Bung a Bob for a Big Ben Bong

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  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    It’s a Friday, isn’t it? I shall plan a long day out with my friend. No looking at the TV or listening to the radio.

    I feel sad and a little sick about it all.

    What an idiotic country. :cry:
  • It's interesting that most comedians are left wing, although there are a few right wing ones. I wonder who they've got lined up. Jim Davidson, star of "Boobs in the Wood"?

    These days that is taken for granted. Back in the 70s I was taught at school that left wing ideas were the risible ones, right wing were common sense.
  • Boogie wrote: »

    I feel sad and a little sick about it all.

    What an idiotic country. :cry:

    I agree.
    :grimace:

  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Boogie wrote: »

    I feel sad and a little sick about it all.

    What an idiotic country. :cry:

    I agree.
    :grimace:

    Me too! 😢
  • {{{{{{{everyone affected}}}}}}}
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    FWIW I think the main reason for comedians being of the left, these days, especially, is that punching up is funnier than punching down.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    I have no idea what my council Vale of Glamorgan is doing. I am still trying to sort out after just moving in. We already have had to deal with an infestation of flies in the kitchen. I will ignore anything they do to celebrate Brexit anyway
  • Hugal wrote: »
    I have no idea what my council Vale of Glamorgan is doing. I am still trying to sort out after just moving in. We already have had to deal with an infestation of flies in the kitchen. I will ignore anything they do to celebrate Brexit anyway

    How will flies celebrate Brexit?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    Hopefully, by buzzing around the bonce of The Mad Mophead, and thereby pissing him off mightily.
    :grimace:
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I suspect they're gathering to lay their eggs in the corpse of sanity.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Hugal wrote: »
    I have no idea what my council Vale of Glamorgan is doing. I am still trying to sort out after just moving in. We already have had to deal with an infestation of flies in the kitchen. I will ignore anything they do to celebrate Brexit anyway

    How will flies celebrate Brexit?

    These ones will not be celebrating anything now the pest control man has been. I think we can draw a resemblance here.
  • Any chance your pest control man has charge of a Ditch anywhere?
    :innocent:
  • ...whilst raping the whole of another county for coal (if we still have any?).

    There's loads of the stuff left under the UK, it's just that for the last thirty years or so it's been far cheaper to import it from elsewhere than to dig it up from here.

    It's entirely possible we may have to start digging it up ourselves again once Brexit buggers up our supply chain. Maybe that's how Boris plans to woo the northern voters who lent him their votes - by reopening the pits!
  • It's all but impossible to re-open a deep pit once the pumps have been turned off. And if you want to dig a new shaft parallel to the old one, you risk breaking into the old workings and releasing several million litres of groundwater into the new one, killing everyone underground.

    Something something metaphor for Brexit.
  • Let all the peasants be turned over to mending/replacing the pumps! Then let the peasants dig the coal!

    HAIL BORIS!
  • Doc Tor wrote: »
    It's all but impossible to re-open a deep pit once the pumps have been turned off. And if you want to dig a new shaft parallel to the old one, you risk breaking into the old workings and releasing several million litres of groundwater into the new one, killing everyone underground.

    Something something metaphor for Brexit.

    When the miners' strike happened, apparently the NUM in the East Kent coalfield was particularly militant and at some pits even basic maintainance was frowned upon, so at least one didn't reopen after the strike as it was unsafe.
  • The English will need to shut down their filthy power stations. A possible benefit of Brexit. Of course, they can be shut even without Brexit, Scotland didn't need Brexit to shut down dirty power stations.
  • How will Scotland be marking Brexit (I will NOT use the word 'celebrate')?

    Flags at half-mast would seem appropriate.
  • with increased calls for Independence, no doubt.

    rather than boycott the new 50p coins, would it not be better to save them all up, preventing them from being passed around ?
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    Wet Kipper wrote: »
    with increased calls for Independence, no doubt.

    rather than boycott the new 50p coins, would it not be better to save them all up, preventing them from being passed around ?

    I will save them in a charity tin and, when it’s full, give it to the charity.

  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Maybe save them and change them to Euros for a holiday
  • How will Scotland be marking Brexit (I will NOT use the word 'celebrate')?

    Flags at half-mast would seem appropriate.

