Aldi Shopper Spots Customer Tampering With Eggs

An Aldi customer who was claimed to have been seen swapping eggs from one box to another in the store has been criticised on social media as people branded her actions as incredible and unfair.

And furious Aldi customer says she warned staff after watching a fellow customer tamper with eggs before putting some back onto the racks.

She explained that while she was shopping at her local Aldi, she was standing behind a lady waiting to pick a box of eggs when she noticed she was opening cartons.

Numerous customers will look inside the box to ensure none of the eggs have been damaged, but she claims this customer was transferring free-range eggs and regular eggs between the cartons.

And she wrote on the Aldi Mums Facebook group that she’d noticed her switching eggs from one box to another, but wasn’t certain what she was doing until she put the cage-free box back.

She switched caged ones with cage-free eggs.

Free-range eggs are believed to be more ethical, but it seems the customer didn’t want to pay the higher price that came with it.

Not only would the move defraud the system by getting herself free-range eggs for a reduced price, but she also left the regular eggs in a free-range box for another clueless patron to pick up.

As reported by Yahoo, the customer who witnessed the deception, believed to have taken place in Australia, said she alerted a manager about the incident but the customer had already left before they could intervene.

However, people have probably been swapping eggs for years, but the point of this is that with COVID, people should quit messing about with food, and this should be a criminal infraction because food should never be tampered with, and this might sound ridiculous, but what she did was a type of theft.

Traveller Funeral Organisers Fined £10,000 After 150 Mourners Parade Through Town

A family has been fined £10,000 for arranging a funeral march which saw a considerable number of mourners parading through a town centre.

About 150 people from the traveller community assembled for the funeral of Joe Rooney on Monday morning in Kettering, Northamptonshire, forcing police in riot gear to be deployed.

The popular 47-year-old, known as Gypsy Joe died after his Audi A8 collided into a tree on October 25.

Horse-drawn carriages and an entourage of seven Rolls Royces guided the procession to St Edward’s Roman Catholic Church.

Photos show enormous crowds ignoring social distancing rules as they followed the coffin to the church and police had to put roadblocks and provide a police escort as the procession brought the town centre to a deadlock.

Northamptonshire Police said that they’ve had to issue their first £10,000 penalty to the organisers for their total disrespect of COVID 19 rules.

Under the existing guidelines in England, funerals are restricted to 30 people.

Chief constable Nick Adderly emphasised that numerous people have been forced to say goodbye to their loved ones in limited numbers and difficult circumstances during the lockdown.

He added that it was quite frustrating when they see a bunch of people with no respect for other people’s safety, totally disregarding the rules and having the kind of funeral many people would love to have had but have been unable to have, just because they believe they are above the law.

Chief constable Adderly added that while he, of course, sympathises with anyone who has lost a loved one, it can’t be one rule for some people and another rule for others and that no one is above the law.

And this is why Northamptonshire Police is aspiring to issue its first £10,000 fine to the organisers of this funeral for their total insolence of the restrictions put in place to keep us all safe.

He said that this may seem like a harsh course of action to some but that he did not apologise whatsoever when he’s seen so many heartbreaking sacrifices made throughout the pandemic by law-abiding citizens that he has a duty towards.

Police attended the wake in riot gear and turned away several mourners and Chief constable Adderly claims he was pleased with how the force dealt with the matter.

Of course, funeral directors should have known better to allow this to happen, however, the travelling community have now said goodbye to their friend and family member and although we know that it’s wrong, they will be fined for it, and there isn’t much else we can do about it.

Although as a travelling community I doubt they will even consider paying the fine. It just demonstrates how wealthy they really are, not many can afford a funeral like that and if they can afford a funeral as extravagant as that, then they can afford the fine.

Mind you, saying that, the taxpayer paid 10K for that police escort, not bad considering these people weren’t causing a scene or any problems, they just wanted to give their friend a good send off and typically when there’s a funeral procession people keep out of the way out of respect.

Of course, evidently, no one is above the law, but just a reminder that Dominic Cummings decided he could travel, knowing full well he wasn’t supposed to travel, but there were no fines or consequences for him, and this is why people do what they want.

