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I worked with him, once. Probably the most professional of any.AndyJS said:Peter Sissons was one of the presenters on the BBC's iconic 1992 election night coverage, regarded by many psephological anoraks as one of the best ever election shows. This is the for the first 5 minutes or so of that programme.
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Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
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Exit signs are on the way out.0 -
Why did the lawyer cross the road?
I can't tell you for legal reasons!!
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What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?Sunil_Prasannan said:
Did you hear about the psephologist from Warsaw who moved to Haiti?Charles said:
There are two fish in a tankegg said:
I’ll give you a joke for free.Cyclefree said:
No. They need context and I need paying.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
You get my thread headers for free.
One in four frogs is a leap frog 😃
One turns to the other and says “so how do you drive this thing?”
He became a Voodoo Pole!
you can't wash your hands in a buffalo...0 -
What does a robot call an elbow?egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
[robot voice]. An elbow0 -
The change that will be asked for is to reverse the polarity on the review. So rather than it needing a vote to stay in the pseudo-backstop, it would need a vote to leave the pseudo-backstop (shifting the veto on the arrangement from the DUP to Sinn Fein).GIN1138 said:
I suspect their will be some movement on this Stormont veto idea possibly in relation to a refernedum for NI followed by a review by Stormont every ten years rather than four?SouthamObserver said:
The DUP is the only major group in NI - political or business - to have expressed support for the proposals.nichomar said:
Well it would be a start if stormont actually sat but by reading of this is that is effectively a DUP vetoCharles said:
It gives Stormont the control of the outcome as the representative body of NInichomar said:
May got a deal the HOC voted it down so no difference there. The real problem in my mind is it gives a minority in NI the ability to control the outcome which is a disgrace and I bet will not go down well in Congress.FrancisUrquhart said:
It wont go down because of that....as all those who are fired up.remainers arent voting tory at the moment. I think it is more those who think boris has sold them a pup.Foxy said:
Or down, the header shows most people do not want to Leave. Why would they be impressed?nico67 said:
Up !FrancisUrquhart said:Lets say boris does get a deal, does his poll rating go up or down?
Farages betrayal narrative will soon be overtaken by the fact that the UK has actually left.
I don’t like Johnson however if we leave with an orderly exit and a deal then I’ll say well done.
Another question, what if boris gets a deal but HoC vote it down...
Stormont has some unique minority protection features because of its troubled history
But I guess the logic of what you are saying is you’d can the Belfast Agreement?
That and making customs part of it.0 -
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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There we are, the best joke of the evening.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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He was also at school with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck, picture of them as youngsters at the beach in this articleAndyJS said:Peter Sissons was one of the presenters on the BBC's iconic 1992 election night coverage, regarded by many psephological anoraks as one of the best ever election shows. This is the for the first 5 minutes or so of that programme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvMbr0BAKQ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7528979/Ex-BBC-ITN-newsreader-Peter-Sissons-died-age-77.html0 -
And what has he gained - lost a backstop and gained a bill at the next budget round.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Clown.0 -
The conservatives own this hook line and sinker nobody else let them stew in itCharles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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Parliament has taken back control of Brexit and now they own it, including Mr Speaker.nichomar said:
The conservatives own this hook line and sinker nobody else let them stew in itCharles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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My aunt bought a parrot. A cheap one in a shop. She was warned its previous home was in a brothel but because of the price she didn’t mind.ydoethur said:If we're going for hopelessly corny jokes and not my awesome puns:
A magician was working on a cruise ship.
Since the audience was different each week, the magician did the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the Magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show, "Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" Or "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the Captain's parrot.
Then one stormy night on the Pacific, the ship unfortunately sank.
The magician luckily found himself on a piece of wood floating in the middle of the sea, as fate would have it ... With the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word.
This went on for a day... And then 2 days. And then 3 days. Finally on the 4th day, the parrot could not hold back any longer and said...
"Okay, I give up. Where's the freaking ship??
She took it home.
“Nice new gaff. Nice new gaff” said the parrot.
Then her daughters came in.
“Nice new girls. Nice new girls.” Said the parrot.
Then her husband came home, late as usual.
“Hello Norman.” Said the Parrot.0 -
Have you been whoreding that joke, just waiting for the right moment?egg said:
My aunt bought a parrot. A cheap one in a shop. She was warned its previous home was in a brothel but because of the price she didn’t mind.ydoethur said:If we're going for hopelessly corny jokes and not my awesome puns:
A magician was working on a cruise ship.
