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An insane mind posted:So...what did Brexit mean in the end? The friends we made along the way
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Brexit really was like a TV show that you watch the first couple seasons of then fall off when nothing happens. Then you find out the series finale just aired, years later, and almost nobody cared.
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Jan 1, 2021 18:56
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Jose posted:The uk health secretary clearly.wants to boast about the numbers of people vaccinated so has decided to let everyone get the first dose and then wait 3 months for the second. Issue with this is Pfizer have said there is no testing to see if it works Good news then, they're about to have a bunch of data to sift through in about three months.
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Jan 1, 2021 18:57
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how do the lorry lineups look in Dover?
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Jan 1, 2021 19:05
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congrat's to everyone for brexiting, or whatever
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Jan 1, 2021 19:06
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And thus Brexit was delivered and the Gammons breathed a sigh of relief: Britania delanda est...they spake, their rictus grins in place as they stepped over their children to be first in line to the gruel bucket. "I wish I was 20 again so I could buccaneer more food out of my grandchildren's mouths."
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Jan 1, 2021 19:12
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Reality Protester posted:how do the lorry lineups look in Dover? They expect the traffic to pick up Monday.
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Jan 1, 2021 19:12
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An insane mind posted:So...what did Brexit mean in the end? In the end? Nothing ever ends.
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Jan 1, 2021 19:25
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Reality Protester posted:how do the lorry lineups look in Dover? There aren't any. Of course it's a public holiday, and retailers had stockpiled for weeks beforehand so there's no immediate demand right now. Haulage companies are playing it safe as they don't want their fleets caught up in any delays. Drivers don't want to risk it as they get paid by the km rather than by the hour. Meanwhile gammons are triumphant that the country has lasted almost a whole day outside the EU, and are using this as validation that nothing can possibly go wrong from now on.
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Jan 1, 2021 20:01
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The poo poo will hit the fan at the same time this covid spike makes the entire NHS buckle, yay
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Jan 1, 2021 20:22
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sullat posted:Good news then, they're about to have a bunch of data to sift through in about three months. https://twitter.com/dannyjnwong/status/1344956389148520448?s=19
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Jan 1, 2021 20:36
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Woke Pob posted:There aren't any. Of course it's a public holiday, and retailers had stockpiled for weeks beforehand so there's no immediate demand right now. Haulage companies are playing it safe as they don't want their fleets caught up in any delays. Drivers don't want to risk it as they get paid by the km rather than by the hour. I get the feeling there's going to be some serious DHL backlash in the very near future
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Jan 1, 2021 20:37
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crispix posted:Northern Ireland has today become a freak de facto EU statelet and the path to unification seems inevitable now. It ought to be an enormous political embarrassment for the UK government and make any talk about having achieved national sovereignty risible but they really don't give that much of a toss about the place and also some people just have no shame. Northern Ireland's position in the union will be even more untenable if Scotland leaves - the former's cultural ties to unionism have always gone through Scotland. Forgot to say earlier that sucks. I've run out of bags before and those things really don't want to be emptied and re-used. The town were I used to live had literally one store that sold hoover bags and invariably when I ran out they'd have every size and shape in stock except the ones that fit my cleaner. They're like coffee filters. Something you'd expect to be really common and available everywhere but no bloody place sells them. Thankfully I have a partner now who is sensible enough to ensure we don't run out of basic poo poo (and a bagless cleaner).
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Jan 1, 2021 20:41
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I'm just not a fan of the bagless hoover tbh :/
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Jan 1, 2021 20:53
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I've mixed feelings. Not having to buy bags is an advantage, but there's no way to empty them into the kitchen bin without making a mess that needs hoovered up. They have to be emptied into the big bin outside. Our cheapo model also seems to need regular dismantling and washing otherwise it loses suction. But now that we've left the EU we'll be free from draconian limits on vacuum cleaner wattage, with suction so powerful you'll be able hoover up a bendy banana and have it come out straight.
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Jan 1, 2021 21:08
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we'll all be like Freddie there (lord rest his soul) in the i want to break free video with our very powerful hoovers all "hahahhahahaaaaa frig u Barnier!!!!!!!"  just very smug hoovering
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Jan 1, 2021 21:18
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twoday posted:Pretty much almost nothing has changed for the average Brit since 6 months ago, because most of the effects of Brexit have been delayed yet again until Jan 1, 2021. 
