12-20-2020 10:27 AM
#301
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12-20-2020 05:23 PM
#302
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There's only one person who has authority over me, and that's my Mom. If she tells me I'm going to hers for Christmas, I'm fucking going. | |
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12-20-2020 08:19 PM
#303
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This should be No. 1 in the UK | |
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12-21-2020 06:29 AM
#304
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The funny thing is, the Tories will still win the next election. Despite Boris being an incompetent liar, people still trust him more than Starmer. Fucking state of British politics. | |
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12-21-2020 06:38 AM
#305
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Some porn for poop - | |
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12-21-2020 07:56 AM
#306
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12-21-2020 07:57 AM
#307
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12-21-2020 08:02 AM
#308
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12-21-2020 08:53 AM
#309
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It's not. But that isn't stopping remainers from jizzing their pants on Twitter. | |
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12-21-2020 08:54 AM
#310
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You still think we're going to starve? So what's more stupid? Voting for starvation? Or staying in the country when you don't need to, even though you think you'll starve? | |
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12-21-2020 08:56 AM
#311
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that your "starve" talk is hyperbole. If you were back in Canada, I'd maybe think you really believed it. | |
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12-21-2020 08:57 AM
#312
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Brexit to the right of me, covid to the left, here I am running out of lettuce with you. | |
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12-21-2020 09:53 AM
#313
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12-21-2020 09:56 AM
#314
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I don't literally think we're going to starve obviously. | |
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12-21-2020 09:58 AM
#315
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12-21-2020 10:01 AM
#316
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12-21-2020 12:14 PM
#317
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No, it means he was honored for service for his country, which in his case is more admirable since he wasn't born into it like a lot of them. I doubt that title will ever be bestowed on Boris in any way shape or form lol. | |
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12-21-2020 12:15 PM
#318
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12-21-2020 12:28 PM
#319
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12-21-2020 12:32 PM
#320
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12-21-2020 12:35 PM
#321
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I'm currently shopping for a new bike. I'll probably end up buying from the UK which is already €20 more for shipping than within the EU. However BJ ran the GBP so far into the ground, the exchange rate more than makes up for it. So it all evens it out. | |
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12-21-2020 12:37 PM
#322
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12-21-2020 12:43 PM
#323
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K-niggets | |
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12-21-2020 12:48 PM
#324
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For some context, Geldof was knighted for his charity work with Bandaid. However, this wasn't all Geldof's work. Midge Ure also played an important role. Today, Midge is broke, while Geldof struts around on yachts. Now, if you actually take a look at their music careers, you'll naturally ask yourself the question "how many copies of I Don't Like Mondays must you shift to buy a yacht?". More than Vienna and Fade to Grey put together, it seems. | |
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12-21-2020 12:53 PM
#325
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12-21-2020 01:00 PM
#326
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12-21-2020 01:12 PM
#327
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12-21-2020 01:13 PM
#328
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Midge Ure is actually called James. | |
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12-21-2020 03:00 PM
#329
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12-21-2020 03:02 PM
#330
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12-21-2020 03:07 PM
#331
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Geldof was the frontman for BandAid, so not surprising he got the knighthood. They can't just knight everyone who had a hand in it, or they'd run out of swords. Just like they can't knight every prosecutor that ever lived, so they pick one who had a prominent role, hence KS gets one. | |
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12-21-2020 03:09 PM
#332
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It's only the top echelon of awards. They also have Orders of the British Empire and Member of the British Empire, though they tend to hand out the latter at least like candy. One of our dept. administrators got an MBE for being in her job for 50 years or some shit. Nothing more. | |
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12-21-2020 03:16 PM
#333
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I'm not surprised you have no clue about this, but they can still grow fruit and veg in S. Europe during the winter. That's where a lot of it comes from. | |
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12-21-2020 03:21 PM
#334
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12-21-2020 03:24 PM
#335
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There's no way Boris survives this winter as PM. When even the Daily Mail and Telegraph turn on a Tory, they're fucked. | |
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12-21-2020 07:36 PM
#336
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Let's dish out knighthoods to every fucking cop then. I mean, they do the donkey work. The lawyers just get paid absurd amounts of money to translate English into legalese. | |
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12-21-2020 07:40 PM
#337
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Not according to the UK govt website. | |
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12-21-2020 07:43 PM
#338
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We've already signed a Free Trade Agreement with Japan, and an announcement regarding Brazil is imminent, according to Twitter sources. | |
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12-21-2020 08:09 PM
#339
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Then you need a new source. | |
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12-21-2020 08:21 PM
#340
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lol, what a sad list. | |
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12-21-2020 08:32 PM
#341
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They give knighthoods to everyone who serves as head of DPP. So it's not like Starmer had some cousin who knew the queen or something. Anyways, who cares? He doesn't make a big thing out of it. | |
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12-22-2020 05:41 AM
#342
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12-22-2020 06:25 AM
#343
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The point is that we don't have a deal with the EU. If you want to consider a deal with the Faroe Islands and all those other tiny trading partners as some kind of big win, then that just shows how desperate you are to find a silver lining in this massive cloud of shit. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 12-22-2020 at 06:42 AM.