So, I’m not sure why everyone is getting their knickers in a twist about it – they disregarded the rules, they will get a fine, whether they pay it or not is a separate story.

People moan because they’re sheep, but they’ll happily send their children to school where germs are rife and go to work on the bus or the train. What does everyone think because Boris Johnson said children can go to school or we can travel to work that the virus knows not to infect us at those particular times, don’t be silly!

Put The House Of Lords In The Bin!

The House of Lords should be abolished and put in the recycle bin, an MP has asserted, as tension grows on the upper chamber of the UK parliament.

And just days after the Lords tossed a spanner in the works by thwarting the International Market Bill, calls are rising for the chamber to be jettisoned.

Presently, there are about 800 unelected members of the House of Lords, far more than the 650 MPs democratically elected into the House of Commons.

Inverclyde MP Ronnie Cowan has called for the upper chamber to be abolished, asserting it’s undemocratic, and in his blog, the SNP MP said that the unelected second chamber should be put in the recycle bin.

He said a bicameral system that scrutinises and guides has its place but that there are better ways than appointing Lords and Ladies, saying that citizens assemblies have been used in various ways since ancient Greece and that there’s a place for them in the 21st century.

He said that handing out royal baubles that honour subjects for a life time’s work doesn’t come close to paying them a better salary or financing the charity or organisation they have devoted their working life to.

He also took a swipe at the royal honours system, which recognises exceptional achievement and hard work and he added that showering wealthy celebs and sportsmen with honours was repulsive.

He said that the honours system underpins the aristocracy and the class system and that it supported the concept of a hierarchical institution – that it breeds superiority and privilege and that it promotes self, rather than society.

And Mr Cowan said the Lords should be part of a reform of British politics to create a system suitable for the 21st century which was forward-thinking and inclusive.

He added, one where academia, civil service, industry, finance, civic society and politicians can explore and develop new solutions – solutions that could be examined, critiqued and enhanced.

Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, is also calling for a reform of the House of Lords, proclaiming the second chamber required a radical rethink away from its existing London centric membership.

Douglas Ross, MP for Moray, stressed more non-England peers needed to be appointed from the devolved nations and he added that the one thing he found most unfair was the fact that over 40 per cent of the existing members of the House of Lords lived in London and the South East.

Most Lords are ex MPs and whilst they whine about it, MPs won’t get rid of them as they see it as a nice little earner once done with screwing us all over – after all, £300 plus per day just for turning up isn’t a bad day, is it?

However, they do provide checks and balances to our Government that can and often do get above themselves and they’re invariably on the side of reason and wisdom and act with objectivity and independence, although we should get rid of the unelected peers who are a waste of our finances and spend most of the time asleep – just a job for old codgers.

Tony Blair didn’t like the Lords blocking his policies, therefore, removed the hereditary peers and packed the house with cronies which has continued over two decades to where we are now, which says it all about how out of touch the whole thing is.

Perhaps they should be made to spend 8 hours awake, or forfeit their money if they don’t!

HOLY COW

Whether you prefer your steak super rare or extremely well done, surely we can all agree that cooking a steak is a fine art.

That said, one TikTok user has left the internet horrified after she put two perfectly good steaks in the toaster, and I wouldn’t advise attempting this at home.

Using the “#chef” hashtag, the American woman known only as Juliette captioned the video: “Cooking steak for my boyfriend.” And in the viral clip, Juliette crams two raw steaks into her toaster and puts them on a medium heat setting.

After flipping the steaks round several times, she then extracts them from the toaster when they were lightly brown on the outside.

Once they’d cooled down a little, Juliette proceeded to slather the meat in steak sauce and filmed herself taking her first bite, and while it might seem like a quick, yet extremely unhygienic mealtime fix, Juliette will have to deep clean her toaster after contaminating it with raw meat.

What’s more, the unusual method is less likely to cook the steak all the way through and leave it not just rare but raw in the centre.

The video has now been viewed over 1.2 million times, and needless to say, it sparked harsh debate in the comments.

“I just watched a crime happen,” one responded.

