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by Canuk
11 Feb 2019, 9:01am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

PH wrote:
Canuk wrote:
Can't find your 650 million figure anywhere?

1.8 million McDonalds meals a day, try google.


Try posting a link that says 650 million meals served in France each year, because it didn't exist in any of your previous 5 years out of date references...
by Canuk
11 Feb 2019, 1:42am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town



Can't find your 650 million figure anywhere? 90 million tourists over the course of a year could easily consume 200 million meals though, doncha think? Your most recent link is from 2015...
by Canuk
11 Feb 2019, 12:21am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

pete75 wrote:
Canuk wrote:
pete75 wrote:It's strange then that Mcdonalds do more business in France than any other EU country.



Its not at all surprising , given that France is, and has been the No. 1 tourist destination for many years. If you look at locations of McD and concentrations you'll see theyre mostly situated round popular tourist destinations and attractions.

The French, as a rule (but of course there are exceptions) consider it food not fit for human consumption, and abstain from it in huge numbers. Why would you pay 8 euros for a Big Mac meal, when for only a few euros more you can dine on arguably the best cuisine and produce the world has to offer?

I suspect it's highly unlikely that most of the Mcdonald's in France rely on tourists for their custom. For example many of the former mining towns in Northern France and the run down areas of Marseille have Mcdonalds - not places many tourists visit.


I suspect you don't know France, or French people very well at all. If you offered the vast majority of French people a free Bigmac at McDonald's, they would not surprisingly and impolitely tell you where to wedge it.

You can still have a 2 course sit down gravy dinner with wine in most small towns anywhere in France for 10 euros. You'd have to be a clown of the first order to honk honk for an 8 euro offering from Ronald Mcdonald instead...
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 11:17pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

pete75 wrote:It's strange then that Mcdonalds do more business in France than any other EU country.



Its not at all surprising , given that France is, and has been the No. 1 tourist destination for many years. If you look at locations of McD and concentrations you'll see theyre mostly situated round popular tourist destinations and attractions.

The French, as a rule (but of course there are exceptions) consider it food not fit for human consumption, and abstain from it in huge numbers. Why would you pay 8 euros for a Big Mac meal, when for only a few euros more you can dine on arguably the best cuisine and produce the world has to offer?
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 6:40pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

The story I related was when they attempted to go mass market in France. Its well known what happened next. A gilet Jaune moment of you like. Macdonalds restaurant openings in France are still attended by protestors. They unlike the British still have a great respect for food and how its produced.

It was only very recently Macdonalds admitted that for seven years until 2011, restaurants in the U.S. used so-called ‘pink slime’ to bulk out its burgers.

The slime was made from pieces of flesh scraped from animal carcasses, spun around in a centrifuge, treated with ammonia to kill off salmonella and e-coli and then compressed together.

While such ingredients were never used in this country, where sales have remained relatively strong, a quick glance at sales in France show that market penetration in towns or cities outwith the huge French tourist trade is very low.

‘Is it true that Chicken McNuggets include the beak?’

Who knows what other lurid horrors they've got tucked away in the skeleton closet?
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 5:50pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Changing from 1st to 12th
Replies: 50
Views: 6658

Re: Changing from 1st to 12th

drossall wrote:We can't be too far away from the bike changing gears when you think about it. Just needs a Di3 insert surgically implanted behind your ear :lol:


Mind control of shifting is already with us!

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/ ... ere-31508/
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 4:32pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Body Clock
Replies: 25
Views: 2660

Re: Body Clock

Caffeine and alcohol before bed can affect different people different ways. I've a pal can down a strong coffee right before bed and he just passes out like normal. If have a coffee say after 6pm, I'm still buzzing at 1am. Doesn't work for me, neither does boozing late at night.
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 4:17pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Another iPhone question
Replies: 12
Views: 1248

Re: Another iPhone question

PDQ Mobile wrote:In the settings menu- messages- has a blocked option. Though it goes to one's "contacts" list on opening it.
Perhaps one needs to add the unwanted source to the contacts list?


