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CGI Stardust posted:https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/how-jacob-rees-mogg-s-diet-explains-brexit-1-6266084 That’s so sad, Hong Kong has some of the best cuisine and restaurants in the world and you go there and eat none if it.
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Bobstar posted:Minor correction, David Cameron decide to resign as Prime Minister on 24 June 2016, because he hadn't even considered that Leave might win, and had no idea what to do next. Well this is largely why I put "transitional arrangement" in inverted commas. The feeling at the time was that these "temporary" arrangements would become "eh, gently caress it, leave it there"
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forkboy84 posted:loving nora, you can't trust someone who has the palate of a 2 year old.
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the choice of cardstock is immaterial, he could have written and signed both and it wouldn't matter, it would be slapped down by a court. One supposes the gambit is to force a court action. Low chance it survives, and even if it doesn't, he gets to scream about unelected judges
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Yeah, the only important thing is that the EU has accepted it as a valid request, which it appears they have. It'd be Johnson and Cumming's wet loving dream for everyone to suddenly get their knickers in a twist about headed notepaper.
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OwlFancier posted:The UK has its insane right wing, sure, but the default in the US is far worse than the UK. Like for all the faults in the CofE, it generally takes a far more quiet and passive role than US superevangelicals do. I can see why a lot of Americans get super pissy about religion, whereas the lovely stuff the CofE does is usually a lot more under-the-radar. So everyone sees it as this innocent, parochial little pastime that coincidentally vastly worsens the lives of LGBTQ people. Failed Imagineer posted:E: ^^^^^ also this, unfollow everything and empty your feed Although what most of them are up to is pointing out to various dads and racist uncles how badly a no deal brexit will gently caress their disabled / diabetic partner. Jedit posted:Just heard something interesting about the Johnson letters. It seems that the photocopied request to extend that was unsigned was not on 10 Downing Street paper, but the second (signed) letter saying he didn't want an extension was. Stupid games aside, this is pretty much hard copy proof that Johnson has not requested an extension in his capacity as Prime Minister and thus has violated the Benn Act. He's not phoning Virgin Media and trying to get through without the password, he's sending a letter across with a recognised diplomat who's handed it over in person, along with a digital copy. At least that's how it should work, but stupidest timeline etc. E: As others in the thread have pointed out, he just wants to avoid having a signed letter on headed stationery in the papers making him look bad to leavers, who are his only support at this point. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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forkboy84 posted:loving nora, you can't trust someone who has the palate of a 2 year old. I wonder how much of this is true, and how much of it is the image he wants to portray (much like Boris) in order to appear a 'character' and thus attract media/public interest to further his career.
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Failed Imagineer posted:JRM having children? Yeah, that counts. Hero with a jam jar Jezza power
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Necrothatcher posted:Yeah, the only important thing is that the EU has accepted it as a valid request, which it appears they have. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1185863316838719488
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Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone has some money stats about the amount of money swishing around in the 'normal' economy and the amount that flows in the 'high' economy of shares, bonds, derivatives etc.
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Helith posted:That’s so sad, Hong Kong has some of the best cuisine and restaurants in the world and you go there and eat none if it. I was in Hong Kong with a group of foodie friends for my birthday this year and my peptic ulcer was singing the song of its people the entire time. It was devastating to watch platters of dim sum and bottles of wine arrive on the table while I mewled and had almond custard and green tea.
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I was in HK last week and everything tasted too peppery
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I do take regular breaks from FB though. And as for twitter, that is far far worse for mental health but much more addictive. Twitter is absolute brain poison. I had to delete my account as I noticed I was looking at it every few seconds. My desk at work is in a mobile signal blackspot and I more or less have to be offline for longish periods of the work day. I long for pointless meetings in conference rooms on the east side of the building.
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Exioce posted:Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone has some money stats about the amount of money swishing around in the 'normal' economy and the amount that flows in the 'high' economy of shares, bonds, derivatives etc.
Total stocks value for the London Stock Exchange is something like 4.6t USD Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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someone who is good at the fiscal policy please help me budget this. my economy is stagnating
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Guavanaut posted:someone who is good at the fiscal policy please help me budget this. my economy is stagnating Cut down on banks. You're going to need those candles next month.
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BBC News top headline the day after Boris requested an extension: "PM has the numbers to pass Brexit Deal" Not an explanation of what happened, not anything informative, not even an analysis. Just the government line, repeated verbatim, as the biggest piece of news in the country right now. Not even a factual government line, just what they hope will happen. Repeated as fact.