    This Statement has done the rounds a bit round some of the Scottish churches. I read out the full statement to our folks on Sunday morning. In terms of the day itself, I'm not aware as yet of anything planned by anyone officially or otherwise!
  • As regards the Brexit 50p, some suggestions as to how to use it sensibly are on the Brexit IV thread.

    The sheer arrogance of The Mad Mophead, and his arse-lickers, over this whole ghastly train-wreck is breathtaking, but the churches' call for an end to bitterness is timely.

    Alas, I fear that the bitterness will only increase as The Dark Years unfold...
    :scream:
  • Anselmina wrote: »
    How will Scotland be marking Brexit (I will NOT use the word 'celebrate')?

    Flags at half-mast would seem appropriate.

    This Statement has done the rounds a bit round some of the Scottish churches. I read out the full statement to our folks on Sunday morning. In terms of the day itself, I'm not aware as yet of anything planned by anyone officially or otherwise!
    There are significant "Missing EU already" events in Edinburgh on Friday, leading up to a candle lit vigil to the point when the clock ticks round to the end of the current stage in the Brexit fiasco. Outside the Parliament building from 5.30. Smaller events elsewhere in Scotland; if I get back from my current fieldwork in time I'll see about getting down to events in Glasgow earlier in the day. Most, if not all, also having a strong Indy flavour to them.

    The Scottish government are on record as saying that the EU flags that are flown over many official buildings will not be lowered.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    (From cross Pond.)

    Serious question: Will leaving the EU flags up invite trouble? Of the rocks and other projectiles kind?

    ETA: Or of the "storm the building and capture the flag" kind?

    Thx.
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    (From cross Pond.)

    Serious question: Will leaving the EU flags up invite trouble? Of the rocks and other projectiles kind?

    ETA: Or of the "storm the building and capture the flag" kind?

    Thx.

    Probably, but IMO that says far more about the people doing it than the people flying the flag.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Good God who buys one of these?
  • Fuckwits, that's who. Fuckwits.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Good God who buys one of these?

    Certainly people with more money than sense: £12 for a tea towel!?

    To my mind “Got Brexit done” = “We have exited the aircraft” with the unspoken subtext, “We’ve got six and a half miles now to work out what we’re going to do about the ground.”
  • PFF--
    Golden Key wrote: »
    (From cross Pond.)

    Serious question: Will leaving the EU flags up invite trouble? Of the rocks and other projectiles kind?

    ETA: Or of the "storm the building and capture the flag" kind?

    Thx.

    Probably, but IMO that says far more about the people doing it than the people flying the flag.

    Well, yes, but I'm more concerned about intentional and unintentional violence. Like a rock thrown at a flag falls short (or goes over the roof) and hits someone on the head. Or flag-haters forcing their way to a flag they want to remove. Etc.

  • I don't think that there will be things thrown at EU flags in Scotland. At English flags, maybe. It might be different in England, though.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    Good God who buys one of these?

    Rich people, with Servants who do the washing-up etc.

  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Cathscats wrote: »
    I don't think that there will be things thrown at EU flags in Scotland. At English flags, maybe. It might be different in England, though.

    I agree. Scotland is more favourable to the EU as a whole. There will not be that much anti EU sentiment.
  • Scottish Parliament voted yesterday to keep the EU flag flying outside the building as a sign to the EU people living in the country. That vote may have been lost in some news-coverage, especially south of the border, as they also voted in favour of IndyRef 2
  • O Scotland the Brave! Come south, and finish the job you left off in 1745 or thereabouts...
    :grimace:

  • 1216. When the Scottish army under Alexander II reached Dover.
  • O well - better late than never!

    When you get to Dover again, perhaps you could kindly re-open the Channel Tunnel? I fear that the Lord Protector Boris may shortly be wishing to close it...
  • An enlightening programme on Farage, I'm told, yesterday on Channel 4. I couldn't bring myself to watch it, but reading the review, may do so via Catchup.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    'enlightening' + 'Farage' sounds rather like an oxymoron, but ISWYM.
    :grimace:

    BTW, the word 'Farage' rather reminds me of 'roughage' - you know, the stuff that helps you to poo properly...

    Is there any resemblance? I think we should be told.
  • Hugal wrote: »
    Cathscats wrote: »
    I don't think that there will be things thrown at EU flags in Scotland. At English flags, maybe. It might be different in England, though.

    I agree. Scotland is more favourable to the EU as a whole. There will not be that much anti EU sentiment.
    Even the Duke of Wellington is joining in.
  • Not a single bong to be heard anywhere round here, despite the True Blue nature of local politicians, and MPs.

