buried_treasure

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shepherd's pie in a skillet in c/cooking@lemmy.world
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And for the love of gods please don't think too hard about how they get baby oil the next time you're in the toiletries aisle.

Liverpool Street Station Revamp Green Light Is "Sad Day" For London in c/london@feddit.uk
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I think I agree. The actual main building of Liverpool Street Station has been so hidden by all the other developments in that part of the City over the decades that it's largely invisible anyway.

Freeview updates 06 Jan 2026 in c/dtt@feddit.uk
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months 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 6 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 7 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 11 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.