fernandopartridge
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Hit that subscribe buttonYou Tubers.
Not ALL You Tubers.
Specifically those that:
- Speak to the camera that they are holding in one hand while constantly jabbing a finger towards the lens with the other hand.
- Set the volume levels so low that you end up turning the TV's volume up really high just to hear them, and then when the ads chime in it nearly bursts your eardrums.
- Say 'So. Yeah' every few seconds.
- Don't even bother to spell-check any of the text they display.
Watched one today where he put up a checklist of about six or eight things he needed to do to his van to fix it. I think virtually all had an error; e.g. brake calibers...
I like the guy, but ffs. He's a scouser though so I guess I should give him a pass
First world problems, I'm sure, but just plain irritating.
fernandopartridge
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He must be on a Nokia 3210, oh wait
Skybluekyle
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Not ALL You Tubers.
Specifically those that:
- Speak to the camera that they are holding in one hand while constantly jabbing a finger towards the lens with the other hand.
- Set the volume levels so low that you end up turning the TV's volume up really high just to hear them, and then when the ads chime in it nearly bursts your eardrums.
- Say 'So. Yeah' every few seconds.
- Don't even bother to spell-check any of the text they display.
Watched one today where he put up a checklist of about six or eight things he needed to do to his van to fix it. I think virtually all had an error; e.g. brake calibers...
I like the guy, but ffs. He's a scouser though so I guess I should give him a pass
First world problems, I'm sure, but just plain irritating.
Mcbean
Well-Known Member
Blame the government- soon there will be no fresh food from UK - bunch of twats
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
What??
OffenhamSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
It's a combination of government giving incentives to landowners (including the county councils) to sell land for house building, and supermarkets not buying the best quality local produce from UK producers. In our village in the Vale of Evesham, one grower i was speaking to on Monday says the Vale is famed for its early-season produce (e.g. beetroot in May), but the supermarkets are buying it from Spain because it is cheaper. Another has a packhouse full of kale and spring cabbage but can't sell it because the supermarkets only deal with the big suppliers.
It's a fucking scandal.
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
I wonder how the UK compares with other countries in the amount of food it imports that it can produce at home?
SBAndy
Well-Known Member
Those are the kind of situations that tariffs were actually designed for.
OffenhamSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
That would be a very interesting stat. I would also like to see how much we export (meat in particular) that we also import (e.g. lamb from NZ, chicken from god-knows-where, etc).
France is FAR more self-sufficient than we are (being the closest to self-sufficiency in Europe), and has the potential to be even more so. They cheat a little bit by having overseas territories which count as "home".
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
I think France and mainland Europe in general are better at eating what's in season. For whatever reason, we're not, and I don't think supermarkets help in that regard.
OffenhamSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
Absolutely spot-on! There is a whole "education piece" to be done with the UK population on that. But it is not helped by plant-based diets who import massive amounts of sweet potatoes, chickpeas, almonds (especially as almond milk), avo-bloody-cados, which have a devastating environmental impact far higher than a locally-sourced leg of lamb.
Captain Dart
Well-Known Member
Badly but it has been unable to supply it's own food since before the First World War. Since then the UK fishing fleet has been more or less dismantled.
Mcbean
Well-Known Member
Our big issue ( not the rag ) is our costs of production in UK - higher labour costs , higher fertiliser and seed costs - higher standards of welfare etc and the biggest reason the majority of people buy on price
I get milk delivered and yes it costs more but it supports the few dairy farms left in the area ( just North of you Offenham )
I am sad for UK !
I get milk delivered and yes it costs more but it supports the few dairy farms left in the area ( just North of you Offenham )
I am sad for UK !
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
It’s the same in Italy. Everything in the supermarkets is seasonal and I’d say 90% is grown here.
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
What’s that? I was talking about fruit and vegetables.
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
That’s food self sufficiency by country. I was surprised UK is above Italy
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
I think grain imports for pasta likely skew it. Fruit and vegetables are seasonal though with most grown here.
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
European supermarkets are another level all round TBF. The little Dutch village one in my girlfriend’s hometown puts anything in Cov to shame. I wonder if we eat more processed stuff making it less economical to have such a wide stock of fresh produce as well.
ovduk78
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A friend moved over to NZ for a couple of years and I asked him about food prices & seasonal availability and he told me that when fruit or veg were out of season the price for them could be 10x higher. Unfortunately for us in the UK, thanks to the supermarkets & the way they ripen veg in special warehouses or import them, we have fruit & veg all year round whether seasonal or not & in the case of those ripened here we end up with fruit & veg with very little taste.
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
I appreciate the AI summary warning note.
This is always noticeable to me now whenever I come back now, including there now seems to be even more chain places like Subway that doesn't help.
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
I appreciate the AI summary warning note.
I think like many of our shit habits the pandemic turbo charged it as well with Uber Eats and the like.
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
Interesting, that is surprising. Then again I reckon we probably eat more pork than any other meat which is generally produced here, and more potatoes and carrots. Maybe we're not so bad after all...
shmmeee
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This is depressing but I wonder how much McDonalds using British potatoes and beef impacts that. SBs point about pasta is a good one too.
shmmeee
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Maybe. Not much about more recent that I can find. The trend for Italy is down and we’re relatively stable in this from 2011:
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
I still can't get used to 3-4 aisles dedicated to pasta. I also think a lot of meat in supermarkets comes from France and Germany.
OffenhamSkyBlue
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As opposed to US supermarkets where you have 5 or 6 aisles devoted to absolute crap!
I'm not sure where shmeee found that data. I looked this up yesterday and top of the self-sufficiency league in 2022 is Argentina, who produce 273% of their consumption.
fernandopartridge
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How abysmal colleagues are at reading and or comprehension. It's like dealing with idiots.
shmmeee
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Just googled for five seconds and went to the top hit. I’m not doing a PhD! Those were only the major economies TBF.