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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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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Looking at the BBFC BANNED FOREVER list there's:

- A martini advertisment
- Ilsa, She-wolf of the SS
- Three more martini advertisment
- Diesel Jeans advert that had Jesus in it
- Urotsukidoji IV Part One: The Secret Garden, animu
- Lost in the Hood, gay porn
- Weeds: Season 2 DVD Extra, best to keep the brits in the dark about weed.
and
- My Daughter's a Cocksucker, that sounds like part of a series, maybe the rest passed?

They should go back to their old funny standard with things like if the incline of a penis goes above 45 degrees it's illegal.
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Weeds? Weeds?!?!? Wow. Anyhow. I'm not into Anime at all, but I remember watching the Urotsukidoji movies at one point. I liked Akira, so I thought I'd give it a try. Urotsukidoji was fucked up shit. Not bannable or anything, but fucking perverse and deranged as shit. Possibly I don't get Anime, the same way some people don't get impressionism or abstract art or whatever.

tl;dr I like my tentacle rape porn to be live action.
 
Unknown third man?

Could it be legendary porn actor Sam "Ass-troglide" Hyde?

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‘It will never be the same again, and will bear those battle scars for the future,’ said the Friends of Highgate Ceremetery Trust chief, Ian Dungavell.

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The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I-listed monument will “never be the same again”.

The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx’s original 1883 gravestone and incorporated into the 1954 monument.

Images of the defaced memorial, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, show what appears to be damage done by a hammer to the lettering of Marx’s name and the marble on which it is mounted.

Ian Dungavell, the chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, condemned the attack as “an appalling thing to do” and a “particularly inarticulate form of political comment”, warning that the tomb would be permanently scarred.

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The police were called to the scene on Monday afternoon.

Dungavell said no other graves at the cemetery had been damaged in the attack.

Speaking to the Guardian he said: “We think it was deliberately targeted against Karl Marx. It was not random. You can see from the photograph that the person has really done their best to obliterate Karl Marx’s name.”

Dungavell condemned the attack as a “particularly selfish act”.

He said: “Regardless of what anyone thinks about Marx’s philosophy I just think it is an appalling thing to do. On a human level this is a grave of his wife, his own grave and other members of his family.”

He added: “This is no way to treat a Grade I-listed monument and it’s a particularly inarticulate form of political protest.

“If it is someone who is rabidly anti-Marxist they could do a lot better trying to change people’s opinion rather than just smashing up the monument. That is not going to win any sympathy to the anti-Marxist cause.”

The “deliberate and sustained attack” on the monument was “very upsetting”, he said. “It will never be the same again, and will bear those battle scars for the future.”

In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: “Initial enquiries have been completed and at this stage the investigation has been closed. If any further information comes to light, this will be investigated accordingly.”

Dungavell speculated that the suspect attacker damaged the memorial with a hammer wielded in the left hand.

“I think they are left-handed because of the angle of the marks left on the memorial move down from left to right. If they were were right-handed they’d be moving from right to left.

“I would guess it has been done with a relatively blunt metal instrument. There are rust marks, and the cuts seem to be broad rather than deep, so I would say it was probably a hammer.”

It is unclear when the incident occurred. The damage was first noticed on Monday afternoon, but Dungavell said images posted on social media suggest it could have occurred early last week or before.

“Just looking at social media posts from people who have visited, if you squint you can see that the damage was visible in some of those photographs,” he said.

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The cost of the damage has yet to be estimated. Dungavell said: “I’m hoping we will be able to get a specialist stone conservator to consolidate the white marble and then if we can get the lead lettering back it might be that you don’t notice it.”

The children’s author and poet, Michael Rosen, suggested launching an appeal for the cost of repair.

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The cemetery will be discussing repairing the uninsured memorial with its owners the Marx Grave Trust. It will also talk to the trust about the possibility of installing CCTV around the monument.

Dungavell said: “We might do a security review with the Marx Grave Trust and speak to the police about what should happen about any recommendations they may have.”

He pointed out that the Marx memorial has been repeatedly damaged since it was installed.

