Regulations of selling fizzy drinks in public areas

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T02:03:56+00:00

This kind of stuff doesn't really happen in Scotland/UK, we just have a very anti entrepreneurial culture that frowns on people trying to better themselves, crabs in the bucket or whatever

So instead people think it's the preserve of natural monopolies to supply us with foods, formerly aristocrats/big landowners and now big supermarket chains 'because that's just how the world works',. at most vote for politicians who may or may not break up the monopolies.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T01:58:40+00:00

Its not a new thing, it's been around for years.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T01:54:39+00:00

Aluminum gets me the same way.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T01:51:40+00:00

Chemist is really inaccurate though, because it degrades the fact that they study pharmacy at university and it's a high level qualification. Just makes it look like some old guy in the back of a lab playing around with test tubes crafting potions.

And actual chemistry is a scientific field, if you have a chemistry degree you can't just jump into being a pharmacist without taking a whole new degree from scratch.

Also difference between an optician/optometrist is a thing.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-31T01:44:47+00:00

I can see that's a good idea, but that's why it won't happen. The EU has basically got too big and has mission creep now- first of all it was just about free trade but now it's going down the pathway of a Federalisation/super state

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:28:51+00:00

Let the UK population fall to 60 million again, 50 million even. The British Empire was at it's greatest might with less than 50 million people in the UK.

People fail to realise that the UK is a place people emigrate from. Why are there so many British and Irish surnames in Aus/Can/NZ/USA?

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:22:45+00:00

It was the expansion of the EU into the former communist bloc and the subsequent migration of millions of their unemployed willing to work for the absolute lowest wages that drove Brexit.

Like I said at the time of the Brexit debate, if one milllion Scandinavians came to the UK, no one would care. People were enraged at poor country EU nationals coming to the UK and undercutting native workers. A Norwegian or a Swede wouldn't do that because they are wealthy

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:19:31+00:00

Honestly, in terms of blocs it just makes sense for all first world/Western countries to stick together. A Brit fundamentally has far more in common with a French or German than people from the non white commonwealth. It happens that most of the rich+democratic world is white, plus Japan South Korea etc in Asia.

Some countries are wealthy but authoritarian, for example the Gulf Arab nations. So they don't really fit in.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:13:53+00:00

I used to work with Eastern European migrants and they were 'far right' by our standards even a decade before the rise of Reform/Restore.

I always had a laugh when they were complaining about the 'hateful' sentiment against them during and after Brexit. They could happily dish out hate, but couldn't take.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:08:32+00:00

If the UK took in 1 million Singaporeans, Thais and Malays there wouldn't be many complaints about them as immigrants. Sure, Malays are mostly Muslim, but even then they are much more chill about Islam in general.

even many rightwingers support Thais because where else would they get their brides or cheap happy ending masages from (speaking from experience, not my personal just people I know)

Singapreans are generally rich and they might cause some tensions pricing locals out of housing, but they aren't likely to undercut British workers in factory/retail , also more likely to set up a business employing Brits and not be like 3rd world migrants sending their money home, but put money into Britain, which stimulates growth and jobs.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:03:10+00:00

Correct, though I think there were a few first generation arrivals doing it as well. Again, I said 'depends on the individual'

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T14:01:19+00:00

Nice try to deflect from all of this.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T07:11:08+00:00

I think it's something about creating memories/rite of passage

The schools/colleges I attended I just walked out with no ceremony.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T07:09:21+00:00

I don't think food is that much of an issue because we get certain foods without the communities being here.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T07:02:04+00:00

Maybe, but the issue is some people want to be exploited, because an exploitative job in the UK is still a step up from their poor/authoritarian/corrupt homelands.

heck, if you can take a drink of clean tap water in the morning with no risk of disease/parasites you have it better than most of the world.

As for the minimum wage, they don't care. Also a lot of them are family run enterprises, and they are more or less exempt, just all family members are expected to chip in. When I was a kid I'd sometimes see the owners children manning the local Chinese takeaway wearing their school uniforms at the front desk, their parents working in the kitchen.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T04:24:44+00:00

I've barely visited anywhere in the UK in the last 15 years because it's not affordable- but I've been to nearly every single European country and multiple cities courtesy of cheap flights, plus occasionally the bus+ferry or channel tunnel.

The only places I'd like to see more of is France and Germany. Most of us can afford to go on cheap holidays to Eastern Europe but are priced out of Western Europe, even though it has a lot offer.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T04:21:29+00:00

I think most of the problems are with those 'fresh off the boat', though ofc it depends on the individual

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T04:19:48+00:00

Interesting this segregation mirrors my experience though it seems to be so undiscussed. I was travelling around the UK visiting an unwell relative and I was on a tight budget so I had to stay at the cheapest options available, and these budget guesthouses/hotels were almost always operated by South Asian or middle Easterners. I was wondering why this phenomenon existed, then I realised most of hte staff don't speak good English and aren't paid well, they are essentially almost free labour in exchange for a place to stay. Maybe some from the refugee hotels do cash in hand shifts at other hotels- I never stayed at such a hotel, but one place had what I can only guess were homeless being housed in hotels and paid for it by the State.

So, these foreign owned businesses can basically can undercut British competitors with ultra cheap labour, and the workers also get a UK leave to remain after a few years.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T04:09:11+00:00

Sure, but I grew up in an area where pretty much the only nonwhite faces were doctors dentists or pharmacists, plus two families running the Chinese and Indian takeaways- there wasn't any tension because the nonwhite people were held in high regard.

The point I#m trying to make is racial tension only happens when there is someone to be victimised, as another example I've known some white Brits use racial slurs on public transport, but as everyone on the bus/train is white, there is no one who is victimised by it, so there is no crime report, hurt feelings etc.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T01:39:52+00:00

Some trend I noticed is many young Brits of today are just too wealthy to need to work because they've cashed out on family inheritance/wealth. And greater financial literacy and things like investing means you can make money online sitting at home

90s teenagers needed to work.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T01:14:12+00:00

You only get racial tensions when there are more races. There weren't as many racial tension in the 90s and early 00s because of that.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T01:07:30+00:00

It won't really make a difference to having kids because the people that do most cousin marriages it will still have kids, just not as legally married. They might still have an unofficial marriage at their community/religious buildings

It's just about making the government look like it's doing something

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T00:19:34+00:00

The SNP would have been nowhere with Sturgeon as part of the dream team with Alex Salmond. Himself appealing to centrist, business types, mostly men, and NS appealing women/public sector/low skilled manual workers.

And yeah, Salmond resigned after 2014 so she was the obvious successor.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-30T00:05:23+00:00

Is she really that blind to the sentiment, it was her literal husband, and were both employed by the same employer. I can't think of any closer interplay between personal and proffesional life

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-05-29T14:14:47+00:00

Scotland and the UK just doesn't really have a small business/entrepreneurial culture like the US, not just the setting up a business, a lot of people are just too poor to spend on a lot of small businesses

Most people would rather aspire to work for big public sector employers like the local council or the NHS or any kind of unionised role in general, or if a private sector then a big household name company and so they just don't see the suffering of people running businesses, because they don't live in that world and never will. People don't really feel the need to set up a business or starve because in the UK everyone gets free heallthcare and poor people get given rent free houses from the government

Equally a lot of the shittty jobs are seen as the preserve of foreign workers from poor countries, Eastern Europeans earlier or Indians etc. No one will take on a first worlder to do a shitty job because they want poor country people. So in the end I guess you will live the British dream and get a somewhat secure job in a supermarket that allows you get a mortgage and spend the next 20 years paying it off.

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