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I think if we started worrying about cultural appropriation at this point there’d be nothing left of “British” “culture”. Not even chips. 😱
And Tesco too. Aldi or Lidl would be more of an experience.
She had decided to fly abroad for the five-day trip the day before her son was due to appear in court
So it’s less stopping her holiday and more choosing to bugger off at the very last minute.
I’m amazed Britishcore hasn’t getting more into baked and getting pissed down your local. We’ll learn 'em.
I did some postgraduate courses with guys from Sellafield - the shenanigans they talked about didn’t fill me with confidence.
I went on a school trip there and it is very impressive, like a Bond villains lair, but they did always gloss over the waste issue and, until that’s solved, we should be wary of building any similar large reactors.
Sounds like they are hinting that the UK government should sweeten the deal.
I watch a lot of horror but that managed to unsettle more than anything in a while.
They claimed it was there to deter touts but they just ended up charging more.
Before the 1980s, stillborn babies were taken away from families who were not given any details of what happened to their babies or where they were buried.
Medical staff would tell bereaved parents their children would be buried alongside “a nice person” who was being buried that same day – often without giving them the opportunity to say goodbye.
Instead, the babies were interred in mass graves.
That’s rough.
There was also no central registry of stillbirths which makes tracking them down difficult. My grandfather always claimed to have been one of twins but his brother, Anthony, was stillborn. We don’t even know if he existed (although my grandfather’s younger brothers both had sons called Anthony, which wasn’t a family name before that), let alone where he ended up.
The management did, the band claim they didn’t.
Some people have said Oasis agreed to this, the band have released a statement saying they didn’t know about it, although their management and promoters did sign up to it “to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting”.
“No rational investor is going to put their money into water right now.”
Because they shouldn’t be making big profits out of it.
Hand the franchise back and at least if it is being run on a not-for-profit basis then we’ll know that they aren’t taking the piss because public confidence has been eroded by all the piss-taking.
no point in the food getting to you
They don’t do deliveries either and only take cash.
Now that’s a shocker - they always seemed like the most expensive option.
Another Brexit bonus!
My favourite local Chinese takeaway has stickers on the menu saying the prices aren’t accurate, presumably because they got a big batch printed and don’t fancy binning them. As they don’t have an online presence, you have to order by phone or in person, so you never know how much it’s going to cost. Despite this, they are always run off their feet as the food is a level above the competitions - the salt and pepper siu mai are divine.
I encountered that the other day and was quite surprised. I then went and summoned the archived version, read the article and carried on with my day.
It seems an effective way of making your ad revenue drop off a cliff but it might be an admission that they aren’t making enough from ads.
It’s not illegal to attempt to commit suicide in the UK (as it has been in the past), the important but for me (having a couple of family members try to take their own lives) is that it is done in a safe way with appropriate checks and balances.
Ahhhh I see. We would prefer that posters don’t editorialise the headlines.