frazorth
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- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 1 day ago:
The statements were
Buy local
or don’t buy honey
If you are buying local then you’ve already satisfied the first half of the OR. It’s an option, if you aren’t prepared to buy local then don’t buy but also not buying honey at all is an option instead of buying honey.
Buying non-local mass produced honey is not an option, and won’t help you with a sore throat any more than sucking on a sweet will, and you aren’t likely to be buying honey anyway.
- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 1 day ago:
From TFA, if you aren’t buying local then you aren’t buying honey anyway.
Might as well buy a sweet to suck on.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 3 weeks ago:
I had this issue with Reddit. You need a lot of houses, making some available doesn’t fix the issue with the vast majority.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 3 weeks ago:
And thats fine. I’m just letting you know how I feel about this.
Banning short term rentals is one thing, but can we please at least request that hotels fill the gap that this creates?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t visit.
I have two children, and the number of hotels where I can get joining rooms so I dont have to actually share with them is basically zero.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 3 weeks ago:
We can, but very few people own a second, let along a third or fourth.
Either they are landlords and running it through a business, and how do you prevent a business from owning two locations?
Sorry Londis, you can only have one store because you have a flat upstairs?
Or they own them privately, and in this country its massively overstated. Presumably to try and start a bit of class warfare, but folks see US news and think it applies here.
Fucking Tories, making the crabs pull everyone back into the bucket when there really aren’t that many. Even Shelter doesn’t call it out as a problem, compared to the many other things we could do to help.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 3 weeks ago:
We’re only short by about a million. That’ll fix the problem!
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 3 weeks ago:
So these could be houses that people don’t actually want to live in? Maybe because work isn’t there, or the cost of repair too high?
I remember some of those houses, as I was in Wavertree near the Botanic Gardens, Matalan and the burnt down pubs around 2000 and you couldn’t give away some homes just a bit further down Picton.
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 4 weeks ago:
Horse chestnut.
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 4 weeks ago:
“Allegations of foul play have been received that somehow King Conker swapped his real conker for the metal one later found in his pocket. … There are also suggestions that King Conker had marked the strings of harder nuts. We can confirm he was involved in drilling and lacing the nuts before the event.
The metal conker is suspicious, however to them start going around and making other random claims makes you sound like a sore loser.
- Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sportwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 14 comments
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
people cruising in the left
This is a camera on a single lane road in the UK. They should be driving on the left.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
No. Traffic cameras in your area are there to generate revenue.
The camera being covered here is not at an intersection so your offtopic comment about revenue is irrelevant. This is a camera on a stretch of road where drivers usually speed, the cameras are painted bright yellow to make them obvious and do a far better job of getting people to slow for hazardous corners than a sign ever did.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Its only Americans that I see being puritanical as a general rule. There are Christian sects in the UK who are against drinking, but its not the majority.
- Comment on Aldi price match at Tesco - dozens of goods not like-for-like 1 month ago:
Depends if you go to Kentucky Fried Pigeon.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
My headphones have a USB c port and connects at USB 2 speeds.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
78 F is 25 C and 80 F is 26 C.
Just saying “ish” doesn’t suddenly make them the same. In C they are different numbers.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
This question makes no sense.
Most Windows users are not technical enough to do component upgrades.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 2 months ago:
Nope Idiocracy is far more optimistic.
Remember, they found our someone was more intelligent so they gave him the job of fixing the country.
- Comment on Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets 2 months ago:
If only there existed other types of services. 🙄
Honestly I have seval ideas that I would love to pursue but we don’t have any suitable vacant buildings. Almost everything is bought up for assisted/elderly care and left unoccupied. It definitely feels like a tax scam somewhere.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 2 months ago:
Ah, a nice normal American that loves judging other countries without realising what the fuck is going on locally.
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 3 months ago:
Marketing and proofreading? What’s that?
🤣
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 3 months ago:
How much data for £9?
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 3 months ago:
TalkMobile.
Vodafone’s other in-house MVNO with no-frills. 30Gb, £7, rolling 30 day contract.
60Gb is £10 per month, 30 day rolling contract.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 4 months ago:
Fuck.
Thames Water planning on fucking us over the most. But remember that Thames water haven’t paid out a divided since the Aussie owners pillaged them and sold it to the Saudis.
In a very narrow definition of dividends that doesn’t include paying out to the Saudis.
- Comment on Let's address the significant issue confronting the nation today.. Which Mr/Mrs Men are you? 4 months ago:
Mr. Upperty is now Mr. Snooty? When did that happen?
- Comment on Let's address the significant issue confronting the nation today.. Which Mr/Mrs Men are you? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I know Mr. Adventure as he is plastered all over the airport play areas.
But there are a lot that I don’t know. I assume like Mr. Adventure, they were created for corporate sponsorship.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 4 months ago:
Then you should look around. It is very much a thing in the UK.