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- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 months ago:
It always seemed weird to me that most companies just discontinued their traditional sugary variety and went diet only, instead of having a diet version and the sugary version just at a higher price.
The death of original Irn Bru is a bit of a tragedy, and I’m not even sure what the point of low sugar Lucozade is supposed to be.
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- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 4 months ago:
If they’re doing it the same as unpaid postage, paying them is still optional as a recipient. They’ll just only give you the item of post if you pay what’s owed.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 4 months ago:
To send things in the post?
- Comment on UK inflation falls as meat and crumpet prices drop 5 months ago:
The Government has abdicated its duties; for the Government who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: meat and crumpets.
- Juvenal, 100 AD (mostly)
- Comment on Alan Bates considers private prosecutions of Post Office bosses 5 months ago:
The barristers the CPS employs to bring prosecutions are the same barristers used by the Post Office, using the same courts and the same judges.
That’s actually not entirely true. Although the CPS does engage “free” barristers via chambers for some cases, most CPS prosecutions are handled “in house” by salaried barristers working directly for the CPS.
CPS’s in-house barristers are (as a rough rule) extremely experienced at prosecuting common-or-garden cases, but lack the specialist experience of barristers available to hire via chambers, who they will usually bring in for the more complex prosecutions (or ones involving a specialist area of expertise).
All barristers are only as good as the evidence given to them, though, and one of the real strengths of the CPS barristers is experience in working with the police- both in terms of knowing how to get the best evidence out of them, and knowing a police wild goose chase when they see one. This is the part that really breaks down in cases like the Post Office, where it’s private corporate investigators throwing complex technical evidence over the fence at random barristers who have mostly not worked with them before.
- Comment on UK retailer GAME to cease video game trade-ins, staff say 8 months ago:
I also usually buy cod in Tesco. But probably not in quite the same way.
- Comment on UK retailer GAME to cease video game trade-ins, staff say 8 months ago:
Keep your filthy Cex parties to yourself, you degenerate.
- Comment on Give Alan Bates an honour for exposing Post Office scandal 8 months ago:
He’s already refused an OBE.
I was under the impression that he refused it because Vennels had one. As she’s now handed hers back in disgrace, presumably that objection is resolved.
- Comment on American bully XL owner: 'I'd sooner go to jail than lose my dogs' 8 months ago:
I’m a big 6’1" man, and generally a lover of dogs, but I’m exactly the same. I once had a massive German shepherd barrel up to me at full tilt, no owner in sight, and launch itself into my belly. It was being friendly, as it happens, but that’s hardly much comfort when a 30kg bundle of muscle and claws hurls itself at you at a full sprint.
The owner, when they materialised a few moments later, was a middle aged woman who chuckled about how “he’s a big softy, he just wants attention”. Like, sure, but it would have been small comfort if I’d been a 10 year old child or something. Keep that “lovable scamp” on a fucking lead if you can’t keep them to heel…
- Comment on Tories face 1997-style wipeout at next election, large poll suggests 8 months ago:
I read that as “incineration”, and my reaction was “a bit harsh, but fair”.
Incarceration works too though.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 8 months ago:
To be fair, there are (or were) lots of distros downstream of RHEL marketing themselves as drop-in replacements, not just Oracle. And this move isn’t likely to stop Oracle (and the rest), only make the transition experience less smooth for clients (ultimately all the downstream distros can just rebase off of CentOS Stream instead; they lose “bug for bug” compatibility, but will still largely be drop-in replacements).
I also find it hard to muster any sympathy for IBM of all people, even when their opponent is Oracle (who are the lowest of the low).
- Comment on Jeffrey Epstein: Prince Andrew named in newly released court files 8 months ago:
I bet old Andy is really sweating now.
- Comment on The march towards an all-EV future hit a major roadblock. What went wrong? 8 months ago:
. We can’t immediately convert all cars to EV, we don’t have the grid capacity or enough charging stations, yet.
Well sure, but there’s no suggestion of converting “all cars” to EVs “immediately”. Even if ICE cars were banned for new sales tomorrow, it’d still take a decade and more for the existing rolling stock to gradually be replaced by new vehicles.
A 10 year period for utility companies to gradually upgrade their infrastructure doesn’t sound desperately unrealistic.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 10 months ago:
Four nice sturdy nails placed strategically, pointy end up, immediately behind each tyre. Be content to know that justice will come when the time is right.
- Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 13 comments
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- Comment on Wilko collapses into administration putting 12,000 jobs at risk 1 year ago:
Yep, Wickes is still going, as is B&Q and Screwfix. Also, The Range isn’t bad as a Wilko rival.
Personally I’ve never rated Wilko. Not as cheap as B&M or The Range, but no better quality.
- Rents set to continue rising sharply despite cost-of-living squeeze, experts saywww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 1 year ago:
It seems like the obvious thing to do would be to get a metred EV charging point and bill the tenant separately. THere are even grant schemes to help pay for the cost.
It’s not like EVs are going away. Every house with a driveway is likely to have one eventually. She might as well get ahead of the curve.