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12-22-2020 07:16 AM
#344
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12-22-2020 07:52 AM
#345
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Canada makes up 2.5% of our total trade. I call that tiny. But hey, get out your Brexit thesaurus and come up with a word that suits you better if you like. "World-beating?" "Sunlit uplands?" "Holding all the cards?" | |
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12-22-2020 07:54 AM
#346
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12-22-2020 08:11 AM
#347
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12-22-2020 08:30 AM
#348
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Completely irrelevant. But go on, tell me how this makes up for the EU. | |
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12-22-2020 08:37 AM
#349
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12-22-2020 08:41 AM
#350
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Heh, turns out the first EU citizens to get the vaccine are Spanish workers in Gibraltar. | |
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12-22-2020 09:47 AM
#351
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12-22-2020 12:56 PM
#352
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No I just don't think I take myself as seriously as you take yourself. The point about those analogies isn't semantics, it's how subjective the whole idea is. Of course you think it's marriage of benefit or whatever you said, while I consider it an unhappy marriage. We're just expressing our opinions in slightly more creative ways. | |
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12-22-2020 07:26 PM
#353
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I'll skip that wall of text and just assume it's got nothing to do with facts and all to do with your feelings. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 12-22-2020 at 07:28 PM.
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12-23-2020 07:25 AM
#354
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I can argue that you'll never admit how terrible an idea it is to build a European superstate. You'll instead say things like "it's not a superstate" and ignore the evidence to the contrary, like Merkel talking about an EU army. Even when they finally start building this army. You'll shift from "tin hat" to "why is it a problem". | |
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12-23-2020 12:05 PM
#355
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Deep breath. You're talking to one person, not the boogeyman amalgamation of all the opinions you disagree with. | |
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12-23-2020 03:24 PM
#356
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12-24-2020 01:26 PM
#357
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I might have missed this memo, but how is/would the EU having it's own military (of some sort) be a bad thing? | |
12-24-2020 04:32 PM
#358
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Germans airlifting food to truckers in Kent. French supplying them with covid tests so they can go to Europe. | |
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12-24-2020 04:40 PM
#359
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Not sure what's Ong view on this is, as he's never really stated a specific objection. But, some here oppose it out of fear it will be used aggressively and we'd somehow be forced to take part. Which, if true, would explain why we just made a massive increase in our military budget in the middle of a pandemic. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 12-24-2020 at 04:48 PM.
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12-24-2020 04:52 PM
#360
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Will need time to unpack the Deal, which is certainly going to be better than No Deal, but two things we can be certain of are that it won't be as good as the deal we are leaving, and that most people's opinion of it will be mainly informed by what they see in their favourite media. | |
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12-24-2020 05:21 PM
#361
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Goddamn Eurolibtards! We've got no use for your "facts." #MEGA | |
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12-25-2020 04:38 AM
#362
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12-25-2020 08:11 AM
#363
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The best rationale I can see for the EU Army is defensive against Russia. If say 15 countries join, then if one of them is invaded the others automatically join in. This would be particularly beneficial to a country neighboring Russia if Putin decides to Make Your Country Russian Again. In the long run it's a powerful deterrent against Putin, and it benefits the entire EU not to have Russia expanding onto your territory. | |
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12-25-2020 01:25 PM
#364
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It's not like it's unprecedented for the UK to have a relationship with another nation wherein there is a defensive pact. | |
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12-25-2020 01:38 PM
#365
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NATO is a defensive pact. No-one has argued that the fact much of the EU is part of NATO is a good reason to leave the EU (at least not yet). | |
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12-27-2020 02:24 PM
#366
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It depends on its role. If such a military is intended to replace national militaries, this is a terrible thing and it shouldn't need to be explained why. If it is complimentary, then we also have to ask what the point is, since we already have the UN and NATO. Since we already have military alliances, I have to assume that such an army would be intended to replace the militaries of nation states. This is exceptionally bad because it means foreign policy is no longer dictated by those who we put into power, instead unelected people will have massive control over a continent-scale military force. It also means that the means to defend a nation from invasion (not something that will likely ever happen but we should prepare for nonetheless) is taken away from the nation itself. | |
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12-27-2020 02:27 PM
#367
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12-27-2020 04:53 PM
#368
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lolwut? | |
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12-27-2020 04:57 PM
#369
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By "voluntary" I mean that each member state would have the option to join or not join the EU Army. How it decides that is its own concern, though I imagine the EU member states themselves understand better than you what membership entails, so they wouldn't necessarily feel they need to put it to a referendum. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 12-27-2020 at 05:00 PM.
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12-27-2020 04:59 PM
#370
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But you've failed to answer how this relates to Brexit: Since the UK could decide for itself whether or not to join the EU Army, how does the hypothetical future existence of such a force diminish our sovereignty, and therefore require we bail out of the EU? | |
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12-27-2020 07:17 PM
#371
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12-27-2020 08:24 PM
#372
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If your leaders don't want your country to join the army, they don't have to. Seems pretty sovereign and democratic to me, assuming you live in a democracy where you get to vote for your leaders. | |
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12-27-2020 08:26 PM
#373
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12-28-2020 09:52 AM
#374
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12-28-2020 10:02 AM
#375
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I mean, an EU army is hardly the main reason to leave the EU. But this was always about sovereignty and democracy. Why the hell would you expect anyone who values sovereignty to be on board with an EU army? It's a further erosion of nation state sovereignty, it weakens a nation while strengthening the bloc. It makes it even more difficult to leave the EU in the future. I'm not sure why you're surprised that it's a relevant matter when we talk about EU membership. | |
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