My life rules

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Things life has taught me

1. Never never never eat white bread, or feed it to children, it just changes to sugar in your body, it is poison!

1. Never never never support slave based industry, eg cannabis, clothing made with child labour, UNNESSESARY TECH UPGRADES, like replacing perfectly good working phones for no reason

1. I'm sure I will think of more. Not much point in going into the environmental ones, like limit meat and diary, and never eat fish, don't drink bottled water etc, much debated elsewhere on Mumsnet

What are yours?

Always keep your mini penknife with you.

My rule is try not to do anything which does not bring me either money or pleasure.

I love white bread. Slathered in butter.

There is literally no physiological difference between eating a slice of white bread, and just opening your mouth and pouring a cup of sugar in.

This is not true.

Cannabis, round here at least, is grown in people's attics and does not involve slave labour.

I hate to agree with the OP but I've seen several cannabis farms raided - usually an empty house that's been taken over, electrics by-passed etc - but they will usually have someone living there to look after the plants. Those people are quite often trafficked, and therefore treated as expendable. The conditions in which they live in the farms are not pleasant nor are they treated well.

That aside, the rest of OP's witterings are twaddle. Eating white bread is not literally the same as pouring white sugar into your mouth.

To be fair, Vietnamese child slaves are used in UK cannabis growing. But doesn't a slice of white bread have less than 20g carbs and a cup of sugar about 200? I can't see how they're the same.

Mmmmm

White bread. With sugar on top

What you got to say about that OP?

You are most likely sitting not 10 miles away from slaves

I can neither confirm nor deny this, but there's a packet of white bread in the immediate vicinity. Do I need to be going to hospital or is it too late for me?

@HotToddyColdSauvignon my gran gave us sugar sandwiches for tea on Sundays, they were great.

@Hilda40

Try not to be a sanctimonious twat

😂🤣😂🤣😂

When someone tells you how honest they are, you can guarantee they're not.

If you have to constantly work at your relationship, you're in the wrong relationship.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Marry someone who makes you smile every day.

What about fairy bread? I think it’s popular in Australia. White bread with margarine covered in hundreds and thousands.

Cannabis farms indeed. It's not like you have to sit there and watch it grow

I’m amazed this isn’t better understood. The cannabis market in U.K. is worth over £2 billion. Not dissimilar to the UK cheese market. It’s not being run by Bob and a Christine in their shed. It’s a significant industry overseen by organised crime.

Farms need to be tended. Watered, fertilised and heated. Crops need to be picked and packed. Where domestic houses are taken over to rent often a couple of people will “live” at the property to try and divert suspicion. Warm houses with no coming and going’s attract attention.

The people who do that work are not being paid a wage. They have been co-opted into gang life or modern slavery.

Cannabis farms indeed. It's not like you have to sit there and watch it grow

Cannabis farms absolutely exist. I know this from watching many episodes of Police Interceptors, Traffic Cops, Road Wars and Body Cam Squad

Often they're in empty houses and yes, they involved trafficked people (often from Vietnam, and often children) who are forced to sit in the house and keep watch on the plants etc.

Cannabis farms indeed. It's not like you have to sit there and watch it grow

I never cease to be amazed at how fucking stupid some people are.

Even in the UK, which has a pretty friendly climate and plenty of rain, growing any kind of crops requires work. Tomatoes, potatoes, veg etc - you don't need to watch it grow, but it requires work. That's why farmers exist!

Cannabis is just like any other crop, except with the added difficulty that it can't be grown outdoors because it's illegal, and needs a lot of heat. The UK cannabis industry is huge, producing quantities that cannot possibly be supplied from a few plants in some hippy's attic. Of course it gets fucking farmed!!

@BrettAndersonscheekbones

You can never have too many black t-shirts.

Yes you can. I now have an incantation I say when looking for the one specific black thing I'm looking for in a cupboard of black things: 'I know what I'm looking for, but can I find it?'

You sound fun.

@MoonlightWanderer

What about fairy bread? I think it’s popular in Australia. White bread with margarine covered in hundreds and thousands.

I had it in Oz at my niece's birthday party.

Best Thing Ever.

have served it at every party my DCs have ahd since and no-one eats it the heathens.

DSIS also served 'Little Boys'. Which are mini cocktail frankfurters.

I hate to agree with the OP but I've seen several cannabis farms raided - usually an empty house that's been taken over, electrics by-passed etc - but they will usually have someone living there to look after the plants.

Unfortunatly, that is not the worst of it - These farms are not always set up in empty houses -even worse when the farm is set up in somebodies family home, and they don't dare argue or fight back - this leaves whole families homeless, with absolutely no hope of being rehoused, because to admit they were homeless or sleeping rough would mean reporting the cannabis farms, and they are too scared to do that.

If you pass a toilet while out squeeze a wee out as you don't know when your next chance will be.

Don't eat yellow snow.

@HotToddyColdSauvignon

Mmmmm

White bread. With sugar on top

What you got to say about that OP?

What do you think I am going to say about that? Its up to you, isn't it - as long as you are making an informed choice. Putting sugar on the top is neither better or worse than putting more white bread on top.

These eating habits cause obesity/diabetes/heart disease/ etc.

You just go ahead and make your own decision, its up to you.

My only concern is some people on this thread genuinly did not seem to know that eating white bread is the same, physiologically as just spooning sugar straight into their mouths.

However, you have been told - and if you are not sure if that's right, just look up the glycaemic index.

So you know, and are presumably still choosing to eat it , go right ahead, your decision , I don't have anything to say about it

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

I love white bread. Slathered in butter.

butter is hugely better for you than margarine!

@MoonlightWanderer

What about fairy bread? I think it’s popular in Australia. White bread with margarine covered in hundreds and thousands.

This post has made really nostalgic!

I LOVED fairy bread as a child. makes note to add hundreds and thousands to the shopping list

However, you have been told

Cannabis farms indeed. It's not like you have to sit there and watch it grow

Do you really, truly, honestly not understand how cannabis is supplied? Who do you think plants it, weeds it, monitors it, controls the temperature around it, controls pests on it, thins it, harvests it, lights it, irrigates it, weighs it, packs it, stores it ........

Who maintains the building, the electrics, the water supply, the lighting systems, the room dividers, the fertilisers, the black outs, all the equipment, all the environmental controls?

And given how labour intensive it is, how do you think the price is kept so low, if the labour isn't being done by slaves?

There are thousands of child slaves working on UK cannabis farms all around us right now.

I don't really see how anyone can fail to realise that.