BREXIT DAY

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V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

britain's still subject to all eu rules for another year, brexit day + 1 isn't going to be notably different apart from any eu flags going away

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:31

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BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

they get a lot of mileage out of the chlorine chickens meme

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:36

Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

V. Illych L. posted:

britain's still subject to all eu rules for another year, brexit day + 1 isn't going to be notably different apart from any eu flags going away

and all the bonging

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:40

Raiad: Feb 1, 2005; Without the law, there wouldn't be lawyers.

Avirosb posted:

https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1222859658320384001

seems like it is really is the will of the people, rip your dumb racist country and probably also our dumb racist country

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:41

marktheando: Nov 4, 2006

V. Illych L. posted:

britain's still subject to all eu rules for another year, brexit day + 1 isn't going to be notably different apart from any eu flags going away

Not in Scotland, the Scottish parliament voted to keep the EU flags on government buildings

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:45

Bryter: Nov 6, 2011; but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

marktheando posted:

Not in Scotland, the Scottish parliament voted to keep the EU flags on government buildings

Hell yeah Fleg War II bring it on

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:50

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

BONGHITZ posted:

they get a lot of mileage out of the chlorine chickens meme

Yeah you just rinse and repeat

# ? Jan 30, 2020 14:51

An insane mind: Aug 11, 2018

So is the first, Brexit happened and things aren't noticeably different, article expected to hit at 12:01 or what?

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:36

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

how long until England applies for Eu membership ?

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:40

V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

the overhyping of brexit is imo one of the reasons why johnson won. people were being obviously and totally hysterical about the collapse of the british state, as though the consequence of a bad trading relationship with the rest of the world is mad max rather than everything just getting moderately shittier - to the voters who decided this election, things have been getting moderately shittier at every turn since the early eighties, so when city-dwellers started loudly wailing at getting a taste of it, that naturally lends itself to a powerful spite vote. worse, when the actual consequences manifest and purchasing power goes down a bit and all the services get shittier etc, almost no matter how bad it gets it's going to fall short of the rabid overhyping that remainer types were pushing and the brexiteers can safely say 'is this it?'

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:41

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

euphronius posted:

how long until England applies for Eu membership ?

later than scotland, and scotland will never let england back in lol

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:44

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Truga posted:

later than scotland, and scotland will never let england back in lol

the return of the Auld Alliance !

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:45

mrmcd: Feb 22, 2003; Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Not sure where Politico is going with this one...

quote:

Unlike other historic British withdrawals that threw the rights of citizens and residents up into the air, there will be no grand ceremonies or scenes of violence to mark Brexit.

In Brussels, the official Brexit documents were signed at 2 a.m. Friday, and starting on Wednesday, British flags will be discreetly removed from EU buildings over the course of three days. The European Parliament�s Union Jack flag will be consigned to a nearby history museum.

Compare that to the 1947 partition process that created India and Pakistan. Britain�s chaotic withdrawal from the area displaced around 14 million people and left at least 200,000 dead. Britain�s efforts to leave Palestine and allow the birth of two countries, including the Jewish state of Israel, led to a war from 1947 to 1949.

When Britain left Hong Kong in 1997, there was no blood, but its residents were left in a suspended state of partial democracy. Today, they make the same demands to Chinese authorities for self-determination, and the same demands for British citizenship, that London turned down in the 1980s.

As a heartbroken EU fractures and Britain forges a new path, this time the pain will be felt in customs paperwork and passport checks rather than blood and bodies.

Brexit: At least it's not a genocide this time.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:49

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

yet

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:52

comedyblissoption: Mar 15, 2006

Dravs posted:

I think the idea is that people stand outside their houses and shout 'BOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG' at midnight, I wish I was making that up.

a montage of brexiters looking out their window and yelling i'm mad as hell, and im gonna BOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:54

An insane mind: Aug 11, 2018

Just having a hearty chuckle that if Britain ever decides to come back no way will they ever get the perks and exemptions they had before this.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:55

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Britain isn�t ever coming back. England maybe.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:55

An insane mind: Aug 11, 2018

euphronius posted:

Britain isn’t ever coming back. England maybe.

I thought it was only the EU that was fracturing?

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:56

spacemang_spliff: Nov 29, 2014; wide pickle

Is Chlorine Chicken a mega man X reference

# ? Jan 30, 2020 15:57

Dravs: Mar 8, 2011; You've done well, kiddo.

spacemang_spliff posted:

Is Chlorine Chicken a mega man X reference

No, it's a reference to the fact that mass produced chickens in the US are kept in conditions that cause them to have severe bacterial infections/ open sores/ deformed bodies and washing their corpses in chlorine is the only way they are fit for human consumption without people randomly dying of horrific chicken borne diseases.

Producing chicken like this in the EU is illegal as gently caress, so chlorine washing is not needed.

Once we leave the EU we will be free to roll back consumer protections like this so we can destroy our own farming industry for some of that sweet sweet disease chicken from the US.

# ? Jan 30, 2020 16:00

Victory Position: Mar 16, 2004

Dravs posted:

I think the idea is that people stand outside their houses and shout 'BOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG' at midnight, I wish I was making that up.

as a token of our deepening bond, here is a commemorative sign from Wisconsin

# ? Jan 30, 2020 16:01

FAUXTON: Jun 2, 2005; spero che tu stia bene

An insane mind posted:

I thought it was only the EU that was fracturing?

pretty sure Scotland is gonna bolt at the first opportunity and is only part of the UK at present because the decision for another indyref is up to Boris and the Torises

Dravs posted:

No, it's a reference to the fact that mass produced chickens in the US are kept in conditions that cause them to have severe bacterial infections/ open sores/ deformed bodies and washing their corpses in chlorine is the only way they are fit for human consumption without people randomly dying of horrific chicken borne diseases.

Producing chicken like this in the EU is illegal as gently caress, so chlorine washing is not needed.

Once we leave the EU we will be free to roll back consumer protections like this so we can destroy our own farming industry for some of that sweet sweet disease chicken from the US.

oh yeah get ready to have to keep eggs refrigerated at all times

# ? Jan 30, 2020 16:01