mint Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 [url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/18/brexit-leavers-fear-their-lies-will-haunt-them[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Yes, Nimto, good find and holding some truths, I suspect. However, being the Guardian they have to perceive the whole thing is Right and Left terms which is certanly ain't. Just look at the voting patterns which show some of the strongest Leave areas are the strongest Labour areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 And if one re-writes this:"Leavers are angry, for their lies will return to haunt them"; to this:"Remainers are angry, for their lies will return to haunt them"; and then consider my earlier post concerning the Labour guy who carefully edited official documents......Rather reminds me of the "Sexed Up" document reference WM, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 X hundred words to fill the page by a bored and boring Guardian journo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindal1000 Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 An interesting article. It is an opinion piece, not a factual report, but as opinions go, I thought it was good.A question for the avid leavers..when brexit happens, if it doesn't work out how you imagined what do you think will happen? Will you be looking for another group to blame or will you just say..' oh well, we tried, never mind'? I watched HIGNFY on Friday. One of the few funny programs left but probably not everyone's taste. Gary Linekar was in the chair and he made a very mild brexit joke, which apparently offended The Sun so much they slagged him off for being a 'spokesman for the liberal lefties' FFS, the man is a sports commentator with a sense of humour. Has brexit given everyone who voted leave a sense of humour failure? To me that is a much bigger problem than in or out of the EU. A country run by a bunch of humourless barstewards is doomed to live it it's own misery forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Lindal, i expect the comment will be ''Oh well we tried, we will just have to try again, but try harder'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 [quote]Gary Linekar was in the chair and he made a very mild brexit joke,[/quote]Crass IMHO.It would be fine, then, for me to say something along the lines of:"Good about Allepo being carpet bombed! That's another 100,000 bloody Islamists wiped off the face of the planet!"Imagine the storms of outrage from the Liberal-Left luvvies, Indi and Grauniad readers et al.??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Nauty (sic) Glueystuck, pulling everyone's legs. And it is Xmas too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindal1000 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 I should add, I don't think the presenters on HIGNFY actually write their own jokes. It's scripted and they read them out. Still that won't worry The Sun who seem to have it in for Linekar whatever he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Isn't the Sun one of the papers that Linekar singled out as spreading racial hatred when he asked Walkers to stop advertising with such media forms?So an attack on him might not be quite such an even handed report as one would hope for from so-called purveyors of news and the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 If you lot dont reduce the whinging/arguing over politics and in particular Brexit this form will no longer be Worth visiting. For several days now there has been nothing but the above, its as if all the other aspects of French life that the forum was so good for no longer exist. All I need to do now is to glance and see that the exact same subjects are at the top of the list often with the same poster making the last contribution to each one and then I can head off somewhere more interesting and diverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 The forum was as dead as a the proverbial dodo for a long time, Chance, but the controversy over Brexit has at least brought it back to life a bit.However, I will try and comply to your omniscient will and see if we can't try a few new posts to get people going on something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 I thought we agreed that people needn't read about Brexit if they aren't interested?And, look, I even gave a warning along the lines of... the following might contain flash photography, strong language, statements about Brexit.In the past couple of days, I have posted about classical music, dogs and even did a post on the French language answered by ericd and NO ONE else![I] Whether you like it or not, Brexit has dominated the political agenda in the UK and is one of the biggest items on all news bulletins and it's making headlines around the world. Some of us like to be au courant. I could equally give an update everyday on Aleppo but imagine all the negative remarks THAT will attract!Brexit concerns me, my family and my friends and nobody has to read any of my posts. Thankfully, we still have free speech in our imperfect and much beloved world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindal1000 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 At the moment this forum is one of the more active! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajal Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 [quote user="woolybanana"]The forum was as dead as a the proverbial dodo for a long time, [/quote]....and now it's as lively as the proverbial d.i.l.d.o. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 [quote user="woolybanana"]Nauty (sic) Glueystuck, pulling everyone's legs. And it is Xmas too!![/quote]Aha! You guessed, Santa!Keeps me alive, Wooly: same as winding up all the fervent foaming at the mouth myopic muppets on the Grauniad
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