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Also this. Are young Brits falling out of love with the cuppa? I prefer rooibos.
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Ratjaculation posted:I was in HK last week and everything tasted too peppery Don't eat at cop diners.
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Guavanaut posted:Also this. Are young Brits falling out of love with the cuppa? I've never liked tea, also please collapse and vanish, British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Guavanaut posted:Also this. Are young Brits falling out of love with the cuppa? *explosion in popularity of various kinds of tea and tea-based beverages* millENNIALS!!!!
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Guavanaut posted:Also this. Are young Brits falling out of love with the cuppa? Builders tea makes sense when nice tea is expensive. But a box of 200 bags of Earl Grey isn't actually expensive. Why would I drink mediocre PG Tips when I can live out my fantasy of being Jean-Luc Picard & yell at my kettle "Tea, Earl Grey, hot"?
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The young are strange creatures who aggravatingly refuse to do what I say. They must be stupid. And lazy.
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https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/1185662765983260682 Squaring the circle by having all your friends in the media start calling it a square.
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forkboy84 posted:Builders tea makes sense when nice tea is expensive. But a box of 200 bags of Earl Grey isn't actually expensive. Why would I drink mediocre PG Tips when I can live out my fantasy of being Jean-Luc Picard & yell at my kettle "Tea, Earl Grey, hot"? lol@the-west
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I have decided that in the glorious 1,000 year Corbynista regime, microwave meals that bulk themselves out with peas will be punishable by gulag. Sensible policies for a better Britain.
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Pease, Land, and Bread. 
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Oct 20, 2019 14:33
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https://twitter.com/paulbranditv/status/1185835835859652608?s=21 Hope they can get this through. It'd be an excellent way to cushion the blow of Johnson's deal passing.
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Am I right in thinking that right now the main threat is: 1) Johnson's deal passes 2) That allows him to cancel any extension offered without violating the Benn Act, but before the WAB is put into law 3) He then cancels the WAB somehow to force no deal? If so, could we just have an amendment on Tuesday that prevents the extension being cancelled without Parliament's approval? Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/paulbranditv/status/1185835835859652608?s=21 I'm not hopeful it'll pass, but if it did that would be great for Labour's election manifesto as they no longer need to negotiate a deal with the EU they're then seen to campaign against. Instead it's Remain vs Bad Tory Deal.
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There is still no Commons majority for a second referendum, isn't there? What has changed? This is going to be a very hard sell. On Saturday Starmer was still thundering about the customs checks of the deal and dismissing the high strategy as a CON trick. xtothez posted:I'm not hopeful it'll pass, but if it did that would be great for Labour's election manifesto as they no longer need to negotiate a deal with the EU they're then seen to campaign against. Instead it's Remain vs Bad Tory Deal. Apparently not so: quote:He added: “The position we have adopted is whatever the outcome, whether it’s Boris Johnson’s bad deal or a better one which could be secured, it has got to go to a referendum up against remain.” It is possible they expect it to fail as well and are mainly hoping to head off LDEM for now.
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Guavanaut posted:Coca tea is also very good for digestion and nausea, and I found out the real reason that coca leaf is treated as a Class A drug like crack and fentanyl, and it's not because you can make powder cocaine from it with a bunch of other chemicals, it's because of the UN ban in the 60s, which was in turn because of an inaccurate and racist report from 1949 that claims chewing coca makes the Latin savages stupid and lazy. Highly recommend reading One River by the botanist Wade Davis, who spent a lot of his early career researching psychoactive plants from South America (including all three main varieties of coca). He was a student of Richard Schultes, perhaps the single greatest botanist of the Americas, period, and the book is interspersed with amazing throwbacks to exactly the era you're talking about when Schultes was working against the tide of prevailing yankee racism in South America.
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Black tea is the best, I've tried loads of different types and always come back to it.
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xtothez posted:Am I right in thinking that right now the main threat is: It's currently law that Parliament doesn't approve a deal until its implementing legislation is passed. So for that to play out, step 1 would need to include wording overriding the Letwin amendment.
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Hello posting pals, I have been very busy the past couple weeks and the unread post count has grown too high for me ever to catch up. What's up with the thread title, what has happened to our righteous commissar, communism bitch?
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Guavanaut posted:Also this. Are young Brits falling out of love with the cuppa? I am a coffee drinker but if I drink tea then I want black tea, with cream.
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