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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679 (https://archive.ph/5Ba6o)

A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.
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It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.
 
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I'll say this, property isn't as much of an easy definitive win now as it was 10 years ago. "Do uppers" are now the same price as three bedroom house that's not a deathtrap were 10 years ago, will cost a fortune in labour to mend (all while having to pay the mortgage and extra council tax while it's being fixed), and then it's just a crapshoot whether you get a tenant that isn't going to malicious enough to cause structural damage down the line. I'm not talking things that insurance will pay out on, but nowadays tenants are such poor fucks that they'll deliberately turn the place into a mold filled shithole by locking all the heat and moisture in, refusing to use a dryer when there's a radiator there to put clothes on etc.

To top it off, almost everything involved in an extra property is a money sink. Stamp duty is a joke, rent is taxed, you'll need building AND landlords insurance, you're responsible for getting a handyman out at short notice if the essential services are down, and some fucker might decide to fall asleep with a lit cigarette with the gas on. Oh and the government could at any point say that something in your building (low energy rating, cladding etc.) is now unsuitable for living in so needs amended before you can rent it out.

I keep seeing friends and coworkers buy up an old house, spend forever on it and then watch their marriages fall apart as the stress of everything starts to pile up. Barely breaking even per month knowing that in 30 years time you'll have a house you can sell isn't as tempting as it used to be.

Just stick the money in a stocks and shares ISA, get a fairly basic world tracker and don't fucking think about it. You can get the money out whenever you want without waiting on a sale or kicking the tenants out.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
To top it off, almost everything involved in an extra property is a money sink. Stamp duty is a joke, rent is taxed, you'll need building AND landlords insurance
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Dooooont forget your gas and electrical safety certificates too! Gas is annual, but at least electrical is only every five years. And if you don't know a guy, don't worry the letting agency (who you also pay) always have someone they can recommend!
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
I'm not talking things that insurance will pay out on, but nowadays tenants are such poor fucks that they'll deliberately turn the place into a mold filled shithole by locking all the heat and moisture in, refusing to use a dryer when there's a radiator there to put clothes on etc.
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This is bait right? No one is actually such a subhuman that they'd write this and not expect to be called such.

EDIT: The inability to turn a second house into a profit engine is a good thing, and all your friends that have ruined their marriages trying to do so, deserved it. The lost money is something they deserved, the stress is something they deserved. Nigger a house is somewhere you are supposed to live, not an asset in a stock portfolio and it's scumbags that see it as such that have helped cause such a massively warped and damaged housing market.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
This is bait right? No one is actually such a subhuman that they'd write this and not expect to be called such.

EDIT: The inability to turn a second house into a profit engine is a good thing, and all your friends that have ruined their marriages trying to do so, deserved it. The lost money is something they deserved, the stress is something they deserved. Nigger a house is somewhere you are supposed to live, not an asset in a stock portfolio and it's scumbags that see it as such that have helped cause such a massively warped and damaged housing market.
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I mean all I did was rationalise why being a landlord is a fucking stupid idea from a purely financial viewpoint bar some edgecases.

If you don't have the money to deal with a net loss of a property then being a landlord isn't for you, if you DO have the money then why the fuck are you putting money into property when you can hedge your bets with shares unless you have THAT much money that you might as well throw some money into property too as a failsafe.

My friends ARE retarded, because they saw how much their house went up in value and thought that's how much profit they could make off a second house. The middle class version of fucking AVON or Scentsy where by the time you realise you've fucked up, you're WAY too far in.
 
Internet Wizard said:
>Get dissed by Oxbridge once
>Diss the entire country
Many such cases!
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His bit of "ah you care about Israel more than Timbuktu you must hate the Jews for no particular reason" is dumb for many reasons.
But the way he tried the same rhetoric that works on mulattos in American daycare "colleges" on Oxbridge spergs that have memorised facts about 17th century Bantu paintings for University Challenge is hilarious. Glad that small faced FREAK had a bad time.

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Kier Starmer said:
Yeah I am considering doing share isas and just sticking shares in golds, minerals and companies like bp, etc, those are safe right?
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Invest your money in yourself. Learn skills, work out, spend it on education. Your skills are what earns you wealth. If shit hits the fan, gold, cash, ISAs, they aren't worth shit. If you're smart, handy and helpful in a professional or social situation, you are valuable and can rebuild in any situation.

Think about it.
 
And whatever you do, if you're going to fuck about with investing at least do it in a Stocks and Shares ISA. Everything in it is tax free so you don't have to fuck about with capital gains tax. Either pick a global index fund and forget about it or fuck about with shares and see if you can make more money than a mutual fund.

Also make sure to have at least ONE income fund that's 15-25% of your portfolio so you can get dividends that essentially pay the minimal service charges without you needing to bother about anything else.

Other than that, good luck and have fun wasting money for the first year or two until you figure out what the fuck you're doing.
 
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Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war:

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God I wish people in the UK would shut up about this topic, we should stop giving a fuck about the conflicts between the noselong tribe and the sand people, we have much bigger fish to fry. If we as a society put 1% of the effort that has been used discussing this topic — one wherein the UK has no influence, as this is within the US sphere— we could have already sorted out the housing crisis. I wish the UK political retards would stop importing foreign issues to be campaining and complaining about. This is the same shit as the protests over the death of a black man in another continent.
 
Here's what's going to happen: the UK is going to be forced to cancel deals with Israel and stop the information sharing system that they have with Israel. Shortly afterwards Iranians or some other Middle Eastern shithole sandnigger is going to set a bomb off in Trafalgar Square or some other high density place as they'll no longer be "known to authorities" considering Israel knows the colour of the shoelaces of some Middle Eastern extremists.

That Iranian synagogue/embassy plot a month or so ago would have set the public off like nothing else had it taken place. Illegal Muslims traveling by boat to the UK to gain asylum before blowing the absolute shit out of a targeted ethnicity followed by celebrations on the streets of Blackburn, Leicester and Leeds would have been Axel F on steroids.

As much as I fucking hate Israel, the last thing I want to be doing is getting blown to fucking pieces while traveling to work or at a concert or a football match. These fucking shortsighted Palestine flag waving students and liberal democrats are going to be suckered into ushering in ISIS 2: Electric Boogaloo.
 
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