Sorry for continuing the derail anyway 
Pick For Britain: UK workers needed as foreign workers flown into UK amid crisis in farming sector
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8ball
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No, I think you're right, and the post it was in response to was at least as wooly.
Just that some of the language was reminding me a little of that McD executive in the McLibel trial who, when asked to justify the advertising of McDonalds' food as "nutritious", claimed confidently that "it contains nutrients".
Aladdin
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I think that the word "supplement" would disagree with you.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
I didn't feel the need to comment to that effect, I was prepared to let the statement speak for itself.
Aladdin
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But I can truthfully state that I've only been once into a McDonalds since 1980 ..... and that time (early nineties?) was for boring and horrid "fries"
only 
I can report that they were not very nutritious at all!
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
Yes, one that was responding to mineI was responding to someone else's post.
8ball
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But I can truthfully state that I've only been once into a McDonalds since 1980 ..... and that time (early nineties?) was for boring and horrid "fries"
I can report that they were not very nutritious at all!
At that time didn't the fries have beef fat in?
Fuck knows! My friends said not, but I didn't ask the staff myself
And how would friends know even?
This was after a Sunday football match (Swindon v Oxford! -- we'd won).
At which point there was very little choice of places in such hostile territory for us away Oxford fans to grab better food.
I still regret going in though <still
at self, 25-plus years later >
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Still, I survived.
Mostly by not returning (to any McD at all) since about 1992 or whenever it was ....
Mostly by not returning (to any McD at all) since about 1992 or whenever it was ....
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Back when I was a teenager and then in my student days, I had the advantage of a great-uncle with a market garden in Dorset. He also ran a market stall, in Salisbury or was it Shaftsbury ? three days a week, inc Saturdays. I spent several months during the summers staying with his household (my mother was quite ill with heart trouble and me and my brother were loaned out often over the summer to several relatives ... ) Getting up early wasn't a problem then ...
Don't know about little bro, but Iquite enjoyed the work - hoeing late beans, picking lettuce, peas, beans and fruit, I wasn't strong enough to dig spuds or root crops by hand but I could pick up afterwards ... for the first few years I did this, he had a wonderfully sweet tempered heavy horse - officially retired, but still quite capable of drawing a small tip-cart over short distances. Uncle kept him mainly for the manure - to force rhubarb, and feed the soil generally (the nag's party treat was to nick the heart out of a lettuce whilst it was still in the ground, so you had to watch him carefully !) ...
Since then, I've done a lot of PYO soft fruit ...
Don't know about little bro, but I
Since then, I've done a lot of PYO soft fruit ...
JimW
支那暗杀团
My dad worked at a feed mill, remember him once describing the ending of the Milk Marketing Board. IIRC it involved getting farmers to vote it down having been promised sunny uplands of the free market then of course squeezing life out of them when it was gone. Might be misremembering.
My council tuns a few small 'farm plots' between 30-100 acres. They are available to rent but will have to be returned back to the council, on retirement. My friend, S, has one of these...and also has a market stall in a couple of local towns. He does not pay the Soil Assoc. premium (a scam) to be named as 'organic' but can call his produce 'pesticide free'. He makes a decent living running his 42 acres as a market garden...and supplies a whole heap of people (myself included) with seasonal vegetables. Entirely doable without exploitation. Capitalism is the problem...
Aladdin
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Good on them volunteering like that.
I trust this is true, because you post sensibly on here
But if I saw this being spread around as random gossip on Facebook or wherever, I'd be really suspicious.
ska invita
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I trust this is true, because you post sensibly on here
But if I saw this being spread around as random gossip on Facebook or wherever, I'd be really suspicious.
Eastern Europeans to be flown in to pick fruit and veg
A charter plane bringing Romanians to harvest British crops will arrive in the UK on Thursday.
www.bbc.co.uk
they havent announced their Pick For Britain thing yet then...or did i miss the fanfare?
6 planes with 150 people on board each? thats 900. Still short of the 70k the Farmers Union want by 69k
editor
hiraethified
Crazy times indeed.
www.theguardian.com
It only seems like yesterday this was in the news
www.theguardian.com
Romanian fruit pickers flown to UK amid crisis in farming sector
Charter flights organised after appeal fails to recruit enough British workers
It only seems like yesterday this was in the news
Romanians in the UK: 'If we go, who will do the jobs after Brexit?' – photo essay
The second largest community of immigrants in the UK fill vital jobs yet are among most vulnerable after Brexit
klang
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69100.Eastern Europeans to be flown in to pick fruit and veg
A charter plane bringing Romanians to harvest British crops will arrive in the UK on Thursday.www.bbc.co.uk
they havent announced their Pick For Britain thing yet then...or did i miss the fanfare?
6 planes with 150 people on board each? thats 900. Still short of the 70k the Farmers Union want by 69k
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Those Eastern Europeans, coming over here, taking our unpaid work.Eastern Europeans to be flown in to pick fruit and veg
A charter plane bringing Romanians to harvest British crops will arrive in the UK on Thursday.www.bbc.co.uk
they havent announced their Pick For Britain thing yet then...or did i miss the fanfare?
6 planes with 150 people on board each? thats 900. Still short of the 70k the Farmers Union want by 69k
Treacle Toes
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But it isn't is it? It's entirely normal, has been for years...Foreign born workers coming into the country to prop up the farming industry. Picking/labouring for low pay and poor conditions. Often backbreaking work, much of which our population doesn't want to do. Been this way for longer than my lifetime. The fact that we are even talking about it is the very heart of the problem.
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ska invita
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69099 if we're counting Spymaster
klang
klang
I guess they'll need 2 to make up for spy's short fallings, so 69101.
ska invita
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