How has 2022 been so far? How's the economy affecting you? Any tips?

[Dan]

How has 2022 been so far? How's the economy affecting you? Any tips?

This email has been sent to all members of the forum. I thought we could help each other out.

How is your business doing? How has the economy (and I hear recession being said here and there in the news now) affected you at home and your business?

Any tips for these big fuel bills, energy bills etc?

 

[UNG]

Never mind the interest rates or the price of fuel, I had a shock when I went to Morrisons earlier Diet coke £11 for a box of 24 sad very sad.

Diet Coke or any diet drink should be taxed out of existance for me filling people with that artificial sweetener aspartame should be made a criminal offence

 

[pirate]

hONESTLY? So cheap! Try buying a can of Coke in a motorway service station!
2 litres of gin on the plane here...£24!
£12/litre at 47.3%...
now, where was i?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Never mind the interest rates or the price of fuel, I had a shock when I went to Morrisons earlier Diet coke £11 for a box of 24 sad very sad.

Likewise picked up a tin of Heinz Beans in M&S garage the other day was £1.40 , world has gone nuts

 

[Dustydazzler]

Diet Coke or any diet drink should be taxed out of existance for me filling people with that artificial sweetener aspartame should be made a criminal offence

Is that the chemical that give some people the trotts

 

[UNG]

Is that the chemical that give some people the trotts

It can do different things to different people, it gives me a bad itchy irritating rash, I have read that in some people the alcohols in it can lodge in the brain and cause brain damage although there is a lot of questionable science that suggests it is perfectly safe

 

[nicebutdim]

Is that the chemical that give some people the trotts

Think that's sorbitol, often found in sugar free mints.

 

[mainline]

Likewise picked up a tin of Heinz Beans in M&S garage the other day was £1.40 , world has gone nuts

Ohhh don't talk about nuts waitrose cashew nuts £6.

 

[littlespark]

I drink full fat red coke. Sugar tax… it’s about 13 quid for 24 cans!

Still cheaper than buying them one at a time.

 

[mainline]

It can do different things to different people, it gives me a bad itchy irritating rash, I have read that in some people the alcohols in it can lodge in the brain and cause brain damage although there is a lot of questionable science that suggests it is perfectly safe

The debate over whether it's good or bad has been going on for decades, mostly stemming from an internet hoax.

In a story about aspartame misinformation, “methanol can produce the known carcinogen formaldehyde” The body actually produces and uses 1,000 times more formaldehyde than you could consume through aspartame. After helping to make important proteins, formaldehyde gets turned into formic acid and exits the body through urine.

Aspartame is considered one of the most thoroughly tested food additives in the world
it is safe to consume for everyone except phenylketonurics

 

[pirate]

Sugar free mints, eh?
Here is the logo from a courier service near me...

 

[UNG]

The debate over whether it's good or bad has been going on for decades, mostly stemming from an internet hoax.

In a story about aspartame misinformation, “methanol can produce the known carcinogen formaldehyde” The body actually produces and uses 1,000 times more formaldehyde than you could consume through aspartame. After helping to make important proteins, formaldehyde gets turned into formic acid and exits the body through urine.

Aspartame is considered one of the most thoroughly tested food additives in the world
it is safe to consume for everyone except phenylketonurics

Aspartame may be one of the most thoroughly tested food additives it doesn't necessarily mean it is 100% safe

There are many articles regarding misinformation about aspartame and there as just as many if not more that argue the total opposite

 

[i=p/u]

They say ants will gorge a pile of sugar on the ground but leave the pipe of aspartame..

 

[mainline]

Aspartame may be one of the most thoroughly tested food additives it doesn't necessarily mean it is 100% safe

There are many articles regarding misinformation about aspartame and there as just as many if not more that argue the total opposite

I don’t think it should be massively taxed or banned though just because someone thinks it causes gives them an itchy bottom, that could just be the washing powder

 

[mainline]

They say ants will gorge a pile of sugar on the ground but leave the pipe of aspartame..

Wonder how many people have tripped over those pipes of aspartame

 

[i=p/u]

Wonder how many tried to sniff it