Cadbury's new owners, Kraft, have decided that people are not eating enough chocolate so they are going to spend huge amounts of money making the products visible.
Well I never have any trouble finding them. They are usually in a display so large you can find them by chocolate smell alone. Kraft are about to waste six million beer vouchers promoting chocolate while all around, the banmeisters are preparing to lock it all away behind the shutters, along with the fags, the booze and the fizzy drinks.
The cheeeldren might eat them and there is no safe level of chocolate. It's addictive and will cause heart disease, browning of the lips and enlargement of the midsection. If a child so much as sees a chocolate bar they will soon develop a five-bar-a-day habit and end up on the street, sleeping in the gutter and stinking of Bourneville.
Sticking your head above the parapet at this time is a bad idea, Mr. Kraft. The drones are already primed to believe they will soon be assailed by legions of rotund spotty beggars, desperate for a few pennies because they haven't had a Toblerone since breakfast. Second-hand obesity has already been suggested, and now you can even catch obesity if you hang around with chubbies.
Chocolate addiction is already well established in the popular consciousness. That part is easy. Warning labels are on the way, with pictures of rotting teeth and spotty faces and overhanging bellies. Then will come plain packaging, and then the behind-the-counter sales. Really, Mr. Kraft, there is no sense in making your products more visible. You're just making them easier targets.
I haven't heard 'Big Chocolate' mentioned yet although Kraft would better fit the monicker 'Big Cheese'. The 'Big Food' one covers it all, perhaps, but it would be nice if the banmeisters tried to develop a little bit of humour. If they did that though, they wouldn't be banmeisters.
I wonder if that 'Old Jamaica' chocolate is still around? I haven't seen it for a long time. For some reason I have a hankering for a chocolate bar flavoured with booze. Oh wait, it's just after Christmas. There should be discount liqueurs available!
I think I'll pay a visit to Local Shop later.
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Kraft are more "Big Coffee" - KenCo, Maxwell House - and the Church of Public Health is already on to that drink!
http://theviewfromcullingworth.blogspot.com/2011/12/it-had-to-happen.html
VGIF has the tale of the Fat Tax Pushers today. I wonder if Kraft imagine chocolate will be immune?
http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-effect-will-fat-tax-have.html
I read that eating chocolate increases the amount of seretonin in the brain. It must be dangerously addictive, then. People, keep to your SSRI meds. Just say No to chocolate!
Oh, and you didn't mention that chocolate regularly contains insect pieces. Keep yourselves safe from malaria, everyone.
Have a happy, sober New Year. Always remember - people don't cause violence. Alcohol does.
And don't smoke either, or your nipples will probably drop off.
Weren't very good, were you?
http://sparkedoff.blogspot.com/
OR - he's not a problem. Blogger lets me mark multiple posts before pressing the 'goodbye' button, while he has to get through the word verification even on his copy and paste efforts.
Probably too late for them to use this as a defence....
'Cadbury was influenced in his choice of trade by his temperance beliefs – he felt alcohol was a major cause of poverty and other social ills, and saw cocoa and chocolate as alternatives.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cadbury
PS. Sparky's got a lot of stamina. His cock must be red raw. Seems his keyboard's a bit sticky as well.
Cheers Leg Iron, Prog.
"desicion."
Whoops, getting excited and finger slipping or just childish lack of spelling ability? Do tell.
Such a strange weirdo, this troll. Why waste valuable blog space with blank to over-dramatize issuing a demand for comment verification which makes NO sense at all. It isn't warped, delusional, demanding, not even childish. It just lacks total logic and thus intelligence. It's someone of no intelligence what-so-ever. How strange.
Oh yes. I'm very impressed by your razor sharp wit and perspicacity Mr Spark.
Can you do anything else?
I mean, like, go forth and multiply, for instance?
why thank you nisakiman, i hopefully wont be too boring cos there is a variety of disruption available
Oh, Sparky, you've been trolling your own blog! Am I sure it's you? Certain.
Waitrose.
But I think it's only rum-flavoured nowadays.
