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Brexit: YAY or NAY?

d'Kong76 Jun 06 2017 01:06 AM

a> tired of hearing the term Brexit... YAY b> think it's not a good move for the UK to turn their backs on the Euro bbbyyy... YAY

Lefty Specialist Jun 06 2017 12:18 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

Brexit was a terrible idea but a great word mashup. In a few years they'll be very sorry they left. bbbyyy?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 06 2017 12:57 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

blah blah blah yada yada yada I don't purport to understand all the intricacies but seems like most analysis I saw found it a dumbass idea that was became law on the strength of ignorant voters fearful that [crossout:34eg3a1t]Obama was going to take their guns[/crossout:34eg3a1t] Patel was going to take their jobs. Also tapped into ancient notions of [crossout:34eg3a1t]coal mining as the backbone of the economy[/crossout:34eg3a1t] Britain as an imperial world superpower.

metirish Jun 06 2017 01:14 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

Yeah, seems as soon as the vote was in people were shocked that their YES vote won the day.....Brexit has many implications for Ireland , there has been a huge surge in British people applying for Irish passports , they want to remain EU so they can work and move freely....Scotland will vote gain on Independence. I am tired of Brixit

Fman99 Jun 06 2017 03:04 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

I thought Brexit was some cutesy poo nickname for two celebrities who were bangin, like Bennifer.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 06 2017 04:19 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

Or, like,, one celebrity getting caught humping an emergency-egress door. Fuck, all earlier recriminations aside... they seem intent on going the fallacy-of-sunk-costs route with their votes. Y'know, because parties and leaders that call for snap elections generally have the people in mind and the best of intentions. Welcome to slow-motion hell, ya dummies; fanks for keeping us company here.

Edgy MD Jun 06 2017 04:35 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

It seems were stumbling into a modern democratic/media phenomenon, of the harmful harmless fuck you ballot, where a particular outcome seems secure in the polling, if not particularly popular, and is reported to be relatively secure. So a whole bunch of the world's increasing population of irredeemably disgruntled decide to cast a FUCK YOU vote for what safely seems like the minority position, and suddenly we wake up the next day and the minority has swing into the win column. Because, for certain, nobody's really given me much of a better justification for their Trump vote than "Because fuck you, that's why."

metsmarathon Jun 06 2017 05:36 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

what, "making snowflakes cry" isn't a sufficient foundation upon which to build the governance of a world superpower?

Edgy MD Jun 06 2017 05:40 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

I'm ready to give a full Chuck Norris roundhouse to the next guy who says "snowflakes," and it would be real unfortunate if it was you and you were just using it in quotes. It's like everybody's new favorite toy. If the context doesn't work, they'll twist the context into a pretzel to create a pretext to call their interlocutor a snowflake.

Ceetar Jun 06 2017 06:52 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

Brexit and Trump are super-related. As we should be moving to a global inter-connected world, people are lashing out against the idea. I'd assume a lot of this will right itself over the next decade or so, but it might be dicey inbetween.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 06 2017 10:54 PM Re: Brexit: YAY or NAY?

Edgy MD wrote: I'm ready to give a full Chuck Norris roundhouse to the next guy who says "snowflakes," and it would be real unfortunate if it was you and you were just using it in quotes. It's like everybody's new favorite toy. If the context doesn't work, they'll twist the context into a pretzel to create a pretext to call their interlocutor a snowflake. Do you know whence "sn@wfl$ke"-as-epithet (with its current gist anyway) came? It's a monologue from Fight Club, delivered by the narrator's invented alternate personality. "You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” It's mock-manhood-reclamation-gospel from the book's savior-manque, ultimately revealed as spiraling, charismatic, dumb madness. It's satire, increasingly misunderstood and repurposed as dead-serious "humor."