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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Latest Brexitcast and Remainiacs podcasts (both recommended for 'fans' of Brexit) offer opinions for likelihood of No Deal, from various experts.
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Thought such people didn’t believe in experts...
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This man apparently works for the Government (still) -
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Time to close this thread and start a new one about keeping bikes running without spare parts, how to improvise weapons and grow potatoes.
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“and grow potatoes”
I’m now able to comment on that.
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Potatoes: foodstuff, handy projectiles, and potential power source for bike lights.
I didn't plant any this year but I have a crop nevertheless from the ones I failed to dig up last year. Right in the middle of the things I *actually* wanted to grow. Lesson learned.
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I didn't plant any this year but I have a crop nevertheless from the ones I failed to dig up last year.
Snap! Weeds.
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My earlies low yield but lovely looking spuds. Also taste better than shop as pull out ground wash cook for five mins eat in salad or on side. Second earlies bigger yield but succumbed to potato scrofula. Just meant they did not look so nice. Pink skin but gnatly. Pearl them cook for five really tasty almost both dry and waxy. Lates looking very healthy. Some flowers purple, some white.
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@gembo
Mine will have Scab too no doubt. Too dry, but as you say cosmetic only. Nothing tastier than a fresh-howked tattie and a wood pigeon shot from straight over the shaws sorry you are vegetarian.
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I did plant some tatties this year, but I also seem to have some growing in places I didn't plant any this year, but where I did plant some last year.
More confusingly, there's also some growing in the middle of the strawberries.
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@iwrats shoot as many pigeon as you like
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I have some of last year's purples mixed in. Tatties are a science, just not an exact science.
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@iwrats shoot as many pigeon as you like
I went through a phase of taking them, got so good at it they didn't even open their wings, just sat down dead.
Legs inedible, flight muscles incredible.
All legal under General Licence I hasten to add. Crop protection.
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is this the gardeners thread
i've been growing himalayan blue poppies for a few years now, but they've done especially well this year after the hard winter, chest height and full blooms
the papaver somniferum are also starting to blossom
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@bax, can be the gardener's thread yes. Those poppies, yielding much resin?
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On pigeons, I love how on take off they flap a couple of times then somehow soar up the way without trying. Maybe thermals maybe the bernoulli effect? Will check. Bernoulli is a bit more general according to wiki. I must check pigeon post
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The French translation of the abstract of the UK's 'white paper' on relations with the EU is just weird;
Seems to have been machine-translated and then tarted up by one of the higher primates.
M. Barnier will be shaking his head in wonder if he ever reads it.
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Article in The National the other day noting all the translations had apparently been done using Google Translate.
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There's only 800,000 Frenchies in London...hang on, of course couldn't trust them to do it, could we?
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Hypothesis;
They've no new infrastructure or customs staff or software or anything, so only two outcomes are possible - capitulation by accepting a treaty written by the EU or an unplanned exit and utter chaos.
If the UK capitulates then a charismatic ex-military individual will arise and proclaim that the 'elite' have betrayed the 'people's vote' and there will be fascism in England.
If there is chaos then the people will demand order and a charismatic ex-military figure will arise and promise that order and there will be fascism in England.
In both cases the BBC will run cheerful Union flag bedecked reality shows about organising a neighbourhood militia and spotting disguised foreigners.
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I think a Times columnist mentioned it too
"A Dutch newspaper described the version shown to them as reading like it was put through "the cheapest available translation software".
The French translation turned "principled Brexit" into "un Brexit verteux", suggesting Brexit is a moral good."
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Yes, 'vertueux' also suggests something sexually chaste. There are equivalents to 'principled' like 'en respectant les principes de' but you then have to say which principles you plan to respect so I can see their problem.
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Google translate does not cope with the letter of the law either. Translates it as the alphabet of the law
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DAVID DAVIS has urged the Prime Minister to tear up her Brexit White Paper and “start again”
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That’s fine, just take another couple of years...
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I had a dream last night about a man who through force of will time travelled back to 1987. He was not clear why this had happened but appeared to be a student in Edinburgh. Slowly, it dawned on him that his gradual mission was to prevent Brexit from happening.
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I had a dream last night about being trapped in a series of bizarre and arcane tableaux, so snap.
I distinctly remember thinking that it only seemed to be low-voltage narcissists that went into student politics in the eighties and I was correct and it was those people's lack of interest in the basics of human existence which has got us here. Mea culpa, mea minima culpa.
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"It would depend on whether the WTO’s membership (160 countries) is determined to accommodate the UK’s wishes."
How often do I have to repeat... Great Britain will not be a rule taker! The WTO will understand this after we've seen off the EU.
Iain McWhirter did a good piece in Sunday Herald.Posted 5 years ago #
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