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Should I stay or should I go?
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Please stay 195 31.20%
Go away 136 21.76%
Who cares? 99 15.84%
gently caress you op, your soccer sucks and your tea tastes like poo poo! 195 31.20%
Total: 625 votes
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Apr 8, 2012

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RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

Lots of people are dressed as George W Bush and protesting in London because Britain is in a time warp where we're 15 years behind the US.

I hope they don't do a war in Iraq.

Jose Mengelez
Sep 11, 2001

by Azathoth
anyone got any good trump x may slashfic?

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
Can't lay the may, sorry friend.

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



jBrereton posted:

Can't lay the may, sorry friend.

I can't think of any good things to rhyme with Gove.

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

Quote-Unquote posted:

I can't think of any good things to rhyme with Gove.

Can't gently caress the gove by jove

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

jBrereton posted:

Can't lay the may, sorry friend.

Posting lay epic may mays.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Jose Mengelez posted:

anyone got any good trump x may slashfic?

https://trumpbangsthings.com/

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
To be fair my people had to put up with Farage's poo poo for a few years now, and Boris a bit longer, without the rest of the world giving a poo poo about them.

Glad to know they're finally catching up aside making countless trump jokes.

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

Junior Jr. posted:

To be fair my people had to put up with Farage's poo poo for a few years now, and Boris a bit longer, without the rest of the world giving a poo poo about them.

Glad to know they're finally catching up aside making countless trump jokes.

Your people? Your.... your majesty?

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord

RobattoJesus posted:

Your people? Your.... your majesty?

down with the monarchy!

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

Junior Jr. posted:

down with the monarchy!

Ahh so you've learned that the British are opposite people who do the exact opposite of what anyone in power says

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord

RobattoJesus posted:

Ahh so you've learned that the British are opposite people who do the exact opposite of what anyone in power says

the PM and the royals don't speak for our country anymore, Dave already resigned and the queen don't give a gently caress.

It's time for a new voice! It's time to speak up for THE PEOPLE!

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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RobattoJesus posted:

Your people? Your.... your majesty?

You're majesty! :eng101:

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

Solice Kirsk posted:

You're majesty! :eng101:

Dammit, your rite

whatever7
Jul 26, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Is EU still the largest "single market" 'after UK gently caress off?

Can UK and US form a bigger "single market"?

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




whatever7 posted:

Is EU still the largest "single market" 'after UK gently caress off?

Can UK and US form a bigger "single market"?

Bigger by land area, sure. But not bigger by total number of countries. And China (or India?) still has the lock on bigger by total population.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

whatever7 posted:

Is EU still the largest "single market" 'after UK gently caress off?

Can UK and US form a bigger "single market"?

i just looked it up, and the EU GDP is $16.8 trillion and the USA GDP is $16.66 hail satan trillion. so its really close

the GDP of UK is $2.67 trillion, subbing that from EU makes them the second best once again :twisted:

whatever7
Jul 26, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Rutibex posted:

i just looked it up, and the EU GDP is $16.8 trillion and the USA GDP is $16.66 trillion. so its really close

the GDP of UK is $2.67 trillion, subbing that from EU makes them the second best once again :twisted:

Trans-Atlantic Union! It's on!

It's like the opposite Axis of Evil, but awesome!

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Blacktoll posted:

I read some noise about Texit earlier. I'd like to say that as an American, we'd have no problem murdering every texan in a civil war, keep the state and let Mexicans come in a droves.

You're some kind of retard who believes fox news huh

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
the amount of people calling for texit is like a thousand people

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

whatever7 posted:

Trans-Atlantic Union! It's on!

It's like the opposite Axis of Evil, but awesome!
ahem its called Oceania! big Trump Loves you :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P5ZptGNg2Q

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

whatever7 posted:

Trans-Atlantic Union! It's on!

It's like the opposite Axis of Evil, but awesome!

Oceania?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

RobattoJesus posted:

hosed up, how can someone who has sorta lied about a thing ever hope to become a politician.

I can't tell if the reason you would know such a trivial thing about a dude who is so non-famous he doesn't have a Wikipedia page is because you're a crazy person who tries to get people deleted from Wikipedia or you're a ukip supporter who doesn't want a brown person as leader?

Neither, I just googled his name. I think it would be pretty :lol: if UKIP had an ex-Muslim immigrant heading it.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

whatever7 posted:

Trans-Atlantic Union! It's on!

It's like the opposite Axis of Evil, but awesome!

Someone should jump a rocket cycle over the Atlantic so we could call it the Axis of Evel Knievel.

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!

whatever7 posted:

Trans-Atlantic Union! It's on!

It's like the opposite Axis of Evil, but awesome!

yeah, sure, lets go with the opposite

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Rutibex posted:

ahem its called Oceania! big Trump Loves you :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P5ZptGNg2Q

well we're following everything else in the book like it was an instruction manual so we might as well do the Oceania thing too

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

SplitSoul posted:

Neither, I just googled his name. I think it would be pretty :lol: if UKIP had an ex-Muslim immigrant heading it.

Ok that's cool. :same:

When I googled him I just saw a few links to people who seemed to not like jews calling the dude a race traitor and slowly backed away from the computer.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

cock hero flux posted:

it's great that somehow all of the internet socialists are now yelling about how much they hate the poor and democracy and love the stock market and free trade agreements

who the gently caress are you talking about? not me :colbert:

Mr Havafap
Mar 27, 2005

The wurst kind of sausage
It's been two weeks and I still can't wrap my head around this clusterfuck. Everybody digging a hole expecting their opponent to fall in, with the result that now everyone is at the bottom of said hole.
With no way out.
On one hand I'm mad at yet another example of imbecilic arrogance, on the other hand I'm happy it finally blew up in their face.
And Blair (maybe) getting his comeuppance is just icing on the cake.