Since the audience was different each week, the magician did the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the Magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show, "Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" Or "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the Captain's parrot.
Then one stormy night on the Pacific, the ship unfortunately sank.
The magician luckily found himself on a piece of wood floating in the middle of the sea, as fate would have it ... With the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word.
This went on for a day... And then 2 days. And then 3 days. Finally on the 4th day, the parrot could not hold back any longer and said...
"Okay, I give up. Where's the freaking ship??
She took it home.
“Nice new gaff. Nice new gaff” said the parrot.
Then her daughters came in.
“Nice new girls. Nice new girls.” Said the parrot.
Then her husband came home, late as usual.
“Hello Norman.” Said the Parrot.0 -
Both v old jokes ...egg said:
My aunt bought a parrot. A cheap one in a shop. She was warned its previous home was in a brothel but because of the price she didn’t mind.ydoethur said:If we're going for hopelessly corny jokes and not my awesome puns:
A magician was working on a cruise ship.
Since the audience was different each week, the magician did the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the Magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show, "Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" Or "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the Captain's parrot.
Then one stormy night on the Pacific, the ship unfortunately sank.
The magician luckily found himself on a piece of wood floating in the middle of the sea, as fate would have it ... With the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word.
This went on for a day... And then 2 days. And then 3 days. Finally on the 4th day, the parrot could not hold back any longer and said...
"Okay, I give up. Where's the freaking ship??
She took it home.
“Nice new gaff. Nice new gaff” said the parrot.
Then her daughters came in.
“Nice new girls. Nice new girls.” Said the parrot.
Then her husband came home, late as usual.
“Hello Norman.” Said the Parrot.0 -
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It started as a Tory problem it must end with a Tory solutionhumbugger said:
Parliament has taken back control of Brexit and now they own it, including Mr Speaker.nichomar said:
The conservatives own this hook line and sinker nobody else let them stew in itCharles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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Surely egg is providing us with yolks?SquareRoot said:
Both v old jokes ...egg said:
My aunt bought a parrot. A cheap one in a shop. She was warned its previous home was in a brothel but because of the price she didn’t mind.ydoethur said:If we're going for hopelessly corny jokes and not my awesome puns:
A magician was working on a cruise ship.
Since the audience was different each week, the magician did the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the Magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show, "Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" Or "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the Captain's parrot.
Then one stormy night on the Pacific, the ship unfortunately sank.
The magician luckily found himself on a piece of wood floating in the middle of the sea, as fate would have it ... With the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word.
This went on for a day... And then 2 days. And then 3 days. Finally on the 4th day, the parrot could not hold back any longer and said...
"Okay, I give up. Where's the freaking ship??
She took it home.
“Nice new gaff. Nice new gaff” said the parrot.
Then her daughters came in.
“Nice new girls. Nice new girls.” Said the parrot.
Then her husband came home, late as usual.
“Hello Norman.” Said the Parrot.0 -
At third reading, the Commons passed the bill (European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017) by 494 to 122 on 8 February 2017.nichomar said:
The conservatives own this hook line and sinker nobody else let them stew in itCharles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Never knew the conservatives had 494 MPs. Interesting.0 -
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Well, if the tank is a M24 Chaffee, there are two pedals, two levers for steering and additional levers for adjusting the transmission. You can see more here:Charles said:
There are two fish in a tankegg said:
I’ll give you a joke for free.Cyclefree said:
No. They need context and I need paying.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
You get my thread headers for free.
One in four frogs is a leap frog 😃
One turns to the other and says “so how do you drive this thing?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIqQ3tWAfVI0 -
You are an intelligent guy, do you know how many chameleons sneaked aboard the ark ?ydoethur said:
Gordon Bennett. I am genuinely stumped as to how to respond.egg said:
Like you Doctor, I was at the cricket. And I was wondering, why is the ball getting bigger and bigger and bigger.ydoethur said:
If those are representative of your jokes, small bleeding wonder nobody pays you.egg said:
An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk out a bar.Cyclefree said:
Badoom tish!egg said:
I’ll give you a joke for free.Cyclefree said:
No. They need context and I need paying.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
You get my thread headers for free.