How about Chocolate beer? That should have the righteous jumping off bridges. With any luck.
Seems so...he may as well re-launch as 'Johnny no Mates'. Not that anyone would notice, let alone care.
Quite sad really...
Damn. Tesco closed at seven. No liqueurs tonight. I'll just have to dip a flake in my whisky.
come on legster, you make claims, you threaten and then you delete the shite and change the subject.
the trolling is getting longer the more you blag....your choice.
POST WHAT YOU HAVE
Bill - there are chocolate flavours for Electrofag. So you can smoke it while drinking it.
Sparky - you haven't yet understood the game, have you?
i understand exactly.
i troll and you delete...thats it.
if you have anything then go ahead and do what you have to. all im doing is pleading with you to post my personal information on the blog or act on it.
the game is disruption until you choose to end it
I have never posted anyone's personal info online and I am not even going to do that to you.
And no, that's not the game.
mind games...piss poor real piss poor fat face.
i know exactly who and where you are...its plastered over tinternet.
i think i've softened you up enough now so i'll admit what you knew anyway. i'm certifiably mad ... utterly loco.
mind games don't work on me because i lost mine a long time ago ... leave this comment here without deleting as there is no chance of anything else i write being as truthful.
everyone knows i have you running scared at my insanity ... i win.
nurse!
Of course you know who I am, you div. It's printed on the front of those books I'm selling. I lost any pretence at anonymity in April when that novel came out.
You're not scary enough to get into one of my stories.
the trouble with personal information and blogs is that stuff that they thought is hidden and forgotten can haunt them later...some folk appear to be chasing media careers , print, radio , t.v.
just a reminder to you bloggers out there.
so many email addresses...so easy.
now thats the game some wouldnt want played.
i am quite happy to keep the game to level 1 trolling like this...which you can end when you choose leggy.
if you choose to threaten and bluff without proof then i will turn the notch up and fire a few emails off all anonymous of course.
i prefer proof rather than bluff...bluff makes it worse for you
Cue Dickie reading every single one of Leg-Iron's previous posts to try to get ammo, and then claiming that he really wouldn't bother doing that because he'd only be censored, anyway...
By the way Dickie, love what you did with your hair. Is it gel or something else? And pull your pants up, man.
Yes, we can all see youuu!
"I wonder if that 'Old Jamaica' chocolate is still around? I haven't seen it for a long time."
Under that name, it's available, but only via mail order in the UK for some obscure reason. (Think it came from Australia for some reason.)
I found some for the OH a couple of Xmas's ago.
There are still some look-a-likey's around on the cheap however.
censorship...who gives a shite, i will get deleted and i accept that, it makes me smile leggy wants most of his posts kept secret too...lmao.
the game leggy has been playing is threats of exposing who i am...when infact its the wannabe media stars who have got most to lose.
Sparky, as you are aware, the only posts getting deleted are yours. Not one of mine has gone.
Yet you seem almost sane on Facebook. Still no shift key on your computer though.
This is just standard troll stuff. Claiming he's been threatened when he hasn't, while putting out threats to boost my publicity. Can't you come up with something new?
I bought some Chocolate Vodka recently at a farmers' market (which the Righteous, no doubt, believe to be the epitome of wholesome goodness):) Sounds disgusting but is rather delicious. A spirit with chocolate flavouring, drunk neat - the very thought should kill a few Rs from shock - an added bonus :)
You've reminded me that I haven't seen Old Jamaica for years but it shouldn't be so hard to make:
take a sheet of greaseproof, soak sultanas/raisins and demerara sugar in rum and spread over paper. Swirl melted chocolate over the whole lot and leave to set. (my adaptation of a Jamie Oliver recipe) :>
Jay
thats the new bit leggy.....ya know bloggers, celebs, some folk. (plural)
there is more than one of you with skeletons in ya blogs.
anything i send by email to anyone will only contain what the blogger has posted themselves.
anyway now we are backtracking on threats as the reality of personal information on bloggers and the damage it can do sinks in oh so slowly., we can return to the simple game of trolling and comment moderation.
one more threat of personal information without proof means one email gets sent and i will let you know where it went
PJH - It's probably because any mention of 'Jamaica' is likely to offend someone.
