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You've Just Steamrolled Over Red Herrings

People wanted to improve their drinking habits. They went to Asta and they saw a sign that was amusing or confusing for about a third of the people there. Was it something like it said free alcohol rather than alcohol free? You've just you're steam rolling through this question. It's excellent. And there's one bit here that we've carefully elided in the question here. When I said it was an Asta supermarket in Britain, you even write about the words they mixed up. Alcohol free. Instead, it was free alcohol. Why was it in Wales? Ah, you. Just there was one British person making just incredible deductions there. This guy just straight through this was I

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