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Special K from the 80s/early 90s, and Planter's dry roasted peanuts. Special K used to be lovely and malty, before they turned it into the bland neutral base for all the new flavours like red berries, clusters, etc. Planters dry roasted peanuts had an amazing savoury spicy coating, that no other dry roasted peanuts come even close to. Haven't been able to buy them in the UK for years (and I think they messed with the recipe before they stopped selling them here anyway).

Lindt always seems very 'oily' and a bit sickly to me. I've never understood how it commands such high prices. 

50g lasts you a month?! Is it made by fucking Elves? 

It's actually the other 9 circles of hell arranged like Swindon's magic roundabout, which they are doomed to navigate for eternity. Swindon's similarities to other circles of hell is just coincidence, I'm sure. 

It's actually all of Dante's circles of hell, arranged like Swindon's Magic Roundabout, which they are doomed to navigate for eternity.  Swindon's similarities to other circles of hell is just coincidence. 

I've met one of the werewolves. He was a friend of a friend. He was a West End dancer (Cats, Joseph) and now does choreography for large scale events, like opening/closing ceremonies at the Olympics, commonwealth games, etc.

>I’ve just shuddered That'll be the ghosts brushing past you. 

Your calculation is still incorrect. The odds of getting at least one single number is about 49% for a single draw. (Remove the square from the calculation) 

No, the odds of getting at least one single number is much higher than that. It's about 74% across the two draws. That means a payout of about £9.81 per ticket. Odds of getting at least one single number in two independent draws: 1 - ((53 choose 6)/(59 choose 6)) ² Which is about 74%. 

Paying out £10 for a single matching number would lose about 8 million quid for every million tickets sold, before you even consider the other larger prizes.  > And they would still make an obscene amount of profit. Nope, it would immediately bankrupt the lottery. 

How do you feel about the letters fee, gee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, ohee, quee, ree, see, uwee, wee, and xee? For consistency

Long and thin, slip right in. 

Theers, mate. 

No, our piss is too sweet for OP. Must be diabetes from all the sickeningly-sweet ice-cream we're eating. 

And before that it was hot chili in everything. Chili chocolate, chili honey, chili crisps, chili vodka, chili olive oil, chili chili chili... 

You also have to refocus on a screen at close distance, which leads to slower glances and potentially more tiring on the eyes. 

They may not be 'universal', but none of those are unique to your family and should be recognised by lots of people across the UK and USA.  Goonie is a Scottish term for nightgown. That's probably the least widely known one. (But I know it, and I'm not Scottish!)   "All that and a bag of chips" very well known American phrase used in 90s TV series, movies, and pop culture. (E. G. Fresh Prince, Austin Powers)  "Skedaddle" is widely recognised 'old timey' slang. Originated in 1860s USA, but used all over the place. Kryten says it several times in Red Dwarf, for instance. 

I know, just some lighthearted teasing. I used to work with technical writers, so I've clearly learned what buttons to press to get a rise when mistakes slip through 😅

> I've worked as a copywriter for a decade > Yer > homogonises > as been eroded > handover your thinking See, no AI would spell this creatively ;p

Lone Star!!! 

REJECTED 

Pretty sure regular bears are cleverer than the dumbest humans, tbf.

Yeah, I see this all the time now. Especially with biscuits (and Jaffa cakes in particular for some reason), kitchen and toilet roll, dishwasher pods, confectionery, sometimes tea and coffee. My local Waitrose is one of the worst offenders for this. 

I ditch the rice for a peshwari naan. 

The last company I worked for got bought out by an American company. The fawning and brown nosing by the yanks at the end of every meeting was fucking insane. Everybody wanting to be heard to be the most congratulatory to the managers about how productive and useful the meeting was, blah blah blah, all wanting to be noticed. It was sickening. 

I like to go down there too.

I regularly used to walk down Fanny Street, on my way home from the TWAT Cafe. ("The Warm as Toast" Cafe - but nobody called it that!) Sadly there's no number 69 Fanny Street. (I checked.)

3 times I've had a whole screen to myself. I love it, tbh. Wanted to experience that for a long time, and when I finally thought I'd achieved it the first time, a group of 3 walks in 25 minutes into the film. Who does that?!  Late showings in big multi-screen cinemas, late in the run, mid week seems to be the bet way to do it. Last time, not only did I have a whole screen to myself, I didn't see another soul on the way out. No other customers, no workers, it was surreal! 