Jay - thanks for the recipe. I'll give that a try. I wonder how well it works with whisky?
what am i like? even after the medication i still can't stop coming here and showing myself as loopy.
of all the blogs in all the world ... i had to come to this popular one to publically soil my underpants with sticky troll joy.
your move, leggy ... make me cum again while i watch goatse porn
i couldn\\\'t give a shite about wether you posted my real name or not, i just know you havent a clue and despite my requests for you not to blag further you continue to do so.
i will give you this warning now....if you post a name , address or anything thats fine and nothing will be sent via anyonymous email as i will honour my promise not to do anything about that
if you choose to bluff and blag without anything to back it up an email will be sent.
this is not going to happen tonight because i have something a lot more interesting to do and you need a good nights sleep to ponder about comment moderation and blagging and emails sent to real people about real people.
Yes you did, No l didn't, Yes you did - l hate pantomime season, more so when it's so mind numbingly boringly performed. Will it be competing against the run of Mousetrap or will sanity prevail?
Oh, dear Dickie, goatse porn? I saw that picture once a few years ago, and have never let it back inside my head since. Strange that it should come so quickly to your mind (or what's left of it).
Spark Up - comment moderation will not be turned on. Why? Because that is the only thing you want. Why you want it, only your deranged mind knows.
It would make no difference anyway. I'd still have to go through the posts and release the ones from real people. This way all I have to do is tag yours and press 'gone' and they're gone. All your work vanished in an instant, leaving no trace. It only takes a minute.
As to your threats, are they the same as you used on Pat? What do you imagine you can achieve by Emailing bits of a blog that is already available to the entire planet? Anyone with a computer can read everything that's written here.
Everything.
I've found that chocolate, Old Jamaica, on Amazon of all places...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cadbury-Bournville-Old-Jamaica-180g/dp/B003VRU504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325018053&sr=8-1
I think I'll see if they do mint cracknel, aztec bars and spangles as well :)
Truth be told, I actually stopped buying any Cadbury's product when Kraft bought them out.
A few weeks later, I was vindicated as, after assuring everyone that production in this country was safe, Kraft closed the Bristol (?) factory, and moved its production to ... Poland!
Also why I avoid all Heinz products, including HP Sauce and Lea & Perrins, when the Birmingham plant was closed, with production moving to that well-known haven of cheap labour - Holland.
RSP
I bought Old Jamaica in Tesco a couple of weeks ago, first time I had seen it for ages. Still tasted as nice.
Winston - Amazon stock everything now - and if they don't stock it themselves, they link to a man who does. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find Man with a Van on there one day.
RSP - I'm not much of a chocolate eater, and when I do it's normally Galaxy. As for HP sauce, it's not the same as it used to be. I can never understand why a company takes over a successful product line and then buggers it up.
Dear "spark up",
Do be a good chap and fuck the fuck off, you cunt.
Yours,
AS
Disrupted, Dickie?
What exactly have you disrupted? We right wing hate-mongers are still having fun.
I only like dark chocolate, preferably chilled.
I tried a warm Yorkie Bar once - afterwards I wanted to clean my teeth with one of those machines that they use to clean gum from pavements.
How can anyone eat that stuff?
Folks, just talk around him and I'll wipe him away like a tacky clingon whenever I log in.
Rob F - noooo, the chocolate must be on the point of melting to be properly enjoyed. All gooey and nasty.
This site seems to have a lot of the old sweets and chocolate...
http://www.sweetgreetingsshildon.co.uk/do-you-remember-/cat_23.html
winston - there was a shop in Cardiff that had all the 1960's sweets.
Unfortunately at 2020 prices.
