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    #62
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    Thats alright, you can vote with us in spirit!


    No idea which way I'm gonna go in the EU referendum.

    Vote Kodos!!!!


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    #63
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    buried wrote: »
    '- "That's da whole fahkin problem m8!!!"


    Of course, everyone from Newcastle to Liverpool, Leeds and Cornwall has a Dagenham accent...:rolleyes:


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    #64
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Personally I think it would be pretty amusing to watch them leave, clap one other on the back and shout a few hurrahs for British sovereignty, before slumping into a painful recession while the once great empire slides further into global irrelevance.


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    #65
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Biggest problem with leaving is that we then have to spend two years negotiating the exit and I just don't trust the UK Government with those negotiations.


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    #66
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Personally I think it would be pretty amusing to watch them leave, clap one other on the back and shout a few hurrahs for British sovereignty, before slumping into a painful recession while the once great empire slides further into global irrelevance.

    It would also be amusing to watch the remaining countries begging Germany to make up the €12bn hole in the eu finances.

    There are no winners if the UK leaves the eu.


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    #67
    Lurkio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lurkio


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    It would also be amusing to watch the remaining countries begging Germany to make up the €12bn hole in the eu finances.

    There are no winners if the UK leaves the eu.

    You might tell that to the Tory party, as whatever sense they had on the issue seems to have been dribbling out of them slowly but surely.


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    #68
    HigginsJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,317 ✭✭✭HigginsJ


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Vote Kodos!!!!


    tumblr_m56nwfM0Fu1rwr531o1_500.jpg


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    #69
    Wendolene
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Wendolene


    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    Chestbumps is where its at........
    recylingbin wrote: »
    Depends on your chest. Describe Photos ...

    FIFY :D


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    #70
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    The problem with be exit will be that the Brits will want all the advantages of membership without the disadvantages and it's hard to see the EC saying no.
    Otherwise it will mean a lot of non EU companies moving elsewhere to avoid tariffs to access EU markets and perhaps British ones too


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    #71
    Padraig1888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Padraig1888


    *grabs popcorn*


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    #72
    youreadthat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Personally I think it would be pretty amusing to watch them leave, clap one other on the back and shout a few hurrahs for British sovereignty, before slumping into a painful recession while the once great empire slides further into global irrelevance.
    Add your reply here.

    Irrelevant like Ireland? It would be hard to be that irrelevant. Saying that, the only declining Empire I see is the dodgy one run from Brussels via Berlin.


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    #73
    youreadthat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    youreadthat wrote: »
    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Personally I think it would be pretty amusing to watch them leave, clap one other on the back and shout a few hurrahs for British sovereignty, before slumping into a painful recession while the once great empire slides further into global irrelevance.

    Irrelevant like Ireland? It would be hard to be that irrelevant. Saying that, the only declining Empire I see is the dodgy one run from Brussels via Berlin.
    Add your reply here.


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    #74
    youreadthat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Personally I think it would be pretty amusing to watch them leave, clap one other on the back and shout a few hurrahs for British sovereignty, before slumping into a painful recession while the once great empire slides further into global irrelevance.

    Irrelevant like Irelanud? It would be hard to be that irrelevant. Saying that, the only declining Empire I see is the dodgy one run from Brussels via Berlin.


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    #75
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    youreadthat wrote: »
    Irrelevant like Irelanud? It would be hard to be that irrelevant. Saying that, the only declining Empire I see is the dodgy one run from Brussels via Berlin.

    The Irish don't have an issue with being irrelevant. It really stings the British though.


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    #76
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    The Irish don't have an issue with being irrelevant. It really stings the British though.

    The world's fifth largest economy ( the EU's second largest), the fourth strongest currency in the world, the EUs second largest net contributor and ranked sixth in the global firepower index.

    What seems to irk people like you, is that the UK isn't irrelevant.


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    #77
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    The world's fifth largest economy ( the EU's second largest), the fourth strongest currency in the world, the EUs second largest net contributor and ranked sixth in the global firepower index.

    What seems to irk people like you, is that the UK isn't irrelevant.

    I'm not irked at all. :)

    They're much less relevant now than 100 years ago. And more again than 200 years ago. The graph is only heading one direction.


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    #78
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I'm not irked at all. :)

    They're much less relevant now than 100 years ago. And more again than 200 years ago. The graph is only heading one direction.

    Begrudgery at its finest. It's like a Grimsby Town supporter claiming Manchester United are irrelevant because ten years ago they were top of the pile.

    The world is a changing place and the UK still carries an exceptional amount of influence, the third most influential behind the US and China.


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    #79
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Begrudgery at its finest. It's like a Grimsby Town supporter claiming Manchester United are irrelevant because ten years ago they were top of the pile.

    The world is a changing place and the UK still carries an exceptional amount of influence, the third most influential behind the US and China.

    I'm not begrudging anything, I'm completely dispassionate about it really. I was right about the sting though. ;)


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    #80
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I like britain
    fish and chips
    cup o' tea
    mary poppins
    bad food - worse weather


    its possible they have sandy beaches too but who the f**k wants to see them


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    #81
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I'm not begrudging anything, I'm completely dispassionate about it really.

    LoL.


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    #82
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Bambi wrote: »
    its possible they have sandy beaches too but who the f**k wants to see them

    Some lovely sandy beaches.

    They're just cold and wet most of the time.


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    #83
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    LoL.

    I don't know why you'd be surprised that people can talk about things without having strong feelings about them.


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    #84
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Weren't we supposed to be hugging?


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    #85
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    Lads if britain do leave the EU, does that mean we will get all the english teaching jobs in Spain as there will be less problems with us in sorting out social security and the like. If so I am all for it:-)


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    #86
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Personally I think it would be pretty amusing to watch them leave, clap one other on the back and shout a few hurrahs for British sovereignty, before slumping into a painful recession while the once great empire slides further into global irrelevance.

    Someone seems to have strong feelings.


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    #87
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Beefy78 wrote: »
    Weren't we supposed to be hugging?

    The British equivalent of hugging is to be cruel to each other, to show affection, with no physical contact at all cos it makes us uncomfortable. So we're actually doing pretty well.


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    #88
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Someone seems to have strong feelings.

    I think those videos on YouTube of people falling off skateboards are amusing too, but I don't have any strong feelings about skateboards or the people who use them.


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    #89
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    The British equivalent of hugging is to be cruel to each other, to show affection, with no physical contact at all cos it makes us uncomfortable. So we're actually doing pretty well.

    Wanker


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    #90
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    I'll certainly hug a Brit.

    Their Brexit drive is Paddy's only real hope of being dragged out of that borg mess in Brussels.

    I like Euros. Pleasant folk, nice food. That like doesn't extend to some kind of need to be governed by them.

    Cheerio chaps.


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    #91
    dickdonk14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭dickdonk14


    I'm a Brit and if any one tries to hug me I will stab you in the face


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