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  • Telford wrote: »
    Telford's school didn't do a very good job when it came to teaching him spelling...so I suppose trying to educate him a little further is bound to be a non-starter.
    50 odd years since I left school but I do know that you should have put a comma after spelling rather than 3 full stops.

    You are wrong yet again. The ellipsis (three dots) is a legitimate usage.

    Ellipses for omitted material spanning two or more sentences:

    When quoted material is presented as multiple sentences, four dots should be used for omissions between two or more original sentences; three dots should be used for omissions within a single original sentence.


    I deliberately omitted some choice words, which you would not have liked.

    Go back to school. Stop trying to be clever.
  • Telford wrote: »
    Telford's school didn't do a very good job when it came to teaching him spelling...so I suppose trying to educate him a little further is bound to be a non-starter.
    50 odd years since I left school but I do know that you should have put a comma after spelling rather than 3 full stops.

    You are wrong yet again. The ellipsis (three dots) is a legitimate usage.

    Ellipses for omitted material spanning two or more sentences:

    When quoted material is presented as multiple sentences, four dots should be used for omissions between two or more original sentences; three dots should be used for omissions within a single original sentence.


    I deliberately omitted some choice words, which you would not have liked.

    Go back to school. Stop trying to be clever.
    I refer you to the last post from Doublethink.

  • You two are currently looking in a mirror and failing to notice.
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    Telford wrote: »
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Telford wrote: »
    The Prime MInister and other cabinet ministers have described the benefits of the deal far better than I ever could.
    The Prime Minister has been called quite the most accomplished liar who has ever run this country. He's spent his entire career lying about the EU, and the last four and a half lying about the advantages of Brexit. Also there is no guarantee he actually knows or understands what is in the deal as that would require him to have read it. He claims he didn't understand the withdrawal agreement he signed last year, and for once I think there I think he lied himself right round into the truth by accident
    The problem is that you are biased against him and his party
    The problem is that you are avoiding the question. You first resorted to an ad hominem accusation of bias, then you have successfully diverted the discussion onto whether or not you are more pedantic than Bishop's Finger or not.


    Boris Johnson said of the current deal that there were no non-tariff barriers.
    There are non-tariff barriers, and businesses will have to fill out a lot of paperwork.

    The Prime Minister either lied or he was ignorant of his own deal.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    … or he doesn’t understand the meaning of ‘non-tarrif barriers’.
  • I'm pretty sure it's "he's lying" and "he doesn't understand his own deal".
  • You two are currently looking in a mirror and failing to notice.

    Guilty as charged, m'Lud, and thank you for the timely reminder!
    :wink:

  • JoanneTaylorJoanneTaylor Shipmate Posts: 1
    edited December 2020
    You two are currently looking in a mirror and failing to notice.

    Guilty as charged, m'Lud, and thank you for the timely reminder!
    :wink:

    Execute, you will not see forgiveness x)
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited December 2020

    :grimace:
  • Dafyd wrote: »
    Telford wrote: »
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Telford wrote: »
    The Prime MInister and other cabinet ministers have described the benefits of the deal far better than I ever could.
    The Prime Minister has been called quite the most accomplished liar who has ever run this country. He's spent his entire career lying about the EU, and the last four and a half lying about the advantages of Brexit. Also there is no guarantee he actually knows or understands what is in the deal as that would require him to have read it. He claims he didn't understand the withdrawal agreement he signed last year, and for once I think there I think he lied himself right round into the truth by accident
    The problem is that you are biased against him and his party
    then you have successfully diverted the discussion onto whether or not you are more pedantic than Bishop's Finger or not.
    Read the thread. I didn't start that nonsense.
    Boris Johnson said of the current deal that there were no non-tariff barriers.
    There are non-tariff barriers, and businesses will have to fill out a lot of paperwork.

    The Prime Minister either lied or he was ignorant of his own deal.
    All correct but the majority of people will not be bothered about the paperwork

  • What do you mean by "majority of people"? Anyone working for a business that exports to the EU should be bothered by the additional costs, which will either be reflected by reduced sales or cuts in expenses elsewhere (and, salaries could be included in that). Or, anyone with friends or relatives elsewhere in the EU who you might want to send a gift.
  • What do you mean by "majority of people"? Anyone working for a business that exports to the EU should be bothered by the additional costs, which will either be reflected by reduced sales or cuts in expenses elsewhere (and, salaries could be included in that). Or, anyone with friends or relatives elsewhere in the EU who you might want to send a gift.