Are you handing me clues on a plate here?
who ? me ? i'm sam@ sende.co.uk, do you mean me ? ive got an ancient website called, hang on a minute,
http://www.sende.co.uk/
i used to do fractals, i don't cope well with trolls at all. and im not liking what i read righ now to the pont where i keep on looking t comments even if im sure ive said nothng wrong, it so disquientens me.
sam- things are a bit delicate around here at the moment. I have a few lines out and I'm waiting for a bite. Some components of your comment sounded like bait taken.
I like your work. Do you do book covers?
I worked in call centres for many years leggy so know how many disgusting, filthy and sad people are out there.
But I also know there are brilliant people like yourself and your readers which always gives me hope.
We'll have to have a meet up and get pissed up and laugh at the weird and disgusting side of humanity that we have to endure.
winston - if we meet, one day, it will be an evening the Ban Brigade will talk about for years.
For real brilliance though, take a look at sam's link above. I could sell thousands of books with those covers.
You know who I would erase from history if I could? Not Hitler, Not Stalin, but e. e. cummings. The twat made it okay to never use the shift key!
I'll check out those links tomorrow leggy.
Would be brilliant if we could arrange a good smokey drinky piss up ( and I don't even smoke lol)
Would be a good payback for all your years of blogging and informing.
Nighty night.
hey, i never use the shift key, i can't type for toffee, i do book covers better than type. i'm quite happy to do anykind of book cover you would like.
sam
Sam- I have sent a sample of the writing by email, so you can decide whether to be involved. I will not be upset if you don't like it.
"I tried a warm Yorkie Bar once..."
I think, in order to truly enjoy them, you have to drive a Scania... ;)
I've obviously come to this very late indeed but would someone kindly brief me as to what I've missed here?
This spark up chap and a couple of the anons which may well also be the same chap has a clear bee in the bonnet about something but I can't make out what his 'beef' is?
I have no interest whatsoever to be honest other than being fascinated by the ding-dong!
Mr Spark up, can you tell me what's going on please?. Something is driving you. I'm not out to score a single 'point' mate, I'm interested as such things do create....Honest.
And Leggy, I hope you got my pics demonstrating how to produce a real coffee orgasm......
Cheers.
Thank you for that.
I can (honestly) see how such taunts would provoke 'ire'. I really can.
My point, I suppose, would be that you are very clearly demonstrating that you have, in fact, been very much provoked and taunted and I suspect that others reading my reply here would concur with the view that you are having trouble containing your emotive responses accordingly.
I ask you to believe that I am coming from this from the perspective of the disinterested but interested observer as I have nothing to gain or lose by interacting with you and just happen to have spare time accordingly at the moment(yes, I am someone who has read leg-iron daily for some years now.) My perspective is more 'academic' than 'personal'. (The blank screens are inconvenient only so would have something to gain if they weren't there I suppose).
Reply with an appropriate response and you will be demonstrating a strength of character which is not yet apparent.
My name really is Andy and I'm just a regular guy with a regular job, family etc...
Thank you kindly for replying with your views above.
I thank leggy more for allowing the exchange on his turf.
Ok,
Thank you for that.
Andy
I really was trying mate.
Thank you again for clarifying matters in my mind.
I really do look forward to observing your input in the future. Quite fascinating.
Sorry Leggy, I won't trespass further on your time.
Andy.
There's an even simpler solution as far as I'm concerned. I'm going to continue to read the blog but this is the last time I read the comments until LI reports that the cunt has gone.
Thanks for making my day just slightly less pleasurable and may your next shit be a hedgehog.
AS
Angry Squaddie
I was also an angry squaddie for some years and see what you're getting at but wouldn't that be Mr Spark Up winning his battle which, as I see it, is that Leg-Iron SHOULD introduce moderation?
I know it's generally a somewhat petulant position for the parties to hold but if the stance is a principled one??......
Am I making sense?
What do you think?
Umm....who's 'shit' were you referring to?
Not clear.
Hedgehog shit, what shit do you think i was talking about
I was referring to spark off and his next shit resembling a hedgehog instead of a regular stool
You can even talk about shit on the blog in peace
fucking troll
Right, I'm using my my Google account from now on.
I must have really been getting to him.
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