A thank you to Brexiteers.

[bimble]

Do you think you might be investing a little too much time on it?

yes. But it helps me to be nice to the people in my actual life. more compassionate. Strange but true.

 

[mojo pixy]

I think the thing is, some places are having food shortages and some aren't. Where there are shortages it's not accurate to place the blame entirely on Brexit, though Brexit is contributing. Will possibly get worse, I'm certainly expecting effects of Brexit to worsen before things improve - but that will be the fault of the people in charge, broadly, not People Who Voted Brexit. Those people (the ones in charge) would be fucking us all anyway, with or without Brexit. And as mooted once or twice, when we divest ourselves of them (and we will at some point) we'll still not be in the EU, and then we may start to see why leaving was a good idea. It's ridiculous to pretend things were going to be better straight away, and ridiculous to forget that in 2016 hardly anyone had even heard of Coronavirus.

And I still voted Remain. That ship sailed and sank so.

 

[keybored]

This is how your brain works when you’ve turned into a brexit maniac, unwilling to see a single flaw in any of the actual brexit we are all enjoying. I did a helpful diagram. Can you imagine how much Johnson and co love you for your unwavering willingness to do this work for them.
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I think you've suffered an #FBPE

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Boils my piss

that's a bit of an extreme way to deal with a shortage of bottled water...

 

[bimble]

I think you've suffered an #FBPE

I don’t know what that means but probably

 

[keybored]

I don’t know what that means but probably

I think it means Full-Blown Psychotic Episode.

 

[bimble]

I think it means Full-Blown Psychotic Episode.

i feel fine, apart from the anxiety about the mackerel fillets.

 

[Spymaster]

yes. But it helps me to be nice to the people in my actual life. more compassionate. Strange but true.

Very. The thread's always been shit but now it's not even pretending to be worthwhile. It's just about who can post up the most news items that seem to support their views.

 

[bimble]

Very. The thread's always been shit but now it's not even pretending to be worthwhile. It's just about who can post up the most news items that seem to support their views.

So this website is not a place where a conversation about the actual unfurling of brexit might take place? The consequences of it, the changes and challenges? Thats a shame. Seems a kind of interesting subject to me.
Ignoring it and Moving On, even though we haven't even half brexited yet, is government policy so fair enough.

 

[Spymaster]

So this website is not a place where a conversation about the actual unfurling of brexit might take place? The consequences of it, the changes and challenges?

The site could be but this thread isn't doing that.

 

[Artaxerxes]

that's a bit of an extreme way to deal with a shortage of bottled water...

Best way to replicate fizzy water though

 

[Supine]

The site could be but this thread isn't doing that.

This thread is highlighting things that are happening. As those things are getting worse specialised threads on individual subjects are also springing up. Nobody is forced to read this thread.

 

[Spymaster]

Nobody is forced to read this thread.

What's that got to do with anything?

 

[bimble]

Maybe a new thread is needed, to highlight the good stuff. not sure what it would have in it though.

 

[MrSki]

Well it turns out it was not 'project fear' but 'project understatement'. This whole shit show is going to get worse before it gets better. Are there still people claiming the photos of food shortages are from last year? Fucking muppets.

 

[Supine]

What's that got to do with anything?

Your derailing it by discussing why you don’t like the thread. Just pointing out reading it is optional

 

[Supine]

Maybe a new thread is needed, to highlight the good stuff. not sure what it would have in it though.

That was tried already!

 

[Spymaster]

Your derailing it by discussing why you don’t like the thread. Just pointing out reading it is optional

Well as you know, you lot are here for my amusement, not the other way around. I dip in and out of this according to my mood. It often gets unwatched and picked up another time. There's no denying it's shit though.

 

[Artaxerxes]

That was tried already!

I think it was tried a few times.

Closest we've got is HGV drivers getting a pay bump, which is fair enough.

 

[keybored]

This whole shit show is going to get worse before it gets better.

Careful now, you just let a little optimism slip out.

 

[bimble]

Well as you know, you lot are here for my amusement, not the other way around. I dip in and out of this according to my mood. It often gets unwatched and picked up another time. There's no denying it's shit though.

You see the UK’s deaparture from the Eu and the common market as nothing other than a fun trolling opportunity, like threads about cyclists or vegans. Your contributions to the subject are valued accordingly by all.

 

[Spymaster]

You see the UK’s deaparture from the Eu and the common market this thread as nothing other than a fun trolling opportunity, like threads about cyclists or vegans. Your contributions to the subject are valued accordingly by all.

There is decent discussion to be found regarding leaving the union on various threads. This just isn't one of them. This is just two sets of kids calling each other names. Nothing wrong with that, I'm all for it. But don't kid yourself that it's anything else.

 

[bimble]

There is decent discussion to be found regarding leaving the union on various threads. This just isn't one of them. This is just two sets of kids calling each other names. Nothing wrong with that, I'm all for it. But don't kid yourself that it's anything else.

You’ve not been reading the thread . Which is good, keep it up.

 

[gosub]

Anyone been out for a panic tank-fill yet?

Brimmed tank today but no queues noticable. Not panic buying was just empty. That said have been planning on refilling one of the emergency Jerry's that the lawnmower drank along with coal restock but that's more about the Natural Gas thing

 

[Badgers]

 

[gosub]

So it probably would have been in a turkeys intersest to vote for Brexit

 

[Pickman's model]

I think some people are winding you up and it’s working.

A perfect storm of Covid and Brexit is causing the shortages, add in the CO2 shortage (that one is down to Covid) and more shortages are a cert.

Extracting water, sticking it in plastic bottles, creating CO2 and adding it to the water and carting it around the country is not good at any time, thankfully due to the mixture of driver shortages (Brexit and Covid) and CO2 shortages (Covid) you can’t indulge in your planet harming habits. If you must, but a Soda Stream.

You don't have to wind bimble up, she can do that herself

 

[Pickman's model]

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[A380]

 

[Ax^]

watching the bbc this morning about a few forcourts running out of petrol reminds me a of a simpson episode




sure people will be senisible and not panic buy