Another added: “Don’t toast it you Donut.”

A third quipped: “Did this today! Now I’m in the hospital.”

Meanwhile, others branded the clip as alarming and gross and were horrified by the lack of seasoning above all else.

Unable to conceal their disdain, another wrote: “You can tell how chewy it was…” shivers

For more food horror stories, this bloke tailored his McDonald’s order because he despised salad and people couldn’t stop giggling when they see it.

And these wedding guests were stunned when they were served crisps, croissants and fruit as a meal, and people branded it a ‘toddler lunch’. Plus a proud mum showed off her fussy two-year old’s lunchbox but it immediately made others freak out.

This was extremely disrespectful to the toaster and the steak, still each to their own, and I’m surprised she didn’t set her home on fire, with her boyfriend in it, and how on earth did she think she was going to clean the toaster after, when she’d put raw meat in it – hopefully she didn’t pop it in the dishwasher afterwards, or perhaps she thought it was a self-cleaning toaster.

However, it was a good way to cross-contaminate raw steak, then stick a slice of bread in the toaster – this woman should certainly come with a government health warning and these fools foster dangerous behaviour on these tinternet channels, and without fear of consequences, and this needs to change.

And these youngsters these days just don’t know how to cook and are extremely slothful in numerous ways.

However, this has got to be manufactured because she would have set the toaster on fire, so maybe she took a snapshot of the raw steak in the toaster and then cooked it in a pan – so please don’t try this at home!

Honestly folks, toasted steak, because of course, that’s really normal, although I’m not sure what normal is these days, but if anyone finds the hand brake for planet earth can you please pull it so that some of us can get off.

I wonder what Gordon Ramsay would think of this?

New Universal Credit Mobile Phone Deal

Households on some of the lowest incomes can now apply for a £10 a month mobile phone tariff and it includes unlimited everything.

Voxi, which has launched the new deal, said people on certain means-tested benefits, such as Jobseekers Allowance can sign up for the price plan.

The ‘For Now’ tariff, which uses Vodafone’s network, is accessible to those on Jobseekers Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance or employment-based Universal Credit.

It’s a sim only price plan, which means you can use it with your existing device and won’t have to pay an additional expense for add on services.

The plan is accessible for up to six months and can be taken out at any time before January 31 on the Voxi website.

To apply for it, you’ll need to confirm you qualify and claim specific benefits.

As a result, you’ll need to upload an image of your Universal Credit statement or a letter from the Department of Work and Pensions that confirms you receive state support.

Voxi said that customers will be immediately verified, meaning you won’t have to wait to be verified.

You also won’t have to carry out a credit check as it’s a monthly rolling contract which means you can cancel at any time.

The deal is similar to BT’s basic package which is aimed at those who claim Universal Credit and the telecom giant’s £5 a month plan has been developed in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions.

It costs £5.16 a month and includes a call allowance of £1.50, plus free weekend calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers lasting up to 60 minutes.

The tariff also includes a monthly £10 price cap on numbers beginning with 01, 02, 03, 07 and 08, which means you’ll never spend more than £15.16.

It’s accessible to anyone on Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance, Pensions Credit, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, providing you have zero earnings.

BT said this means that the claimant has no earnings from employment or self-employment during the assessment period for their benefit.

BT also offers a broadband option for those who need access to the internet, too.

BT Basic plus Broadband costs £10.07 per month.

The package includes the BT Basic £1.50 call allowance and a £10 monthly call price cap and there’s no connection charge for the broadband but customers will need to pay postage and packaging for their BT Home Hub, which is needed for BT broadband to work.

There will presumably be a bunch of people out there that will be saying that it’s a fantastic idea, but it’s a good way for them to monitor people on their texting and calling to see if they’re scamming the benefits system by having partners or jobs that they don’t know about.

They do the same thing to catch people out, spying on their bank accounts and what they have and what they’re buying, believe me, they’re not doing it for the sake of your health!

And it’s not like they’re giving it away for free, but now people that are on benefits can’t come up with the excuse that they don’t have any credit, but don’t stress, chill out because everyone will be on Universal Credit by January with the way that our Government is handling the COVID situation.

