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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    So, as our self-appointed expert on these matters what exactly do 'struggling people' eat?

    Big Macs? Yeah, that makes sense!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Ahem, Macca - still waiting on an answer...



    Marco.
    Missed that.

    Speaking from personal experience - baked potatoes, cheese on toast, beans on toast, spag bol, hot pot, omelettes. Hungry in between then you fill up on bread.

    Booze - whatever is the highest alcohol content to price ratio. Used to be peach or pear wine, no idea these days. Cider probably.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    he said iceland chips.. cheapest of the cheap
    Farm Foods mate, Iceland not the cheapest by a long shot.

    In America they have 'Food 4 Less.' never been in one of those though.
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    The funeral of "Captain Tom" is today and still nobody mentions that he was killed by the stupidity or indifference of those around him. He was needlessly exposed to Covid 19. It is a horrible disease and those who die from it suffer enormously. He was unlikely to be around much longer due to age, but that was no way to go!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Farm Foods mate, Iceland not the cheapest by a long shot.

    In America they have 'Food 4 Less.' never been in one of those though.
    Ah yes farm foods. Not much worse than FF.
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    The skinny new weather guy Owain on BBC is a bit different, with his pale green suit and odd haircut. I wonder if he's friends with Rylan?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Missed that.

    Speaking from personal experience - baked potatoes, cheese on toast, beans on toast, spag bol, hot pot, omelettes. Hungry in between then you fill up on bread.
    Nothing wrong with any of that (as unless the spag bol was out of a tin), it all involves some element of cooking it yourself) , and backs up what I said earlier about what's the cheapest and healthiest way to eat!

    Although, I'm surprised you didn't include soup (or rice) in that - as a big pot of veg soup costs next to hee-haw to make and is very tasty and nutritious. Ditto pan-frying some chicken and rice.

    So all the chavs then who feed themselves at McDonalds or Burger King obviously aren't struggling?

    I'd argue that you've eaten (as outlined), when you were 'struggling', because you were educated enough to know that was the cheapest and best way to eat, whereas the dumb fucks in the same category just eat garbage 24/7, and often garbage which isn't that cheap!

    Booze - whatever is the highest alcohol content to price ratio. Used to be peach or pear wine, no idea these days. Cider probably.
    What bearing does the alcohol content have on the cheapness of booze, and what's the motivation always to get drunk?

    The last bit is a serious question, as I'm fundamentally not wired that way, so simply don't get the mentality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Ah yes farm foods. Not much worse than FF.
    What's the other "FF"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Filterlab View Post
    Large computers?!
    Droll!

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    farmfoods... nothing much worse imo; not sure much of it should be called food?. iceland isnt much better tbh. you'll do better buying supermarket own labels.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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