Wales voted for Brexit – but not for Welsh people to suffer.
A headline from a Guardian story last year. Well, I mean, I guess they hoped someone else would suffer. They were wrong, like Cornwall was wrong, and in fact lots of England was wrong. Good luck trying to stave off harmful effects for your corner of the country now the car is heading off the cliff. Next time you have an important decision to take maybe think about what could go wrong, eh?
I don't think many people who wanted to Leave wanted this car crash, but I guess most of them didn't really know what they thought would happen, so this is what they get. This is what we all get.
I would like lots of news stories of people being miserable because voting Leave has harmfully impacted their lives in ways they hadn't considered. I will watch them on repeat until I die laughing.
Somebody once told me "everyone is the hero in their own movie" basically it means that people will always see their actions as justified and any mistakes are blamed on something else. This isn't a problem went times are good as most people are generally happy but when things turn sour, that is when people start complaining, looking for someone to blame and generally look for a way to make themselves blameless. This is where the far right thrives, it tells people that nothing is their fault and it is all down to someone else. Notice how UKIP rarely talked about how great things would be once we left? No, their campaign was based more on the fear of things getting worse if we stayed, immigration, the EU army etc. Sticking it to the rich was also a factor because they were a convenient target after the financial crisis.
While I am sure that some people disliked the EU, an awful lot of people voted leave because they thought that by doing so, the things that they were blaming for their problems would go away. The thing that scares me isn't the brexit itself, but what is going to happen once people realise it didn't solve everything.
The Guardian has a very long article about what will happen when the Queen dies.
Does the Guardian know something we don't?
It has this amazing but of history!
“The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close,” was the final notice issued by George V’s doctor, Lord Dawson, at 9.30pm on the night of 20 January 1936.
Not long afterwards, Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease the monarch’s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight.
The Guardian has a very long article about what will happen when the Queen dies.
Does the Guardian know something we don't?
It has this amazing but of history!
“The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close,” was the final notice issued by George V’s doctor, Lord Dawson, at 9.30pm on the night of 20 January 1936.
Not long afterwards, Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease the monarch’s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight.
That's....one of the most British things that I've ever read.
Ah yes, Lord Dawson. He argued against legalizing euthanasia, saying it should be "a matter of conscience between doctor and patient" or something to that effect. That was before the contents of his diary were made public.
Wales voted for Brexit – but not for Welsh people to suffer.
A headline from a Guardian story last year. Well, I mean, I guess they hoped someone else would suffer. They were wrong, like Cornwall was wrong, and in fact lots of England was wrong. Good luck trying to stave off harmful effects for your corner of the country now the car is heading off the cliff. Next time you have an important decision to take maybe think about what could go wrong, eh?
I don't think many people who wanted to Leave wanted this car crash, but I guess most of them didn't really know what they thought would happen, so this is what they get. This is what we all get.
I would like lots of news stories of people being miserable because voting Leave has harmfully impacted their lives in ways they hadn't considered. I will watch them on repeat until I die laughing.
Somebody once told me "everyone is the hero in their own movie" basically it means that people will always see their actions as justified and any mistakes are blamed on something else. This isn't a problem went times are good as most people are generally happy but when things turn sour, that is when people start complaining, looking for someone to blame and generally look for a way to make themselves blameless. This is where the far right thrives, it tells people that nothing is their fault and it is all down to someone else. Notice how UKIP rarely talked about how great things would be once we left? No, their campaign was based more on the fear of things getting worse if we stayed, immigration, the EU army etc. Sticking it to the rich was also a factor because they were a convenient target after the financial crisis.
While I am sure that some people disliked the EU, an awful lot of people voted leave because they thought that by doing so, the things that they were blaming for their problems would go away. The thing that scares me isn't the brexit itself, but what is going to happen once people realise it didn't solve everything.
I'm increasingly convinced that May just isn't up to handling being questioned.
Her response to it seems to just be to retreat into refusing to engage with the issue and instead insisting that everyone should shut up, leave everything to her, and nobody is allowed to have any knowledge about what her plans are. It's starting to get a bit "impostor syndrome" in that she gives off a vibe of being terrified of being found out.
Imagine what a competent Westminster opposition could do with that.
I assume these are english (or welsh? scottish?), not Irish, things to say/drink.
Otherwise i lack the cultural awareness to parse what the problem was.
I assume these are english (or welsh? scottish?), not Irish, things to say/drink.
Otherwise i lack the cultural awareness to parse what the problem was.
it looks more like a foamy diet coke than a Guinness...
Although counterpoint, Irish win in Handshake off. Trumps jerk and pat technique falls to both Canadian Ingenuity and Irish Determination! Trump pledges a billion dollars for handshake research.
May says "Now is not the time" for a Scottish referendum, nothing before 2020.
Now is not the time. But Sturgeon didn't propose now.
A strange and confusing statement by May.
Also notable that the rationale doesn't work, given that the point of the suggested timing was that the brexit deal would be known (because it's realistically the latest possible stage in the negotiating process that a deal can still be practically passed).
I'm unsure whether to read into this that May doesn't expect to reach a deal.
