RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
No, it's what they tell me when I try to make an appointment. Can't get one until after the end of September unless an emergency.
A thank you to Brexiteers.
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No idea. I'm re-reading Antonia Frasers atmospheric biog of Mary, Queen of Scots, which I do every few years because it's brilliant and ever relevant. So I wasn't even looking as far as Belgium. This island offers enough examples of blood feud/vendetta, and the battle between what became the British establishment and 'Europe' - for cultural, political, symbolic and financial control of these islands v a more diffuse pan European vision.
It was published in the 60's, so even the Brexiters would be hard pushed to suggest it was some remain heavy fairytale. It's interesting to think that the sadists who made sure the woman's name was trashed and her head severed, after being branded a femme fatale, danger to the nascent Godly state, etc, ended up being the same people that ended up in what became the USA, burning women in the 17th c, banning medical access in 2022.
When I first read it aged 10 or 11 I saw it as the complex but - even then - fully understandable story of a young woman (with what we'd today class as 'liberal' or pragmatic views on international relations, criminal justice, religious liberty, personal relationships, LGBT, etc) trapped, and stripped of power in really vulgar and unnecessarily sexualized ways. That still comes through. In 2022 I still find newly relevant perspectives within it.
I'd be quite annoyed if my dental receptionist offered me a Brexit/remain run through of why they couldn't see me.
I normally see my dentist every four months or so. At the very week of lockdown one, I took a millimetre corner off a tooth after biting too hard on a fork during a takeaway curry on the Saturday night - they saw me first thing on the Monday morning, and built it so beautifully I was considering having all my teeth rounded off that way. Lockdown officially began that very week. I next saw them, without issue, in September 2020.
Admittedly, at some point in 2021 the receptionist did say they were only seeing emergencies. So I told them it was an emergency, which would include an emergency scale and polish, and was back in the attentive hands of my sexy Brazilian dentist who works to Samba beats, within the very same week.
Of all the things we've discussed, Brexit has never been mentioned. The only medical person who ever raised it with me was a Botox butcher in Mexico City, who (this was August 2016) asked me when I was in his chair 'what on earth is happening in your country?', and 'why can't your queen stop this chaos?' before admitting 'I'm sorry, but it feels a little bit good to watch the Brits making a mess like the world associates with Mexico' - the local news was on the television during, and it didn't stop. It was fully reported as a crisis of a country in a state of collapse.
When they ask if it's an emergency, just say 'yes' instead of getting into a political to and fro with the poor sod on the phone.
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By the ignorant perhaps, but not by me. I am not more prole than thou (even though I actually am). Athens was a pretty glamorous city - up there with London, Paris, and the major Italian cities. In 2005 it was reported to be the sixth richest capital in Europe. That feels about right.
At one point, my landlord was renting out my balcony to a girl who slept there on a sun lounger. Upstairs was a woman who had two actual lion cubs as pets - she rented them out to a Cartier party - I still have the photos of me holding them. I still think of that as extravagantly rich. The post crash notion that Athens was some kind of backwater full of financial fools might be comforting, but it's wrong. What it always was, weirdly, was honest - even if on the sneak, it was with a wink.
Emporio Armani branches were there on high streets like branches of Next. Yes, you could pay off your speeding tickets and parking fines. I had a fairly regular employer at first - nothing glam - but her regular bank turned out to be in the Channel Islands. A good friend of mine from LA had romantic dreams of history, and complained how like LA it was, but more lawless. There were street/Romany kids being run like something from Oliver Twist - maybe worse. Reality doesn't have a British censor.
Just as the slurs against Greeks as tax avoiding con artists was never accurate, neither is the idea that they were victims of heartless northern European functionaries. It just isn't true. It was a highly developed county, with a primate city just as complex as any other.
People talk so much bullshit about Greece, always from either end. Innocent victim or deserving culprit. It was neither and both - just unlucky to be in the spotlight when the music stopped.
It's absolutely true (to back up the right wing critiques) that Athens in particular was the kind of town where everyone who could was 'at it', far more so than London, and that a lot of cash that should've paid for debt repayments and social services was stuck on the never never.
It's also absolutely true (to back up left wing critiques) that there were underlying issues with how the state functioned and how those who relied on only it were very badly exposed when it had its knickers pulled down.
What isn't true, 'dahling', is that Greece unwittingly underwrote Germany and Benelux, and ended up bankrupt for doing so.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Have you ever lived next door to bimble ?
Quite possibly. I leave it to him/her to confirm that they've lived next door to me.
JimW
支那暗杀团
The fairy-tale here is ascribing all social progress in Europe to membership of the EC. Soviet Bloc would probably be a better candidate for ending what vendetta based culture was still knocking around in the post-war period and that would be a ridiculous stretch too.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Thought this was a parody video but apparently not
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Raheem
Well-Known Member
And if you are, you may one day be handed a spade.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
come to think about it, you might secretly be a deep undercover party tory member
just got a shifty look about you
bimble
floofy
bloody hell. i was sure it must be parody too, especially with the knuckle cracking, but its not.
Anyway though what sort of tagline is 'Keep Brexit Safe' and how does it go with the content of the idiotic video. Sinister as hell i think, the faceless man and the bombastic. But this is all it was ever going to be about, deregulation.
Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
That video has left me with some questions -
1) How does Sunak intend to repeal post-Brexit EU laws?
2) Why doesn't the Brexit Delivery Department have a proper sign on its door instead of a folded sheet of paper?
3) Why does EU legislation come with such vague titles, must be a filing nightmare if it's all just labeled "EU Legislation" or "EU Red Tape."
4) Does he understand that shredding paper copies of the legislation isn't the same thing as repealing it?
5) Wouldn't it be a good idea to keep that stuff on file anyway in case somebody needs to look something up?
6) Why is all the paper blank?
7) Is he sure "Brexit Delivery Unit" isn't Remainer slang for the human excretory system?
It would be, but I didn't, so it isn't.
To do what? Batter what they see as the surplus population to death?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
You know very well they have people for that.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Surplus people are not what the order needs
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
It would also be odd if you take a cursory glance at the leaders of the respective for and against campaigns (eta: during the first referendum campaign in 1974):
In: the Tory party, the labour right, the CBI, ICI, Rothschild, General Electric, Vickers, Lever, Boots, Austin, Ford, Rolls Royce, Monsanto, Lancashire Steel, United Steel and the media.
Out: the labour left
The EU can only be understood as an economic project: a free trade and then a globalisation project, albeit with some military considerations too.
What the EU is - teleologically - and what some of its most resolute fans claim it is would make a superb PhD thesis
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Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
On which you are the most prolific poster. By a distance!!
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
the Tory party line is a bit disingenuous as it was parts of the Tory party the 1922 , ERG and a few well placed Aussie billionaires that made brexit happen
if it was just the left we still be in the Eu
bimble
floofy
Bloody hell I am. Had no idea. I’m obviously not over the neoliberal middle class trauma yet . Which is a bit weird seeing as I’m a citizen of Slovakia.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
bimble
floofy
Six more and I get to 1,000 petulant posts about brexit. Might take a week off at that point.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
how do you see who has posted the most on this thread ?
bimble
floofy
The ellipsis with an arrow & ‘who replied’.
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