One in four frogs is a leap frog 😃
The Englishman wanted to go so they all had to leave. 😃
And then it hit me.0 -
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
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No, because the answer keeps changing to fit.egg said:
You are an intelligent guy, do you know how many chameleons sneaked aboard the ark ?ydoethur said:
Gordon Bennett. I am genuinely stumped as to how to respond.egg said:
Like you Doctor, I was at the cricket. And I was wondering, why is the ball getting bigger and bigger and bigger.ydoethur said:
If those are representative of your jokes, small bleeding wonder nobody pays you.egg said:
An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk out a bar.Cyclefree said:
Badoom tish!egg said:
I’ll give you a joke for free.Cyclefree said:
No. They need context and I need paying.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
You get my thread headers for free.
One in four frogs is a leap frog 😃
The Englishman wanted to go so they all had to leave. 😃
And then it hit me.0 -
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And we all thought it was repressed and pent up sexual frustration in Ulster and now they get a S&M opt in ... and the DUP get the whip hand !!Philip_Thompson said:A 4-yearly renewable option for NI voters [or their representatives] to opt-in to SM rules fixes that neatly.
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That gave me a mental image involving Arlene Foster I would have been much better off without.JackW said:
And we all thought it was all repressed and pent up sexual frustration in Ulster and now they get a S&M opt in ... and the DUP get the whip hand !!Philip_Thompson said:A 4-yearly renewable option for NI voters [or their representatives] to opt-in to SM rules fixes that neatly.
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I had a trainee whose surname was Parrott. I used to tell her that joke daily.Jonathan said:What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
🥕
She was not amused. Ever.0 -
Captain Picard has opened his first new needle and thread repair shop. Its called make it sew number one0
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I used to steal cars from a multi-storey car park. It was wrong on so many levels.egg said:
Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
As my father once said: "Son, never quote your parents"
My dad was a pilot. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like he did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers did.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/tim-vine-best-jokes-and-one-liners-4950100 -
Did she end up claiming constructive dismissal?AlastairMeeks said:
I had a trainee whose surname was Parrott. I used to tell her that joke daily.Jonathan said:What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
🥕
She was not amused. Ever.0 -
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, an Irishman turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night”viewcode said:
I used to steal cars from a multi-storey car park. It was wrong on so many levels.egg said:
Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
As my father once said: "Son, never quote your parents"
My dad was a pilot. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like he did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers did.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/tim-vine-best-jokes-and-one-liners-4950100 -
You know that using an 'Irishman' as a signifier for stupidity is quite offensive @Charles?Charles said:
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, an Irishman turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night”viewcode said:
I used to steal cars from a multi-storey car park. It was wrong on so many levels.egg said:
Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
As my father once said: "Son, never quote your parents"
My dad was a pilot. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like he did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers did.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/tim-vine-best-jokes-and-one-liners-4950102 -
LauraK tweeting sense here methinks.Scott_P said:0 -
Ha. Totalisam said: 0 -
A 2 seater aeroplane has crashed landed in a Dublin cemetery- so far Irish police have recovered over 200 bodies.Benpointer said:
You know that using an 'Irishman' as a signifier for stupidity is quite offensive @Charles?Charles said:
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, an Irishman turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night”viewcode said:
I used to steal cars from a multi-storey car park. It was wrong on so many levels.egg said:
Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
As my father once said: "Son, never quote your parents"
My dad was a pilot. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like he did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers did.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/tim-vine-best-jokes-and-one-liners-495010-1 -
One of the many ironies of the Brexit debacle is the fact that the support of the EU enables the Irish to dictate terms to the British. For the past 1000 years or so the British have had the whip hand in that relationship - you can hardly blame the Irish for taking advantage of the position that the Tories have so foolishly gifted them.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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Did she ever undergo a Polly-Graph test?AlastairMeeks said:
I had a trainee whose surname was Parrott. I used to tell her that joke daily.Jonathan said:What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
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She was not amused. Ever.0 -
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And they have blown it - got too greedy.anothernick said:
One of the many ironies of the Brexit debacle is the fact that the support of the EU enables the Irish to dictate terms to the British. For the past 1000 years or so the British have had the whip hand in that relationship - you can hardly blame the Irish for taking advantage of the position that the Tories have so foolishly gifted them.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:
Yes after 4 years it votes whether to stay aligned with the EU or by default moves to the UK rules which are likely to have diverged by then.rcs1000 said:Am I right in thinking the Northern Ireland Assembly will now have some say over the backstop?
Big problem for the EU and Ireland is this effectively gives the DUP a veto . There’s no way they’ll agree to that .
