MonsterMonster

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[–] MonsterMonster 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Designed by a seven year old with a broken crayon.

[–] MonsterMonster 7 points 5 days ago

It would seem that Fujitsu doesn't need to bid as it's being handed the contract on a plate.

[–] MonsterMonster 16 points 5 days ago

Car parking companies in the UK are close to being sanctioned theft.

[–] MonsterMonster 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

If Putin wants no NATO then all he has to do is get his poodle, Trump, to invade Greenland ...

"If they invade Greenland, they invade Nato," says Svane. "So that's where it stops. Article 5 would have to be triggered. And if a Nato country invades Nato then there's no Nato."

"He's saying it's legitimate for us to take this piece of land," he says. "If we take him really seriously this is a bad omen for the whole of the Western alliance."

[–] MonsterMonster 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think the US will be fighting the rest of the world and itself at the same time.

[–] MonsterMonster 10 points 2 weeks ago

I looked into a static caravan to rent out about ten years ago. Very quickly established, from one of the better operators, that when you add up their fees for this and that there are significant costs. The fine print usually states caravans must be no more than 10 years old and site has first option on buying back. The latter is where you lose a lot of money. As said that was one of the better sites.

[–] MonsterMonster 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's a mixed bag causing two divides.

The first affecting the business with the savings to be had on reduced office space requirements weighed up against perceived lower productivity.

The second, workers enjoying reduced travel costs and convenience but offset the home stops being a home and loneliness.

[–] MonsterMonster 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's basic Tory strategy.

[–] MonsterMonster 14 points 3 weeks ago

Here's a little explanation as to the differences with US chocolate.

The bit about Butyric Acid explains why US chocolate tastes literally like vomit; it's the component in vomit that gives it the distinctive taste and smell.

When Hershey's products came to the UK they initially had to be relabelled to reflect the extremely low cocoa content and be called "chocolate flavored candy bar".

Ironically, the article references Cadbury.

[–] MonsterMonster 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Whenever I hear Kraft I instantly think of a block of cooking fat. With Cadbury it's the same block of fat but brown.

[–] MonsterMonster 109 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This shouldn't come as a surprise. Since its takeover by Kraft/Mondelez their chocolate has become poorer quality. As soon as the Cadbury name was being licenced to various other diversified food products (ice cream, cakes etc.) it was a sign of what was to come. Sad. Still not as bad as Hershey's though.

[–] MonsterMonster 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There was a time, not long ago, that this type of sensitive contract would have been awarded to China. To top it off they'd buy them out when they realised China doesn't make a good supplier to the UK government.

 

Mortgage lenders' attempts to lure in first-time buyers have stepped up with the UK's biggest building society allowing some to borrow more.

 

Australian police are working with their international counterparts to locate a man they believe fled the country after pouring boiling coffee on a baby in Brisbane.

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