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We're getting our blue passports back. At a cost of £500m pounds.
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serious gaylord posted:We're getting our blue passports back. At a cost of £500m pounds. Please tell me this is an April Fool's post Serious Gaylord?
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Apr 1, 2017 23:16
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That's good timing mine expires in November
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Apr 1, 2017 23:17
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Don't laugh. Blue passports will restore our Great British Sexual Potency and undo our acrimonious, humiliating divorces.
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Apr 1, 2017 23:21
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It's a pity, really. I already have a blue passport and a red passport. I was thinking maybe the British passport could be purple? I mean why not
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Apr 1, 2017 23:27
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big scary monsters posted:You may both be right but it's not relevant to Scotland because in Scotland we make whisky. The e was added in the late 1800s to differentiate the good stuff from the low grade trash the Scots were producing at the time The whisk(e)y market is the perfect storm of the sunk cost fallacy, the placebo effect and the complete failure of standards and practices to have any meaningful effect
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Apr 1, 2017 23:31
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Prince John posted:Please tell me this is an April Fool's post Serious Gaylord? https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/848278001687162881
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Apr 1, 2017 23:32
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April fools is over now isn't it They're actually loving doing this
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Apr 1, 2017 23:35
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The joke was Britain all along. April's Fools!
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Apr 1, 2017 23:38
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Crane Fist posted:The e was added in the late 1800s to differentiate the good stuff from the low grade trash the Scots were producing at the time Knowing nothing about this, I am curious to know about it (and also what actually constitutes a good whisk(e)y).
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Apr 1, 2017 23:41
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Wonder where they got the 500m figure from
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Apr 1, 2017 23:42
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Knowing nothing about this, I am curious to know about it (and also what actually constitutes a good whisk(e)y). Whisky attributes go include floral to sweet to smoky. Waitrose did a handy guide based on these. I like the one beginning with auch. Milroys of soho is a nice place to try a range of different ones and the barmaid there goes brafree
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Apr 1, 2017 23:45
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First positive of Brexit.
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Apr 1, 2017 23:49
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Might renew mine early once they're blue again.
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Apr 1, 2017 23:50
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Pissflaps posted:Might renew mine early once they're blue again. ... why?
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Apr 1, 2017 23:53
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Pochoclo posted:... why? So I can replace my obsolete burgundy passport with a new blue one?
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Apr 1, 2017 23:54
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Pissflaps posted:So I can replace my obsolete burgundy passport with a new blue one? Are you happy to not have a EU passport?
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Apr 2, 2017 00:01
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When can I get one
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Apr 2, 2017 00:01
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Blue is a manky colour for a passport, they should be red.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:01
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Pissflaps posted:So I can replace my obsolete burgundy passport with a new blue one? What is the benefit of it being blue, instead of burgundy? Beyond the burgundy one stating I'm a member of an international community I hope I get to remain part of?