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
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https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1179494367750438912?s=20
"Lots could have been different but for the actions taken by the previous government that drove the country into a cul-de-sac"
Er, that's the previous Tory government that you Boris were a member of.0 -
Nah.. she just put the kettle on..Sunil_Prasannan said:
Did she ever undergo a Polly-Graph test?AlastairMeeks said:
I had a trainee whose surname was Parrott. I used to tell her that joke daily.Jonathan said:What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
🥕
She was not amused. Ever.0 -
Dismay in Brussels as Boris Johnson finally reveals Brexit plan
Michel Barnier scathing in his reaction, describing PM’s Irish border proposals as a trap
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/02/boris-johnson-unveils-brexit-plan-for-alternative-to-backstop?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
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I once bought some trainers from a drug dealer.
I don't know what he laced them with but I've been tripping ever since.0 -
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:1 -
WIshful thinking from the BorisgraphTGOHF2 said:0 -
TGOHF2 said: Pressure on Dublin but only from the Telegraph and Johnson/Cummings. 0
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What's made of brass and sounds like Tom Jones?
Trombones.0 -
We already know BoZo is being worked by someone else...rottenborough said:https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/1179484167681318914
What's the book on this question?0 -
Paddy Power have already paid out on "Muppet".rottenborough said:https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/1179484167681318914
What's the book on this question?0 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiACatMan said:Dismay in Brussels as Boris Johnson finally reveals Brexit plan
Michel Barnier scathing in his reaction, describing PM’s Irish border proposals as a trap
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/02/boris-johnson-unveils-brexit-plan-for-alternative-to-backstop?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet0 -
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, a Derby County fan turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night...."Benpointer said:
You know that using an 'Irishman' as a signifier for stupidity is quite offensive @Charles?Charles said:
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, an Irishman turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night”viewcode said:
I used to steal cars from a multi-storey car park. It was wrong on so many levels.egg said:
Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
As my father once said: "Son, never quote your parents"
My dad was a pilot. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like he did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers did.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/tim-vine-best-jokes-and-one-liners-495010
Better?0 -
Pressure on Bayern after conceding two at Spurs.TGOHF2 said:3 -
MarqueeMark said:
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, a Tory-Boy turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night...."Benpointer said:
You know that using an 'Irishman' as a signifier for stupidity is quite offensive @Charles?Charles said:
On hearing one engine on a plane has failed, resulting in a 1 hour delay to the flight, an Irishman turns to his neighbour and says “if the other one goes we’ll be up here all night”viewcode said:
I used to steal cars from a multi-storey car park. It was wrong on so many levels.egg said:
Bring back the good old days!No_Offence_Alan said:
No, don't, that's how music hall died. Once someone had seen an act on TV, nobody would pay to go and see it live.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
Velcro - what a rip off!
Two Elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom.
When I was at school, kids used to throw gold bars at me. I was the victim of bullion.
As my father once said: "Son, never quote your parents"
My dad was a pilot. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like he did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers did.
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/tim-vine-best-jokes-and-one-liners-495010
Better?
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Princess Leia said to Luke "It's a trap!" not once, but twice in quick succession in The Empire Strikes Back.GIN1138 said:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiACatMan said:Dismay in Brussels as Boris Johnson finally reveals Brexit plan
Michel Barnier scathing in his reaction, describing PM’s Irish border proposals as a trap
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/02/boris-johnson-unveils-brexit-plan-for-alternative-to-backstop?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet0 -
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:0 -
Looked at another way, how ironic that after the best part of a 1000 years of treating Ireland terribly, the British are now in the process of being saved from a self-inflicted Brexit calamity by the Irish.anothernick said:
One of the many ironies of the Brexit debacle is the fact that the support of the EU enables the Irish to dictate terms to the British. For the past 1000 years or so the British have had the whip hand in that relationship - you can hardly blame the Irish for taking advantage of the position that the Tories have so foolishly gifted them.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:rcs1000 said:
