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Cerebral Bore posted:Schultz might be the dumbest Soc Dem party leader in all of western Europe right now, and that's saying a lot. Hope they kick him out and replace him with somebody competent. If there was ever any proof needed that the EU attracts only the least visionary and most of incompetent of politicians, we have Schultz.
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forkboy84 posted:Does he just want to finally kill off the SPD? Is Martin Schulz secretly a Trot infiltrator finally getting revenge on the party for murdering Rosa and Karl? Or is he just another dumb and venal third way neoliberal who is too short sighted to see people's growing frustration with the SPD continually propping up the CDU? Schultz and the SPD are maybe not the last, but certainly the last great highlight, of these awful centrist, third-way, Schroeder-Clinton-Blair-Kok parties who are utterly unmoored from the people the nominally represent, but who really love and are part of the professional managerial class. Of course they'll go along with the CDU in yet another Grand Coalition and I hope to God it finishes them off like it did the Dutch Labour party. Only if the second-rate guardians of a creditors paradise (to use Mark Blyth's term) die off can we create something better. Also Schultz is an unbelievably vain egomaniac who needs to hear that he has power and is loved by millions, so being in government next to Merkel gives him a raging hardon. So in that sense, it's short term pain in exchange for accelerationism.
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e. Misread, nevermind.
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Junior G-man posted:Schultz and the SPD are maybe not the last, but certainly the last great highlight, of these awful centrist, third-way, Schroeder-Clinton-Blair-Kok parties who are utterly unmoored from the people the nominally represent, but who really love and are part of the professional managerial class. What about Macron?
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Kassad posted:What about Macron? He's just a straight up liberal.
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Lol I just remembered that another grand coalition means that the AfD would be the largest opposition party. That will surely end well for Germany and everyone else.
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This is funny. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42772609 quote:The mayor of Venice has voiced outrage over the €1,100 (£970; $1,347) bill that four Japanese tourists say they had to pay for four steaks, a plate of fried fish, water and service.
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Jan 25, 2018 13:52
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why didn't they check the prices out before ordering?
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Orange Devil posted:When in doubt, assume the dumbest option is true. ...Schultz has been dead since 2017 and this has actually been Merkel in a fake beard the whole time?
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large adult son posted:why didn't they check the prices out before ordering? Maybe they forgot the order of magnitude difference between yen and euros?
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Tesseraction posted:Maybe they forgot the order of magnitude difference between yen and euros? 1000 yen is like 8 euros,they must have though they found a really really low cost restaurant.
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Maybe it was just a lovely scam designed specifically to prey on naive tourists, because there's no goddamn way a steak should ever be that expensive. 300 euro per person is around what you could reasonably expect to pay for two- or three-Michelin star meals in some places.
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large adult son posted:why didn't they check the prices out before ordering? Venice is notorious for scams like Fillet Steak: 30eur* * per 25g
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It says they are students in Bologna, so I doubt there was any "Oh, ¥300 for a steak? What a bargain!" confusion. lovely tourist trap restaurants like that are everywhere. They're very friendly and will just start bringing you drinks and recommending food without showing a menu, then slap you with a ridiculous bill. An acquaintance of mine got stung by one of these places in Prague a few years ago. He was hungry and wandered into a place near his hotel where the waitress was very attentive and immediately brought him a beer and recommended an entree without ever giving him a menu. After two glasses of crappy beer and some chicken that was heated up in the microwave he got a bill for the Kč equivalent of €50.
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Good ol' Venetia, some things never change.
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The_Franz posted:It says they are students in Bologna, so I doubt there was any "Oh, ¥300 for a steak? What a bargain!" confusion. There's hustles everywhere. My favorite ploy was talking my group into walking several blocks from this Roman train station then turning around toward the station before hailing a cab for the Colosseum. I unbuttoned my shirt some, too, and hammed up my appreciation of the cab's AC a little. We paid like six euros, I think. It was pretty reasonable. Another group walked straight to a cab from the station, looking all fresh and air conditioned. They paid like twenty euros. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jan 28, 2018 |
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I'm here in Barcelona and no wonder this independence trash isn't going anywhere. Its all plastic flags and yellow ribbons, if you didn't know its almost as nothing happened or is happening. No real spirit, or effort. Sad! I did spot a true patriot though, dressed up in the Catalan flag from head to toe, holding a flag in each hand and singing, I think, the Catalan anthem. That dude had a look in his face of pure bliss(Super drunk). Rock on old man, keep fighting the good fight. Also the food sucks! How can a country stuck between Portugal and France, be this lame in the kitchen. Get this tapas poo poo out of here.
