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| Sandie Seward |
Long-term unemployed to be boiled down and used for soup.THE long-term unemployed are to be boiled down and used for soup, ministers confirmed last night.Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions have already drawn up a list of flavours which they insist will be bursting with doley freshness. The soups, to be sold in cartons at Waitrose and larger branches of the Co-op, will include broccoli and dolcelatte, garlic chicken broth and a spicy Mexican soup made with Geordies. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/new...o-be-used-for-soup--200807211110/ |
| Ken R |
 Don't like the sound of the last one Sandie, the Geordie soup, I'm gonna have to pray I don't ever get made redundant !
I reckon someone in government has been watching Soylent Green ! |
| Sandie Seward |
Soylent Green, Ken, one of my all time favourite films.
Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources on Earth. This leads to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, commodities are expensive, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers. The film overlays the science fiction and police procedural genres as it depicts the efforts of New York City police detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) and elderly police researcher Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) to investigate the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman named William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). Thorn and Roth uncover clues which suggest that it is more than simply a bungled burglary. The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973. 
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