I 'm just back from a short stay in Britain. I don’t know what others think but I’m really cheesed off with the fact that, when living in my house in France, I cannot have legal access to the full range of services offered by the BBC. Despite the fact that I have a second home in Blighty and pay for a TV licence.
I had the feeling that the BBC was a little too much pro-Brexit. I could imagine that EU membership might present future problems when it came for rights issues.
Next Item. Bars of soap. I could not buy a bar of soap in the local supermarket. Soap only came in plastic bottles equipped with pump actions. So much for saving the planet. Must check over here!
I don’t think Brexit is to blame for your lack of approved and legal ways to access UK content - it used to be easy enough with a satellite dish but the days of Freesat are numbered and much content is delivered via the 'net where it is harder to circumvent access controls.
As for soap - I can only suggest that you bring it from the UK when you visit. It depends somewhat what you are after - Amazon.fr does seem to carry some solid bars but a lot of it is liquid soap in a dispenser.
Around us there are shops that sell bars of lots of different soaps, also market stalls. We also buy refills for liquid soap dispensers, rather than buy a new one each time. Last time I was in Lidl, they were selling refills.
You looked in the wrong place, I use bar soap and have never had the slightest difficulty finding it in any supermarket. The bio shops are full of them too. If in doubt ask at the accueil. A bar of soap is une savonnette. Oh hang on do you mean in the UK or in France?
Having worked for Unilever I can tell you the profits on liquid soaps are absolutely huge compared to the already perfectly adequate margins on bar soaps Hence the move to liquid soaps and s*d the fact that it’s environmentally stupid that most of a truckload of liquid soap being carried around is just water.
Granted liquid soaps have some advantages sometimes in ease of use but is it worth the extra cost?
As I pay for Netflix and Prime and via a login can watch content wherever I am. The robing bastards at the BBC should provide the same facilities to those of us paying for a licence.
It’s a syndet (synthetic detergent). You’ll notice that they call it a “beauty bar,” not soap. Just looking at the list of ingredients is enough to put me off—I prefer my Marseille soap!