oliwan posted:

jesus christ ops that is obviously a quote from the comments

endlessmonotony posted:

Honestly I'm more talking about posturing to discourage the English from trying anything dumb.

But yes, first it needs the US to declare support for the independence referendum, which within-US is pride vs business interests, which is why it would be a huge gamble.

BMX Ninja posted:

He's unlikely to get the Democratic nomination anyway. I watched Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9 a while back, and while it's obviously a very one-sided viewpoint, it was pretty damning on the dirty tricks the DNC deployed to get Clinton nominated last time. This time round the Dems seem to have concluded the reason Clinton lost is because she just wasn't centrist enough.

But yeah, if he somehow did get the nomination he'd be campaigning in the face of not just Fox News, but an all-out assault by every media outlet similar to what Corbyn faced.

Stoatbringer posted:

Well, that didn't take long.

Racist Brexit sign demanding tower block residents speak English reported to police

Squizzle posted:

oh whoops. seemed like a post you would really make tho

Squizzle posted:

oh whoops. seemed like a post you would really make tho

oliwan posted:

lmao, can you quote one single cspam post of mine to support this op? just one?

A Buttery Pastry posted:

cspam? So you're saying you do post like that elsewhere?

Avirosb posted:

Bedshaped posted:

What is that man doing to his anus? :o

oliwan posted:

lmao, can you quote one single cspam post of mine to support this op? just one?

LGD posted:

https://twitter.com/jadeswilson/status/1224443687616139267?s=20

Squizzle posted:

youve got me dead to rights. it was a show trial. a miserable star chamber, arranged for yr own destruction. the mods are out for yr blood

LGD posted:

https://twitter.com/jadeswilson/status/1224443687616139267?s=20

Cao Ni Ma posted:

tell me again why the north is so hell bent to stay with the UK when all of ireland will love to see them re-united? I know its some sort of collective brain spiderism but its still boggles the (non addled) mind

Cao Ni Ma posted:

tell me again why the north is so hell bent to stay with the UK when all of ireland will love to see them re-united? I know its some sort of collective brain spiderism but its still boggles the (non addled) mind

Stoatbringer posted:

Well, that didn't take long.

Racist Brexit sign demanding tower block residents speak English reported to police

Private Speech posted:

One time my mum (who doesn't live in the UK) called me while I was waiting on a bus to get home from work and we spoke in my native Czech, as one, you know, would; and this old woman leaned out of a window above me and screamed she's calling the police so that the immigration comes and gets me. I hastily went away after that beacuse gently caress getting detained by them even for a bit.

I've also had a number of both more and less overt complaints from neighbours about the same thing, that is hearing me on the phone, be it through a wall or on the street, speaking another language with my mum.

The level of UK cuntiness about foreign languages is simply astounding. And these were very middle class areas in major cities, too.

I've also had a drunk guy shout at me "what loving right do you have to be here" once.

e: All the same I kinda like Britain. Must be a masochist I guess.

forkboy84 posted:

Sorry, Bernie is going to win.

Taintrunner posted:

100% wrong-o.

Bernie is going to crush them all.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1224845411535478784?s=20

quote:

LONDON — Lawmakers on the island of Jersey have approved scrapping a decades-old law that prevented married women from talking to the tax authorities without the permission of their husband or filing taxes under their own names, a mechanism described by a local senator as “archaic.”
...
When civil unions and same-sex marriages became legal on the island, the law allowed the older partner to take the role of “husband” and the younger “wife.”

oliwan posted:

lmao, can you quote one single cspam post of mine to support this op? just one?

twoday posted:

ah, I was about to translate some of your dutch posts, but I see you used the qualified "cpam post"

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/benjolly9/status/1224703032824410114?s=21

oliwan posted:

feel free to show a dutch post of mine that is in any way right

oliwan posted:

feel free to show a dutch post of mine that is in any way right wing op

oliwan posted:

We hebben echt geen Amerikanen nodig die ons gaan vertellen wat voor grappen we over andere Nederlandse taalvarianten mogen maken, het is een beetje weird moet ik zeggen.

(Translation: We really don't need any Americans telling us what kind of jokes we can make about "Dutch language variants", it's a little weird I must say.)

oliwan posted:

Sorry but i bloody agree i aint racist i have worked with people who have been in england for over 5 years and still cant speak english but somehowbget a job. Sorry but f i was to immigrate im making sure im fluent in the mother tounge b4 i even step foot. Why shoukd e have to try and understand them wen they dont want to learn.

oliwan posted:

I just don't go to a restaurant again if the staff insist on speaking their mother tongue when they can speak English as it's just downright rude. As for holidays I find that most people speak excellent English and admire the fact they are bilingual. When I'm on holiday I always show respect for the culture and countries I visit. The only place I found this difficult to adhere to was America as they were loud and brash... but maybe that's just the part I visited.

oliwan posted:

On public transport, I find it rude when others don’t just speak their own language, but shout in their own language to each other, it really does make you feel uncomfortable. When we go to other countries on holidays you go their to take in the culture and try as much as you can to learn the language.

oliwan posted:

I'm sorry but they would expect British people to learn to speak their language from where they came from so why shouldn't they have to learn English if they come to live here? Inside their own home they can speak any language they want but when speaking to a British person they should speak English.

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Squizzle posted:

seemed like a post you would really make tho

quote:

In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled the rule had been wrongly interpreted for 30 years, resulting in people being convicted of a murder they did not intend or commit.

twoday posted:

Well, as the IK/mini-mod of the Dutch thread one of my only policies was to crack down on people making fun of Flemish and Frisian and Afrikaans as languages, because some posters who speak those things said they felt harassed. Then someone made a post saying Frisian is not a real language (it is legally recognized as one of the two languages of the Netherlands), and I gave them a sixer. At this point you made a long sincere post about why this was wrong of me to do, and it ended with:


And then you offered to take over as IK. So even though I am a Dutch citizen and equal to you under the law, you said that because I am an immigrant who recently learned the language, I have no right to meddle in the linguistic affairs of this country. After this there were several pages of discussion during which everyone else intensely disagreed with you. The underlying nationalist and nativist sentiment, however, is functionally indistinguishable from these "joke posts" of yours in this thread:





So I repeat myself,

An insane mind posted:

Look guys we're all terrible and Dutch is a beautifully terrible language with a load of faults but can we keep the Dutch fighting out of the UK thread?