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
We don't deserve such good neighbours, we really don't.0 -
What are the main reasons why the EU finds it unacceptable?CatMan said:
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:0 -
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179486573840261122?s=20AndyJS said:
What are the main reasons why the EU finds it unacceptable?CatMan said:
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:0 -
Because we would actually leave?AndyJS said:
What are the main reasons why the EU finds it unacceptable?CatMan said:
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:1 -
"I don't carrot all for your humour, Mr Meeks"AlastairMeeks said:
I had a trainee whose surname was Parrott. I used to tell her that joke daily.Jonathan said:What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
🥕
She was not amused. Ever.0 -
Very sobering to watch that programme now, and to have to confront the reality that so many of those who appeared are no longer alive - John Cole - Anthony King - Peter Sissons - Paddy Ashdown - John Smith - Donald Dewar - Robin Cook. Tempus fugit.HYUFD said:
He was also at school with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck, picture of them as youngsters at the beach in this articleAndyJS said:Peter Sissons was one of the presenters on the BBC's iconic 1992 election night coverage, regarded by many psephological anoraks as one of the best ever election shows. This is the for the first 5 minutes or so of that programme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvMbr0BAKQ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7528979/Ex-BBC-ITN-newsreader-Peter-Sissons-died-age-77.html0 -
I can confirm they want to save us for their own benefit, not ours. Nobody wants our corpse in the pool.Benpointer said:
Looked at another way, how ironic that after the best part of a 1000 years of treating Ireland terribly, the British are now in the process of being saved from a self-inflicted Brexit calamity by the Irish.anothernick said:
One of the many ironies of the Brexit debacle is the fact that the support of the EU enables the Irish to dictate terms to the British. For the past 1000 years or so the British have had the whip hand in that relationship - you can hardly blame the Irish for taking advantage of the position that the Tories have so foolishly gifted them.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
On the contrary, the EU will think (probably correctly) that Northern Ireland will love a backstop that sees them both in the EU and the UK. There will businesses that setup in the province to benefit from that dual status.nico67 said:rcs1000 said:
And removing it will therefore always become something for another day.
I would also like to point out that this is almost exactly what I predicted, and which I was poopooed about on here.
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
We don't deserve such good neighbours, we really don't.0 -
This video is so interesting I've watched it about three or four times already. It helps to explain what's gone wrong with liberalism over the last 10 to 15 years.
"Interview with John Gray on political populism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hC5nXXJrV80 -
Pressure on Spurs after only finishing one place above Arsenal.Scrapheap_as_was said:
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Have you seen your new sponsors and kit?Scrapheap_as_was said:
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Well that's a fair point. Nevertheless, given how badly this island has treated their island over 100s of years, I still find it remarkable that they are coming to our rescue in this way.Noo said:
I can confirm they want to save us for their own benefit, not ours. Nobody wants our corpse in the pool.Benpointer said:
Looked at another way, how ironic that after the best part of a 1000 years of treating Ireland terribly, the British are now in the process of being saved from a self-inflicted Brexit calamity by the Irish.anothernick said:
One of the many ironies of the Brexit debacle is the fact that the support of the EU enables the Irish to dictate terms to the British. For the past 1000 years or so the British have had the whip hand in that relationship - you can hardly blame the Irish for taking advantage of the position that the Tories have so foolishly gifted them.Charles said:
Varadkar bears much of the blame for the last 2 years.matthiasfromhamburg said:
Pardon?Charles said:
Varadkar.matthiasfromhamburg said:
With all due respect, but this new proposal does not place NI in both the UK and the EU.rcs1000 said:
HMG have moved from their proposal of:
"Let's substitute the impending hard NI/RoI border with two hard borders, demarking a no-mans land - exactly around that highly contested border region - which will be uncontrollable."
to their new proposal of:
"Let's replace the impending hard NI/RoI border with a hard NI/RoI customs border plus a hard NI/UK regulatory border, and to round out the picture, let's place an explosive devise underneath it all and hand the trigger for that to Arlene and the troglodytes."
It is no surprise that the entire NI business community (CBI NI, FSB NI, Manufacturing NI, etc.) have immediately rejected the new proposals.
The EU side is merely searching for a formulation of the rejection that is as polite and well explained as possible, to deflect the blame back to where it belongs.