Theresa May is an utterly useless waste of space PM that got the job because nobody else toed the line between supporting Brexit and not being an utter right wing maniac in the Parliamentary Tory Party
Her competition was basically Dolores Umbridge by way of the CofE, the snotty kid at school who always tells on you grown into a distorted and widely mocked facsimile of a man and a bearded homophobe no fucker had ever heard of.
No, May is crap. U-turns, utterly shambolic Brexit, shit at dealing with devolved governments, zero notable policies that haven't been dropped due to outcry, NHS in a crisis, transport in a crisis... fucking incompetent I'd call it, except the opposition is busy manufacturing scandals for itself and tearing it's own flesh in a quest for ideological purity.
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There was a rebound from the initial burnout that put things about back on the level, but it's all falling again - only faster. There's an expect spike back up to happen next month but I'm not sure what it's based on. If Theresa May goes for a particular kind of exiting from the EU, London is going to lose a "financial passport" (anyone wanna help me out with that one?), which is going to screw over like 5000 companies in the city.
All the numbers in that article are pretty specifically assigned. This is just all bad. I feel like Theresa May has been possessed by the ghost of Marge Thatcher or something.
And yet our rent is still expect to go up and we are bombarded by advice from all around us to buy a house instead of renting a flat, even though I'm not even sure if I want us to stay in the UK.
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Somebody once told me "everyone is the hero in their own movie" basically it means that people will always see their actions as justified and any mistakes are blamed on something else. This isn't a problem went times are good as most people are generally happy but when things turn sour, that is when people start complaining, looking for someone to blame and generally look for a way to make themselves blameless. This is where the far right thrives, it tells people that nothing is their fault and it is all down to someone else. Notice how UKIP rarely talked about how great things would be once we left? No, their campaign was based more on the fear of things getting worse if we stayed, immigration, the EU army etc. Sticking it to the rich was also a factor because they were a convenient target after the financial crisis.
While I am sure that some people disliked the EU, an awful lot of people voted leave because they thought that by doing so, the things that they were blaming for their problems would go away. The thing that scares me isn't the brexit itself, but what is going to happen once people realise it didn't solve everything.
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Running that through my decoder ring comes up with 'RESIGN-ON-FRIDAY-AFTERNOON-PREFERABLY-AFTER-SIX-O'CLOCK-NEWS'.
I may be getting that wrong.
The whole Native American Harry Potter stuff was not good and I wish she'd have apologised but on UK politics she's legit
Yeah she's better at playing to her strengths
She had Moody explain this to Harry dagnabbit
No.
No no no.
Noooooo nonononono no no no.
Fuck no.
Does the Guardian know something we don't?
It has this amazing but of history!
That's....one of the most British things that I've ever read.
Meanwhile, today's dose of "satire is dead"
Or, indeed, anything.
Her response to it seems to just be to retreat into refusing to engage with the issue and instead insisting that everyone should shut up, leave everything to her, and nobody is allowed to have any knowledge about what her plans are. It's starting to get a bit "impostor syndrome" in that she gives off a vibe of being terrified of being found out.
Imagine what a competent Westminster opposition could do with that.
*wistful gaze*
Otherwise i lack the cultural awareness to parse what the problem was.
Stereotyping, therefore condescending
it looks more like a foamy diet coke than a Guinness...
That, but also the head on that pint is frankly shocking. And either the glass is very large, or someone took a few hits off of it beforehand.
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Cans are only 500ml rather than a full pint,
A US pint is only 470 ish ml
568ml
570ml or thereabouts.
I can believe that's a 470ml pint.
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Edit: I see other people have already covered the size of it.
US politicians holding up mugs of incorrect tea saying "Pips on a bobbin, old bean"
Although counterpoint, Irish win in Handshake off. Trumps jerk and pat technique falls to both Canadian Ingenuity and Irish Determination! Trump pledges a billion dollars for handshake research.
Now is not the time. But Sturgeon didn't propose now.
A strange and confusing statement by May.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Also notable that the rationale doesn't work, given that the point of the suggested timing was that the brexit deal would be known (because it's realistically the latest possible stage in the negotiating process that a deal can still be practically passed).
I'm unsure whether to read into this that May doesn't expect to reach a deal.
Her competition was basically Dolores Umbridge by way of the CofE, the snotty kid at school who always tells on you grown into a distorted and widely mocked facsimile of a man and a bearded homophobe no fucker had ever heard of.
No, May is crap. U-turns, utterly shambolic Brexit, shit at dealing with devolved governments, zero notable policies that haven't been dropped due to outcry, NHS in a crisis, transport in a crisis... fucking incompetent I'd call it, except the opposition is busy manufacturing scandals for itself and tearing it's own flesh in a quest for ideological purity.
http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-mckinley-city-london-finance-banking-jobs-feb-2017-3
There was a rebound from the initial burnout that put things about back on the level, but it's all falling again - only faster. There's an expect spike back up to happen next month but I'm not sure what it's based on. If Theresa May goes for a particular kind of exiting from the EU, London is going to lose a "financial passport" (anyone wanna help me out with that one?), which is going to screw over like 5000 companies in the city.
All the numbers in that article are pretty specifically assigned. This is just all bad. I feel like Theresa May has been possessed by the ghost of Marge Thatcher or something.