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#751 Re: Guns N' Roses » 26/6/16 FEDEX FIELD, WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES » 541 weeks ago

Wtf that's a striking looking stadium

Are most US stadiums like that?! Is that one near any residential areas?? What's transport like?

Over here most of our stadiums are built in the towns/cities. People walk to the venue normally, there's a community in and around a lot of them. Obv a few are built outside the cities but that's a more modern thing..

#753 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

James Lofton wrote:

Serious question.....

How many referendums do you guys want? The people have spoken.

One more Hitler plebiscite comin' right up!

I've always wanted to visit Europe and hope to do so before I die but I cant imagine living under that system.

Its like Europe just makes the rules up as it goes along.


You don't know what you're talking about mate, & your constant references to hitler are increasingly misplaced & bizarre. What the hell does one more hitler plebiscite mean? You're completely misreading & misjudging the situation.

Referendums are part of the democratic process. No surprise an American can't imagine living under such a system.

The people have spoken & we're still speaking.
The people who have campaigned for leave have yesterday already reneged on at least 2 of their promises - on the touted £350mil/NHS funding & stopping immigration. There is a substantial section of brexiters who have already expressed regret over their vote. Why should they not have a chance to reverse the decision? Just because you think that should be the end of the matter??


In 2001-2002 the Republic of Ireland had 2 referendums on an EU treaty, the first referendum rejected the treaty, the 2nd passed it. Exactly the same thing happened in 2008-2009. In 1992 they had 3 referendums on abortion, after the first was defeated - were they wrong to do that?!
This is different from just passing a treaty of course, but the consequences for the republic were the same - ultimately they would've had to leave the EU had they not reached a compromise.


The immediate aftermath & impact are certainly cause for speculation, never mind the conduct prior & during the campaign. People are reevaluating what they've done. Nothing is legally binding yet. In fact Cameron could take it to commons & the MP's reject the Brexit. Ironically that would be the most democratic outcome possible. The MP's would finally be doing their jobs & serving their country & its people's best interest. That's even more unlikely to happen than another referendum mind, cause Cameron doesn't have the stomach for it (never did).

I don't get these hitler references.. Weird thing to keep bringing up.

#754 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

AtariLegend wrote:

Northern Ireland though nope. Too much of our parents generation (the kind that grew up bombing each other and hating based upon religion). No chance of a referendum here (for a united Ireland), too much risk.


Ian Paisley Jnr advising people to get Irish passports. I feel like I woke up in bizarro world.


That point about farmers in an earlier post - if there's one community that has benefited from EU membership, grants & regulations it's been the farmers. I used to work in the department for agriculture and even in that brief time what I saw was all the labourers were immigrants (I had to issues licenses & permits, just a rubber stamping thing), & all the grants & directives my bosses dealt with were sent from Brussels, and I remember a couple of times them being amazed at the generous terms the farmers were getting - like for planting a particular type of feed or crop or such they'd get these huge subsidies that must've been unheard of before.

But strangely a lot of them seem to have voted leave. A little like in Sunderland & the Nissan factory, or all fucking of Wales.

There's an auld boy who's a farmer, lives down the road from me. He's been leave from the get go. He's a free mason. I didn't even know they still existed. I just laughed him off y'know as a bit of banter without getting into with him, but I just couldn't understand why he was letting his emotions cloud his judgement like that. I'll prob see him at some stage today, see what kinda form he's in. Probably hung over..

#755 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

& fuck the Welsh too. What a bunch of stupid pricks.

Hope Norn iron duff them in the football..

#756 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

Once they're installed we'll see the backlash from the brexiters, when it dawns on them the scale of the deception. When they realise Boris really doesn't give a shit about their depressed, neglected communities & they don't have migrants to blame, they'll be faced with the realisation they were fed a lie. I suspect a tumultuous couple of years. Enemies on all sides. Plenty of anger left in the tank too., could just get worse.. One thing's for sure, the referendum has certainly highlighted how divided the society is politically & socially.

#757 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

polluxlm wrote:
johndivney wrote:

But bear in mind, his whole goofy, jolly bumbling tea drinking doofus is an act. This guy is a selfish, cretinous career politician who has harboured ambitions to become PM since he was a child. I think he is an arch manipulator, sinister & quite probably evil..

Like the last guy then? 16

I wouldn't worry any more than usual (which to be fair might be a lot). They wouldn't let you vote if they thought you could fuck anything up.

Yea, just like the last guy. They're mates, went to school together, cut from same cloth. Boris hams it up more.

Nah I am worried. Cameron was somewhat of a moderate in his party, this now could be used to sneak a more extreme right wing cabinet into government without an election. & it's another 4 years until the next election so the immediate future is bleak when you're standing on the opposite side..

#758 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

75% of 18-35 year olds voted Remain.


What a fucking day. There's me yesterday saying today might betters got that one wrong, eh?
Fuck these people & what they're doing to our lives. Honestly it's mind boggling the damage the generations above me have done, not just today, but over the past decade. It's amazing.

#759 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

Yea, the rich have divided the cake to give themselves a bigger slice. They've used the tools at their disposal for their own gain. So it goes..

#760 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

“The younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of its predecessors.”

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