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Press 1 for shit news

Posted by Merk

June 16th, 2006

Categories: Express Watch, Front Pages |

26 Comments

  1. johnnyh

    Am I the only one who finds toblerone rock hard?

  2. Keith

    “Anyone can live long enough if they never have to do any work and live a life of luxury funded by the taxpayer,” says surprisingly miserable woman.

  3. Paul

    Free Toblerone for your fat kids!

  4. Dosey

    Toblerone, 10 times better than the Mail
    100 times better than the Express

    Call centres being moved back from India to UK? As long as they don’t move it so they get replaced by Liverpudlians, god, i can’t stand that scouser accent

  5. Chris

    To HM: No shit, Sherlock

  6. Raziel

    Toblerones cost £3.79 these days?! I’m aghast. I knew branded chocolate rises by about five pence a year, but that’s just ridiculous. I’ll stick to 400g bars of Galaxy (although they’re 22p more expensive than they were last year).

  7. Paul Worthington

    I hope Dosey is being facetious when he mentions Scouse accents…

    the Sexpress Readers I hear on the bus up here in Liverpool try their very best to avoid sounding “Scouse”, Presumably they assume the combination of “posh accent” and “express” means they will be real, paid up members of the blue blooded aristocracy…

  8. Carl La Fong

    I feel very disappointed today. For once, the Express comes up with a headline that is both good news and hopefully accurate. I hate bloody call centres.

  9. Jollity

    It’s probably a great big Toblerone, not a normal-sized one. At least, one would hope so.

    Anyway, I hate call centres too :(

  10. Alex

    Haven’t Abbey already moved their call centres back from India to UK? About a year ago?

  11. Larry

    I live in Switzerland and let me tell you no one eats it here ’cause its shit , made to be exported to less fussy countries who appreciate the irony of the mountain shaped pieces of choc..

  12. David PENRY

    Slap a Toblerone in the freezer for a couple of hours and then consume. My idea of heaven. Is it just where I live though or have they stopped making Culy Wurly – the poor mans Toblerone. I can’t find them anywhere.

  13. Raziel

    I believe Curly Wurlys (Wurlies?) are still available, there was a furore a while back about them having shortened gradually over the years whilst maintaining an increase in price, but I’ve heard that it was an overblown rumour. Not sure how they relate to Toblerones though.

  14. Larry

    Ah curly wurly..reminds me of the good ol days when kids knew their place and were happy with a hoop and stick and clip round the ear from constable Napweed for being naughty,tree house ,dens,no pedos and choir practice ,alter boys and the priest who told them they had to keep a secret..er hang on…

  15. Riesco

    What is the big deal, seriously, with Indian call centres? If people are rude, yeah, that’s a problem, but I’ve never come across that. What is so bad about hearing someone speak in a foreign accent?

  16. hel

    IRRITATING DIANA HEADLINES FACE AXE
    At last the Daily Express listens to its customers

  17. Chris

    Riesco, I have no problem with foreign call centres but bad phone lines and very heavy accents do make the operators hard to understand sometimes.

  18. matt hurst

    Depends with the Abbey if you get arsey they send you through to a different call centre.

  19. d.penry

    Hang about, Larry. All I was trying to say was I liked Curly Wurly and used to buy them because I couldn’t usually afford Toblerone. Don’t really want a sociological thesis on the product. Still can’t buy them in my neck of the woods!

  20. Moggie

    Curly Wurly was a stroke of marketing genius: as well as chocolate and toffee, they were selling you bloody great holes!

  21. dogtanian

    toblerone is my favourite chocolate in the world. i don’t even like almonds but the best bits are the chewy bits when the honey and the almond mix together.

    however, i think my 2nd favourite chocolate in the world may well be a curly wurly. i love them. i had one earlier this evening. i’d bought a pack of 5 from the supermarket and had one each evening this week – perfect!

    whoever was on about swiss chocolate: where in the uk can i get mama moo chocolate? it’s indescribably good….

  22. IanC

    curly wurly = bloody good chocolate.

    I havent seen one in a while tho, either.

  23. Blank-ette

    “Anyone can get old if one lives long enough”

    That’s a George Dubya Bush quote surely?

    Are the queen and Bush related? I think we should be told.

  24. Alec

    The express is bugging the queen in two ways now

    I love Curly Wurly & toblerone, oh and larry the reson we eat toblerone here is because thats the only swiss chocolate you can get here. i wish lived in Switzerland.

  25. hel

    “Blank-ette Says:
    Are the queen and Bush related? I think we should be told.”

    Well, you could say that they have a lot in common, like inheriting their jobs from their fathers.

  26. Choco

    I haven’t read the article. I am guessing the dog whistle issue here is “irritating” (i.e., Indian) call centres etc…, hence the otherwise unnecessary qualifier “British” immediately afterwards. Nice work.

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