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You could always go back to the good old days you crave, by taking a pinch of arsenic or powdered lead with each sweet!Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here -
There are all sorts of nasty chemicals involved in various forms of food processing.Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostYou could always go back to the good old days you crave, by taking a pinch of arsenic or powdered lead with each sweet!
You should see what they use in the process of coffee bean decaffeination. Ditto white sugar refining. And if you saw how they made spray dried milk powder, you'd never reach for a jar of coffee mate ever again (I actually visited the site of the largest spray drying plant in Europe a few months ago so I know what I'm talking about).
Then there's all the cyandie in apple pips that gets in your cider; no wonder cider drinkers have such bulbous noses.Comment
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https://youtu.be/1uNDQOCgOT8?t=79
My favourite T&J - probably too violent for the snowflake generationHow fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Is that a Quimby production?Originally posted by Troll View Posthttps://youtu.be/1uNDQOCgOT8?t=79
My favourite T&J - probably too violent for the snowflake generation
Is Mammy Two-Shoes in it?Comment
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The rifle range at the fun fair.
I'm sure they've adopted an "everyone's a winner" policy. You can't miss.
Same with the one where you hook the plastic duck.
The waltzers, however, are definitely NOT a quimbyism. Glad I had an emty stomach
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