Secretly Relieved

Melania Trump has been quiet over the past week as her adopted country decided if her family would stay in the White House for another four years.

Has she evaded the limelight because of the outgoing US President’s tantrums over the election result that saw Joe Biden become president-elect, or is she calmly planning her next move, which could be significantly different to Donald Trump’s?

Nobody could blame Melania Trump for being relieved to say goodbye to her essentially undefined, unpaid, a high-pressure position as First Lady and Kate Anderson Brower, a journalist and author of First Women, a book about the partners of presidents said that she believed Melania would probably be secretly relieved because this isn’t what she signed up for.

So what will Melania Trump’s next move be? Will she follow other first ladies and go on to write a tell-all book, take up worthy projects, help her husband navigate his new endeavours, which experts say is the least likely, or just concentrate on her position as a loving mum and live life as a lady of leisure?

She has numerous possibilities, especially where the family might relocate to and whether she will choose to live with son Barron separately to her husband.

Speculation surrounds whether Melania and Barron will go back to New York so he can return to his former private school in Manhattan, or stay in Washington while he completes high school in Maryland, not far from the White House.

The Obamas stayed in Washington so their two daughters could finish up at their private school, but after January 21, Melania could return to the Trump Tower penthouse in New York City, the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, or head to the Seven Springs estate in Westchester and the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster.

Experts say it could be Florida because she voted in person at Palm Beach County, registered as the Trump’s official home.

Historian Katherine Jellison of Ohio University told USA Today she assumed Melania Trump would go back to Florida, or perhaps she will be able to persuade her husband to return to New York as their official home and resume the kind of life she led before the White House.

Anita McBride, who runs the Legacies of America’s First Ladies Initiative at American University and was former first lady Laura Bush’s chief of staff, said she felt Melania would concentrate on her family and her son, helping him to manage the transition.

Mind you, nobody actually cared about her when she was the First Lady and they probably won’t care about her after.

Fatigue Syndrome Exercise Therapy Loses (NICE) Recommendation

A controversial exercise technique used to address chronic fatigue syndrome is no longer being recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

The decision to stop recommending graded exercise therapy (GET), which involves gradual increases in physical activity to slowly build up tolerance represents a crucial victory for patient advocates who have long said the practice causes more harm than good.

Patient groups have claimed that the use of exercise therapy suggest that those with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME have no underlying physical problems but are suffering manifestations due to inactivity.

ME patient Glen Buchanan said that they have been widely ignored and had their suffering at the hands of this illness continually diminished by the improper and harmful guidance or notice that they can just exercise or think their way out of a physical illness none of them asked for nor deserve.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is believed to impact about 250,000 people in the United Kingdom and has been calculated to cost the economy billions of pounds yearly.

One in four are so severely impacted they’re unable to leave the house, and frequently, even leave their bed.

Other manifestations can include pain, mental fogginess, light and noise sensitivities, as well as trouble with remembering and sleep.

No effective treatment exists, although cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy have been utilised in an attempt to control symptoms.

Clare Ogden, head of communications and engagement at UK charity Action for ME, said that NICE’s earlier guidelines had been produced with what NICE thought was the best-known evidence at the time, but it’s become abundantly evident from patients that their experiences differed from that.

NICE last issued guidance on Chronic fatigue syndrome in 2007, but the new draft guidelines state that it’s a complicated condition with no one treatment suitable for everyone, especially where there’s a potential for an intervention to help some people but cause damage in others.

Even with the help from a specialist, only about one in 10 patients said that exercise therapy helped control symptoms, while almost half reported a worsening effect, according to a 4,000 patient survey conducted by Action for ME last year.

And following patient complaints, the NICE guidelines also highlighted that CBT was not a treatment or a cure, but may be useful as a supportive psychological therapy.

This is such wonderful news for some, and even though it might sound far-fetched to people who don’t suffer from the illness – increased activity at any level, can cause excruciating relapses and pushed repeatedly to do so, by the only sector of the medical community who seemed open to treating this horrible illness, is distressing beyond belief.

