Bung a Bob for a Big Ben Bong

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  • We can only look on as @Thatcheright 's East European carers 'go back home' and leave him stuck in his chair, caked in his own excrement and unmedicated. Sad that nothing can be done for him, but he won.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    edited February 2020
    Tom Peck put it well in the Independent -

    “ Of course, now is the time that we must come together as a nation. We must start the healing. The grievances of yesteryear must be set aside. But there is also, somewhere in the recesses of my mind, some half-remembered obligation for a writer to have the courage to tell the truth. So it is with a genuine sense of sorrow that I must report that on Friday 31 January, between the hours of 9pm and 11pm, Westminster’s Parliament Square played host to a static, knuckle dragging carnival of the irredeemably stupid.

    ...

    There is simply no way anyone of good conscience can make peace with being so very clearly on the wrong side of history.

    Come together? Sorry, but no thanks. The long walk back to sanity starts now. Who knows, it might even be a surprisingly short one.“

    Here - https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-nigel-farage-parliament-square-a9312436.html
  • One of the explosions I heard last night must have been Thatcheright bursting out from under his/her stone.
    :naughty:

    Withholding of nourishment is probably a good idea, though.
  • And of course if he wanted nice English fruit and veg, like summer strawberries say, he'd probably have to drag it from the fields where it's rotting as the foreign workers who picked them aren't here any more (and good luck getting the locals to do it).
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited February 2020
    The same will apply to many jobs formerly carried out by Horrid Foreign People.

    It's hard to envisage long queues of True-Blue English™ anxious to pick fruit, sweep streets, or wipe the bums of old people in what remains of our 'care' system...

    Ah well - rotting fruit, empty shelves, filthy streets, even filthier geriatrics - it's The Will Of The People...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I wonder why it comes as no surprise that Thatcheright chose today to crawl out from under his rock ...
  • Hopefully he's gone away to fall on a rake or something.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    ...We have always been reluctant Europeans...
    Really? Have you glanced at a map? Geographically and in every other sense, you are Europeans. It seems self-defeating, to say the least, to cut yourselves off from the landmass right next to you.


  • Rossweisse wrote: »
    ...We have always been reluctant Europeans...
    Really? Have you glanced at a map? Geographically and in every other sense, you are Europeans. It seems self-defeating, to say the least, to cut yourselves off from the landmass right next to you.


    Why let reality dictate the terms of life?

    Sigh.
  • 'FOG IN CHANNEL - CONTINENT ISOLATED'
    :grimace:

    (Apocryphal newspaper headline...)
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Bishop’s Finger How those French people not call the English Channel by its proper name. It is the English Channel isn’t it. 😉
  • Yes, but it's Eurotunnel, isn't it, the nasty thing?
  • That's like the Irish border. No, English border in Ireland.
  • Yes, it's the English Channel, except that the wretched Frogs insist on calling it La Manche (The Sleeve), for no apparently sane reason.

    The newspaper headline left out the word 'English', simply because every True-Blue Englishman™ who read it would know what was meant!
  • Yes, it's the English Channel, except that the wretched Frogs insist on calling it La Manche (The Sleeve), for no apparently sane reason.

    That's because it looks like one on the map!

  • You may think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
    :wink:
  • Pendragon wrote: »
    Yes, it's the English Channel, except that the wretched Frogs insist on calling it La Manche (The Sleeve), for no apparently sane reason.

    That's because it looks like one on the map!

    But surely they will have been calling it that since before they had an accurate map to show the shape?
  • But they'd have known that the bit between St Malo and Poole was wider than the bit between Calais and Dover and made a reasonable inference (place names possibly having changed over time)
  • CruntCrunt Shipmate
    Rossweisse wrote: »
    ...We have always been reluctant Europeans...
    Really? Have you glanced at a map? Geographically and in every other sense, you are Europeans. It seems self-defeating, to say the least, to cut yourselves off from the landmass right next to you.

    You are not wrong Rossweisse, but having grown up in the UK (mid-sixties to mid-eighties), I definitely thought of continental Europe as being different from Britain; more exotic, more other. More civilised in some ways (lifestyle) and more primitive in others (plumbing). It is a place that I have hardly ever visited, so maybe that's why I found it so foreign. Not to mention all the different languages.

    Anyway, I don't live there anymore. I'm also a lot more cosmopolitan these days, so, yeah, why would anyone want to be isolated from all that?

    I wonder if any Japanese people feel the same way about continental Asia as some Brits feel about continental Europe.
  • Robertus L wrote: »
    But they'd have known that the bit between St Malo and Poole was wider than the bit between Calais and Dover and made a reasonable inference (place names possibly having changed over time)

    Ptolemy's map, from AD 150, has it more or less the right shape (link).
  • Hugal wrote: »
    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.

    You personally may not, but this thread has been a non-stop parade of attacks on those who voted for Brexit. You don't get to call people stupid racist fascists for over a hundred posts then get all upset when one of them says some nasty things back.
  • Indeed not. The nasty things said back may merely confirm what we already thought, but we have to have the grace to accept them.

    Just saying.
  • For quite a lot of people, the essence of being British is Not Being European. We're Different!
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Hugal wrote: »
    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.

    You personally may not, but this thread has been a non-stop parade of attacks on those who voted for Brexit. You don't get to call people stupid racist fascists for over a hundred posts then get all upset when one of them says some nasty things back.
    As a Non-British (except in terms of whence the majority of my ancestors departed for the New World) Person who follows the news, I think that Brexit is insanity of the highest order, and that Boris Johnson, in addition to his desperate need for acquiring and using a hairbrush, is absolutely certifiable. The only positive thing I can say about the whole monstrous mess is that it puts the United States's insanity in voting for a fascist reality show star as president into some perspective. But that's not much, is it?

  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited February 2020
    After the Brexit vote followed by Trump's election, the joke went round that essentially the UK and USA were having a 'who can be more electoral stupid' competition.

    UK: yay Brexit! Beat that!
    USA: Hold my beer...
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Hugal wrote: »
    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.

    You personally may not, but this thread has been a non-stop parade of attacks on those who voted for Brexit. You don't get to call people stupid racist fascists for over a hundred posts then get all upset when one of them says some nasty things back.

    So it is not about me but I don’t get to call people fascist (which I never did). Please be more specific. In using the word “you” are you indicating me or all contributes to this bread.
  • Hugal wrote: »
    Hugal wrote: »
    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.

    You personally may not, but this thread has been a non-stop parade of attacks on those who voted for Brexit. You don't get to call people stupid racist fascists for over a hundred posts then get all upset when one of them says some nasty things back.

    So it is not about me but I don’t get to call people fascist (which I never did). Please be more specific. In using the word “you” are you indicating me or all contributes to this bread.

    The second sentence uses the collective "you".
  • Eirenist wrote: »
    For quite a lot of people, the essence of being British is Not Being European. We're Different!

    To be fair, it's Not Being North American, South American, Asian, African, Oceanic or Antarctic as well. It's not just the Europeans we're Not Like.
  • Or Better than... :wink:
  • Well, that goes without saying!

    (Seriously for a minute, doesn't every nation feel that the way they do things is better than everyone else? Provided it doesn't get taken too far, I don't see a problem with that.)
  • Well, that goes without saying!

    (Seriously for a minute, doesn't every nation feel that the way they do things is better than everyone else? Provided it doesn't get taken too far, I don't see a problem with that.)

    No. Some things we do better, some worse. We do urban traffic planning worse than the Dutch. We do beer better than the French. We have a worse approach to alcohol than many countries, and a better attitude than others. We do learning other languages appallingly worse than almost everyone.

    More familiar ways, yes.
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