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#1
Brexit deal passed by 30, then timetable lost by 15. Legislation paused, new attempt to make it EU's fault/problem to excuse why the 31/10 exit won't happen.

Deal as is looks to get loved to death with ammendments for good measure. And there will be plenty of those.



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The year is now 2209, The English ambassador makes the Bi-annual trip to Eurasia to request and extension to Brexit. The ritual words are uttered and everything continues. 
#2
RPG Ghetto / Re: Unified Vidya Games thread
October 22, 2019, 08:14:00 PM
Despite most things Bethseda being a shitshow, the lore is consistently decently.

I dread the day you have to open a lootbox to learn more.
#3
It's just got funnier.
#4
Just wait until there's a crisis or two to deal with.
#5
Quote from: Faust on October 21, 2019, 09:51:43 AM
I would expect the EU to reject this or drag their feet until after the vote this week to help force it through.

EU apparently willing to grant extension to feb 2020.

The clear implication is that's plenty of time for a vote/referendum. Again.
#6
Aneristic Illusions / Re: UNLIMITED 2020 THREAD
September 03, 2019, 07:28:23 PM
Quote from: nullified on September 03, 2019, 07:00:02 PM
Thing is, while I want Trump out I don't think you need to outdo him at his own game to beat him. Also, I'd be horrified if that won. I would say if that's the only way to win, the US was a failure. Time to start over, this one isn't salvageable.

While normally that's a jokey overreaction, I genuinely believe that if we need superTrump to beat ordinary Trump, the country can be safely written off as a loss. That way lies nothing but increasing awfulness.

I don't think you're really serious about having the appropriate level of fun in the Horrible Times.

#7
It's also handy to find out if they'll stick around.

I've seen it declared to new starts more than once that "JUNGLE IS MASSIVE" followed by 90 seconds of intense Drum and bass. Dancing optional but far from unusual. Then resume as though nothing at all has occurred.

Those that come back for week two are then granted names.


I'm working with ex-army soldiers and a range of monsters. It's lovely.
#8
Hey Cain, looking at today's shit, ( corbyn, the 116 mp's letter, javid cancelling, etc.) What are you saying to the current odds of crashing out then rejoining under(perceived) shitty terms? Like, say, UK uses the Euro now(That would be insisted on,no way you get the special preference on currency treatment twice), reduced/limited powers representation, loss of vetoes etc.

Just thinking that after a lot of these fucks have made money ruining the price of the pound, I'm betting shift profit to third currency (say $) to then fuck with the price of the euro rising on the re-admittance of the UK.


#9
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 26, 2019, 11:57:13 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 26, 2019, 11:14:52 PM
Quote from: Frontside Back on August 26, 2019, 07:04:00 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 26, 2019, 06:53:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 26, 2019, 06:03:09 PM
I can't think of anything that could go wrong with a radioactive hurricane.

The current apocalypse scenarios were rather dull. Climate change? A yawn. Iran/Pakistan? Too complicated with difficult names.

However, throw a few nukes at anything and it becomes much more entertaining. Just wait until this is proposed to deal with tsunamis. Or flooding.


Or Mexico.

We can always use nuclear winter to offset the global warming so there's nothing to worry about.

Well, we do have a problem with overpopulation and too much heat down here... how bad could a little bit of nuclear winter really be?

It's going to get very cold without nukes.

Save them for the Galactic Space Federation assholes.  Fuckin' space hippies.  :crankey:

Not nearly serious enough about a good time here.

The obvious path to maximum fun would be to join. Then bitch about it for a decade or so.

You see where I'm going here, it's a brexit joke and I can't really be fucked to write a good one.
#10
Quote from: Cain on July 31, 2019, 12:06:47 PM
In theory, a limited economic disintegration is very possible. The main thing to remember is that while the agreements may not be there, the infrastructure still is (more or less, funding cuts aside) and this softens the blow, or sets a lower limit on just how bad things can get, without other factors.

Compare the UK now with, say, Beirut or Kabul in the 1970s and you can see how things could very easily get much worse.

More likely, after maybe a decade to generation of economic disruption, the UK will settle into being a Spanish or Italian tier economic power, instead of a French or German tier one.

What's the odds on there still being a UK in its present form in a decade? Between the ignorance of Ireland and the willingness to throw scotland out as an acceptable cost, I wouldn't be surprised to see one or the other separate. Or be discarded.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if people suddenly start taking cornish/norfolk/etc. separatists seriously and giving them power over policy. We're certainly less than 2 years away from some hilarious shit from the Freeman-on-the-land crowd. This is a golden time for them. 
#12
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 27, 2019, 02:19:05 AM
Today, at work, I asked the tooling people to make a widget.  They said sure, and spun it out in less than an hour.



FOUL WARLOCKS.

Something is rotten as fuck in that dept, I'd guarantee it. Anyone who gets you away and happy quickly is up to shady shit on the QT.

#13
Gove touted as a possibility. How? I thought he'd managed to throw nearly everyone under a bus by now.

Other contenders include "Fuck international Law" Javid and Leadsom. Which are just horrifying in their own ways. I take small solace in the fact that whoever ends up as PM, they will be held in utter contempt regardless of any of their actions.

#14
Quote from: Cain on March 25, 2019, 04:21:12 PM
May's simultaneously saying she doesn't have enough votes to get her deal past Parliament but that she will reject every deal Parliament attempts out of hand.

It's got funnier.

May quitting when MP's back the deal that can't be brought before parliament without meaningful change. Bercow clear weeks ago that more support is not actually a change. Usual faces now playing the leadership game.

Various indicative votes trying to find some kind of consensus for anything. I think we can all guess how well that will go.
#15
On a scale of 1 to criminal, how improper was that decision? Sounds juicy.

Also, drop the rate to reasonable but shove in fees for fucking everything under the sun. $2/step needed to be taken. As in walking step, not any kind of procedural step. $1/word spoken. Any needed goods/services are provided under a 100% markup.

I'm still dealing with constant idiocy. Today, I had to explain why a replacement motor, that is half the size and less than half the power of the previous one is not useful. And makes things like "Safe lifting weights" irrelevant because that was worked out and tested on the old motor. That was larger.

The new one will apparently get better with time. I agreed. As we all know, every machine everywhere just gets better with age. It's why people buy old second hand cars. The reliability and efficiency and all that. When I told them this they were unwilling to accept my conclusions. Someone's 75-80% likely to get hurt with this in the next few days and I'm going to laugh, not fix it and gleefully have a few long meetings with the HSE over it.