The Long, Uneasy Wait Is Over: Parties, Protests And Solemn Silence Greet Brexit

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  1. Thedimon

    Thedimon Well-Known Member

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    Active rule simply means in force.
    Yes, the rule that governed the shape of bananas was active (or in force) for over 15 years.
    Do you have anything else to say?
     
  2. Montegriffo

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    The individual States which make up the EU have been able to retain their individual languages, cultures and governments despite decades of membership. They also benefit from regulatory alignment and freedom of movement of people, goods, trade and money just like the US.
     
  3. Thedimon

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    You still need to show an ID on arrival. I, personally, don’t give a damn what system they check my info in. If it makes you feel better to think that you have some greater freedoms, yet have to show ID on arrival just like anyone else, then so be it.
     
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    New Mexico is nothing like New York in culture or even language to a certain extent. They are as close to each other as is Spain to France. Portugal and Spain are more similar to each other than New York is to New Mexico
     
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    What was in "force"? "Bendy" bananas have always been available in our shops. You clearly know nothing about this subject
     
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    well, I just found out that you eat chlorine-washed bagged salads and more than 50% of your chickens have harmful bacteria.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47440562

    But, hey, as long as that chlorine is not on your chicken - who cares, right?

    :hungry:
     
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    You are completely ignoring the point.
    The point is that Brexit will restrict our freedoms to travel, work and reside in the EU. ID was always necessary to prove our EU status and therefore our entitlement to those freedoms. In the future a UK passport will no longer guarantee those rights. That is the difference, not what form of ID we will have to show.
     
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    Its not that you wash your chickens in bleach, its that you do that rather than improve your food handling standards.
     
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    :bored:
    just read the rule.
     
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    New Mexico and New York have the same language, commerce laws, money, and armed forces. None of the countries you mention had the same thing until just a few years ago. (for the life of me I've never understood why Spain and Portugal were different countries. I realize they are different now but all of Spain was created by incorporating separate nations who all shared the Iberian Peninsula, why did Portugal stay out?)
     
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    And pretzels are made using Lye, go figure.
     
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    I see that you are running away from the claim that "bendy" bananas were not sold in shops.
     
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    The UK is not Mexico - it doesn’t depend on receipts from working relatives in the EU.
    You will have freedom to travel, just like many other non-EU nations. Only working and residence will be affected.
    Some could argue that it’s a good thing - more qualified individuals are more likely to stay in the U.K. and benefit their country instead of some foreign country. If U.K. is smart, it will make it very easy for qualified individuals from EU to obtain residency - cause the EU to have the brain drain, not the other way around.
     
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    I never made such claims.
    I claimed that the EU had shape of bananas in a governing rule that was active for 15 years.
     
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    Why do you care if the chicken is then being washed in exact same stuff that your fresh romaine lettuce is being washed with?
     
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    Yes, but a huge number of Europeans speak English. 25% of people in New Mexico speak only Spanish. The EU model is based on the US model. Oh, and the argument from Brexiteers is that the EU were forcing the same "commerce laws, money, and armed forces" onto Britain. Also remember that the EU is only a few years old when compared to the age of the USA.
     
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    You jumped into a conversation about bendy bananas not being available in shops. And again, bendy bananas have always been available in shops.

    Oh, and do you want to know why bananas were categorised as class I and class II? It was to do with the economics of transporting bananas. Nothing to do with banning them
     
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    Again, I don't, I care that you choose to bleach your chickens rather than improve your food handling regulations.
     
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    But if chicken arrives clean and in fact has less harmful bacteria on it than the chicken that your local farmers produce them why do you care?
    Did your mom change your diaper when you were little? Do you refuse to touch her hands because at some point of time her hands had contact with your urine and feces?

    All chicken processing involves feces. Even if each chicken is being gutted with a brand new knife - salmonella will be in contact with the meat. How much - doesn’t matter. The meat will have to be washed anyway. Your argument about chlorine washed chicken doesn’t hold up to even a basic logic test.
     
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    England is going to pay dearly for this. Most people there know it and are trying desperately to either come up with "workarounds" or become the 51st State, to prevent which is why they came up with the EU in the first place. The big winners are the remaining EU nations and China, which stand poised to outperform the US very soon.

    The West is soon going to be hoist on its own nationalistic petard. This century will be very interesting.
     
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    51st state?
    If Canada didn’t become one, you can bet the U.K. won’t get there as well.
     
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    Economic isolation and dissolution? Also for the next year they still have to abide by all EU rules (including anything new that gets implemented) and pay all EU taxes but have 0 say.

    In about a month the reality of the situation will sink in. Then Scotland will vote for independence before the split is official so they can avoid joining the EU (as they'd already be a member by vertue of the UK not being cut loose yet), N. Ireland will probably stick it out until the split becomes official then when a hard border takes effect with the resulting chaos, vote to join the Republic. The English hoped to avoid all of this by replacing the EU with more favorable trade deals with the US but Trump responded with talks of trade wars and the powers that be in D.C. favor the EU so that attitude will remain even after Trump is in office.

    In 5 years, absent some miracle, England will be a desolate backwater with a separatist Wales rubbing salt in the wound.
     
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    According to people like you, the U.K. should be having food and drug shortages now, 2nd day after brexit.
    Cool story, bro...
     
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    I said 5 years, not 2 days. Nice try.
     
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    Anti-Brexit crowd was promising the U.K. stock market crashes, food and drug shortages and economic collapse within days of Brexit.
    Now it’s been 2 days and so far so good. I’m actually surprised at how calm everything is.
    Life lesson - don’t listen to liberal hysteria!
     

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