 day ago
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It's nice to see people treating real websites as something beyond SEO farms for users
joshdavham
2 days ago
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This is really creative! Thanks for sharing!
sam_goody
1 day ago
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One day short of April's fools!
Or is it a timezone thing (The sun doesn't set over English empire, so no point waiting for tomorrow)?
Or, is this a real Government website and I am just being cynical?
ThePowerOfFuet
2 days ago
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Looks super cute, but doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin apparently only blocking CF Insights (clicking the big green button does nothing).
krupan
2 days ago
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I love "wee" for a color choice, lol!