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Jan 1, 2021 21:25
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crispix posted:we'll all be like Freddie there (lord rest his soul) in the i want to break free video with our very powerful hoovers all "hahahhahahaaaaa frig u Barnier!!!!!!!" Roger Taylor dressed as a schoolgirl in that vid elicited very confused feelings in young me when I watched my dad's VHS of all the greatest Queen videos. 
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Jan 1, 2021 23:17
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Jan 2, 2021 09:20
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Brexits coming home, it's coooooooming home, it's coooooooooooooming! Also this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1N_5wIokY&t=10s But as Britain struts out of the EU club house like it just owned them.
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Jan 2, 2021 10:47
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So apparently in a last-minute fudge Gibraltar joined Schengen, with Spain as the guarantor, and Brits have to go through passport control to access the area while Europeans can just walz on in  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/31/spain-and-uk-reach-draft-deal-on-post-brexit-status-of-gibraltar
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Jan 2, 2021 11:12
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Its amazing, how much we are owned
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Jan 2, 2021 11:15
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the old adage of never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake although tbf most brits don’t even know which extra bits scattered around the world outside of the mainland are “theirs “
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Jan 2, 2021 11:35
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Jel Shaker posted:the old adage of never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake it's basically all of it, right? that's why bojo says the sun never sets on the british empire?
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Jan 2, 2021 11:37
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https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1345309914546233350
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Jan 2, 2021 14:13
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redleader posted:it's basically all of it, right? that's why bojo says the sun never sets on the british empire? eagerly curious to see all that trading and dominating that's going to happen
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Jan 2, 2021 15:07
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Jan 2, 2021 15:50
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I guess that's the plan for the new British Empire? Everyone in the world who thinks of Jolly ol' England pays a tax.
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Jan 2, 2021 15:54
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Now that trump is soon to be gone, Britain will become the world’s foremost exporter of lols
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Jan 2, 2021 16:00
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So I really don't understand any of this but does this pretty much mean no one is going to sell to them now.
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Jan 2, 2021 16:08
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my loving god I am lol-crack-pinging over this: I've always thought of the tories in general as a masterclass in political grifting, the natural consequence of an imperial elite finely honed to be efficient scumbags in robbing the world and their own country's working class to an astonishing degree of malice and tyrannical fuckery but never delusional to their own class position and conscience now they quit the EU and after making their own trading position much weaker they change customs in order to make everybody pay a second-hand tax rule for the privilege of... trading with the UK?!?!? loving lmaoooooooo
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Jan 2, 2021 16:08
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dead gay comedy forums posted:my loving god They personally benefit from brexit by reducing UK worker standards, presumably landlord rules, and certainly anti-money-laundering rules. You can see this in action with the PPE grift for example. Makes perfect sense for them to architect and support brexit.
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Jan 2, 2021 16:11
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dead gay comedy forums posted:my loving god HMRC is basically doing a scam to get some extra money off foreigners. it may be temporary while they figure out something longer term since nobody has done any planning for brexit and probably hasnt even really started yet. having only well meaning rubes paying HRMC for the privilege of being taxed is basically the logical conclusion of what the tories have been up to with them. they got cut really hard during austerity even though they generate revenue and its clearly because they also are meant to go after tax evaders and every tory MP (and a lot of others) is at minimum a tax avoider. well, that and money laundering and half our economy is money laundering and if you investigate it you suicide yourself
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Jan 2, 2021 16:15
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Jan 2, 2021 16:16
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Look they just really wanted to know if they could fit inside that sports bag/train station locker/noose okay
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Jan 2, 2021 16:17
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dead gay comedy forums posted:I've always thought of the tories in general as a masterclass in political grifting, the natural consequence of an imperial elite finely honed to be efficient scumbags in robbing the world and their own country's working class to an astonishing degree of malice and tyrannical fuckery but never delusional to their own class position and conscience lol tories aren't machiavelian geniuses, they were just sent to the right boarding schools. They dumb as poo poo. but the english are a servile race who worship the arisotcracy so they keep electing them
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Jan 2, 2021 16:26
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has brexit happened yet
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Jan 2, 2021 16:26
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it took me 15 minutes of mental processing to actually beliebve this was real i was like "no they couldn't be this.... its just not possible they could...." and then i read thru the whole loving uk gov page to made sure i understood it and i can only conclude that no one can own themselves as hajrd as the british, no one
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Jan 2, 2021 16:37
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that feeling of stunned disbelief wghen something is so phenomenally stupid that it shakes your worldview a little and you have to go through the stages of mentally processing like "there must be some angle, some grift, some clever or evil reason behind thjis" and slowly coming to the realization that the british really are just this loving stupid
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