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  • skisnow@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzenglish snaccs
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    10 hours ago

    It saddens me how many British classics are now owned by American companies or Nestle.

    “Valeo Foods” who own most of the traditional brands like Barratt’s, Fox’s mints, Barker & Dobson, Mojo, Poppets, McCowan’s and a ton of others, is actually owned by US Republican Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital (which isn’t even a publicly traded company).

    Mondelez’ acquisition of Cadbury’s everyone knows about already, and Mars was American to begin with even though all their best items originated in the UK.

    Terry’s also got bought by Kraft/Mondelez but they’ve since been sold to a French company, which I guess is better than most of the alternatives.

    As far as I can tell, Tunnocks are pretty much the only British chocolate left.









  • Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can’t speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:

    • takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you’ve even left the house

    • predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents’ house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club

    • the RPG + Am Dram elements mean that it takes years to be able to access a lot of the game, whether it be types of spellcasting or a character in a position of power. This means that if you want to quit your club for another one, you’re losing years of progression in a way that doesn’t happen with sports or most arts-based hobbies.

    • spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It’s also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well

    • success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer

    • …as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.





  • Right, but saying “three guesses” implies that the answer is something that’s slightly hidden. “Capitalists” doesn’t really make sense because it’s essentially going “three guesses who it is that’s doing all this capitalism… that’s right, capitalists!”. If OP didn’t intend it as an antisemitic dogwhistle then it’s an odd title for other reasons.

    (edit: I just had a glance through their post history and I think it’s probably not supposed to be a dogwhistle, but just unfortunately titled; I think maybe OP just assumed everyone reading it were already on the same page on whatever specific thing they themselves blame capitalism on?)





  • skisnow@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worlddamn
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    2 days ago

    You know someone’s no longer talking in good faith when they use words like “inappropriate and outrageous” to describe the suggestion of abolishing a department that didn’t exist 25 years ago. This is someone consciously and openly attempting to shift the Overton Window so that they don’t keep getting called on to defend the indefensible.