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CactusWeasle: Aug 1, 2006; It's not a party until the bomb squad says it is

Is anyone watching the HoC debate and can figure out what the hell Leadsom is proposing? Even the MPs seem lost.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 18:08

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 07:33

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

*extremely Hugh Grant voice*

"Terribly sorry to be such a bother erm...well you see there's...erm, n-no deal? erm..I'm terribly sorry to say, its quite dreadful rather that um..we can't seem to reach an erm...well we can't quite agree upon anything. No consensus here as you can ah, see..as you see."

# ? Mar 28, 2019 18:09

alnilam: Nov 10, 2009

i've missed about a week of brexit news but i gather that nothing has actually changed despite the deadline being like tomorrow

_{ty manifisto}

# ? Mar 28, 2019 18:26

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

there's only one possible outcome

britain exits so hard that it enters the EU again

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:24

Taintrunner: Apr 10, 2017; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Lastgirl posted:

there's only one possible outcome

britain exits so hard that it enters the US as a territory and ends up like Puerto Rico

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:26

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

https://twitter.com/bmwcourier/status/1111278018071285762

I wish I could actually read the words on the map. :corsair:

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:27

sullat: Jan 9, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Spain sort of squandered its wealth by being tied to semifeudalism and a mercantile trade regime that prevented them from really capitalizing on it. To the point they were already a third rate power by the industrial revolution, and a complete sideshow by the 20th century. Spain became an imperial success story way too early, and lost all of its greatest colonies before industrialization would allow that sort of wealth creation to compound and metastasize over time. It's not exactly the same thing as comparing them to northern europe, the United States, or even Japan.

Spain still has a lot to apologize for anyway though. Whether or not "the people" benefit from colonial exploitation in the long term doesn't absolve the state of imperialism, and it's the Spanish state that needs to be held accountable.

Spain's most profitable colony was the Netherlands.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:28

JFairfax: Oct 23, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

prefect posted:

https://twitter.com/bmwcourier/status/1111278018071285762

I wish I could actually read the words on the map.

LOL that's good

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:28

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Taintrunner posted:

i quite like this outcome

prefect posted:

I wish I could actually read the words on the map.

the words say

CHAOS

Maelstrom

Hell

and

Utter Horlix
you get the idea

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:31

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Lastgirl posted:

i quite like this outcome

the words say

CHAOS

Maelstrom

Hell

and

Utter Horlix
you get the idea

And all four edges are labeled "south". I'm thinking there's some joke going on that makes sense to British people. :shrug:

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:33

really queer Christmas: Apr 22, 2014

prefect posted:

https://twitter.com/bmwcourier/status/1111278018071285762

I wish I could actually read the words on the map.

needs a big red DEBT

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:34

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

prefect posted:

https://twitter.com/bmwcourier/status/1111278018071285762

I wish I could actually read the words on the map.

�the silly isles : Brexit after May�

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:34

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

lmao at calling Netanyahu a populist.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:35

incoherent: Apr 24, 2004; 01010100011010000111001
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So, uh you guys are out in 3 days eh?

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:36

silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

incoherent posted:

So, uh you guys are out in 3 days eh?

Where on earth did you get 3 days from

April 12, not 2

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:40

sullat: Jan 9, 2012

silvergoose posted:

Where on earth did you get 3 days from

April 12, not 2

He's using metric days, duh.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:42

A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

Lastgirl posted:

i quite like this outcome

the words say

CHAOS

Maelstrom

Hell

and

Utter Horlix
you get the idea

What the hell. The Economist accepts the illegitimate British claim to Rockall?

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:47

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

the earth completes one cycle around the sun in 1000 tagan. Brexit in 26 tagan.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:49

incoherent: Apr 24, 2004; 01010100011010000111001
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sullat posted:

He's using metric days, duh.

My b. Though you guys still don't have poo poo to show for that extension beg and were going to get kicked out on the original date.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:50

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

its good that theyre extending the brexit show to friday as im quite hooked.

wouldnt mind if they go to the netflix model next season and release all the episodes at once so i can bingewatch on the weekend

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:03

IamFuckMan: Mar 26, 2019; by FactsAreUseless

Whatever it's kind of a hot take to say that Spain didn't benefit from its empire.

You can't separate out the state of Spain from the people. What does it even mean to hold the state responsible without holding the people responsible? How do you affect the former without touching the latter except for empty words and platitudes about how sorry it is?

Btw free Catalonia and the political prisoners resulting from their referendum lol

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:12

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

prefect posted:

And all four edges are labeled "south". I'm thinking there's some joke going on that makes sense to British people.

I feel like it might be one of those high brow humor relating to the idiom "things are going south"

*airy droll laughter*

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:14

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

prefect posted:

And all four edges are labeled "south". I'm thinking there's some joke going on that makes sense to British people.

things are going south i.e. bad

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:15

oliwan: Jul 20, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo

sensible chuckle

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:17

oliwan: Jul 20, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo

Lastgirl posted:

I feel like it might be one of those high brow humor relating to the idiom "things are going south"

*airy droll laughter*

mods pls rename me *airy droll laughter*

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:18

A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

IamFuckMan posted:

Whatever it's kind of a hot take to say that Spain didn't benefit from its empire.

Spain was just another possession of the people who did benefit from the empire, one that was neglected because it was easier and more profitable to turn deaths in America into gold than do something productive in Spain. Monarchs are not their countries.

IamFuckMan posted:

You can't separate out the state of Spain from the people. What does it even mean to hold the state responsible without holding the people responsible? How do you affect the former without touching the latter except for empty words and platitudes about how sorry it is?

You take away the wealth of the royal family and everyone else whose wealth is directly tied to the imperialist project in a management capacity.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:34

Isizzlehorn: Feb 25, 2010

Lastgirl posted:

i quite like this outcome

the words say

CHAOS

Maelstrom

Hell

and

Utter Horlix
you get the idea

Much Shizzle in the Mire

:thunk:

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:38

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Lastgirl posted:

i quite like this outcome

the words say

CHAOS

Maelstrom

Hell

and

Utter Horlix
you get the idea

lol branding bibi a populist

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:39

Taintrunner: Apr 10, 2017; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

IamFuckMan posted:

Whatever it's kind of a hot take to say that Spain didn't benefit from its empire.

Even I know this, and all I watched was John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons!

# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:56

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:13

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lol branding bibi a populist

it means racist in this context

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:22

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

euphronius posted:

lmao at calling Netanyahu a populist.

sir havent you heard of horseshoe theory

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:27

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

They had something about the brexit on NPR and the news reader's "clever" closing remark was that there are 14 days to go, and if you've paid attention to brexit, you'll know that a LOT can happen in 14 days.

Except if you have actually paid attention to brexit, there is no 14 day period where it can be said "a lot" happened, since in the past 2 years not one loving thing has actually happened with brexit.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:32

GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

all my life I have been trying to be the butter-and-egg man. But I'm just a badger locked out of the garden shed

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:32

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

hakimashou posted:

They had something about the brexit on NPR and the news reader's "clever" closing remark was that there are 14 days to go, and if you've paid attention to brexit, you'll know that a LOT can happen in 14 days.

Except if you have actually paid attention to brexit, there is no 14 day period where it can be said "a lot" happened, since in the past 2 years not one loving thing has actually happened with brexit.

Well, we did manage to nail down what "Brexit" means.

That counts for something.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:33