It’s the ability to bring it back oneself from visits to the UK that’s annoying. Plus all the other banned foodstuffs of course. (haggis for instance)
Dreadful football match though, from a neutral POV.
What you need to do when you see it is have a word with the vendor, that is what I did with our local butcher when some appeared as if by magic and now, perhaps due to the fact that the owner is the Maire of that village, it appears to be in the bylaws for some to be put aside and me to be informed.
Not completely true of course, but some does get put aside for me each time the cheese fairy has visited. 
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Prophetic words.
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Also as fake as a 3 pound note.
I thought it was “as a nine bob note”, though a “three £ coin” might be a better fit for modern sensibilities.
But you are correct that Dostoevsky did not utter those words.
Sounds to me more like something scandalous Oscar might have said. He for whom the only thing more intolerable than a woman was a fool.
Fake or not, never a truer word and all that.
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Misattribution rather than fake.
Though interesting that people feel the need to appeal to fake authority otherwise their words won’t mean anything.
I’m obviously younger than you 
It strikes me that certain elements of society stopped thinking long ago and blindly believe everything on Facebook, YouTube etc.
It’s possibly an attempt at humour like the Abraham Lincoln joke about the internet.
Maybe - but i don’t see it as an attempt at humour. Well probably the Abe Lincoln and internet meme was as hopefully no-one would thnk that was real (but where we are talking about MAGA supporters one never knows).
In case anyone is wondering…
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I wonder if that fake Dostoevsky quote has its origins in this (genuine as far as I can tell) Asimov quote.
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Interesting, but one can argue too that there is also a longstanding upper class English (not British) tradition of anti-intellecualism, that has a rather different basis - we’re rich enough not to need to think too hard about anything…
What? You’re telling me that this isn’t real?
Of course not - they only had black and white moves back then 
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That’s chess. 
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