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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I mix a bit of bicarb in with my toothpaste now an then. Tastes vile but does the job
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubeeRubee Posts: 8,932
    If that’s the flavour B3 I like it .
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It used to come in tins. It's a flavour I got used to to use it up but not one of choose
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubeeRubee Posts: 8,932
    I didn’t know that B3 .
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Had a Google. The taste/ smell is oil of wintergreen apparently @Rubee
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubeeRubee Posts: 8,932
    I wouldn’t have guessed that B3 .
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Yuk! I think wintergreen flavoured toothpaste is very popular in the US. As long as it’s got a decent amount of fluoride, I thought I’d be satisfied, but no, if it tastes bad, I’m not using it.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    KT53 said:
    steveTu said:
    '....That doesn't change the fact that a large proportion of those attempting to enter Europe or the UK are economic migrants, not genuine refugees....'

    What difference does that make? For 150 years Britain exported people around the globe as part of Empire. I wonder how many of them were wanted in the countries they moved to? Is it so unreasonable for others to want to try to better their conditions and share in the wealth that Empire and colonialism brought to the UK (and the west in general)?


    It's not in the least unreasonable for others to want to better their conditions, but they should do it by legal means.
    Do you think the people that emigrated from Europe around the globe did so 'legally'? I love the fact that the UK exported it's unwanted people around the globe - and then tries to build virtual Trumpian walls here to then keep other countrys' people out. Doesn't that strike you as just being in some way, vaguely, wrong?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    steveTu said:
    KT53 said:
    steveTu said:
    '....That doesn't change the fact that a large proportion of those attempting to enter Europe or the UK are economic migrants, not genuine refugees....'

    What difference does that make? For 150 years Britain exported people around the globe as part of Empire. I wonder how many of them were wanted in the countries they moved to? Is it so unreasonable for others to want to try to better their conditions and share in the wealth that Empire and colonialism brought to the UK (and the west in general)?


    It's not in the least unreasonable for others to want to better their conditions, but they should do it by legal means.
    Do you think the people that emigrated from Europe around the globe did so 'legally'? I love the fact that the UK exported it's unwanted people around the globe - and then tries to build virtual Trumpian walls here to then keep other countrys' people out. Doesn't that strike you as just being in some way, vaguely, wrong?


    Look at how our 'exported people' police their borders now.  Anybody without the correct documention, found to have entered the count illegally, or overstayed is out the door before their feet hit the ground.  We should do the same.  If migrants were aware that we would act to remove them they wouldn't be so keen to make their way in by illegal means. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Is being so poor that you cannot afford food, an economic reason to seek asylum, or a safety reason?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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