"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
07/18/2016 at 15:44 • Filed to: Brexit
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"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
07/18/2016 at 15:44 • Filed to: Brexit | 4
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Some British cars for your time.
What if Theresa May applied a bit of very British backhanded humor when making her cabinet appointments? She didn’t support Brexit, and it occurs to me that perhaps she is surreptitiously throwing Boris Johnson, David Davis, and Liam Fox under the Routemaster. Maybe in granting them Brexit-critical appointments she’s saying “you made this bed, you sleep in it,” hoping that they’re crushed under the weight of their misjudgement when reality stares them in the face. Whatever damage they do to the UK’s reputation in the short term (that hasn’t already been done) will surely be justified in the long term should they fail in their task and be shamed out of politics.
Or maybe everything will be fine, she has no sense of humor, and she really has faith that they’ll pull it off. But what do I know, I’m just a ‘Merican, and we don’t have any problems of our own.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> RallyWrench
07/18/2016 at 15:48 |
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The only people over there are ones who missed the boat to America.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> RallyWrench
07/18/2016 at 15:55 |
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On the theme of English escaping things and “putting all the rotten eggs in one basket”, I’ve got to say nothing comes to mind at all.
lone_liberal
> RallyWrench
07/18/2016 at 16:01 |
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I’ve seen that theory floated about Boris Johnson, at least. The thought went that he will inevitably fuck things up and be out of her hair permanently.
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RallyWrench
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/18/2016 at 16:05 |
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This is quite close to insanity! And it must stop!
Love that movie, watched it again not too long ago.
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RallyWrench
> lone_liberal
07/18/2016 at 16:06 |
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He’s the first I thought of, because surely he won’t work out as Foreign Secretary.
Mid Engine
> RallyWrench
07/18/2016 at 16:10 |
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I do wonder why the Brits continue to lament the Brexit and share articles with the rest of the world, I can assure you no one else in the world gives a fuck about it. Not one fuck given. Ever.
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RallyWrench
> Mid Engine
07/18/2016 at 16:24 |
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Outside of any businesses with a stake in the outcome, yeah. My reaction was pretty much just “Huh. Good luck with that.” We’ve got bigger problems at home.
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Mid Engine
> RallyWrench
07/18/2016 at 16:37 |
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And there’s the thing, I’m unaware of any goods or service I currently use that are from the UK. Outside of the obvious manufacturing in Asia I also tend to have stuff from America/Canada, and plenty of cars and the like from Europe.
It’s really hard to feel for the people that bitch and moan about Brexit, cuz that’s what the majority of the people wanted as evidenced by the vote to leave the EU. So go, and please do so quietly.
Svend
> Mid Engine
07/18/2016 at 16:43 |
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I’m a Brit and I voted to remain but the leavers had it. That’s democracy. You can’t make all the people happy, all of the time, only some of the people happy, some of the time.
I’m bored of hearing about it. What’s done is done. We just have to work from there.
It’s just as much other people in other countries asking why it happened, why people chose the way they did, and so on and so on.
But ye’, we hear all about the American politics all the time and many of us couldn’t give a crap but do find it amusing some of the time undoubtedly like many saw our referendum.
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Svend
> RallyWrench
07/18/2016 at 16:48 |
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I think they were maybe chose because of the way they persued the leave campaign, get them in office saying you made the mess you clean it, then when article 50 gets actioned in the new year and negotiations start and when things start to go the wrong way with negotiations, May sacks the idiots and says “here is our commitment to sorting things out amicably, we’ve got rid of them let’s come back to the negotiating table and come to an agreement”. Canon foder if you will.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Mid Engine
07/18/2016 at 16:52 |
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I’m in Canada and I give at least one fuck. I’m hoping this will cause the GBP to drop more so that I might be able to take a cheap(er) vacation there in the near future.
I’ve never been to the UK and it’s on my bucket list...
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RallyWrench
> Svend
07/18/2016 at 16:58 |
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Exactly.
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Mid Engine
07/18/2016 at 17:02 |
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“I’m unaware of any goods or service I currently use that are from the UK.”
Without the UK, your ability to get Marmite or Bovril would be fucked... FUCKED I SAY!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril
And have you ever flown in an Airplane? Well if you have, there is a good chance the engines on that plane were made by Rolls Royce.
And where do you think they make Triumph motorcycles, Land Rovers, Shaguars, Rolls Royce cars, Bentley cars, Guiness beer, Cadbury chocolates and John Player cigarettes?
And Monty Python!!!
Cé hé sin
> Mid Engine
07/18/2016 at 17:48 |
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Interestingly, I could buy quite a number of things made in the UK. Various Nissans, for example, a couple of Toyotas, a Honda or two and an Opel.
On the other hand, I don’t actually own any of these.
As to who cares about Brexit, anybody running a trade surplus with them is somewhat concerned - Germany is a good example.
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Cé hé sin
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
07/18/2016 at 17:49 |
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“Guiness beer..”
???
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Cé hé sin
07/18/2016 at 18:35 |
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Alright... GUINNESS Stout... and it was originally and still is made in Ireland... but Ireland is part of the UK.
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Mid Engine
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
07/18/2016 at 18:35 |
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Or Pratt & Whitney engines, I generally don’t check to see what company made the engines on the 1998 plane still in service, thanks American Airlines.
As for the balance of the “things” listed, I don’t use any of that shit and don’t care to. Upon further contemplation it’s strikes me as odd that the U.K. has been around since the dawn of time and yet, produce nothing of real value.
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Cé hé sin
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
07/18/2016 at 18:37 |
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“but Ireland is part of the UK”
There was a war fought on that issue ninety years ago...
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Mid Engine
07/18/2016 at 18:38 |
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You don’t use ANY of it? Well you sir are not much of a baller!!!
:-)
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Cé hé sin
07/18/2016 at 18:50 |
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Whoops... I guess I got my Northern Ireland mixed up with my Republic of Ireland... and where the Guinness gets made.
Jobjoris
> Mid Engine
07/19/2016 at 16:56 |
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If you think the Brexit just inflicts damage to getting parts/stuff from the UK you need to catch up on some current era economics. It inflicts damage to the whole of Europe. I suppose you do like stuff from Germany? BMW’s biggest European market was the UK - after the local german market of course, do you really think that this won’t have any effect on them? BMW has high involvement in the UK anyway with Rolls Royce and Mini. The world is not that simple anymore I’m afraid.