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The Great Easter Rip Off (Bah Humbug)

::philcUK
04/16/06 5:33 PM GMT
Another Easter comes around and the confectionary giants rub their collective hands together and go to town ripping off consumers left right and centre. It seams they have perfected the art of manufacturing chocolate Easter eggs to have the thinnest possible shell without them actually loosing their structural integrity and collapsing in on themselves. Just. I remember when I was a kid you had to virtually take a lump hammer to an Easter egg to crack the chocolate but things certainly have changed these days – a friend bought me a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk egg this year and when I opened it, the egg was so thing it was practically flexible. I checked on a store site and the egg in question retailed for £7.00, I then compared that to how much it would cost to buy the equivalent amount of Dairy Milk Chocolate (150g) in regular bar form and that was £0.79 from the same store. So basically, you’re paying £6.21 for a box. Lovely. The story is the same across the board even with ‘premium brands’ such as Lindt who will charge you a 700% mark up on their famous Easter Bunny over buying a regular Lindt Excellence bar and you don’t even get a box with that thing. Bah Humbug indeed.
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.akashastrega
04/16/06 6:00 PM GMT
Glad I don't eat much chocolate...
and yeah, as a kid it took a friggin sledgehammer to crack my easter bunny's head off...and lets not talk about the chipped teeth from attempting to foolishy bite into it...these days...it is all crappy chocolate and not even alot of that.
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.KEIFER
04/16/06 6:33 PM GMT
More for me then .. ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ .. (*scampers off, pampers clad*)
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.scionlord
04/16/06 6:40 PM GMT
*ponders why people go on about Cadbury's...Galaxy is better....and Lindt is a revelation*
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'Study the past, if you would divine the future.' - Confucius
.timw4mail
04/16/06 6:49 PM GMT
*Wonders how Keifer puts music in his post*
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hippykat
04/16/06 7:00 PM GMT
just like Christmas..heh.. You mean the Easter bunny and Jesus aren't real?? :-D
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.akashastrega
04/16/06 7:04 PM GMT
Keith is just good like that...besides...look how sexy he is with his new beanie...it no doubt adds to his faboo nerd pheremones
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Look to the Future, Remeber the Past, but Live in the Present, and Never forget to tell those you love "I Love You", you may not get another chance.
::philcUK
04/16/06 7:06 PM GMT
** Bows in the face of the squirrely wrath **
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"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps"
.scionlord
04/16/06 7:17 PM GMT
lol
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'Study the past, if you would divine the future.' - Confucius
.cgImagery
04/16/06 7:52 PM GMT
wrong easter post :'(
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::laurengary
04/17/06 1:07 AM GMT
♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫ ♪

Beats me how Keifer does half the stuff he does
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::CurtieBear
04/18/06 10:48 AM GMT
You know, for all the whistling I'm doing to get music notes in my message... All I end up doing is...

Excuse me.... *wipes off computer screen*

alot of spit on the screen... Could someone hand me a squeegee?
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Shut Up Voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.
purmusic
04/19/06 5:04 AM GMT
♫♪♪♫
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purmusic
04/19/06 5:04 AM GMT
Holy crap ... it worked. LOLOL.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
::CurtieBear
04/19/06 8:22 AM GMT
Welll what ya do? Besides copy and paste...
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Shut Up Voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.
.animaniactoo
04/19/06 10:18 PM GMT
Does this mean I can eat your bunny's ears? 8•P
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purmusic
04/20/06 7:22 PM GMT
Are you asking me Curt, how I do this ---> ♫♪♪♫♪ ?

Well, I think it ... and then magically the notes that are in my head appear on the screen. No copying and pasting involved in this particular process. True say.
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.animaniactoo
04/20/06 9:47 PM GMT
*blinks* your integration process has already begun? 8•P
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.scionlord
04/20/06 9:49 PM GMT
You will be assimilated...resistance is futile...We are Caedes
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'Study the past, if you would divine the future.' - Confucius
::CurtieBear
04/21/06 7:42 AM GMT
Can I be 7of 9? I'd be so hawt. hubba hubba :oP
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