Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[SpackleFrog]

May definitely. Despite the shitstorm Cameron left, the tories and the interests they serve could've got through the whole thing relatively unscathed, and quite possibly with some exciting new opporunities in the field of treating the British public like shit, had there only been a halfway competent politician at the helm. May's one and only decisive action as PM has been to shoot herself and her party in the foot with a snap election.

Hmmmm. Maybe! If it wasn't for Corbyn though the bourgeois could simply turn to their reliable second 11 and solve Brexit with a New Labour govt though.

 

[Kesher]

Annoying correct post there

Full-on Puddy-pedant wins

But also : fair dos for that

Not necessarily so: two words can be tautological without meaning the exact same thing. For example, a dead corpse (tautological): all corpses by definition are dead; but not everything dead is a corpse. Even so, saying a dead corpse is tautological because the use of the word dead would not be missed one iota if you just said a corpse

 

[Crispy]

Zombies are undead corpses

(waits for punchline)

 

[Ranbay]

watching live now, something about fisherman.

 

[Ranbay]

Seems nobody knows what they want.... or something

 

[Ranbay]

Who thought doing a Brexit would be so hard?

Anyway here’s Brexit as a photo

 

[not-bono-ever]

What a fucking shithole of a country. I would set fire to my citizenship if I could find anywhere that would take me

 

[butchersapron]

Not necessarily so: two words can be tautological without meaning the exact same thing. For example, a dead corpse (tautological): all corpses by definition are dead; but not everything dead is a corpse. Even so, saying a dead corpse is tautological because the use of the word dead would not be missed one iota if you just said a corpse

This is an example of a pleonasm not tautology.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

What a fucking shithole of a country. I would set fire to my citizenship if I could find anywhere that would take me

Got any Irish Grandparents?

 

[not-bono-ever]

I am hanging on for Scots independence and then I am
Sorted

Mrs NBE has the option of invoking the of return to Israel loophole - that is a horror I cannot yet take on board

 

[TopCat]

What a fucking shithole of a country. I would set fire to my citizenship if I could find anywhere that would take me

We could marry and you then get dual nationality with Ireland. Let me know soon.

 

[TopCat]

This is an example of a pleonasm not tautology.

Eh?

 

[not-bono-ever]

We could marry and you then get dual nationality with Ireland. Let me know soon.

Ha

This has given me an idea!

 

[TopCat]

Ha

This has given me an idea!

Scorned am I?

 

[not-bono-ever]

It’s not you , it’s me

 

[MickiQ]

Got any Irish Grandparents?

My great-great-grandfather was Irish, he was a known Fenian sympathiser and was booted out of Manchester back to Dublin during the Fenian dynamite campaign, there was no indication he was one of the bombers just regarded as a general wrong'un on count of being Irish. Ended up in Kilmainham (which I've visited).
My daughter's boyfriend is from Galway, first time he took my daughter back to Ireland to meet his parents, the first thing his Dad said to her was
"You're so pretty there has to be some Irish in you somewhere"
Apparently pleased as punch to discover there was a tiny tiny bit.

 

[Mr Moose]

It’s not you , it’s me

You could forge a union, but eventually one of you would want to leave.

 

[Mr Moose]

Eh?

Types of dinosaur.

 

[Kesher]

This is an example of a pleonasm not tautology.

Tautology and pleonasm overlap in the sense of needless repetition

 

[Mr Moose]

Tautology and pleonasm overlap in the sense of needless repetition

This thread demands less of the Greek and Latinate of ‘experts’.

 

[mx wcfc]

Attila's input to the debate. Top as usual

 

[not-bono-ever]

I have had a big long think. I blame this Fuck up directly in the resurgence of the house of Windsor.

 

[Poi E]

William of Orange, meself.

 

[Pickman's model]

I have had a big long think. I blame this Fuck up directly in the resurgence of the house of Windsor.

I'd go saxe-coburg-gotha myself

 

[Poot]

Got any Irish Grandparents?

He's really, really not Bono. Ever.

 

[Kesher]

EU leaders won’t even consider trade deal with UK at Brexit summit this week because of talks collapse

Oh how the mood music over the weekend has changed

 

[brogdale]

Thought you agin the 'People's Vote'?

Now you're on board, right?



Brexit: Blair, Clegg and Heseltine: We need another EU-Referendum - WELT

 

[Ranbay]

Michel Barnier ‘open to extending Brexit transition period by a year’

FFS, another year possible?

 

[Pickman's model]

Thought you agin the 'People's Vote'?

Now you're on board, right?

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Brexit: Blair, Clegg and Heseltine: We need another EU-Referendum - WELT

 

[Pickman's model]

Michel Barnier ‘open to extending Brexit transition period by a year’

FFS, another year possible?

more than possible
more than a year