Regarde Aduck posted:

Did none of you actually believe capitalism was the great beast that devours all around it and then itself?

Captain Splendid posted:

Freedom of movement for "proper Europeans"

Grape posted:

This is aging like fine wine.

An insane mind posted:

I honestly want Nigel Farage to just not exist anymore. Like, ooze away into obscurity you troglodyte.

Jose posted:

He's 5 years older than David Cameron lol

i say swears online posted:

Oh my god I have to quit smoking

Opferwurst posted:

I think it's pretty funny that Dave is gonna get permanent residence from Spain and the only people who will actually get hosed over by Brexit will be the young people and not Dave. It's hilarious

Elevator Screamer posted:

I doubt it. EU countries are only required to grant permanent residence to Brits who meet certain criteria - mostly people in employment who can contribute to their host nation's economy and who have the financial resources to cover their own sickness/healthcare expenses.

Individual countries can elect to offer more generous residency conditions if they wish, but I don't see Spain extending a welcoming hand to Costa del Gammon retirees.

Even if it did, they still wouldn't have European-style freedom of movement. If they wanted to work or seek residency in a different EU country they would have to go through that country's immigration/nationalisation process as a non-EU citizen.

And even then, this only applies if the UK agrees to the EU's exit deal. What happens under no-deal is anyone's guess.

Jel Shaker posted:

so all the yuuf Ibiza barmaids and barmen are kinda screwed and have to find a summer job in the U.K. instead?

JFairfax posted:

lol I am just trying to buy a house in Chicago.

you guys don't know what a property bubble is, this poo poo is stable as a rock compared to the UK market lol

An insane mind posted:

I honestly want Nigel Farage to just not exist anymore. Like, ooze away into obscurity you troglodyte.

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Tony told me: “They are all the same. What’s the point in voting Labour if they are the same as the Conservatives? They are all tarred with the same brush, doing the same thing. You aren’t real Labour at all because you don’t know about working people. You have lost it. It’s called Labour because that was for the working class, now they are for themselves. They come from school to a bigger school, university, then out of this school into politics. What real world experience have they had?”

Avirosb posted:

With Brexit, every day is a party

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1093923638225584129

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Lol how did I never notice they're driving a loving kubelwagen.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I know the UK is fiendishly devoted to its own destruction, but I'm pretty sure the EU already said it wasn't going to extend A50 just so the UK could gently caress with their elections. This seems like overkill.

Elevator Screamer posted:

I read Stephen King's The Tommyknockers when I was a kid and one bit of it filled me with utter terror.

After the town's residents start falling under the telepathic influence of the crashed alien spaceship there's one kid who is an aspiring magician. The alien brain worms tell him how to build a teleportation device which he uses to make things disappear and reappear. But his friends and family get bored of seeing the same trick being performed on objects, so he ups his game by disappearing his granddad. Except when he tries to reappear gramps, he doesn't come back.

Later in the book it's revealed that granddad got teleported to a cold airless rock of a planet where time passes infinitesimally slowly, and he's spent hundreds of years slowly suffocating as the last air in his lungs decays.

The horror of being trapped and helpless in an endlessly slow death, powerless to do anything to escape really stuck with me and probably introduced the idea of existential dread to my prepubescent mind long before I should have ever had to consider such things.

Brexit fills me with the same kind of dread.

I'm approaching 40 and live in a constituency in NI that voted remain by 75%, even though turnout was under 50%. I don't know a single person who voted leave. My family are all pro-EU. My friends are all pro-EU. Everyone I work with is pro-EU.

But yet I'm trapped in this scenario where the country I thought I lived in is a lie. Everyone knows it's a loving terrible idea that will absolutely lead the UK into a suffocating death spiral just like teleported granddad, but no-one in a position of power has the guts to stand up and declare just how indescribably terrible this whole process is.

Elevator Screamer posted:

I read Stephen King's The Tommyknockers when I was a kid and one bit of it filled me with utter terror.

After the town's residents start falling under the telepathic influence of the crashed alien spaceship there's one kid who is an aspiring magician. The alien brain worms tell him how to build a teleportation device which he uses to make things disappear and reappear. But his friends and family get bored of seeing the same trick being performed on objects, so he ups his game by disappearing his granddad. Except when he tries to reappear gramps, he doesn't come back.

Later in the book it's revealed that granddad got teleported to a cold airless rock of a planet where time passes infinitesimally slowly, and he's spent hundreds of years slowly suffocating as the last air in his lungs decays.

The horror of being trapped and helpless in an endlessly slow death, powerless to do anything to escape really stuck with me and probably introduced the idea of existential dread to my prepubescent mind long before I should have ever had to consider such things.

Brexit fills me with the same kind of dread.

I'm approaching 40 and live in a constituency in NI that voted remain by 75%, even though turnout was under 50%. I don't know a single person who voted leave. My family are all pro-EU. My friends are all pro-EU. Everyone I work with is pro-EU.