and by the way, well saidCharles said:
Sounds like a description of the Brexit negotiationsCyclefree said:They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
We don't deserve such good neighbours, we really don't.0 -
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Well I may be crazy but I still think there's going to be a deal done on 17th/18th October, Boris will present it to Parliament on 21st (or 19th if there's a rare Saturday sitting) and we'll leave with WA on 31st.CatMan said:
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:0 -
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Who can forget the death of Tempus Fugit? Taken from us too soon. RIP, dear dear friend.justin124 said:
Very sobering to watch that programme now, and to have to confront the reality that so many of those who appeared are no longer alive - John Cole - Anthony King - Peter Sissons - Paddy Ashdown - John Smith - Donald Dewar - Robin Cook. Tempus fugit.HYUFD said:
He was also at school with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck, picture of them as youngsters at the beach in this articleAndyJS said:Peter Sissons was one of the presenters on the BBC's iconic 1992 election night coverage, regarded by many psephological anoraks as one of the best ever election shows. This is the for the first 5 minutes or so of that programme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvMbr0BAKQ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7528979/Ex-BBC-ITN-newsreader-Peter-Sissons-died-age-77.html1 -
You probably are crazy to think that; alternatively you may be proved right.GIN1138 said:
Well I may be crazy but I still think there's going to be a deal done on 17th/18th October, Boris will present it to Parliament on 21st (or 19th if there's a rare Saturday sitting) and we'll leave with WA on 31st.CatMan said:
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:
Who knows? Interesting times indeed.0 -
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Have you seen your new sponsors and kit?Scrapheap_as_was said:0 -
This is the sort of orchestration and rallying of support that Nabavi was expecting for Theresa May's deal to create the psychological pressure for other people to fall into line.0
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But the PM legally has to send the extension letter after the 19th.GIN1138 said:
Well I may be crazy but I still think there's going to be a deal done on 17th/18th October, Boris will present it to Parliament on 21st (or 19th if there's a rare Saturday sitting) and we'll leave with WA on 31st.CatMan said:
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1179485846132670466?s=20GIN1138 said:
What else was he ever going to say?CatMan said:0 -
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Watching the Tory party conference on the news makes one realise what an enormous group of tosspots Conservative members have become....just an observation, but methinks a good one...0
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All wasted if the EU reject it.OblitusSumMe said:This is the sort of orchestration and rallying of support that Nabavi was expecting for Theresa May's deal to create the psychological pressure for other people to fall into line.
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What's old and wrinkled and hangs out granddad's underpants?
Grandma on washing day.0 -
I feel less confident tonight having heard from Verhofstadt and co....
In terms of the 'sources', of course it's easy to find sources to confirm any position.0 -
Whose regulations on the "all island regulatory zone"?
The EU's presumably so where do the intra Island/border checks come in?
Edit: a hippy walks into Domino's and says to the guy there: "make me one with everything".0 -
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Very old yokes, from when walls had ears and lions had tea shops.ydoethur said:
Surely egg is providing us with yolks?SquareRoot said:
Both v old jokes ...egg said:
My aunt bought a parrot. A cheap one in a shop. She was warned its previous home was in a brothel but because of the price she didn’t mind.ydoethur said:If we're going for hopelessly corny jokes and not my awesome puns:
A magician was working on a cruise ship.
Since the audience was different each week, the magician did the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the Magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show, "Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" Or "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the Captain's parrot.
Then one stormy night on the Pacific, the ship unfortunately sank.
The magician luckily found himself on a piece of wood floating in the middle of the sea, as fate would have it ... With the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word.
This went on for a day... And then 2 days. And then 3 days. Finally on the 4th day, the parrot could not hold back any longer and said...
"Okay, I give up. Where's the freaking ship??
She took it home.
“Nice new gaff. Nice new gaff” said the parrot.
Then her daughters came in.
“Nice new girls. Nice new girls.” Said the parrot.
Then her husband came home, late as usual.
“Hello Norman.” Said the Parrot.
The pun thread seems a suitable way to round off the conference season.0 -
With this shambles of a proposal from Boris getting laughed out in Brussels, and public opinion now swinging strongly against Brexit, maybe we should consider the possibility that Brexit will never happen?0
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One of my all time PB favourites that oneSunil_Prasannan said:
Did you hear about the psephologist from Warsaw who moved to Haiti?Charles said:
There are two fish in a tankegg said:
I’ll give you a joke for free.Cyclefree said:
No. They need context and I need paying.egg said:
Go on, share one of the jokes.Cyclefree said:Really sad to hear of the death of Jessye Norman. A superb singer. Her recording of Strauss’s 4 Last Songs is sublime. One of my 10 Desert Island discs.
Anyway one talk down, one to go. They stayed awake, laughed at the jokes and asked questions at the end. So am assuming not a disaster.....
You get my thread headers for free.
One in four frogs is a leap frog 😃
One turns to the other and says “so how do you drive this thing?”
He became a Voodoo Pole!0 -
I’ve seen less twat tweets mocking Dom’s war games though - may just be coincidence..dyedwoolie said:I feel less confident tonight having heard from Verhofstadt and co....
In terms of the 'sources', of course it's easy to find sources to confirm any position.0
