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Stop the presses!

Wales: The makers of Marmite said it was "disappointing" a council has decided to impose a ban on the spread at their school breakfast clubs.
Ceredigion Council in Mid Wales has taken Unilever's yeast extract product off the menu at its 51 breakfast clubs within the county because of a "high level of salt".

Defenestration, deforestation, and now this....<sob> I can't go on.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 09:40:40 AM EST

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Damn can't vote the philistines out any more, although will have to email one of the ceredigion councilors and give him grief

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 09:43:30 AM EST
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Demarmitation!!!

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:16:35 AM EST
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I've tried the Massive Marmitization of Finland, but so far only two converts - my daughters. Marmitization has to take place at a very formative stage of behavioural development to be successful.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:30:22 AM EST
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so a 300% rise in a single generation, the nation will be converts in no time at all.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:32:51 AM EST
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In ordinary times, an insight like that would have been enough to qualify you as a professional economic pundit.

[nostalgic sigh...]

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:23:30 PM EST
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I'm sure enough of my opinions would be considered dangerously left wing, so that that could never be the case.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:40:16 PM EST
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That was then.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:59:36 PM EST
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I've seen good success from using vegemite as a gateway drug...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:51:18 AM EST
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you've been hanging round school gates as an evil marmite dealer again havent you. ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:07:58 PM EST
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I shudder to think what the baptism ceremony looks like.

Yuk.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:16:05 PM EST
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Ha!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:31:37 AM EST
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