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rareboy said:
Philadelphia Cream Cheese altering their recipe to use more skim milk powder which makes it tastes grainy and alters recipes.
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Yes but think of all the money Kraft Foods is saving. Honestly, rareboy have you no heart?
 
I bought Philadelphia a few months ago - it's too expensive to buy often, but printed on the box "Product of Australia".
 
Peloso said:
Yes but think of all the money Kraft Foods is saving. Honestly, rareboy have you no heart?
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And given that they are no just another brand controlled by Mondelez...it is no wonder that the quality is being decreased.
 
USEDCAR said:
I used to like when they talk about fluffy things and nowadays its too political and i disagree with most of the stuff they say and Sunny always brings up racism for everything. Its just a miserable show nowadays.
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I agree with you about The View. Apparently, The View, is the highest rated daytime talk show. So I guess it's you and me that are wrong about the way they do their job.

I switched 2 or 3 years ago to watch The Talk...which has not been renewed and will end at the end of the year.
 
People who stand in the subway carriages like they are holding a topographer's pole or, generally in public transportation, as if there were no people around, let alone behind their stupid bulky packages.

Spoilt idiots who sit on the floor like they were permanently in their whatever-style primary school whatever-teaching sessions/classrooms... particularly in crowded places.

Young people who drag their feet and asses while walking along busy corridors, or climbing stairs.

People who articulate very clearly and com-pen-di-ous-ly xxxxxxxxxxx that they are calling you from x to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and then swallow the pronunciation of the really relevant BIT, like the time.
 
Vinegar and Pate. Those are the names I've assigned to the woman and her miserable child who hang out in front of the store across the street. All day. Every day. I named her Vinegar because her face looks like vinegar smells, and Pate because the kid isn't much more than a wad of beef. And man, does Pate have a set of lungs. All day she's out there, making noises with her face while her mother chain smokes and chats up anyone unlucky enough to pass by. She barely even acknowledges poor little Pate, except to scream "Drop it! Drop it I said!" whenever Pate picks up a needle or a used condom or whatever else she finds on the sidewalk. Just once I'd like to tell her "Take your kid to a fucking park or something" but that's probably a good way to get stabbed.
 
People who rush out into the street in one direction while looking to the opposite.

People who sit on every fucking edge they can find anywhere vaguely resembling a seat.

People who descend from a carriage crossing in front of the person next to them.


Everything I have posted so far makes you realize the big threat "common", "normal" people are to anyone... and that people avoiding them by placing themselves above and away from them are just as weak and helpless as those suffering them, and no refuge to be joined.
 
PrinceCory said:
I agree with you about The View. Apparently, The View, is the highest rated daytime talk show. So I guess it's you and me that are wrong about the way they do their job.

I switched 2 or 3 years ago to watch The Talk...which has not been renewed and will end at the end of the year.
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My uncle watches that show every single day and he agrees with everything they say.


I used to watch the talk when Julie Chen,Sara Gilbert,Sharon Osborune and Aisha Taylor. I just think its corny nowadays.
 
pigface said:
It's always Lego. One brick, many bricks, one box, several boxes, one construction, many constructions, always Lego and Lego only.
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Yeah, that's a commercial and a cult follower thing, not grammar.

They're legos. They are toys that are common items in many countries. Cult followers can go rabid about proper referencing by non-lego folks, but it's just a toy.

Trying to dictate grammatical rules about how people refer to the toy is similar to folks going crazy when someone says, "I'm going to Wal-Mart's." There is nothing ungrammatical about referring to the store owned by Wal-Mart as "Wal-Mart's."

A company cannot dictate the grammar of their product in the language with any authority. Million of parents refer to the lego block as a lego. In languages where pliural is made by adding an S, then they become legos by common use, which is fully understood and vivolates no rule in English, as the items are commercial, not objective language established via centuries of use.

By similar example, millions upon millions of people recognize what "Release the kraken" means, despite the native language being "Release kraken" because the suffix already includes the article attached to the noun.

Similarly, tinker toys are now common nouns as a generic reference, not requiring capitals as a proper nouns. The progression to common nouns works that way. Once enough people are doing it, it becomes like the lunar tide, unstoppable. Legos have been around long enough to be common nouns.

We don't still write R.A.D.A.R., but radar. It's convenience and use.

The maker is in fact "LEGO" but the common use is not "LEGO brick" but most sensibly "LEGO" to refer to the single item. The company will never be able to stop the process, nor should they.

But go ahead and stand in the road and try to control traffic. It's satisfying there in your chair.
 
As you wish. But in your toybox, don't get your Legos [sic] mixed up with your chesses, or Mecchanos.
 
For those unfamiliar with the ongoing LEGO war to control its trademark, this site covers it pretty well: https://english.stackexchange.com/q...the-correct-plural-form-of-lego-lego-or-legos

In short, LEGO's patents finally expired back in 1988, but the company tapped its followers worldwide to attempt to help preserve its market, even though it's pretty hard to argue that knock-offs of a cheap, low-tech plastic building block are somehow degradations of the quality of the experience a kid may have.

Let's remember the absurd pricing of the LEGO company. No simple plastic toys should cost anywhere near the outrageous prices.

Once the company began losing their patents due to time, they added this appeal on their website:

The word LEGO is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as “LEGO bricks or toys” and not “LEGOS.” By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
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It's akin to some American car company appealing to "buy American made" when a) foreign made are just as good quality or better, b) "American" cars are built from parts and components built abroad, c) the pricing of American cars may be greatly exaggerated due to American greed, d) it implies American companies are inherently good citizens or good for the country, and e) it is somehow patriotic.

LEGO's wealth never was nor will be at stake due to how the grammar is used. It will either adapt to compete with its knock-offs, or it won't, but going anal about the common use of its name won't do it.

Misguided attempt. Misguided LEGO grammar policing.
 
On the topic of billionaires, we don't need 'em. We just got 'em.

Individuals and families should be entitled to get rich, to a degree, from their inventions, development, work, and production, within an economy and a market.

But, for the good of the economy and society, that should be limited. Proceeds after a limit should simply be put back into the common weal for the society. Build bridges, pave roads, provide good quality food to the masses.

Wealth equals power. And when a society agrees to hand over control to the oligarchs, it means the greatest good for the masses will not happen. By the same ethics that we forbid slavery, even voluntary slavery, we should forbid the overcompensation of the wealthy.

The family that owns LEGO is ridiculously rich. They've been compensated enough for their ancestor's invention.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/...eirs-danish-toymaker-kirk-kristiansen-merlin/
 
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