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@GordonDimmack Going to the chipper isn’t going out to eat, it’s getting a takeaway.
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Geezer grew up in the UK but apparently his hard working middle-earning parents never bought him fish and chips.
People doing this shit are doing state propaganda, just like our Boomer parents did.
Stop listening to them.
You're right to be angry about the cost of living.
Innocent Bystander@supertolerant
I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1
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@HenryReternal @arbrax Sure, an answer that is hallucinated half of the time because they're using their dumbest model for the AI overviews
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@joncstone I'm all for doing more to reduce pollutants in the river (just last year we opened the new tideway tunnel to prevent sewage runoff), but no matter what, the Thames is going to be brown and murky. We're not gonna get a nice blue river no matter what we do.
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London is the greatest city in the world but one thing it does lack is a good beach. If we're gonna have more days like this we should 1) clean up the water and 2) build a big beach in inner London accessible by tube. (NYC did this in the 1930s) How about along the shore here
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@shewassome37653 @hor22189 @anyotherleader1 Do you think a fast food chain has to have enough capacity to feed the entire country at once to be successful? Have you lot at any point lived in the real world or do you just make up your own fantasy world to justify your beliefs?
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@WateryLn @hor22189 @anyotherleader1 You are on a wind up, I’ve just realised. The depressing thing is that it’s actually conceivable someone could be this stupid nowadays.
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Breaking news: the generation that fuelled mcdonalds growth into one of the biggest brands on the planet never ate fast food or burgers apparently
Innocent Bystander@supertolerant
I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1
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It absolutely is a great number, are you being intentionally obtuse? The entire population of the country isn't going to eat at your restaurant on the same night. Those restaurants would've been near where the majority of people lived, which means tens of thousands of potential customers would've been within a mile radius.
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@WateryLn @shewassome37653 @anyotherleader1 If that’s not sarcasm then it literally makes no sense. You are saying a few hundred is comparable to 55 million?
In 1984 there were 194 McDonalds. That’s 1 to 28,000. That is not a ‘great’ number. Those restaurants were certainly not serving a town the size of Dover.
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@hor22189 @shewassome37653 @anyotherleader1 I'll turn the sarcasm off since that was not the point I was making: a few hundred locations of a single fast food chain is a great number for 55 million people, since they mostly would've been in densely populated areas, catering to a large number of customers.
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@WateryLn @shewassome37653 @anyotherleader1 Really? How did you logic from lack of access to McDonald’s to proof of subsistence farming?
Or is fast food the height of civilisation in your eyes?
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@AndrewSouthwol1 @anyotherleader1 Lead poisoning may also have messed up their memories
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@anyotherleader1 My theory is that when some people reach a certain age they just start repeating things their parents used to tell them about *their* youth. It's why you had all those boomers talking like they had personally been in the Blitz.
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Why is this generation acting like they weren't the ones who popularised kebabs in the uk?
Innocent Bystander@supertolerant
I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1
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@shewassome37653 @anyotherleader1 @hor22189 55 million people all living in farmhouses and tents apparently.
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@anyotherleader1 @hor22189 How hard is it to understand that a few hundred restaurants across a country with a population of 55+ million is not proof of eating out regularly. But yes you tell those of us who actually experienced it that we’re wrong
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@j_d_moran Boomers must've teleported into this timeline from an alternate universe. They worked all their lives to pay for their pensions yet unemployment was over 10% in the 90s, they never went out or on holiday yet travel agencies and the hospitality industry were making record profits.
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Schrödinger's Chippy. An essential part of British cultural heritage but simultaneously something that no-one was ever able to afford
Innocent Bystander@supertolerant
I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1
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@jeffwilcox kind of a thing that happens when you’re crossing a highway.. can anything be done to suppress the noise?
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@KSuit2222 This month has been insane, we went from morning frost to record breaking heat in just a few weeks
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Awful by any standard
Just price street parking, NY
Midwest Antiquarian@Eric_Erins
Sorry but I love this dumb ass contraption in NoHo
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@BarefootLady @JohnGould118395 @lambeth_council It's on a single yellow which means parking is restricted at certain times
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@JohnGould118395 @lambeth_council I thought it might be, but parking is allowed on that road, as far as I know.
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This is the third time I see a car with covered number plates in my area. Why do people do this? Is it happening in other parts of London or has @lambeth_council done something?
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@amazingmap Hello!! By expanding the map slightly to the east, Cyprus, an EU member state, would also fit within the map.
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@msivywolkfp I thought she was actually nice answering all her questions despite obviously being uncomfortable with that bright light in her face. Content creators like that lady need a bit more empathy.
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@YrAwenBardd @RoyalFineArt @jhallwood If you keep on broadening the definition, you can say stuff like "car and vinegar rhyme" (imperfect + half rhyme), even though they don't share a single phoneme. When I say X rhymes with Y I only mean it's a perfect rhyme. Anything else, I will specify the type.
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@WateryLn @RoyalFineArt @jhallwood No, it does say they are rhymes in a general sense. It doesn't "clarify they're not actual rhymes". That's disingenuous.
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