And when these people told their physicians that the exercise physically harmed them, they were largely met with funny looks and I’m sure that numerous people with Chronic fatigue syndrome will have sobbed with relief when they see this, and that finally, these people who are in charge have listened to the decades of research that discredited the ridiculous study they’ve been clinging on to.

In terms of the misinterpretation of the condition, this is purely graded exercise therapy to make sure that you’re fit for work for assessments – if you can lift your arms, back to work you go.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), whatever you want to call it because some people like labels – I love labels because it helps to know what’s wrong with you and that it’s not all in your head – mushrooms grow in the dark and these people are not mushrooms!

This is a complex chronic disease that presents with manifestations in multiple body systems – ME is a neurological disease according to the World Health Organisation.

Militants Decapitate More Than 50 People As A Football Pitch Is Turned Into A Killing Field

According to local media reports militants have beheaded more than 50 people in a football ground in a village in northern Mozambique.

The attack was carried out by an ISIS-linked group in the village of Muatide in conflict-ridden Cabo Delgado province and spanned several days.

A Mozambique news agency said the assailants set fire to several villages and assembled people they’d captured from nearby forests on a single football pitch, where the victims were then decapitated and their bodies chopped to pieces, while women from the villages were abducted.

The gas-rich northern Mozambique region has witnessed several harrowing attacks involving slayings by the ISIS-affiliated local group known as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamo, or simply al-Shabaab locally, though they have no connection to the better known Somali group.

In another attack in April 2020, fifty-two people were either shot or decapitated after they refused to join the militant’s ranks, while in March the militants torched government buildings including police headquarters in an attack that left dozens of law enforcement officials dead.

In May 2018, at least ten people were beheaded in two villages in northern Mozambique that are close to their border with Tanzania.

The militants have targeted isolated villages over the past months as they endeavour to exercise greater influence in the area, as a result of which thousands of people have escaped.

According to a BBC report, Mozambique’s government has already sought international assistance in preparing its troops to contain the rebellion.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, human rights activist tweeted that these were heinous and horrendous offences in the name of faith and ideology and that they must all unite to put an end to this totalitarian ideology that’s bereft of mercy and redemption.

International lawyer and human rights activists Hillel Neuer also voiced dismay at the incident, saying that fleeing villagers were captured, decapitated and chopped to pieces in an atrocity carried out from Friday night to Sunday.

Why has the entire world not stood together on this fight to protect lives? These people were farmers and workers and we need to have an international force to help protect them and it’s extremely difficult to comprehend this level of violence and someone should be protecting them.

This is horrendous and brutal and these perpetrators should be found and justice should be served.

The issue with this is that a bomb will be the thing that will do this and then blameless civilians will die, and then everyone will whine at the bomb droppers, but they’ll also moan if nothing is done – what would be good is if someone could bring these murders to justice.

This is utterly barbaric by an extremist militia, whereupon these poor people have to suffer and we can’t condemn a whole population for the actions of certain individuals, and there’s no depth to which the sheer depravity of these varmints will not sink to.

These are people that have been groomed and conditioned within extremist terrorist groups. These were militants, not Islamists and we should be cautious how we communicate and read things.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but it can get a tad disconnected, especially with all the media output, and it’s about time the media called them assassins or terrorists. There’s no need to mention religion, these people are killers, full stop!

The media is helping the terrorists get more popularity and also jeopardising the lives of people in other places and what ugliness this world is with poor people being killed in such a way and evil is evil in any language.

Prince Harry Deeply Saddened

The Duke of Sussex was reportedly denied permission for a garland to be laid at the Cenotaph on his behalf, in the latest sign of a family rift.

Prince Harry, who spent ten years in the armed forces, made a personal request to Buckingham Palace but was refused due to the fact he’d left royal duties in March.

The Queen was not thought to have been notified of the request or its refusal, which is said to have profoundly saddened the Duke of Sussex.

Prince Harry highlighted the importance of Remembrance Sunday during an appearance on a military podcast to mark the event.

