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Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation
(www.bbc.co.uk)
How is a Mars bar a fuckin quid now?!?
The thing that's breaking my brain right now is the price of spam
I recently had a broken fridge and had to live off non-refrigerated items for a while. It's more expensive to eat tinned meats (corned beef, spam etc.) than it is to eat fresh/frozen meats. That broke me a bit.
Spam spam spam spam
SPAMLY SPAM, WONDERFUL SPAM!…
It's because a quid is worth much elss that it used to be, not because a mars bar is worth more (although I'm sure some of it is increased profit margins masked as inflation gouging customers too)
Hey, American here. I watch tons of old British telly and I thought i had a good understanding of currency terms but now I'm confused. I thought a quid is just another word for a pound?
While im here, is pence-pennies,tuppence-2 pennies, a shilling-like a dime or something,bob-just slang for pound? Plus you guys had the euro sort of wander in before brevity, it's all so confusing.
I think of quid as the british equivalent of "bucks"
But a buck is 1$, and the post states 2£ compensation? Or did it cost 1£? That's where I am confusion.
It cost a quid and he got two back so he can buy two mars bars.
A shilling used to be 12 pence, and there were 20 shillings in a pound for 240 pence to the pound, before we decimalised.
A dime is 10 cent, but that's just the name for the coin. Shillings used to be a part of the number system which was split into three tiers, not two with a decimal place.
Bob used to be slang for a shilling, not a pound.
We've never had the euro. The Republic of Ireland uses the euro, but if you call them British you'll get into real trouble.
Most of those are old-timey pre-decimal coins. You only need to know pounds (or quid) and pennies (or pence).
Fun fact: the Mars bar is marketed as a Milky Way in the U.S. There was a Mars bar in the U.S., but it had almonds. It has since been rebranded as Snickers Almond.
So what's a milky way advertised as?
I’m not from the US, but I think it’s 3 Musketeers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Musketeers_(chocolate_bar)
American here; you're spot on. The US/Mexico version of the Milky Way bar has a layer of caramel in addition to the nougat, and 3 Musketeers is essentially the global version of Milky Way. Our bars may be also bigger in size.
The Milky Way and the Mars bar were both created by the same person. And the Milky Way was created about 12 years earlier in Chicago. Forrest Mars went off to start his own Mars candy division in the UK after a fight with his dad.
I had a client that had a Mars heir as a client, and knew they were based in the DMV. I was curious how an American candy company with a candy bar named after the family ended up being created in the UK.
How did they get an office in the department of motor vehicles
They didn't, they're just in the Delaware/Maryland/Virginia area.
DMV stands for D.C./Maryland/Virginia in that context and refers to the D.C. metropolitan area.
What you're thinking of is the Eastern Shore peninsula, which is called Delmarva and is made up of parts of those three states.
You can't tell me this isn't the exact way you'd expect this guy to look. He said he's gonna use his 2 quid settlement for more mars bars. I'm comforted.
Excellent choice. I would.
Great. Now that Mars buckled, everyone will be suing over their smooth candies. They may have made this case go away, but they'll soon be out tens, maybe even hundreds of pounds.
Yup. Obviously a smooth brained idea
Great. When did Mars go woke?
Tucker Carlson demands the return of the throbbing dick vein to the demasculated Mars bar.
Only then will Musk arrive on Mars.
Now this is the kind of hard-hitting journalism I'm here for
Did they make him break it in two and mail it back first?
Ironic that BBC reported it.
the Dull Men’s Club Facebook page
They only paid him because it would be exciting and ruin his reputation as a dull man.
I used to send a complaint for faulty products to companies in my late teens/early 20's as I was low on money. Like once I got some energy drink in a bottle made for Pepsi. Same volume, no difference, but a mistake, so got 5€ for it so "won" like 3€ for that. I'd pick out products like that if I saw them in a shop for that very purpose.
Once I genuinely was annoyed though, as a soft drink company that filled the vending machine at our school had filled it wrong and I got what was essentially Fanta he I wanted an energy drink and it was fucking hard waking up that morning.
"Dull Men's Club" must be code for Mad Lads
He could have asked them for 100 to send the factory code.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2024
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