Lol at everyone thinking the UK is a democracy, be it in theory or in practice.

The House of Lords, so .. representative.

If anyone is wondering, the Queen can, and will meddle with democratic process, ask any Australian over the age of 40.

Remember in 1980 when the Royal Navy came to the rescue of the British citizens of the Falkland Islands?
Never happened, Falklanders didn't become full citizens until 1983. Before that they were British Dependent Territories citizens.
Which is to say restricted in their right to enter and stay in the UK, and with no right to vote.
Which is to say, second class citizens. Name me one other first world country that does this.

And what to say of Boris Johnson and James Cameron?
Well they go way back, both attended Eton but more importantly were members of the Bullingdon Club, famous for fostering sound values in young boys, it's only right that they should lead the country.

And then you have the abandoned, the disenfranchised, the made irrelevant by Thatcher and ignored ever since.
They didn't vote out of the EU (referendums almost never are about the issue have you noticed?), they voted "gently caress you establishment, we're going down and you're coming with us."
You can't really sweep that under a rug.

I mean sure, you can have Parliament ignore the referendum, you could not invoque Article 50 and pretend nothing happened.
Good luck with that though..

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Mr Havafap posted:

Remember in 1980 when the Royal Navy came to the rescue of the British citizens of the Falkland Islands?
Never happened, Falklanders didn't become full citizens until 1983. Before that they were British Dependent Territories citizens.
Which is to say restricted in their right to enter and stay in the UK, and with no right to vote.
Which is to say, second class citizens. Name me one other first world country that does this.

not sure if the US is considered a "first world country" these days (all of that terminology is completely out of date as of 1991 anyway), but we do have several island territories with residents that are not full American citizens and, even in some of the cases where they are considered citizens, they still cannot vote in national elections (though they can vote in primaries)

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Earwicker posted:

not sure if the US is considered a "first world country" these days (all of that terminology is completely out of date as of 1991 anyway),

It's definitely outdated but almost never used correctly to begin with, especially with the "third world".

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

Mr Havafap posted:

It's been two weeks and I still can't wrap my head around this clusterfuck. Everybody digging a hole expecting their opponent to fall in, with the result that now everyone is at the bottom of said hole.
With no way out.
On one hand I'm mad at yet another example of imbecilic arrogance, on the other hand I'm happy it finally blew up in their face.
And Blair (maybe) getting his comeuppance is just icing on the cake.

Lol at everyone thinking the UK is a democracy, be it in theory or in practice.

The House of Lords, so .. representative.

If anyone is wondering, the Queen can, and will meddle with democratic process, ask any Australian over the age of 40.

Remember in 1980 when the Royal Navy came to the rescue of the British citizens of the Falkland Islands?
Never happened, Falklanders didn't become full citizens until 1983. Before that they were British Dependent Territories citizens.
Which is to say restricted in their right to enter and stay in the UK, and with no right to vote.
Which is to say, second class citizens. Name me one other first world country that does this.

And what to say of Boris Johnson and James Cameron?
Well they go way back, both attended Eton but more importantly were members of the Bullingdon Club, famous for fostering sound values in young boys, it's only right that they should lead the country.

And then you have the abandoned, the disenfranchised, the made irrelevant by Thatcher and ignored ever since.
They didn't vote out of the EU (referendums almost never are about the issue have you noticed?), they voted "gently caress you establishment, we're going down and you're coming with us."
You can't really sweep that under a rug.

I mean sure, you can have Parliament ignore the referendum, you could not invoque Article 50 and pretend nothing happened.
Good luck with that though..

you sound really cross at the UK for not very good reasons

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Young Freud posted:

It's definitely outdated but almost never used correctly to begin with, especially with the "third world".

I'm sad that "fourth world" never caught on. We were taught the difference between third and fourth world countries in highschool, but I never saw it used in real life.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo
How do Lost World countries fit in?

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Earwicker posted:

not sure if the US is considered a "first world country" these days (all of that terminology is completely out of date as of 1991 anyway), but we do have several island territories with residents that are not full American citizens and, even in some of the cases where they are considered citizens, they still cannot vote in national elections (though they can vote in primaries)

Puerto Rico is gonna get so hosed by the PROMESA bill.

Elusif
Jun 9, 2008

Ocrassus posted:

Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them.

And you're right. Question for the Americans in the thread. What is your guys' opinions on the whole 'special relationship' schtick. Brits, particularly the media and politicians, love to gush at the thought that America treats us with a special reverence and respect it reserves only for us. Looking at it from your side though must be a bit different because in school you're taught about how you told us to gently caress off back across the Atlantic (conspicuously absent in our curriculum). You must think it's so adorable that we are perpetually in a state of 'Senpai loves me the most'.

As an american, I would lay my life down for the queen without hesitation.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Facebook Aunt posted:

I'm sad that "fourth world" never caught on. We were taught the difference between third and fourth world countries in highschool, but I never saw it used in real life.

I never heard of "fourth world" until today but you're right, it feels like there should be something for migrant or stateless populations, especially today.

I never knew there was a "second world" (which was used to describe Communist countries at the time) or what it meant even though I heard "first world" and "third world" constantly. And, of course, "third world" is pretty much a poisoned word, since it usually prefaces "shithole" or "hellhole" or some sort of descriptor for poor economic conditions instead of just being a country unaligned with the West or a former colony.

Mr Havafap
Mar 27, 2005

The wurst kind of sausage

Lichy posted:

you sound really cross at the UK for not very good reasons

OK gimme some good reasons then, wanna stoke my UK hatred real hard.

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vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Has Britain exited yet

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