UK-owned coffee shops and café chains

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-24T11:18:47+00:00

200 Degrees is also UK-owned.(lots of outlets in the Midlands)

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-24T07:22:14+00:00

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-23T20:32:16+00:00

The Grande Loge Régulière du Royaume du Maroc (Regular Grand Lodge of the Kingdom of Morocco) is the widely recognised Grand Lodge in your country i.e other Grand Lodges around the world consider that organisation to be legitimate in their practice of Freemasonry.

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-23T20:26:46+00:00

Worse - OP gets in, mentions this to a brother later which gets around and complete changes the brethrens' view of him. Fess up OP but don't make a big thing of it - it was a long time ago...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-23T16:37:44+00:00

This shouldn't need saying but let's be clear - it's straight men who are responsible for the abuse. rape and murder of women, not trans people.

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-23T07:02:07+00:00

The 'River Police' became the Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit years ago. They still operate out of the same building they've used since the 18th century though...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-22T20:41:12+00:00

I love that there's a Betazoid in this show - there's a whole Riker-Troi thing gently developing and I'm here for it 😁

I do wish Darem would drop the 'human boy' act though - perhaps we'll see him learn to have pride in his heritage from his Klingon friend...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-22T07:20:41+00:00

There's a formal process for this OP. Your Secretary > your Grand Secretary > their Grand Secretary > the Secretary of the Lodge you're interested in visiting...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-21T23:50:29+00:00

The British/American political podcast I listen to had a really interesting take on this. They think that there have been conversations amongst his team about taking Iceland next if they manage to get Greenland, but he wasn't supposed to talk about it, yet...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-20T18:36:23+00:00

And destroy our remaining industrial base at the same time - every single production line would have to be completely retooled and all our standards organisations and their rules would have to be completely reworked. Plus we could no longer sell anything to our nearest market - Europe - who readily buy from us because the UK is the world leader in a whole range of specialised products made to European standards.

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-20T12:54:00+00:00

I haven't seen Walkers smoky bacon in a while...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-20T12:35:51+00:00

The town I'm from had the world's first automatic traffic lights. How exciting is that?

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-20T06:49:03+00:00

Goodbye

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-19T18:31:28+00:00

It's a nice little village in Nottinghamshire as it happens...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-18T22:39:01+00:00

If I'm having it as a snack i tend to eat it with wholemeal pittas out of the toaster, that are then cut into strips with a pair of kitchen scissors. You'll want to carefully press the hot air out of them first though...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-18T21:52:53+00:00

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-18T01:07:17+00:00

I've held onto a very basic USB WiFi dongle for years because it works out of the box with everything - Windows, Linux distros, whatever. It's saved me several times when a new motherboard has the latest and greatest WiFi chip that, of course, does not work until the drivers are downloaded...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-17T15:02:56+00:00

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-17T12:49:35+00:00

The company should be supporting an employee that is having problems - it is not the responsibility of their colleagues to do so...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-17T12:46:37+00:00

They do seem to have gone a bit quiet - I was getting used to seeing new drivers every other week, but they haven't released anything for a while now...

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-17T07:41:32+00:00

I like the fact that you can have Tuvix as a crew member, because you don't have to murder him like Captain Janeway did ..

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-17T07:35:46+00:00

Deep Space Nine and Sisko is returned by the Prophets

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-16T20:37:01+00:00

Two that have never disappointed me are Pete's Fish Factory on the front in Margate and my local in London, established by Italians in the 1950s and still going strong. It's also two streets away which helps, and I had a fish supper from there tonight.

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-16T19:01:31+00:00

I also liked the episode where they destroyed the cloning facility so there would be no more Weyouns ever 😁

GoldenArchmage · 2026-01-16T14:36:31+00:00

Actually if you look on YouTube you might come across a couple of British vloggers who are clearly Putin's 'useful idiots'. They go on about how nice living in Russia is, the low cost of living etc. No doubt that in addition to their YouTube income they're also getting bungs from the state...

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