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    Brexit slowly becoming a Farce.

    in The Politics Forum

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    2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

    I think reality is hitting home.  The little Englander type will never change their position but a large number of businesses and sectors of the economy, and their representatives, are beginning to wake up to the omnishambles that is Brexit.

    I’m happy to see the converts; hopefully it’s not too little too late.

    The next three months are going to be amongst the most interesting in British politics in decades.  Sadly the subsequent 18 months have the potential to be the most ruinous.

     

    This is a fairly accurate assessment imo

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    Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    1 hour ago, Shotgun said:

    A bit of a crossover from the "Annoying things people post on Facebook" but I see this on other Social Media too. And it's less of a "Petty Thing That Gets on Your Nerves" and more of a "Things That Crush Your Soul."

    It's the realisation that I'm now of an age where my contemporaries are obsessed with bragging about how much better things were when we were kids because "We played outside, we ate fish and chips, not MacDonalds, we didn't have smartphones...etc. etc." When I was a kid, our parents never stopped telling us how they didn't have the things we had, they were working down t' pit at our age and on and on and on. It was tedious then and it's tedious now.

    Look, the world has moved on since you were a kid. That doesn't in itself make you morally superior to people born later. In many ways life is better than it was 50 years ago, other ways perhaps not. 50 years from now it will have changed again but that won't make today's children any kind of hot shit although I fear they'll also be bragging about their childhood as if it did.

    You're old. You aren't special. Get the f**k over it.

     

    Correct!

    Smart phones are great. Remember having to find a red phone box that was working, and make sure you had enough change to phone the girlfriend or your mates.

     

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    Phrases that scream a***hole

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    1 hour ago, Shotgun said:

    Eggsackly.

    There's a Facebook page dedicated to the town in which I grew up which is basically populated by people who want to blame the "greedy council" for...well, pretty much everything. Recently someone posted a photo from the 1950's or thereabouts, showing a workman up a ladder on the roof of the town hall, making some repairs to the top of the flagpole. The poor b*****d had no harness, no ropes, nobody footing the ladder at the bottom,  nothing to prevent him being killed or at least, horribly injured should a gust of wind cause the ladder to slide. It was both comical and sad how many people though this was a good thing.

    When at Uni I had a summer job with a building firm , early 70's. We were working in what is now Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow. 3 floors up on scaffolding, no harness or anything.

    A barrow full of bricks would be hoisted up at one end and I had to run with it along these planks to where the bricky was working. The only advice given was " If the barra starts to coup don't try to catch it "  Presumably so that you didn't follow it over the edge. Also presumably any pedestrians walking beneath would be considered the architects of their own demise for being daft enough to walk under scaffolding.

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