Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/31/uk-pound-shop-poundland-threat.html
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Poundland is an unfortunate name. It’s like the name of the place that Guy Fieri is hoping to take a date after going out to Flavor-town for dinner.
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The chocolate in GuineaWorld is fancier.
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I wish our Dollaramas had the range of electronics that bigclivedotcom takes apart from Poundland.
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The key is “cooking chocolate.” Cooking chocolate tends to not taste as good as candy chocolate, until it’s been cooked into something.
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It’s looking a lot like Grayling will have to nationalise yet another rail franchise, isn’t it? I like to think doing so results in some unpleasant autoimmune reaction and gives him hives.
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Even then it can be bad
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I think “chocolate flavoured” is a warning flag.
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They only changed that because the EU took away their freedoms told them that calling it chocolate was false advertising.
Back in the 1980s it was sold as cooking chocolate. I remember eating a piece uncooked as a child, I will never make that mistake again.
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Poundland chocolate responded to defend the quality of their chocolate, issued a legal threat…
A legal threat, over such a small and frivolous joke? Who would bother to mount a defense?
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Not really small, our disaster of a privatised railway is such an epic overpriced joke, that comparing it to a cut-price pound shop really is slander - To the pound shop. They deliver far better value AND performance…
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Don’t worry, he’ll only do it for the minimum possible period to get it back on it’s feet, then he’ll privatise it again ASAP.
Remember the Tory motto: ‘Privatised profits / Socialised losses’ AKA for the voter ‘heads they win, tails we lose.’
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Am I the only one giggling that they have shops named “poundland” in the UK? Oh, I wish I had found this when I went to visit…
If I am not alone, give me a like 
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It’s not the only example.
poundland
poundworld
poundstretcher
And that’s just my local town and those i can recall offhand, there’s probably more.
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Mr. Ashens does brisk business on Youtube toying with things from Poundland on his Tat Couch.
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Corporate feuds have become like rapper feuds - semi-staged opportunities for self promotion through dramatic juxtaposition of constructed personas.
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Yeah I rushed here to menton Ashens (here’s his entire Poundland / Poundworld playlist)
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So ‘Poundland’ is the UK equivalent of the Dollar Store; I never knew that.
But that name is still highly unfortunate; it sounds like Chuck Tingle opened a theme park.
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Oh, so THAT’S why my girlfriend gets that disappointed look when I tell her I want to take her to Poundland.
The ONLY possible reason.
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“Pounded in the ass by the additional purchasing power of the British Pound at Poundland relative to that of the United States Dollar at Dollar General”
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