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Electronico6 posted:
Jesus Christ, just look at how many ways a single short paragraph can be wrong.
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PT6A posted:Jesus Christ, just look at how many ways a single short paragraph can be wrong. Its all same lame rear end dishes and the same poo poo. You eat one paella you ate them all, and its all there is in every corner. Also compared to Portugal, and France, you pay way too much for less food served.
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 Just get out of the loving Ramblas, man. Also, that rice dish they served you in a paella is not a Paella.
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Electronico6 posted:Its all same lame rear end dishes and the same poo poo. You eat one paella you ate them all, and its all there is in every corner. Sorry, you were scammed.
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Electronico6 posted:Its all same lame rear end dishes and the same poo poo. You eat one paella you ate them all, and its all there is in every corner. I second the others, I think that you got scammed, multiple times from the looks of it. Also the paella is a typical dish from Valencia, eating paellas anywhere else is a 'turistada' (=typical scam aimed at tourists). Nevertheless I must say that if one eats what one gets usually offered in bars, i.e. tapas & etc. for 2-3 days straight your stomach will start revolting against you. No matter how delicious it is.
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Nah. This aint my first, or last, trip to Spain. And what I see in Barcelona in terms of food is the same as in Ayamonte, Seville, and Madrid. Though in Ayamonte the food is still generally pretty good, must be the Guadiana. Ill take suggestions to find a cool place to eat that might change my mind. So far I found a decent tapas close that Miro park. Also im not even thinking of drinking water in Ramblas, much less eating out there. Though really, sorry Spanish goons, but Portuguese food and service is superior. Just start my lunch with a basket of bread and more pates than I can eat or go home. 
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It’s an unpopular opinion for sure but there is definitely plenty of bad food in Spain but that’s usually in (1) tourist infested areas or (2) places where there are three bars in the whole villa and you don’t have a choice. On the other hand, there is also some really good food so sorry about your bad luck.
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I tend to think Spanish food is vastly under-rated especially considering how talked about (and rightly so) French and Italian cuisine are. I've never eaten as nice of seafood as I did in La Coruña, a town I didn't much care for, but the seafood was incredible. And CHEAP. I've yet been to Portugal, but I get the feeling they have a similar thing going for them as Galicia.
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The Council of the EU has quote:13. In line with those guidelines, which further specify and develop the core principles laid out in In other words,
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History keeps repeating itself...quote:The German government has denounced experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.
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uhhh the human experiments were actually unrelated workplace exposure level tests
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Pluskut Tukker posted:In other words,  In other words, the UK will keep paying for most things but we get to spend it without their say.
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We'll have to endure 6 months of the Tories saying this scenario absolutely will not come to pass first. That they'll negotiate their way out of this, drat those overreaching Eurocrats. The EU needs the UK more than vice versa etc etc. Then of course, as on literally every single other issue that has related to Brexit so far, they'll realise the EU has stated its position and is completely inflexible on this and the UK will have to back-down and comply. Its amusing to watch the cycle repeatedly happen.
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What could the UK do about it, anyway? Leave harder?
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Deltasquid posted:
this is extremely cool and good 
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Deltasquid posted:
Afraid not. The budgetary financial frameworks have already been decided until 2021. It’ll be up to the remaining 27 member states to decide if the shortfall after that is dealt with by increased contributions from the remaining members or by cutting spending. Or maybe Germany can pay for it all. Pissflaps fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jan 29, 2018 |
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It makes sense that a period of transition is a period where they haven't fully left the EU. As for paying, yeah, they'll keep paying for all the stuff they have signed on for paying. There's really nothing shocking or unreasonable here. It's only a logical consequence of the UK's actions, and they will get to be fully out of the EU once the transition period is over. The transition period, by the way, is mostly for their sake so that they can try to smooth things out for their industries.
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Americans unable to navigate EU cities and find good food or recognize not-poo poo restaurants are kind of funny.
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Shibawanko posted:Americans unable to navigate EU cities and find good food or recognize not-poo poo restaurants are kind of funny. Dude, I'm Portuguese.
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Electronico6 posted:Dude, I'm Portuguese. I'm Spanish and Spanish food is much better than Portuguese food! I mean what do they even eat, fish? C'mon!!
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Everywhere I've ever been in Europe, if you can't find good food, the problem is you, not the place you're visiting.
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Elman posted:I'm Spanish and Spanish food is much better than Portuguese food! Wrong!!1! We also eat pork. A lot of it.
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Electronico6 posted:Dude, I'm Portuguese. Oh then it's fine. You are the nation which gets to make fun of Spain.
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