merridew

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Meat-flavoured crisps are common in the UK. Roast chicken, smoky bacon, and BBQ beef are routine for flavours.

Prawn cocktail crisps taste of prawn cocktail sauce... not of prawns.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Roysters are the UK’s only, original, American-style bubble chips!

Best to stick to actual crisps.

https://www.kpsnacks.com/our-brands/#:~:text=Roysters%20are%20the%20UK%27s%20only,classic%20T%2DBone%20Steak%20flavour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Up until 1889, city status was granted on the basis of the existence of having an Anglican cathedral.

It's only been arbitrary since they tore up the rulebook and gave Birmingham city status.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

In terms of European nuclear weapons, the UK and France already have their own nuclear arsenals. But the broader content of your comment is bang on.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In an earlier interview this month with Fox News, Ramaswamy said of the layoffs: “What [Musk] did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do with the administrative state … Take out the 75% of the dead weight cost, improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do.”

Unrelated:

Elon Musk admits X (Twitter) 'may fail' after sacking more than 80% of staff, charging for verification and rebranding https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12432129/amp/Elon-Musk-admits-X-Twitter-fail-sacking-80-staff-charging-verification-rebranding.html

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"The outgoing MP, a staunch ally of Sunak’s predecessor Boris Johnson, last spoke in the Commons more than 400 days ago and has voted only six times so far this year."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It seemed quite clear at the time that the decision to force (untested) people out of hospitals and into care homes was a decision made because the government wanted hospital capacity freed up, & considered the lives of care home residents a reasonable price to pay for genpop capacity.

Not a nice decision. And one that could have been avoided entirely if the gov hadn't botched pandemic preparedness, and then prevaricated to the point of disaster when a pandemic actually arrived.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When the people who claimed "masks don't work" convince the Royal Society to publish an 80 page report similarly supported by academics at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, St Andrews, UCL, and Edinburgh (among others) then they will definitely deserve to be equally confident.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Your brain is good at many things.

Your brain is not as good at some things -- for example, complex statistical analysis -- as the collective brains of lots of other people who specialise in that thing all working together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ooh, "alleged infection agent". Are you one of those funny people who claim HIV doesn't cause AIDS?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

"Before Brexit, exporters could send chilled and fresh food to the EU without any paperwork because the UK was a member of the single market.

"However, the UK’s corresponding post-Brexit import checks have been pushed back on four occasions already: in 2020, twice in 2021 – partly because border infrastructure was not going to be ready on time – and then again last year by the then Brexit opportunities minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg."

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