    Perhaps they're feeling ashamed of themselves already.

  • I would imagine that a lot of the large clocks have chiming devices that don't trigger overnight.
  • Having read this thread in its entirety, I do believe many, if not most, of you are a little upset today.

    Try to relax. Go for a walk in the glorious Great British countryside or perhaps take up a new hobby such as collecting memorabilia of some sort.

    I'm sure many of you are wondering if I'm happy today, and rest assured I am pleased to confirm that I, along with millions of others, are very happy.

    Not just at leaving the EU, but at watching the bitter, frustrated, and desperately lefty-but-middle-class tears roll down those blue-and-gold painted faces.

    We have always been reluctant Europeans so it was always inevitable that we would leave at some point, but doing so whilst also giving another hefty kick to socialists and their dreams is lovely.

    It's a lovely, sunny day here in Chesterfield. A bright, new dawn in fact. How many of you were actually hoping for really poor weather today?
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    As a left leaning voter your post is verging on them offensive. I do not dis right wing voters please do not do so with left wing voter. I am not middle class by the way.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited February 2020
    It's a lovely, sunny day here in Chesterfield. A bright, new dawn in fact. How many of you were actually hoping for really poor weather today?
    Not I. And nothing truly great can encompass gloating. Think about that for a while.
  • Thanks for those thoughts @Thatcheright. Today starts the process of working towards rejoining the EU at the earliest opportunity. Plus the continuing fight to repair our democracy after a vote by just under 14m people (43.6%) can drag us out of the EU in a few weeks, with the stupid unconstitutional glorified opinion poll without a question in 2016 - if not for the fact that Parliament is sovereign (and being in the EU didn't change that at all) and voted to accept that a marginal majority voted for something undefined in 2016 meant that they would support a project that wasn't supported by a majority of their party members the EU would have thrown that letter from Mrs May back in her face pointing out that Article 50 refers to a decision that's made by the proper processes of our democracy. The 2016 vote was abnormal, but ultimately irrelevant because Parliament decides not the people.

    So, in order of priority (which may be different from the order things happen) we need to
    a) make sure we're clear on what makes a referendum meaningful and constitutional - which will also as a side effect make it clear that the 2016 opinion poll is neither.
    b) make sure that over the next year we keep as close to all the good things of EU membership as possible - freedom of movement, single market and customs union, fisheries policy, adherence to all EU regulations and standards, full participation in EU research programmes, Erasmus, environmental policies,etc. Dump this stupid requirement for people to apply for the right to live in the country they've made home.
    c) work to ensure that the racism of the current fascist regime is clear to all, and that BoJo and the rest of his black shirts don't speak for all of us. The fight against his Little Englandism goes on.
    d) fortunately, in Scotland I have an additional option of working to re-assert our sovereignty so at least part of our nations has a route back into the EU.
    e) and, the BIGGY. Because, the items above relatively simple to achieve. While doing all that we also need to be leading the world in making significant steps towards carbon neutrality in the next decade. We need to also be fully involved in the international community to pressure other nations to follow where we lead - including within the EU.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    edited February 2020
    @Thatcheright

    Your name says it all. :cry:

    Thatcher and her attitude to others is at the root of many of the UKs problems today. Her belief in market forces - and lack of care that those forces are plain fear and greed.

    My sadness is real and goes deep. My relief that my son is a German citizen is real and goes deep.

    Your dismissal of those feelings as “lefty-but-middle-class tears roll down those blue-and-gold painted faces.” are typical of Thatcher and all she stood for.

    Just awful.

    I wish my country was better than that. I see that it is not.

    .

  • Thatcher was a solid supporter of the EU. She knew that was where our economic destiny lay. She was wrong about many, many things, and she strove to shape Europe in her image, but she knew where its strength was.
  • Thatcheright meanwhile seems mostly to take pleasure in other people's anxiety and sadness.

    He's too petty to rise to the levels of true evil.
  • Those of us who worry are conscious that the current administration's desire to leave EVERYTHING about Europe is going to cause a lot of problems that can't be properly resolved in 11 months, that we are going to go into negotiations as very much the weaker party, that British citizens are going to get shafted (sorry Gibraltar and most people with lifelong medical conditions), and if we don't sort things out, even NHS radiotherapy services could be screwed (because we're also leaving EURATOM).
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