Who would you rather have a pint with Nigel Farage or Jean-Claude Juncker?

jetsonx · 06-02-2019 2:05pm #1

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-02-2019 2:07pm

Juncker without a doubt.

mcmoustache · 06-02-2019 2:08pm

Sorry, but I'm asking the questions around here.

Who would you rather have a pint with Nigel Farage or Jean-Claude Juncker?

IrishZeus · 06-02-2019 2:08pm

Neither would be high on my list, but I'd say you'd have more craic with Farage!

randd1 · 06-02-2019 2:10pm

Farage, no question.

While with Juncker you'd get the impression the night would end up with a bevvy of scantily clad call-girls in a hotel room, with Farage there's the possibility of someone really lamping him. That just about shades it for me.

ohnonotgmail · 06-02-2019 2:11pm

Farage has a face that is far too punchable. I'd be afraid to get within 20 feet of him so it has to be juncker.

Gravelly · 06-02-2019 2:12pm

Farage - Junker looks like one of those sloppy drunks who would ruin your night and get you barred from your local.

Trigger Happy · 06-02-2019 2:12pm

Farage in a nightclub. Things would get interesting when it comes to paying the bill and leaving.

oLoonatic · 06-02-2019 2:12pm

I'd say farage is a secret session mot, i'd go with him.

alloywheel · 06-02-2019 2:25pm

Farange would be the better of the 2.

RollieFingers · 06-02-2019 2:30pm

Farage definitely.

Winty · 06-02-2019 3:43pm

Farage definitely would be better craic

fxotoole · 06-02-2019 3:45pm

Nigel Farage, the kûnt. Purely so I could call him a künt to his face, and then glass him.

Pawwed Rig · 06-02-2019 3:47pm

fxotoole wrote: »

Nigel Farage, the kûnt. Purely so I could call him a künt to his face, and then glass him.

What did he do to you?

CrankyHaus · 06-02-2019 3:50pm

Farage is a fiend for the gargle. He did lunch with the FT and the bill, for just lunchtime, was like several pints, wine and glasses of port. There was a lamb chop in there too.

He didn't come off as pissed in the interview either so I'd put him down as a high functioning alcoholic.

Allegedly Juncker's got his problems there too but I never read up on it.

I'd say either of them would be fairly insufferable. Coin toss if I had to choose.

fxotoole · 06-02-2019 3:50pm

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

What did he do to you?

What didn’t he do?

Subcomandante Marcos · 06-02-2019 3:51pm

There's plenty of Farage's in every pub in Ireland talking ****e while half cut at the bar. **** for brains, no education, but an expert in all fields because they read the mail and watch sky news 24/7. Lots of statements start with "I'm bringing racist but...".

mad muffin · 06-02-2019 3:51pm

Is this a trick question?

Mint Sauce · 06-02-2019 4:09pm

I would have said Farage, but after todays events, i want to go drinking with Donald Tusk.

Gravelly · 06-02-2019 4:14pm

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

There's plenty of Farage's in every pub in Ireland talking ****e while half cut at the bar. **** for brains, no education, but an expert in all fields because they read the mail and watch sky news 24/7. Lots of statements start with "I'm bringing racist but...".

Plenty of Junckers too, but most of them are lying in the gutter outside the pub.

Humphrey BoaGart · 06-02-2019 4:40pm

I think Juncker is more of a wine type guy.

TomSweeney · 06-02-2019 4:42pm

Farage.
Junker is a sneering fascist snob.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 06-02-2019 4:42pm

Juncker is an alcoholic so the night might get a bit crazy.

Think I'll stick to a pint of bitter with Nigel down at the Dog and Duck.

ArchXStanton · 06-02-2019 4:53pm

Farage

Don't think I could listen to Juncker and his Europe is our future, diversity is our strength, not to mention some of the completely anti-democratic dribble that comes out of him

alloywheel · 06-02-2019 11:21pm

Infamous quotes from the nasty little EU Juncker:

On Greece's economic meltdown in 2011
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

On EU monetary policy
"I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates"

On British calls for a referendum over Lisbon Treaty
“Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?,”

On French referendum over EU constitution
“If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’,”

On the introduction of the euro
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."

On eurozone economic policy and democracy
“We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10967168/Jean-Claude-Junckers-most-outrageous-political-quotations.html

WoollyRedHat · 06-02-2019 11:23pm

Farage so I could poison it.

Get Real · 06-02-2019 11:25pm

I'm pro EU, (but not in a militant sense) and disagree with Farage's viewpoints.

However I respect him and would have no issue with having a few pints with him. I reckon I could get along with him, even though we disagree.

I reckon he'd be good for taking the piss out of but in a friendly sense. He could do same to me. Then hopefully we'd get on, forget politics, and have a savage night out.

orourkeda1977 · 06-02-2019 11:32pm

Nigel Farage without a doubt.

I'd say he's way better craic than the other fella

prinzeugen · 06-02-2019 11:32pm

Farage.

I wouldn't go for a pint with Hitler for the same reasons I would not go for a pint with Juncker .

A madman that whats to rule Europe at any cost. The EU mask has slipped in the past few days.

06-02-2019 11:38pm

Yeah, after today it has to be Donald Tusk. I especially liked his off-the-record quip to Varadkar to the effect that he was glad he was provoking John Bull.

