It seems that Walker's idea of swapping round the colours between packets of salt'n'vinegar and cheese'n'onion crisps still hasn't gained acceptance; only 49% got the right answer in last week's Fun Online Poll (I cheerfully admit that I popped down to the kitchen to check - and yes, Walker's cheese'n'onion crisps really are sold in blue packets). Thanks to everybody who took part, as ever - it's not just me then.
The story about the US bombing a civilian village, allegedly, has inspired this week's Fun Online Poll. I've tried not to give 'leading' answers this time. Vote here, or use the widget in the sidebar.
Blimey - he's off again
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Golden Wonder and most supermarket own-brand crisps still have the colours the right way round.
And I suspect many people voted the way they thought it should be rather than how it actually is (in the case of Walkers, anyway).
Walkers Cheese and Onion are shite anyway.
Tayto Cheese and Onion from Northern Ireland are where it's at. 15p a bag. I'm off to NI in two weeks or so too. :-)
The only supermarkets round our way (Waitrose & Tesco) only seem to sell Walker's. I'd happily buy Golden Wonder if i could.
So these are not leading answers?
You may have identified THE issue - what is the mission objective - without it we cannot succeed.
However maybe option 3 should read:
"Western support can create a space whereby Afghanistanis can build themselves a civil society"
Maybe our objective is not to "civilise" the country (surely a loaded term) but merely to keep the war over there rather than over here. Even just to prevent the Islamists from having a viable base. In which case that's what option 4 requires you to say.
I was in favour of both wars - for me, the Iraq war was just finishing the job we started in 1991 - but have always opposed the idea of "nation building". It's a dubious exercise at best (and was just as badly done in 1945 as it was in 2003). All we should have done was go in with set military objectives - achieve them, then leave as soon as we could with the explicit warning to those nations (and any other who might be thinking they can't push us too far) that if they try anything again they'll get the same treatment. Maximum military effect with the minimum financial and human cost. Go in, kick the regime very very hard, then get out.
Afghanistan is a very good proving ground for troops, weapons (it has shown up the inadequacy of expensive modern weapons quite spectacularly in my opinion) and tactics, but serves no other useful purpose.
I'm confused. Hasn't Walkers cheese & onion always been blue?
MW: Tayto (NI) own Golden Wonder. They are still available but you need to look in the cheaper shops for them I think.
Sobers, no, they flipped the colours about nine or ten years ago.
Paul, I must look into that. On Malta, you can still buy GW crisps (maunfactured in the UK!) in all sorts of weird and wonderful flavours (grey squirrel with chives, roadkill with dandelion, you name it). How some they're so hard to find in the UK?
@ Anon - may I refer you to Stan's excellent summing up?
Morrisons sell golden wonder multipacks of crisps, well in Scotland anyway.
GW cheese and onion are far superior to the Walkers version.
Wm Morrison's it is then! There's one a couple of miles up the road from us.
"On Malta, you can still buy GW crisps (maunfactured in the UK!) in all sorts of weird and wonderful flavours (grey squirrel with chives, roadkill with dandelion, you name it)."
Oh, but Walkers recently did their best to remedy the lack of odd flavours.
Confession time: I never could bring myself to try the chilli and chocolate one...
MW: Malta is an excellent place. Only in Malta can you look across the Mediterranean drinking a pint of locally-brewed mild while eating a packet of Walkers crisps while everyone else there jabbers away in the impenetrable local dialect.
Out of all my travels I have slowly come to realise that the traditional Britain isn't to be found in Britain any more - Malta would have every right to turn its back on us considering the treatment our government has gave them down the years but they haven't, by and large. They haven't done too many things since independence either - apart from joining the EU, that is.
Whoops - should read 'too many stupid things'.
Paul, I think that should read "while eating a packet of Golden Wonder crisps" as well, but I get your drift.
I did think about that but I couldn't remember how widely available they were from the last time I visited.
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