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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by dscott8   » Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:53 pm

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Daryl wrote:
Boris and Drumpf are both nominally conservative politicians, have unusual hair, and are male. Virtually everything else is diametrically opposite. Even if you don't agree with Boris you have to like him.


And I do. He has the ability to laugh at himself, which T. Rump lacks. Boris is "Monty Python", T. Rump is "Jackass". In more ways than one.
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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:39 pm

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at bottom - HTM.

Michael Everett wrote:below.
biochem wrote:It could impact you more directly than that. Some of the Brexit proponents are proposing an alternative to the EU of a similar treaty but instead of being between Britain, France, Germany etc; it would be between Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Want to joint EU#2?


Michael Everett replied:
Well, it worked back during WWII...


That Working required both the United States and Russia.
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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by munroburton   » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:27 am

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It also required the rest of the British Empire.

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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:37 am

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Munro Burton,
If you are replying to my statement that the
World War Two Working required both the USA and USSR,
Then I must point out that the rest of the British Empire
had already been accounted for.

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munroburton wrote:It also required the rest of the British Empire.

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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by Daryl   » Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:19 pm

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My late father was a Spitfire pilot in the Pacific theatre, and he cherished a t-shirt screen printed by a friend that said "The Yanks saved Australia (big print) and "or so they say" in fine print. He wore it while surfing as he
believed even the sharks wouldn't swallow that.
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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by Annachie   » Thu Mar 24, 2016 3:16 am

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I've always said, with perhaps some vague accuracy, we stopped them so that the yanks could drive them back.

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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by dscott8   » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:06 am

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I have a low degree of patience with arguments over who did how much of what in WW II. Yes, it took the USA a while to persuade our isolationists that it WAS our business, but once it got going we stood shoulder to shoulder with our allies and bled the same red.

BTW, for a great nonfiction read, try "The Arsenal Of Democracy" by A.J. Baime. It's the story of how Edsel Ford (yes, THAT Edsel) helped to boot up Detroit's industrial war machine despite his proto-fascist father's objections and obstructions.
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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by biochem   » Tue Jun 21, 2016 11:54 am

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Surprised everyone over there keeps arguing about American gun laws and no one has commented forever on Britexit which is in 2 days.
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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by Odium   » Tue Jun 21, 2016 2:13 pm

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biochem wrote:Surprised everyone over there keeps arguing about American gun laws and no one has commented forever on Britexit which is in 2 days.


I'm really curious how that vote will go. I'm in a British trucking group on facebook (just like seeing what my job is like around the world) with 13000 members and I see a lot of posts every day to vote out, I havnt seen anyone say they are in favour of remaining in the EU yet. Seen a lot of people in that forum that expect election fraud in favour of the remain side too
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Re: Brexit Referendum
Post by gcomeau   » Tue Jun 21, 2016 2:13 pm

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biochem wrote:Surprised everyone over there keeps arguing about American gun laws and no one has commented forever on Britexit which is in 2 days.


John Oliver had a good piece on it over the weekend...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgKHSNqxa8

(And the tradition of comedy treatments of subjects often containing as much or more informative content as any 20 minute news segment continues...)
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