    The majority of people do not work for firms that export. That's one of our main problems

  • I daresay there'll be more red tape for firms that import , too.
  • Plus, red tape for the businesses in the EU doing the exporting to the UK. So, generally all round increase in costs. That may impact the price and availability of bratwurst.
  • Plus, red tape for the businesses in the EU doing the exporting to the UK. So, generally all round increase in costs. That may impact the price and availability of bratwurst.
    I may have to buy more Heck

  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    edited December 2020
    As has been said many times we know Boris is liar. He was sacked for it. Before you say he said we would have a deal by Christmas, yes he did but that is perhaps more by good luck than management. There is little to no reason to believe a lot of what he says.
    Am I bias against him and his cabinet. Yes they have proven their incompetence time and again. The deal is the rotten cherry on a badly made cake.
  • We have it on good authority that 'The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman'. So he cannot be Boris. But perhaps it is time for us to behave like gentlemen (and ladies), wven in Hell, shake hands and agree to diffier (yes, I'm looking at you, B.F. and T.). We will find out whose crystal ball is right all too quickly, I fear. (Apologies if I have trodden on hostly toes.)
  • Though having sympathy for Eirenist, I'm afraid, looking back on this year, and its events, I am reminded of this bit from Marlowe's 'Faustus':

    Faustus: Where are you dammed?
    Mephistopheles: In Hell
    Faustus: How comes it then that thou art out of it?
    Mephistopheles: Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it.




  • RockyRoger wrote: »
    Though having sympathy for Eirenist, I'm afraid, looking back on this year, and its events, I am reminded of this bit from Marlowe's 'Faustus':

    Faustus: Where are you dammed?
    Mephistopheles: In Hell
    Faustus: How comes it then that thou art out of it?
    Mephistopheles: Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it.




    Spot on. Well quoted, sir.
  • It was the wrong title after all.
  • Now it's passed midnight in the EU, and the transition is over it's probably time for @Doc Tor to put this thread out of it's misery.

    Though as we move to live under a deal dictated to the UK by the EU you can be sure it's a long way from the end of the Brexit discussion. I'm just waiting for the UK government to try and change regulations so that they diverge from the EU and find themselves pulled up by the arbitration system they agreed to being told that's only possible if tariffs start to be charged ...
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    Now it's passed midnight in the EU, and the transition is over it's probably time for @Doc Tor to put this thread out of it's misery.

    Though as we move to live under a deal dictated to the UK by the EU you can be sure it's a long way from the end of the Brexit discussion. I'm just waiting for the UK government to try and change regulations so that they diverge from the EU and find themselves pulled up by the arbitration system they agreed to being told that's only possible if tariffs start to be charged ...

    I reckon the government will not be looking for trouble in the forseeable future.

  • Hahahahahahhahaha *gasp* hahahahhaha

    Have you not *seen* how this government operates !?!
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    Hahahahahahhahaha *gasp* hahahahhaha

    Have you not *seen* how this government operates !?!
    Yes I have. They have had a very difficult year
  • Mainly of their own f*cking making. But we've been through all this before. Telford's charitable assessment of this bunch of charlatans is a model to us all .... but the damage done to the poor in our society by this bunch of incompetents does make me too angry to do likewise.
  • Telford wrote: »
    Hahahahahahhahaha *gasp* hahahahhaha

    Have you not *seen* how this government operates !?!
    Yes I have. They have had a very difficult year

    Unfortunately, their media management strategy seems to be along the lines of - if I shoot that Ming vase over there with a crossbow bolt then people won’t notice that I put my head through this stain glass window next to me when I fell over. If anyone does, I’ll tell them it was the fault of that foreigner who just walked past.

    (In other words I could see them starting a fight with the EU over some random thing, to distract from the massively increasing number of avoidable Covid fuckups.)
  • EirenistEirenist Shipmate
    Th only person in No. 10 with any competence at doing the job he's paid for is Larry the cat. (Excepting the cleaners, of course.)
  • Late to the party, because (something something). But BOOM!
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