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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1501 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:54 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:53 pm
Boac wrote:
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The sooner this buffoon gets off the train the better. I pity the subtitle writers and the signers!
The man is a blithering buffoon... and is surrounded by a coterie of toadying incompetents... Did anybody watch the fireplace salesman yesterday? Pathetic!
As I said, Frank Spencer, and which idiot gave him the nuclear keys? Tobias seems more sensible.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1502 Post by FD2 » Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:17 am

Meanwhile, as if there wasn't enough to worry and fight about, the Flat Earthers and other conspiracy fools have their say:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-532 ... used-by-5g

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1503 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:05 am

FD2,
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1504 Post by Bob » Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:19 pm

I have a bet with myself that at least one certain arsehole in here will be down the Pub today

https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperSpread ... htag_click
Hopefully he will check in to confirm =p~
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1505 Post by Capetonian » Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:48 am

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/n ... rn-4294994

Street vomiting makes speedy return as pubs reopen across Gloucestershire

No surprise there. In a world of change, it's good to see that some things never change. Pavement Pizza on the menu again.

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#1506 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:31 pm

Sounds like after yesterday's "Grand Re-opening" the UK covid numbers are set to skyrocket in a week or two. :ymsick:

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1508 Post by Dushan » Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:08 pm


It is the first time that any government has cut VAT.
Maybe a UK government. Stephen Harper cut GST (Canadian VAT) from 7% to 5%.
Because they stand on the wall and say "nothing's gonna hurt you tonight, not on my watch".

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1509 Post by llondel » Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:18 pm

Boac wrote:
Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:16 pm
For the political experts here:

On 1 Jan 2021, what is going to happen to:-
UKIP
The Brexit Party
The Farage

...and will we be able to do anything different with the boat people?
Farage will still be around, he won't rest until the UK has a deal with the EU that doesn't cede any of the UK's sovereign rights, because one assumes that talks won't stop if they haven't done a deal by then. Even then, he might return to haunt future governments if they look like they're weakening.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1510 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:39 pm

Dushan wrote:
Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:08 pm

It is the first time that any government has cut VAT.
Maybe a UK government. Stephen Harper cut GST (Canadian VAT) from 7% to 5%.
No it's not. Alistair Darling cut VAT from 17.5% to 15%. Thanks to EU rules it cannot be cut below that. The beauty of VAT is the poor, who otherwise would pay no tax,or have to pay a 20% sin tax.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1511 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Jul 05, 2020 5:04 pm

Post Independence Day, after the New Year festivities are over, we will have control over VAT, as well as so many other things. :-bd :YMPARTY:

That reminds me, I really must arrange for my single firework to be made. It'll be a bespoke job. Massive, mortar launched, with a starburst spread from 500' agl to 100' below the Edinburgh CTA stub. All fully legal and as safe as safe can be. I've got a ship's foghorn which will sound for 60 seconds after the last crackle of the firework. There will be much merriment, in addition to the usual Hogmanay malarkey.

It'll be fired by laptop at very exactly 24:00z on the 31st of December.

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#1512 Post by ribrash » Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:04 pm

Undried Plum wrote:
Sun Jul 05, 2020 5:04 pm
Post Independence Day, after the New Year festivities are over, we will have control over VAT, as well as so many other things. :-bd :YMPARTY:

That reminds me, I really must arrange for my single firework to be made. It'll be a bespoke job. Massive, mortar launched, with a starburst spread from 500' agl to 100' below the Edinburgh CTA stub. All fully legal and as safe as safe can be. I've got a ship's foghorn which will sound for 60 seconds after the last crackle of the firework. There will be much merriment, in addition to the usual Hogmanay malarkey.

It'll be fired by laptop at very exactly 24:00z on the 31st of December.
I heard a single firework go off at 3 am last night.First thoughts were "Why."

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1513 Post by ribrash » Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:05 pm

Bob wrote:
Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:19 pm
I have a bet with myself that at least one certain arsehole in here will be down the Pub today

https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperSpread ... htag_click
Hopefully he will check in to confirm =p~
Did you win your bet Bob ?

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#1516 Post by Boac » Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:13 pm

HMG fights back
https://no10media.blog.gov.uk/2020/07/0 ... july-2020/

Sunday Times - your go.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1517 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:29 pm

Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1518 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:30 pm

Every where...

Even in the UK!
Though you remain
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1519 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:25 pm

It'll be fired by laptop at very exactly 24:00z on the 31st of December.
Shouldn't that be 00.00.01z on the 1st Jan. ?

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#1520 Post by barkingmad » Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:29 am

For weeks now we in the UK and the planet have been bombarded with messages telling us which ethnic backgrounds and BMI’s have been statistically shown to be vulnerable to the plague and it’s (terminal) effects.

So I award the chocolate teapot award to the publicity director of this campaign on impeccable timing for the launch;

Body positivity movement: 'Why is my body not important?' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53283353

I wonder what General Practitioners will be saying to such examples of Homo sapiens when next they are in the surgery for a consultation on any condition? But then maybe the GPs will be afraid to mention their patients’ BMI as the PC “taking offence” brigade will be on the alert for any perceived slight or alleged insult?

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