On the interview with the Declassified podcast, he described the day as a moment for respect and hope and the ex-royal said that it was the act of remembering, of remembrance which was a profound act of honour.

He said that was how we preserve the legacies of whole generations and offer our appreciation for the sacrifices they made for us to be able to live the lives we live today.

In previous years, the Duke has celebrated the day with visits to the Cenotaph and Westminster Abbey’s Field of Remembrance, and he first attended the Cenotaph in 2009, aged 25.

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, was also not expected to attend the ceremony and Buckingham Palace refused to comment on whether Prince Harry’s request had been denied and Prince Harry’s spokespeople had been contacted for comment.

During the podcast, Harry even spoke about his experiences and said he treasured his association with veterans, describing coming together as like meeting an old friend.

He added that he will wear a poppy to remember all those who had served – the soldiers he knew, as well as those he didn’t – the soldiers that were at his side in Afghanistan, those who had their lives changed permanently, and those that didn’t come home.

And he said that he wears the poppy to commemorate the courage and determination of all our veterans, and their loved ones, particularly those in our Invictus family and he said that these were the people and the moments he recalls when he salutes and when he stands to attention and when he lays a wreath at the Cenotaph.

Harry started the Invictus Games in 2014 for injured, wounded and sick armed service personnel and veterans from around the world to compete in a range of sports.

Services for Remembrance Sunday this year are significantly impacted due to the pandemic, with a full lockdown in England and other constraints in place across the United Kingdom, with the UK Government urging councils to ensure remembrance services are brief, completely alfresco and held in front of limited numbers.

We understand that Harry left the United Kingdom, but he still served as a soldier and he served for a long time. He saw lots of his friends that he served with wounded, some of them died.

Just because he left the United Kingdom doesn’t make him some kind of robot, bereft of any feeling for those that died for our country. However, the people that are devoid of any feeling are the Royal Family, and it just shows what reprobates these people are, those boys weren’t even allowed to cry at their mother’s funeral – what are these people, monsters?

The Duke of Sussex, who now lives in the United States with his wife Meghan and their son Archie said that even when we can’t all be together, we always remember together.

This man, this human being, this SOLDIER served his country and he should never be denied!

Strictly’s Maisie Smith Finally Addresses Romance Rumours With Beautiful HRVY

Strictly star and Eastenders actress Maisie Smith has been shrouded by a barrage of love life speculation in the last few weeks and strictly fans very quickly picked up on her chemistry with co-star and main competition HRVY, a flirty social media exchange convincing them that the two would ultimately get together.

And now Maisie Smith has refused to rule it out but said not right now and she told a news outlet that he’s a beautiful looking guy, but that she’d only seen him for a couple of hours a week so she was still enjoying getting to know him.

She said that she didn’t know what would happen in the future, but for now, they were just getting along really well as friends and it’s been said that the BBC are keeping an extra close eye on the series youngsters to make sure there’s no kissing, banned by social distancing rules.

HRVY, meanwhile, wrote in OK! That he’d seen her the least out of everyone because she’d not been in any of his rehearsal spaces, but that Maisie was so lovely and beautiful and that she was a really good friend and that he thought she was an incredible dancer.

And he added that not a lot could happen between them because they have to be two metres apart, but that he was a little excited to see how things blossom.

At the beginning of the series, he said that he loved Maisie, she was a wonderful girl and that she had excellent repartee and he said that when he saw her in her blue dress last week, that she looked amazing and that he couldn’t wait to see her grow and look fantastic every week.

And they haven’t been bashful about a few flirty exchanges on Instagram either and after comparing HRVY to Justin Bieber, Maisie quipped that he’d just reminded her that her spaghetti was nearly done. HRVY came back and said stop flirting, you love spaghetti.

But HRVY’s been told that they both have to follow the rules, which means hanging out on set is a no go and he explained that he’s spoken to Maisie at the studios, but the thing is, legally he’s not even allowed to go near her.

He said for the moment he’s going to concentrate on the dancing, and that all that stuff can come second, but who knows what will happen after the show.

Maisie Smith is stunning and a fantastic actress and dancer, so who knows, she might even be good for HRVY.

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