Farage is just ugh. An obnoxious sub-intellect, tabloid newspaper editor escapee from the Jeremy Kyle show with a Goebbels streak and a neck that has got him to the top of the dung heap that is British jingoism.

Juncker still gets my admiration for his speech on the night of the Brexit result to the effect that "if your media and politicians have spent the past 40 years blaming the EU for everything bad and Britain for everything good about EU membership, this result is the inevitable consequence." Most accurate summary ever of what happened.

lbc2019 · 06-02-2019 11:41pm

JCJ we would bitch about idiot Brexiteers!

alloywheel · 06-02-2019 11:45pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Juncker still gets my admiration for his speech on the night of the Brexit result to the effect that "if your media and politicians have spent the past 40 years blaming the EU for everything bad and Britain for everything good about EU membership, this result is the inevitable consequence." Most accurate summary ever of what happened.

Actually not the most accurate summary ever of what happened.

If that was the case, I suppose you think the Italian media and politicians are to blame for most Italians wanting out of the EU?

"Less than half of Italians would vote to stay in the EU: survey"

https://www.thelocal.it/20181017/italy-eu-eurosceptic-italexit-brexit

Stacksofwacks · 06-02-2019 11:45pm

I dont agree with his politics at all but Farage comes across as a fairly nice bloke, the kind you could have a pint and a fag with, and a bit of craic. His personality is probably part of why leave ended up winning no doubt. Juncker comes across as a slippery sleazy Sepp Blatter clone

jetsonx · 06-02-2019 11:52pm

Gravelly wrote: »

Farage - Junker looks like one of those sloppy drunks who would ruin your night and get you barred from your local.

Under-rated comment. When I read this I couldn't stop laughing.

07-02-2019 12:01am

alloywheel wrote: »

Actually not the most accurate summary ever of what happened.

Yeah, it was. A British media dominated by a small, unelected oligarchy of ultrarich Tories, and a political class which supports an unelected House of Lords, unelected Head of State and a huge plethora of other political positions held by an unelected elite in a society where the permanent government, the civil service, is full to the rafters with a self-appointed elite from Cambridge/Oxford/Eton/Harrow etc. Now and again they might allow a token pleb with a rough accent from a polytechnic in to give the appearance of inclusivity.

And then the same Tory/UKIP Brexiteers turn around and give out about EU institutions being "undemocratic". Get off the stage with that plebeian drivel from the same propaganda mouthpieces of the above elite.

The benighted morons in working class England who voted for Brexit are the same class of British society who have been screwed over by the very same globalisation-pushing, low-taxation-for-the-rich, bring-in-immigrants-to-make-labour-costs-cheaper, Tory class that are now putting themselves forward as great defenders of what they term "the UK" (i.e. England and their control of it). Poor English people who voted for Brexit and who support the Farage, Rees-Mogg and Johnson types are the most duped section of all the duped sections in European society.

prinzeugen · 07-02-2019 12:25am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah, it was. A British media dominated by a small, unelected oligarchy of ultrarich Tories, and a political class which supports an unelected House of Lords, unelected Head of State and a huge plethora of other political positions held by an unelected elite in a society where the permanent government, the civil service, is full to the rafters with a self-appointed elite from Cambridge/Oxford/Eton/Harrow etc. Now and again they might allow a token pleb with a rough accent from a polytechnic in to give the appearance of inclusivity.

And then the same Tory/UKIP Brexiteers turn around and give out about EU institutions being "undemocratic". Get off the stage with that plebeian drivel from the same propaganda mouthpieces of the above elite.

The benighted morons in working class England who voted for Brexit are the same class of British society who have been screwed over by the very same globalisation-pushing, low-taxation-for-the-rich, bring-in-immigrants-to-make-labour-costs-cheaper, Tory class that are now putting themselves forward as great defenders of what they term "the UK" (i.e. England and their control of it). Poor English people who voted for Brexit and who support the Farage, Rees-Mogg and Johnson types are the most duped section of all the duped sections in European society.

I think you are mixing Britain up with the EU.

gandalf · 07-02-2019 12:28am

I'd have a pint with Juncker and I'd use the empty glass on Farage.......

Outlaw Pete · 07-02-2019 12:31am

Jean-Claude without doubt.

Loved Double Impact. Hated Chariots of Fire.

Arghus · 07-02-2019 2:09am

Farage has got one of the most punchable faces of all time - and you know he'd leave you hanging when it's his round.

So it'd have to be the other fella - any other fella really

Nodster · 07-02-2019 2:30am

Being a pint lad, not sure I'd tipple with the Juncker's fella

Richard Hillman · 07-02-2019 2:45am

Nige.

Junker would probably pinch a bar girls arse and say it was you.

tonycascarino · 07-02-2019 2:45am

Farage by a country mile.

Duckworth_Luas · 07-02-2019 3:06am

Nigel, as long as he dresses up as a Welsh coal miner and I can bring Liam Neeson along.

Zorya · 07-02-2019 6:51am

Nigel, of course. At least there would be a chance of interesting conversation. Juncker has the vibe of a degenerate sex pest and the possibility of him fluffing out my hair while breathing his geriatric wine fumes into my face is not appealing.