Dungavell said: “It has attracted great controversy over the years. It has had paint daubed all over it. It has had people chanting at it, the bronze bust on the top has been dragged off with ropes, and there was even a pipe bomb set off in January 1970 that damaged the front face of it.”

He added: “That’s the only consolation – he hasn’t been forgotten about.”
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"It looks like someone has had a go at it with a hammer"... too bad they couldn't smuggle a sickle to chop off his head.

EDIT: it happened again, time for round 2.

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The words ‘doctrine of hate’ and ‘architect of genocide’ were painted on Highgate cemetery memorial

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The words ‘doctrine of hate’ and ‘architect of genocide’ were found daubed in red paint across the Grade I-listed monument.
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The tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery in London has been vandalised for the second time in the space of a month.

The words “doctrine of hate” and “architect of genocide” were found daubed in red paint across the Grade I-listed monument in the north London graveyard on Saturday.

The latest attack comes less than two weeks after the marble plaque on the tomb was defaced by an apparent attempt to scrape and chip Marx’s name off the marble slab with a hammer.

At the time the group who manage the cemetery – the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust – said they feared the memorial would never be the same again.

Maxwell Blowfield, 31, who visited the cemetery this morning with his mother admitted he was “quite shocked” by the attack.

Blowfield, 31, who works for British Museum, said: “It’s a highlight of the cemetery. The red paint will disappear, I assume, but to see that kind of level of damage and to see it happen twice, it’s not good.

“I wouldn’t like to say who or why someone did it but it was clearly someone very critical of Marx and that part of history. I am just surprised that somebody in 2019 feels they need to and do something like that.”

After the hammer attack earlier this month, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust branded it a “deliberate and sustained attack”.

Ian Dungavell, the trust’s chief executive, described the attack as “very upsetting”.

Speaking to the Guardian at the time he said: “We think it was deliberately targeted against Karl Marx. It was not random. You can see from the photograph that the person has really done their best to obliterate Karl Marx’s name.”

The plaque was first used on the grave of Marx’s wife, Jenny von Westphalen, in 1881 and was moved when the remains of Marx and his wife were exhumed and reinterred in a more prominent location in the cemetery in 1954.

The monument is owned by the Marx Grave Trust, which is represented by the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell.

Highgate Cemetery tweeted that the memorial had been vandalised in a “Senseless. Stupid. Ignorant” attack.

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The Metropolitan police said they had received a report of criminal damage at around 10.50am on Saturday.

A spokesman said: “There have been no arrests. We would appeal to anyone who has any information to contact us.”

He also confirmed no arrests had been made over the 4 February attack.
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How long until the Lenin statue in Seattle is filled with "murderous traitor" graffiti?
 
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The insult isn't that Karl Marx's grave was defiled. What's really gonna piss off his tortured commie ghost is that whoever repairs his grave is probably going to be paid a wage for the labor.
 
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it's barely chipped, most of the text is still readable
next time do some weightlifting before you try to smash granite and marble, and bring a bigger hammer.
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Well, he had a hammer, but he also needed a sickle for that to really work.
 
"Communist Plot Suffers Setback in Britain"

That headline sounds a lot cooler than the article.....
 
Also, I didn't know about this "Marx Library"... wow.

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Really makes you think about that phrase, "history is always written by the victors". I see no reason why it should exist but alas, here it is.

"What is history, but a fable agreed upon?"
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Dungavell said: “It has attracted great controversy over the years. It has had paint daubed all over it. It has had people chanting at it, the bronze bust on the top has been dragged off with ropes, and there was even a pipe bomb set off in January 1970 that damaged the front face of it.”
He added: “That’s the only consolation – he hasn’t been forgotten about.”
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Kind of hard to forget the man whose philosophy literally resulted in the death of millions of people and the destruction of countless countries the world over.

EDIT: I was mistaken. That wasn't true Marxism. Four legs good, two legs bad.
 
I hope they dont but it behind bars because I'd like to piss on it one day.

Also hope these people decrying this act of vandalism think the same thing about confederate monuments getting defaced.
 
A bit ironic.

Also, "haha vandalism is ok because socialism bad"
History is history, you shits. Protect confederates, protect the dumbass with hair like a Gremlin.
 
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