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[Deleted User]

thomond2006 wrote: »

Have a bikkie, Venjur.

I'm saving my bikkie for Jaco's next rant. The way things are going it'll be a whopper!

thomond2006

Have a bikkie, Venjur.

[Deleted User]

Great snap up on Twitter. Not sure if Barnier and Von Der Leyen look fed up or just embarrassed having to entertain two absolute muppets.

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mfceiling

Sat down with a cup of coffee and turned on the tele. Tommy Bowe is presenting the breakfast programme on virgin and he's telling the other host that he bought his wife a hoover last Christmas.
He might have been a great winger but his credibility is gone after hearing this drivel.

Dog Botherer

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Haven't been following this story but apparently a data scientist attempted to whistle blow in relation to covid data in Florida being intentionally misreported by state government. She may have broken the law but it's a non violent crime.

Her home was raided by the police which she was able to record on camera. It's quite shocking to be honest:

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/12/08/rebekah-jones-house-raid-covid-19-dashboard-creator-florida/

par for the course here. the cops are caring less and less about optics and are openly acting like the scum gangs they are without fear of consequences. it’s direct state retaliation against a whistleblower. Jones just accurately reported coronavirus numbers. she’s incredibly lucky that she’s white or they probably would have just shot her dead in front of her kids and wrote it off as a “violent mental episode”.

not really surprising since they’re still locking up Chelsea Manning whenever they feel like it.

Paul Smeenus

Dog Botherer wrote: »

**** it, resigning myself to the fact that embedding only works about 30% of the time on this site

I know what it is.

[Deleted User]

Haven't been following this story but apparently a data scientist attempted to whistle blow in relation to covid data in Florida being intentionally misreported by state government. She may have broken the law but it's a non violent crime.

Her home was raided by the police which she was able to record on camera. It's quite shocking to be honest:

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/12/08/rebekah-jones-house-raid-covid-19-dashboard-creator-florida/

Dog Botherer

Dog Botherer wrote: »

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1336348799820763137?s=20

**** it, resigning myself to the fact that embedding only works about 30% of the time on this site

Dog Botherer

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1336348799820763137?s=20

irishbucsfan

https://twitter.com/WeNeedEU/status/1336245171005108224?s=20

[Deleted User]

Dog Botherer wrote: »

a podcast i listen to once described Matt Hancock as having the aura of a stunned Golden Retriever and i think about that often.

Your sisters first boyfriend with a car is still the best description I've heard of Hancock.

He is outrageously out of his depth as a cabinet minister of a large economy.

stephen_n

Dog Botherer wrote: »

there is absolutely no reason to demean petrol pump attendants like that.

I wish to apologize to any fuel injection engineers, I may have offended with that comment.

Dog Botherer

aloooof wrote: »

Oh dear...

https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1336228541135015936

a podcast i listen to once described Matt Hancock as having the aura of a stunned Golden Retriever and i think about that often.

aloooof

Oh dear...

https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1336228541135015936

swiwi_

It’s no mandalorian but I’ll say it again my brilliant friend is bloody awesome tv filmmaking. Sure we are talking subtitled art house but the acting and cinematography is first rate. Maybe it’s because we were near Naples in summer but it really captures the area so well. If you want entertainment there is plenty to choose from but for cinema as art, my brilliant friend i highly rate.

mfceiling

Squidgy Black wrote: »

If Boris and co let the fishing industry be the sword they fall on, it'd just sum up Brexit as a whole. It contributes to 0.03% of the UK's economic output but you'd swear it was their lifeline they way they're going on about it.

I heard last week that their financial services contributes the same in 2 days as the fisheries do in a year. Boggling stuff!!

Neil3030

Just remembered. State aid rules. UK will need to break those to have any hope of ushering in their own trillion dollar tech industry.

Podge_irl

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

Neil3030

I vaguely recall reading something a while back, made a point that the Tories really want something else from Brexit negotiations. Was it deregulations or IP rule changes or something? Basic idea is that they are really after sometime highly profitable to a small proportion of them and their mates, something the public won't like, so they'll make a lot of noise about fisheries to create the illusion of a win for the rule Britannia bunting and bulldog cohort.

FACECUTTR

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Nothing about Brexit makes sense and it's all so tragically emotive that collapsing talks over fish is not really surprising.

It's not the value to the economy - it's the beneficial PR for the party.

Such dysfunctional politics is going to leave the UK in a very bad place, brexit has already cost the economy an absolute fortune and it's about to enter the expensive phase.

Failed state akin to Russia on the way I fear.

The UK will be sleeping with the fishes.

pickarooney

Deleted User wrote: »

Brexit negotiations to conclude by Wednesday regardless, Johnson and Von Der Layden call at 4 and if the internal market and finance bill is called to vote after then it's a guaranteed no deal.