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Apr 2, 2017 00:02
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Pochoclo posted:Are you happy to not have a EU passport? No because I'd rather the uk wasn't leaving the eu. mehall posted:What is the benefit of it being blue, instead of burgundy? No benefit at all I just prefer the colour.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:10
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Personally I'd prefer the 500 million
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Apr 2, 2017 00:11
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Gum posted:Personally I'd prefer the 500 million I kind of thought it was implied we'd be spending the boris bus money on the NHS rather than passports but I guess this is technically making use of the extra funding.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:25
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spectralent posted:I kind of thought it was implied we'd be spending the boris bus money on the NHS rather than passports but I guess this is technically making use of the extra funding. Spend 500 million in a company owned by a tory donator, which gives the tories back 50%, pockets 45%, and uses only 5% to do a poo poo job on the passports TAKE BACK ARERERE CANTRY
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Apr 2, 2017 00:37
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OwlFancier posted:Blue is a manky colour for a passport, they should be red. If they keep the same shade of blue as the old ones, they will be more or less black.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:37
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Paxman posted:What's this about Galloway teaming up with Arron Banks? They both are massive Brexit backers. Galloway's using Banks' new website Westmonster as a glorified campaign blog.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:42
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Since the real brexit shitstorm has now started can we get a Corbyn containment thread so I don't have to read the same arguments again for another month? please mods, please 
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Apr 2, 2017 00:44
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Isn't it more that the £500m figure is because passports will have to be altered anyway, and they're just switching up the colour in the process because they know it'll appease one half of the country while the other half won't really care? The Express are going for the "Blue's Bringing Britishness Back Baby" angle because they're the Express.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:46
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Knowing nothing about this, I am curious to know about it (and also what actually constitutes a good whisk(e)y). I'll give a brief example: sherry cask aged whisky, an expensive sub-type that we manufactured onsite. We bought a couple of new casks, cheap pine things, filled them with cheap sherry for a day, rebottled the sherry, then filled the casks again with generic ten quid a bottle scotch. After three days we bottled the whisky and sold it for hundreds of pounds apiece, receiving rave reviews for the complex flavour and notes of blah blah etc. All perfectly legit. One of the big secrets of whisk(e)y retail is that the flavour stops changing after 10 years, so a 50 year old Glenfiddich tastes the same as a 25 or a 10, and the only differences are made by the variations in the ingredients and in the mind of the drinker. The whole business is breathtakingly cynical
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Apr 2, 2017 00:48
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HJB posted:Isn't it more that the £500m figure is because passports will have to be altered anyway, and they're just switching up the colour in the process because they know it'll appease one half of the country while the other half won't really care? The Express are going for the "Blue's Bringing Britishness Back Baby" angle because they're the Express. You're right
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Apr 2, 2017 00:51
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vodkat posted:Since the real brexit shitstorm has now started can we get a Corbyn containment thread so I don't have to read the same arguments again for another month? Corbyn is a large part of British politics. So no.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:53
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Crane Fist posted:One of the big secrets of whisk(e)y retail is that the flavour stops changing after 10 years, so a 50 year old Glenfiddich tastes the same as a 25 or a 10, and the only differences are made by the variations in the ingredients and in the mind of the drinker. The whole business is breathtakingly cynical For christ's sake don't tell everyone, you'll scupper a whole sector of the Scottish economy. edit: If you want to see real bullshit artists work their magic you need to meet the marketing teams of some of my local distilleries, they call to mind that old Bill Hicks routine imploring ad men to kill themselves. TomViolence fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Apr 2, 2017 01:10
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TomViolence posted:For christ's sake don't tell everyone, you'll scupper a whole sector of the Scottish economy. Brexit is coming, soon everyone in the thread is going to be drinking nothing but rainwater anyway
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Apr 2, 2017 02:37
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Who actually pays attention to whisky marketing, don't normal people just taste various labels and decide which thing they like most?
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Apr 2, 2017 06:48
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I was always struck by Raymond chandlers characters opting for teachers but I suppose as it's sweet it's a good drink for a man and wife to enjoy together
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Apr 2, 2017 07:10
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i want a hot pink passport
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Apr 2, 2017 07:11
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vodkat posted:Since the real brexit shitstorm has now started can we get a Corbyn containment thread so I don't have to read the same arguments again for another month? You want a uk politics thread that doesn't include the Labour Party leader?
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Apr 2, 2017 07:24
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Pissflaps posted:You want a uk politics thread that doesn't include the Labour Party leader? I think most sane people want that, at this point.
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Apr 2, 2017 07:27
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Pissflaps posted:You want a uk politics thread that doesn't include the Labour Party leader? Well no-one wants their nose rubbed in their mess once, never mind regularly.
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Apr 2, 2017 07:50
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serious gaylord posted:Well no-one wants their nose rubbed in their mess once, never mind regularly. Shame all that energy going into trying to prove that they're right can't go into something more productive.
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