But yet I'm trapped in this scenario where the country I thought I lived in is a lie. Everyone knows it's a loving terrible idea that will absolutely lead the UK into a suffocating death spiral just like teleported granddad, but no-one in a position of power has the guts to stand up and declare just how indescribably terrible this whole process is.

JFairfax posted:

lol I am just trying to buy a house in Chicago.

you guys don't know what a property bubble is, this poo poo is stable as a rock compared to the UK market lol

slumdoge millionare posted:

You live in NI, right? There's a soft border for the next month and a half. If you just happen to be on the far side when Brexit actually happens, surely you can apply for asylum?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Elevator Screamer is a unionist. BUT IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO REPENT!

Elevator Screamer posted:

I was nominally Unionist in the past. When I was younger I was definitely full-on Unionist. I had a granddad who was in the B-Special reserve police force and a couple of uncles in the Ulster Defence Regiment, the main British Army regiment in NI at the time. And I was fully indoctrinated into the weird more-British-than-the-Brits ideology of the Orange Order.

It wasn't until I went to uni in Scotland and then went on to work for a time in London that I realised just how few fucks the rest of the UK gives about NI, and how loving dumb Northern Irish Unionism is as an ideology. But even then I still believed that, ideology aside, NI was better off economically as a part of the UK.

Brexit changed that.

Elevator Screamer posted:

I read Stephen King's The Tommyknockers when I was a kid and one bit of it filled me with utter terror.

After the town's residents start falling under the telepathic influence of the crashed alien spaceship there's one kid who is an aspiring magician. The alien brain worms tell him how to build a teleportation device which he uses to make things disappear and reappear. But his friends and family get bored of seeing the same trick being performed on objects, so he ups his game by disappearing his granddad. Except when he tries to reappear gramps, he doesn't come back.

Later in the book it's revealed that granddad got teleported to a cold airless rock of a planet where time passes infinitesimally slowly, and he's spent hundreds of years slowly suffocating as the last air in his lungs decays.

The horror of being trapped and helpless in an endlessly slow death, powerless to do anything to escape really stuck with me and probably introduced the idea of existential dread to my prepubescent mind long before I should have ever had to consider such things.

Brexit fills me with the same kind of dread.

I'm approaching 40 and live in a constituency in NI that voted remain by 75%, even though turnout was under 50%. I don't know a single person who voted leave. My family are all pro-EU. My friends are all pro-EU. Everyone I work with is pro-EU.

But yet I'm trapped in this scenario where the country I thought I lived in is a lie. Everyone knows it's a loving terrible idea that will absolutely lead the UK into a suffocating death spiral just like teleported granddad, but no-one in a position of power has the guts to stand up and declare just how indescribably terrible this whole process is.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Stephen King talked later in his career about how he wrote The Tommyknockers while he was high out of his mind on cocaine.

etalian posted:

The virgin Orange man unionist vs the chad celt

Tom Guycot posted:

It was worse than that, the one he teleported away was his little brother.

Elevator Screamer posted:

I read Stephen King's The Tommyknockers when I was a kid and one bit of it filled me with utter terror.

After the town's residents start falling under the telepathic influence of the crashed alien spaceship there's one kid who is an aspiring magician. The alien brain worms tell him how to build a teleportation device which he uses to make things disappear and reappear. But his friends and family get bored of seeing the same trick being performed on objects, so he ups his game by disappearing his granddad. Except when he tries to reappear gramps, he doesn't come back.

Later in the book it's revealed that granddad got teleported to a cold airless rock of a planet where time passes infinitesimally slowly, and he's spent hundreds of years slowly suffocating as the last air in his lungs decays.

The horror of being trapped and helpless in an endlessly slow death, powerless to do anything to escape really stuck with me and probably introduced the idea of existential dread to my prepubescent mind long before I should have ever had to consider such things.

Brexit fills me with the same kind of dread.

I'm approaching 40 and live in a constituency in NI that voted remain by 75%, even though turnout was under 50%. I don't know a single person who voted leave. My family are all pro-EU. My friends are all pro-EU. Everyone I work with is pro-EU.

But yet I'm trapped in this scenario where the country I thought I lived in is a lie. Everyone knows it's a loving terrible idea that will absolutely lead the UK into a suffocating death spiral just like teleported granddad, but no-one in a position of power has the guts to stand up and declare just how indescribably terrible this whole process is.

Moridin920 posted:

You should check out The Jaunt

Jose posted:

i doubt it had anywhere near as much impact as people like to pretend

In a new study, researchers found a strong correlation between frequent Facebook use and hate crimes. Specifically, the University of Warwick study claims to show that if Facebook use was higher than average in a given town or city, then it was more likely that the town would see violence against local refugees. posted:

Moridin920 posted:

You should check out The Jaunt