I'm not sure that that will block unwarranted texts. Maybe calls from that number, in France you can phone up your provider with a list and they'll block em all on the network, before they can ever reach you.
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 4:15pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

Preston.

The bus station to be specific.
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 4:14pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

mercalia wrote:
well all ends that ends well then?


Ends well all ends that well end see?

I don't fancy your end much.
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 4:11pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

In the mid 90's Mcdonalds in a flurry of press and TV adverts opened 25 outlets simultaneously in France, at doubtless a considerable investment.

The next day the French government promptly shut them all down again, claiming that their promises to use only French meat /poultry, cheese and beer were reneged upon.

They stayed shut for a week, until Mcdonalds capitulated (at some expense given the cost of home grown near and poultry). To this day you'll see French flags all over Mcdonalds. They know what sides their parties are buttered on.

I believe in the uk they can source meat and cheese from whichever crap hole, chicken bleaching part of the world they feel like /is most profitable. You get the cuisine you deserve.
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 1:45pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Insulting advertising targeted at "Seniors"
Replies: 22
Views: 2244

Re: Insulting advertising targeted at "Seniors"

Cugel wrote:
Cunobelin wrote:Internet is better and worse.

I use Ad Blockers because I do not want to pay for the adverts.

However more and more sites block you if you use one.

Fine, I can find another site easily enough that does also their use.

Equally YouTube is more and more adverts. One I watched last week - over half was adverts.

Ironically I tend to avid stuff that annoys me like this, so in my case it achieves the opposite of what is intended


Those websites that prevent access if you don't turn off the ad blocker are often wholly advertsing sites anyway. Take Bike Radar - nothing but product reviews really, including the "reviews". Even the how-to articles are full of the push to buy some more stuff. I just don't go to such websites. After all, what are we missing? Nothing of any consequence.

Cugel


I'd you want to get around the Youtube wheeze of ever increasing advert frequency, download Tubemate (unsurprisingly not available on the YouTube owned Play Store), and hey presto you can offline nearly every piece of content from YouTube, Dailymotion and hundreds of other streaming platforms, all for free.

Buy a big hard drive 2TB for 40 quid and you can build a library of your own playlist to watch whenever you want offline or in places with no connection. I've got just about every British comedy show back to The Goons. You can also download audio (mp3 also)

I'd do it soon though, because eventually they'll find a way to block ripping encoders like this and then upto have to put up with their silly adverts ad nauseam..

Canuk: Bringing you the life hacks to get around those pesky advertising people.

https://tubemate.en.uptodown.com/androi ... ad/1768118
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 11:23am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Britain's Most Boring Town
Replies: 126
Views: 11089

Re: Britain's Most Boring Town

We once ended up in Barrow-in-Furness by mistake, on a sojourn through the lake district. It was like we stepped back in time into a wild west northern England. Coming to the end of the pier road we spied a pub advertising pasties. It looked like the kind of place even Norman Bates would write off as 'a bit rough'. I poked my head round the door to an empty bar, a dog with no tail and sea shanty decor straight out of Nicholas Nickleby. The barman had an eye patch of course. He made no welcome sign nor gesture.

We didn't hang around for the pie...
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 11:16am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Cameron: He's a Real Nowhere Man
Replies: 6
Views: 1104

Re: Cameron: He's a Real Nowhere Man

Doesn't have a point of view.

Knows not where he's going to.
by Canuk
10 Feb 2019, 11:00am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Charging Di2
Replies: 3
Views: 1744

Re: Charging Di2

I get about 1200 miles out of 6 year old Di2 batteries. When they were brand new I was averaging 1300-1350 miles on a single charge. For me that's a charge about every six weeks on my main electric shift bike in winter.
These batteries have been through Canada winters that would scare the living beejaysus out of typical British winter with extremes of - 50C and daytime averages of - 15/-25C. They have, how you say, been tested to hell and back.

Ridden mine through thigh flooded roads, deep enough to submerge the mechs and battery and no problems.