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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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I think the hope is that this will weaken EU's ability to blackmail nonmember countries to get them to open their borders, to dictate policy to them, etc. At least that what we are hoping for here in Norway |
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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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The article is in French, but the map speaks for itself: "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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Your face when you see EU is breaking up: {"name":"610439","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/8\/f\/8ff6846000b794b593c03734b240d73e.jpg","w":521,"h":353,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/8\/f\/8ff6846000b794b593c03734b240d73e"}
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m c
Member #5,337
December 2004
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yeah which one will be next (\ /) |
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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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I'm clueless what are the French laws. But Lee Pen is strong there, and it's likely such a move would find a lot of support among the French, their EU approval is lower than this of UK. If she can get a referendum, it may pass. Then we get real economic catastrophe though, 2009 gonna be flowers.
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Onewing
Member #6,152
August 2005
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I awoke to news of the Brexit subsequently followed by my parent company's stock prices plunging. Not sure what that implies if anything. It just so happens this year is the earnout year for our company, so fun times ahead?
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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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What's the company?
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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The (short-term) stock price issue is silly from doomsayers. When the price goes down, tons of people buy in. It's only the long-term that matters. So a short-term drop doesn't mean it won't rebound even higher shortly. They went over that on the YouTube BBC live stream. [edit] Oh man. Reddit is FULL of glorious salt. "The spice must flooowwwww..." Non-stop comments from 18-year olds about how "seniors are insane and dooming the country." because they obviously know everything they need to know at 18. -----sig: |
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AMCerasoli
Member #11,955
May 2010
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Bitch please, just leave.
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amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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Phew what a day. I happened to be in England the past week. The headlines of the tabloids were pretty awful in the run-up. "Vote leave, to depart a decaying, dying continent!" Talk about hyperbole. Today, my English colleagues were pretty miserable and depressed all day, I think somehow they didn't quite believe it was going to happen until the end. Don't forget 48% voted to remain. Now we get to watch this unfold for at least another two years. Like a slow motion train crash. -- |
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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{"name":"JCCcYze.jpg","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/0\/7\/07e2cfa6b00afc8a07933a420b1b1d37.jpg","w":620,"h":465,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/0\/7\/07e2cfa6b00afc8a07933a420b1b1d37"} US and UK should totally make our own European Union. We'll even call it, "European Union" just to confuse the hell out of everyone and mess up Wikipedia searches. Also, the top GDP country putting money into the EU? The UK. Winners always want to keep their winnings. So if we made a USA + UK + China and Japan, we'd basically be running the planet. -----sig: |
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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When is the split "official"? -- |
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AMCerasoli
Member #11,955
May 2010
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No no, wait. {"name":"brexit_meme11.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/b\/e\/be211531689fad249c1c4ed1f08c8395.png","w":640,"h":641,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/b\/e\/be211531689fad249c1c4ed1f08c8395"} {"name":"brexit_meme6.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/4\/4\/44af3d577ee613bb3d7a5812d9c0a9c8.png","w":640,"h":480,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/4\/4\/44af3d577ee613bb3d7a5812d9c0a9c8"} {"name":"brexit_meme8.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/4\/9\/49550eb65ba87cc258fd1f64273036e8.png","w":640,"h":677,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/4\/9\/49550eb65ba87cc258fd1f64273036e8"} {"name":"brexit_meme15.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/1\/6\/1634c40f3ee34a47ae3ab5394a276c50.png","w":640,"h":618,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/1\/6\/1634c40f3ee34a47ae3ab5394a276c50"} That's it...
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Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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I predicted that Britain would exit for various prophetic reasons which I won't go into details about here, but lets just say, if you believe in your bible (and I know many here do not) this is very significant prophetically. --- |
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Neil Roy said: if you believe in your bible (and I know many here do not) this is very significant prophetically. {"name":"610440","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/7\/3\/734ed6dd1be0201dadf421b5bdb92a42.jpg","w":625,"h":595,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/7\/3\/734ed6dd1be0201dadf421b5bdb92a42"} -- |
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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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Brexit changes everything in EU. What else could it do, UK being one of the three big ones. It's stupid to talk about new referendi at this point. EU is broken right now. People talk about at least two years for Brexit to become true. It will be a hell of a divorce process, where lawyers do their best to prolong it all, while tax payers pay. But that's another discussion. My point is that the next referendum can only take place when we know what an EU without UK is. We need to know what to exit from. A referendum right now could only be about whether to repair EU or to trash it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
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Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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And next up, they'll campaign to bring back the empire and colonialism, slave labor, genocides and all that fun stuff. --- 0xDB | @dennisbusch_de --- |
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Polybios
Member #12,293
October 2010
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It seems there is a petition for a new referendum that a million people have already signed... Which means parliament will have to debate it. Interesting times. |
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amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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A second referendum would be funny if it weren't so tragic. What will happen next is that the UK prime minister has to send a letter to formally invoke article 50 of the treaty. Both Cameron and Johnson are already stalling on this step. But EU politicians are going to put pressure now to make the divorce rapid. Don't expect leniency from the EU. They are going to throw the UK under a bus to safeguard the rest of the union against eurosceptisicm. Or rather, after the UK threw itself under a bus, the EU is now going to run it over again. -- |
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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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amarillion said: Don't expect leniency from the EU. They are going to throw the UK under a bus to safeguard the rest of the union against eurosceptisicm. Or rather, after the UK threw itself under a bus, the EU is now going to run it over again. Well.. Now it is the right thing to do. No one gonna benefit from EU breakup, due to the crisis it'll create. Despite, probably in the very long term US, Russia, & China will love to see EU collapsing. Their negotiating power will rise dramatically.
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Polybios
Member #12,293
October 2010
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Apparantly, now those regions which received the most EU money in GB were those who voted for Brexit in high proportion. So now they want London to pay them what the EU paid before... This seems to become rather messy. |
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Ariesnl
Member #2,902
November 2002
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This is gonna be such a disaster.... Perhaps one day we will find that the human factor is more complicated than space and time (Jean luc Picard) |
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furinkan
Member #10,271
October 2008
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For your viewing pleasure: Brexit: The Anime  |
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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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Well, we don't understand the song..
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Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000
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My little contribution (I made this myself):  -- |
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