buried_treasure

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Freeview updates 06 Jan 2026 in c/dtt@feddit.uk
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Christmas is officially over.

Did anyone else not get an emergency alert yesterday? in c/askuk@feddit.uk
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Hopefully you didn't, because it's supposed to go off at 3pm today (Sunday)

Is Gregg's really specialized or is this a coincidence? in c/askuk@feddit.uk
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You do realise that Greggs is the McDonalds of bakeries? Their goal is to sell mass-produced food at a very low price. It's tasty but if you're comparing it to any kind of small independent bakers it's not even in the same ballpark.

UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea' (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/30151075

For me the amazing thing about this story is not that some chancer shipped in a load of tea from elsewhere and repackaged it as Scottish, but that he kept the scam going for a decade or more and was only found out when the local council checked to see if he had a food handling licence.

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Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea' (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

For me the amazing thing about this story is not that some chancer shipped in a load of tea from elsewhere and repackaged it as Scottish, but that he kept the scam going for a decade or more and was only found out when the local council checked to see if he had a food handling licence.

How to balls-up a floor plan in c/badrealestate@feddit.uk
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 0 points 9 months ago

I see what you did there.

Yggdrasil Linux working for once (Fall 1995 edition) in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looking at that screenshot, even though I've been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.