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  1. 16 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said:

    I think I've seen it in Dealz before.

    Dealz did have it, daddy's brown sauce and tins of vimto and irn bru when I first moved here, sadly not any longer. 

    Found an Iceland today and managed to get bottles of vimto and the daddy's brown sauce (and greggs scotch pies) so not entirely lost. 

  2. f**k it, I doubled my salary to be a specialist on UK based shite overseas. 

    At the moment I am apparently in a never ending war with one of the biggest financial advisors in the Uk with how absolutely useless and thick their staff are

  3. 27 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

    Are you joking? Scotland was the 1st country in the world to introduce minimum unit pricing. Its currently 50p per unit and there are frequent calls for it to be increased.

    Aye, I am aware but scotland went for 50p. Ireland went for a euro per unit. 

    To put it into context, the minimum wage here rose 50c an hour. Your average cheap bottle of wine rose 2-3 euro at the same time (ciders that have never met an apple with silly % went up about 6-7€). 

    And I think similar to scotland its not a tax, so whilst vat here is 23%, it means any increase goes next to nowhere. 

  4. Be lucky Scot gov didn't go the Irish method of minimum unit prices. 

    Has absolutely shafted the lidl and aldi knock off brands in the alcohol section. 

     

    It was pretty bad before for example Gordon's gin here was €23 and its knock off €14.

    Gordon's remains €23 whilst the knock off is €21

    A 24 can pack of Guinness went from €20 to €42.

    Utter b*****ds 

  5. On 03/01/2022 at 09:36, Arbroathlegend36-0 said:

    I noticed 7 picks for chef Tim Bilton. I avoided picking him as seen an article that he had past away a couple of weeks ago. Although I believe this article to be utter nonsense now and he’s still alive. Good luck to the 7 pickers. 
     

    https://usdaynews.com/celebrities/celebrity-death/tim-bilton-death-cause/amp/

    I dropped him from initial list due to that article coupled with lack of wiki page for him. 

    I do believe he is deid mind you

  6. This one takes the piss a bit. 

    Mother in law (she who broke her hip in summer, got landed at our place and ruined the euros for me) took a fall out her bed on Thurs. Doctor wanted her to go up to A&E. So out the 4 available siblings to go with her, my wife went up with another who had to collect Christmas stuff from smyths as my wife does not drive (unlike the other 3). 

    She got home at 2.30am after the mother in law was admitted for a few days. 

    Found out she should be getting discharged today and guess which mug has landed the job of driving up and collecting her as her sisters are busy, busy going to a post Christmas get together at sister number 5's house. 

    Sister number 5 does not drive either and is hosting so has an excuse, sister who drove up on Thurs is using that as an excuse, the other two are volunteering to look after kids so we can go get their mother. 

    Apparently I'm overreacting by saying they can f**k off if they think she's staying with us again. It's their mother, it's their turn to lift a finger. 

     

     

  7. Ones with exact match.. A tik tik influencer with 1m follows. Then same on bing so next result with same spelling did voice acting for a computer game.

    Spell one of my names wrong and you get a couple of hits in both my home town and a place where I lived. Only the second one saw me mistaken for them and got abusive message for not being them. 

     

  8. Can only get jars in this backwater of an island and I'm far too far away from the border to see what UK centric shops do (same for bloody vimto) love having one of afternoon when WFH and having a video meeting. 

    Would love to get hold of the powder stuff

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