This may help ...Miguelito wrote:Can someone provide me a list of Britishisms and their actual level of displeasure?RobW wrote:Cheesed off? I am distinctly miffed, I can tell you.springrain wrote:
Back to the thread, aren't you cheesed off with what's happening to our country, Rob?
“Distinctly miffed” seems like it could be literally translated to “quite fucking pissed off”.
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^National Treasure and initial 'Leave' voter John Cleese left the UK in his own personal Brexit.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... -caribbean'So disappointed': John Cleese to quit UK for Caribbean
Nice tash.
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I suppose we’ll now get a load of rubbish posts about Cleese and Monty Python….......I guess that’s spam a lot.
"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the notion that white people can give anybody their freedom." Stokely Carmichael
Doesn’t he live most of the time there anyway, for tax reasons?
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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Didn’t JC just said he would have a second referendum if his party win the elections? The only way out of this clusterfuck is staying in the EU really.
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I disagree. We voted to leave and we're leaving.Barang_doa_slae wrote:Didn’t JC just said he would have a second referendum if his party win the elections? The only way out of this clusterfuck is staying in the EU really.
'History is a set of lies agreed upon.'
Attributed to Napoleon
Attributed to Napoleon
Plus the fact if they do have a second referendum wouldn’t that destroy any democracy that the first one was supposed to convey?springrain wrote:I disagree. We voted to leave and we're leaving.Barang_doa_slae wrote:Didn’t JC just said he would have a second referendum if his party win the elections? The only way out of this clusterfuck is staying in the EU really.
I don’t like the result therefore I want to do it again.
And anyway. I don’t think it’s even possible to do that.
Why not a third or fourth referendum?
pew, pew, pew, pew!
There isn't enough time for a second referendum under the current deadlines; the only options are going to be 'hard brexit' or, somebody in the Commons is going to grow a pair and abort the whole damn thing and get kudos for not taking the country back to 1973. There will still be the hard core "Brexit means Brexit" mob, but I think a lot of those who voted for Brexit simply were uneducated to the true implications at a very personal level. I wouldn't say I'm anti-Brexit, but if we're going to do it, folks need to realise it will be a really painful process & require some proper Blitz spirit to see it through - alas the country is awash with the avocado toast generation, I don't see it ending well.
If I were Theresa May I'd pull out (EU already stated it is an option), and I think she'd still be "popular" with well over the percentage that voted for Brexit in the first place ("Remainers" + "Brexiteers" who have changed their mind has got to be well over 60% by now, probably closer to 80% of the country?). Sadly I don't think she has the gumption & will lead the country much akin to the 3rd Earl of Lucan & the Light Brigade. (no relative to the K440 Lucan to my knowledge!)
If I were Theresa May I'd pull out (EU already stated it is an option), and I think she'd still be "popular" with well over the percentage that voted for Brexit in the first place ("Remainers" + "Brexiteers" who have changed their mind has got to be well over 60% by now, probably closer to 80% of the country?). Sadly I don't think she has the gumption & will lead the country much akin to the 3rd Earl of Lucan & the Light Brigade. (no relative to the K440 Lucan to my knowledge!)
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OK. Enough of all you remoaners banging on about the possible repercussions. Please scroll down for some positive Brexit news
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"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the notion that white people can give anybody their freedom." Stokely Carmichael
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I'd have thought that people would have twigged by now as to what a nasty, insidious organisation the EU is. Is not the very fact of their deliberate obfuscation and intransigence, not to mention their infantile obduracy enough to convince people that we shouldn't touch it with the proverbial bargepole?
I don't know how old the other posters are, but I well remember how Britain was in 1973 before that lover-of-young-boys Heath took us into the EEC. Suddenly, quality produce from Australia and NZ disappeared off supermarket shelves, VAT was imposed and inferior produce was sold at higher prices than before. By the way, VAT was forced onto the consumer, whereas the previous Purchase Tax was made on the business that produced the goods. Another rip-off for the consumers.
Unlike VAT, Purchase Tax was applied at the point of manufacture and distribution, not at the point of sale. The rate of Purchase Tax at the start of 1973, when it gave way to VAT, was 25%. On 1 January 1973 the UK joined the European Economic Community and as a consequence Purchase Tax was replaced by Value Added Tax on 1 April 1973. Wiki
Don't be fooled by all the hype about Brexit being a step backward.
I don't know how old the other posters are, but I well remember how Britain was in 1973 before that lover-of-young-boys Heath took us into the EEC. Suddenly, quality produce from Australia and NZ disappeared off supermarket shelves, VAT was imposed and inferior produce was sold at higher prices than before. By the way, VAT was forced onto the consumer, whereas the previous Purchase Tax was made on the business that produced the goods. Another rip-off for the consumers.
Unlike VAT, Purchase Tax was applied at the point of manufacture and distribution, not at the point of sale. The rate of Purchase Tax at the start of 1973, when it gave way to VAT, was 25%. On 1 January 1973 the UK joined the European Economic Community and as a consequence Purchase Tax was replaced by Value Added Tax on 1 April 1973. Wiki
Don't be fooled by all the hype about Brexit being a step backward.
'History is a set of lies agreed upon.'
Attributed to Napoleon
Attributed to Napoleon
Haha you sod!YaTingPom wrote:Brexit means Brexit.
Too old to be avocado toast generation though, so at least like Springrain you’ve got some proper perspective on it. I was only born in ‘76, but Spigz Senior is also of the firm belief that with a bit of effort, it could be way better than many believe; citing the same sort of examples.
Obviously the word has moved on since 73, not just the UK or EU, like I said, I think with the right application it could turn out positively, I’m definitely not a doom & gloomer on it.
Final concern is with the Eire/Northern Ireland situation though; just like in the 80s that I remember, there’s some seriously vicious talk emerging. I was in Harbour Exchange at the time of the South Quay bombing just around the corner, likewise at school in Dover just a few miles from the Deal barracks bombing- thankfully the Irish gents I know in Cambodia aren’t going to make that 3rd time lucky- although Lucan worries me!
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."