I can only see either a complete UK capitulation (bar maybe some token EU gesture on fish) or no deal.

So long and thanks for all the fish

Tomtom364

Squidgy Black wrote: »

If Boris and co let the fishing industry be the sword they fall on, it'd just sum up Brexit as a whole. It contributes to 0.03% of the UK's economic output but you'd swear it was their lifeline they way they're going on about it.

Never mind financial services which is a massive industry worth closer to 10% of their economic output and has already had well over a trillion of assets withdrawn from the UK, and thousands of high paying jobs relocated to Amsterdam/Dublin.

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Fun Fact, Games Workshop aka the Warhammer company is worth more to the UK economy then the entire fishing industry.

[Deleted User]

Squidgy Black wrote: »

If Boris and co let the fishing industry be the sword they fall on, it'd just sum up Brexit as a whole. It contributes to 0.03% of the UK's economic output but you'd swear it was their lifeline they way they're going on about it.

Never mind financial services which is a massive industry worth closer to 10% of their economic output and has already had well over a trillion of assets withdrawn from the UK, and thousands of high paying jobs relocated to Amsterdam/Dublin.

Nothing about Brexit makes sense and it's all so tragically emotive that collapsing talks over fish is not really surprising.

It's not the value to the economy - it's the beneficial PR for the party.

Such dysfunctional politics is going to leave the UK in a very bad place, brexit has already cost the economy an absolute fortune and it's about to enter the expensive phase.

Failed state akin to Russia on the way I fear.

Squidgy Black

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Brexit negotiations to conclude by Wednesday regardless, Johnson and Von Der Layden call at 4 and if the internal market and finance bill is called to vote after then it's a guaranteed no deal.

I can only see either a complete UK capitulation (bar maybe some token EU gesture on fish) or no deal.

If Boris and co let the fishing industry be the sword they fall on, it'd just sum up Brexit as a whole. It contributes to 0.03% of the UK's economic output but you'd swear it was their lifeline they way they're going on about it.

Never mind financial services which is a massive industry worth closer to 10% of their economic output and has already had well over a trillion of assets withdrawn from the UK, and thousands of high paying jobs relocated to Amsterdam/Dublin.

Dog Botherer

stephen_n wrote: »

The UK cabinet is full of sycophants and ERG members, who quite frankly are a bunch of slightly below average petrol pump attendants. Who are only elevated to the positions they are in, because Bobo got rid of anyone who opposed him. The dregs that were left became the cabinet. They are waiting for Bobo to make his decision and will go with what ever that is.

there is absolutely no reason to demean petrol pump attendants like that.

stephen_n

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh I've no doubt the delusion is strong, I just think that realistically speaking they'll either have to cave substantially or it will be no deal and I'm veering towards no deal. Pound is tanking so the markets seem to think so too.

I really do wonder if the UK cabinet is fully drinking the koolaid and are ignorant to what is likely to happen or if they know and believe they can PR through it.

Either way - playtime is over.

The UK cabinet is full of sycophants and ERG members, who quite frankly are a bunch of slightly below average petrol pump attendants. Who are only elevated to the positions they are in, because Bobo got rid of anyone who opposed him. The dregs that were left became the cabinet. They are waiting for Bobo to make his decision and will go with what ever that is.

[Deleted User]

Bazzo wrote: »

I think you're really underestimating the UK's genuine belief that they hold all the cards here.

Oh I've no doubt the delusion is strong, I just think that realistically speaking they'll either have to cave substantially or it will be no deal and I'm veering towards no deal. Pound is tanking so the markets seem to think so too.

I really do wonder if the UK cabinet is fully drinking the koolaid and are ignorant to what is likely to happen or if they know and believe they can PR through it.

Either way - playtime is over.

Bazzo

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Brexit negotiations to conclude by Wednesday regardless, Johnson and Von Der Layden call at 4 and if the internal market and finance bill is called to vote after then it's a guaranteed no deal.

I can only see either a complete UK capitulation (bar maybe some token EU gesture on fish) or no deal.

I think you're really underestimating the UK's genuine belief that they hold all the cards here.

molloyjh

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

The latest episode of Mandalorian might have been entertaining (really was) but it was also really short. I mean I get we're not making these for TV segments anymore, but that was really taking the piss.

I'd rather a short episode leaving us wanting more than dragging the arse out of it to fill time. It was short, but in terms of being a fulfilling episode it delivered and then some.

molloyjh

Neil3030 wrote: »

What's a mandalorian, is that some kind of Back to the Future spin off?

Star Wars spin off. He's a bounty hunter with a heart of gold. Well not really, he just isn't one for the killing of innocent kids. The Mandalorians are effectively a race of warriors with a strict code and a lot of kick ass weapons. Its done in a very Western sort of style. So its like a Western in space basically. With Star Wars stuff thrown in a bit.