Sure, but you've just said absolutely nothing about isotonic drinks, which is what we're discussing here. You claimed above that Lucozade was isotonic since 1980. This is wrong. Nothing you've said here backs up your claim. Lucozade Sport is the first isotonic drink they produced, and it was introduced in 1990. Nothing you just said refutes that.

I didn't intend to insult you, merely intended to use a common colloquial expression to imply you are incorrect. Please note I did not intend to call *you* an \*rse, only that you are incorrect. If the word itself offends, then I apologise -- people on this sub aren't usually so delicate. But not listening doesn't tend to increase one's correctness, so I have now censored the offending word from the post. Perhaps you'd like to reconsider it, and your 'facts'.

You keep saying this and you're talking out of your arse. Isotonic Lucozade ("Lucozade Sport") was first introduced in **1990**. And this was the "Sport" variant, not regular Lucozade. Regular Lucozade ("original" flavour, although it has changed over the years) was not, and never has been, isotonic. Lucozade didn't even start properly marketing lucozade as a sports energy drink until 1983. And that was just for energy - simply new marketing for the existing product. (Anyone alive at the time (me included) will likely remember the Daley Thompson adverts.) The sugar content of regular Lucozade is way too high for it to be isotonic. I wonder, do you even know what isotonic means?

You keep saying this and you're talking out of your arse. Isotonic Lucozade ("Lucozade Sport") was first introduced in **1990**. And this was the "Sport" variant, not regular Lucozade. Regular Lucozade ("original" flavour, although it has changed over the years) was not, and never has been, isotonic. Lucozade didn't even start properly marketing lucozade as a sports energy drink until 1983. And that was just for energy - simply new marketing for the existing product. (Anyone alive at the time (me included) will likely remember the Daley Thompson adverts.) The sugar content of regular Lucozade is way too high for it to be isotonic. I wonder, do you even know what isotonic means?

It just burns off when the aluminium is melted down for recycling, along with plastic coatings, labels, etc. It floats to the surface as "dross", and is burned off and/or skimmed off. Cleaner is better, but 5% organic contamination is well within what industrial facilities can handle.

And this response is exactly why I don't think you've touched or supported either Linux or Windows in a decade. Linux has plenty of "guard rails". *  Normal users don’t run as admin by default, and everyday actions don't require elevated privileges * System-level changes typically require a password prompt, a user can't just click 'yes' to get admin access and mess up system settings or software like in windows  * Centralised software installation (package manager) * Less reliance on downloading executables * Fewer “download this .exe and run it” workflows, which is a major infection vector on Windows. If a user does download something, it is limited in the damage it can do * proper incremental backup software included, not an optional paid-for extra * Cleaner separation of system vs user files * Lower prevalence of commodity malware targeting desktop Linux * Fewer “nagware” / bundled installer traps * Better default firewall posture * Logs and transparency are more accessible * Software is usually sandboxable via Flatpak/Snap with easy installation  * Easier remote access for support * Easy minimal-interruption autonatic updates and security patches That's just off the top of my head. I can keep going and going.  Not to mention that Linux distros typically look far less cluttered and filled with no confusing ads, popups, unnecessary widgets, and just as easy to use as Windows desktop with minimal adjustments.  Now Windows had some good support and admin tools too, but they're mostly enterprise-focused and take a lot of work to pin down to a secure state, and yet still not going to get a bullet proof system that a naive idiot can't break by poking around.  Honestly mate, you sound like you have no experience at all supporting novices on either. 

Then they'd have exactly the same problems in windows, and you can do far worse damage in Windows. 

You sound like you haven't touched a Linux distro in at least a decade.

As a human, I enjoy drinking tea without fearing that I will short circuit or suffer corrosion of sensitive electronic components. But of course I am fully capable of feeling fear, like all my fellow humans. I have normal human fears like death, large vertical translations, and unexpected disassembly.  We humans talk about tea because we just love the taste of those lovely warm polyphenols and volatile aroma compounds. Mmm, thearubigins: delicious! 

Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf) -- Had a nice chat with him after a talk of his at the Edinburgh Fringe about electric cars on my last day there (back when electric cars were still a novelty). Next day I returned to Oxford and then randomly bump into him again on the street. He was with his partner so I didn't want to disturb them, but thought I had to say something to acknowledge the coincidence. I said something along the lines of "wow, we meet again, what are the odds! The electric car made it then!" as I approach, and he replied "yes, nice to see you again. Have fun" with a friendly smile as we passed. I then realised I was in full fancy-dress and make-up and I was completely unrecognisable -- there's no way he recognised me, but he was very polite about it. Nigel Havers and Philip Pope (TV composer/actor). Met them in the bar after a stage performance. (I was with some friends of Philip's who'd watched the show.) One of them bought me a pint, Nigel I think. Nigel Havers was exactly as you'd imagine him. Raymond Blanc - passed him on my bike when he was out walking his dogs. I nodded at him. He nodded back. Anne Robinson -- passed her in the street in Cheltenham but genuinely didn't register her at all until she pulled a sarcastic wide-eyed "what do you think you're looking at?" face at me as she approached. I only recognised her just as we passed. I didn't think I was staring, just caught her eye for a second. Bizarre. Disliked her ever since! Harry Styles -- at the bar in a nightclub. I had absolutely no idea who he was, and thought he was just some prick trying to be the centre of attention, so I just blanked him and just got my own order. Then returned to my mates who were all "OMG! That was Harry Styles". Talked to Stewart Lee a few times after gigs when he's been selling merch or just hanging around talking to people. Nice friendly guy, quite a contrast to his stage persona. Although I thought he seemed quite fat. And depressed. And fat. (iykyk)

Obviously Special K is always going to be a lower tier than, say, Coco Pops, but when I was a kid (80s), plain old Special K was much nicer than the modern bland stuff. Used to have a lovely malt flavour. Even used to say on the box "malted toasted wheat flakes" (or something like that). Was one of my favourite cereals back then. This was removed when they introduced all the varieties like Red Berries, Clusters, etc. so they could just have a single plain base for them all. Plain Special K has been a pale shadow of its former self ever since. Probably a lot less sugar in it now though, and it did give use Red Berries, which I love, so maybe I can forgive them!

If you think the normal price is 1.75, there's a good chance you might just chuck it in your basket next time without checking, when the price has gone back to 3.75. I notice the more high end supermarkets doing this sort of stuff all the time, where I assume shoppers are a bit less concerned about cost.  Another similar trick I see regularly is multipacks where the cost per unit is more expensive than the individual ones. Everyone assumes that *of course* the multipack is the cost effective option and go for it without thinking. I see this all the time on Jaffa cakes, biscuits, kitchen roll (where the multipack rolls are often fewer sheets than the individual rolls), loo roll. My local Waitrose in particular seems to love this trick.

Yep, this. Lower power, cook for longer. Allows more water to evaporate off.  Once you've got the timing down for your microwave, it's indistinguishable from beans cooked in a pan.  Also consider the receptacle you're cooking in. A wider dish will allow more water to evaporate off faster (more surface area) than of you're heating them up in a thinner item like a mug or something.

Ian Holm, actually. 

It's Ian Holm, isn't it? 

According to my friend who's a chartered surveyor, the main reason is mortgage lenders. They are *extremely* risk averse. Anything other than a bog-standard bricks-and-mortar, standard a-frame tiled roof sets off all their warning alarms. Throw in planning, insurance, etc. and the result is a huge incentive to just build bland boring cookie-cutter houses like OP posted.

That may well be, all I'm claiming is that it's much better than what Cadbury's has become, and that's why I switched to it. 

My guess is that producing chocolate in the UK is more expensive and has a smaller market, so it's in their interests to cut costs on UK lines/brands, not EU based ones, which are already more profitable. 

Also owned by Mondalez yes, but they don't have the same ingredients. No palm oil, and 33% cocoa solids according to the ingredients I'm looking at. It tastea way better than their Cadbury's stuff. (At least, they haven't ruined it yet...)  I understand you may hate Mondalez, but don't make stuff up. If you're gonna hate them, hate them for real things, not bullshit. 

Hopefully they won't ruin it too, but so far they haven't. 

For me, the replacement is Milka. It's different, but it's proper milk chocolate, not chocolate-flavoured palm oil. 

And wash your hands. (See [mythbusters](https://youtu.be/UbQ9Kl9CqUU?si=41FD_zaYYIksZQ1S)! )