BREXIT - Is This Really Still Rumbling On? 😴

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Stevo_666 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    1 litre (actually 0.9, but anyway) polo. B)

    I mean Rick, VW aren't exactly covered in glory, lol:)

    I bet their stats said it would do 0-60 in 5 seconds....
    My kid has one. I think you mean minutes rather than seconds :)
    I just got curious and looked that up. I genuinely thought my Kia Picanto was the slowest car on the road with a 0-60 time of 13.8. Gutted to find there's a slower one!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stevo_666 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    1 litre (actually 0.9, but anyway) polo. B)

    I mean Rick, VW aren't exactly covered in glory, lol:)

    I bet their stats said it would do 0-60 in 5 seconds....
    I'd be quite happy with a Nissan GTR...
    Yes, as I imagine the burglars who operate in my neighbourhood would!
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  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    Could easily be one for the irony thread but I see the CBI are saying today that business optimism is returning to the UK and this confidence leads to investment.

    This is the same CBI that has spent the last 4 years undermining business confidence with its doom mongering around Brexit
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,408
    bompington said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    1 litre (actually 0.9, but anyway) polo. B)

    I mean Rick, VW aren't exactly covered in glory, lol:)

    I bet their stats said it would do 0-60 in 5 seconds....
    My kid has one. I think you mean minutes rather than seconds :)
    I just got curious and looked that up. I genuinely thought my Kia Picanto was the slowest car on the road with a 0-60 time of 13.8. Gutted to find there's a slower one!
    I hope you're excluding milk floats...

    Go on, which one is slower?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    bompington said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    1 litre (actually 0.9, but anyway) polo. B)

    I mean Rick, VW aren't exactly covered in glory, lol:)

    I bet their stats said it would do 0-60 in 5 seconds....
    My kid has one. I think you mean minutes rather than seconds :)
    I just got curious and looked that up. I genuinely thought my Kia Picanto was the slowest car on the road with a 0-60 time of 13.8. Gutted to find there's a slower one!
    I have found that slow cars make for better quality driving on motorways etc.

    You can't afford to slow down very much as it takes too long to speed up, so you do look further up the road and do a lot more anticipation so you can keep the speed as constant as possible.

    Any car can drive at the limit/a reasonable speed.

    More often than not it's the guys in fast cars who you see lighting up their brake lights every 3 minutes. It's a motorway; you really don't need to be braking.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited February 2020
    Stevo_666 said:

    bompington said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    1 litre (actually 0.9, but anyway) polo. B)

    I mean Rick, VW aren't exactly covered in glory, lol:)

    I bet their stats said it would do 0-60 in 5 seconds....
    My kid has one. I think you mean minutes rather than seconds :)
    I just got curious and looked that up. I genuinely thought my Kia Picanto was the slowest car on the road with a 0-60 time of 13.8. Gutted to find there's a slower one!
    I hope you're excluding milk floats...

    Go on, which one is slower?
    My polo does 0-60mph in 15 seconds....

    I can however do a 240mile trip on about £35 of petrol.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    bompington said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    1 litre (actually 0.9, but anyway) polo. B)

    I mean Rick, VW aren't exactly covered in glory, lol:)

    I bet their stats said it would do 0-60 in 5 seconds....
    My kid has one. I think you mean minutes rather than seconds :)
    I just got curious and looked that up. I genuinely thought my Kia Picanto was the slowest car on the road with a 0-60 time of 13.8. Gutted to find there's a slower one!
    I hope you're excluding milk floats...

    Go on, which one is slower?
    My polo does 0-60mph in 15 seconds....

    I can however do a 240mile trip on about £35 of petrol.
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15...Blimey. I guess at-least Greta Thunberg is happy!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited February 2020
    Ya I know.

    The short slip roads off some of the petrol stations onto the A1 are a bit hairy...!
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    rick_chasey said:

    Ya I know.

    The short slip roads off some of the petrol stations onto the A1 are a bit hairy...!

    Good job you live in the flatlands an' all.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,916
    rjsterry said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    rolf_f said:

    Stevo_666 said:


    Or maybe that after all the whingeing and apocalyptic predictions, most of us probably won't notice anything meterially different in our daily lives?

    What, you mean all those headlines about how those European regulations (that no Brexiter has ever been able to give a single example of) were ruining our lives weren't true?
    And that taking back control won't make any difference at all?
    Apart from obviously that we'll be happy to blame ourselves for any shitness in our lives because we'll have taken back control so no-one else at all to blame.

    I posted my issues with EU regs a few pages upthread, probably while you were in exile. I'll see if I can find it.

    On the other hand, why do you think it s a good thing to give away control?
    The same reason control is given away in any treaty. Some things are better done at a supranational level. Others are better at a local level. Harmonisation of standards is one of the former as is responding to things like migration and climate change. The EU has not been great at either, but imagine the utter chaos if 27 nations were all trying to manage migration in ways that purely suited them.
    BoJo's point today was that he would not expect the EU to adopt the UK's single use plastic rules, so why should the UK adopt all of the EU's rules? I think the UK is happy to adopt rules on state aid and perhaps even environmental ones, but asking for tax ones amongst others is quite comical given Ireland and Luxembourg's existence in the EU.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    I don't find I have to do 0-60 as quick as possible all that often. But my 1 litre focus sounds like comparative stuff off a shovel with its mighty 11 seconds.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The only real gripe is if we have the baby in the back we can't also take a bicycle.

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  • Longshot
    Longshot Posts: 940
    rick_chasey said:

    The only real gripe is if we have the baby in the back we can't also take a bicycle.

    You have to jump up quite a few car sizes to get a baby in the back and an assembled bike in the boot!

    You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    edited February 2020
    Good to see no. 10 is really on top of its media strategy 😂😂
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    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    rjsterry said:

    Good to see no. 10 is really on top of its media strategy 😂😂

    Impressive to find a way of uniting the BBC, ITV, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Sun and Guardian.
  • phelim21
    phelim21 Posts: 49
    Bunch of upper class Brexiteers on this thread. I hope I never come across you lot out on the bike.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    phelim21 said:

    Bunch of upper class Brexiteers on this thread. I hope I never come across you lot out on the bike.

    :|
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    phelim21 said:

    Bunch of upper class Brexiteers on this thread. I hope I never come across you lot out on the bike.

    I would say that, at most, there are half a dozen Brexit supporters on this thread upper class or not. You should probably try reading the thread a bit before commenting. I would say the vast majority could be classed as vehemently anti-Brexit.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pross said:

    phelim21 said:

    Bunch of upper class Brexiteers on this thread. I hope I never come across you lot out on the bike.

    I would say that, at most, there are half a dozen Brexit supporters on this thread upper class or not. You should probably try reading the thread a bit before commenting. I would say the vast majority could be classed as vehemently anti-Brexit.
    Yep. Cake stop is its own little bubble.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Luckily we have such wonderful people like Bally and Stevo to help puncture it.

    What service they provide.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Happy to help.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    phelim21 said:

    Bunch of upper class Brexiteers on this thread. I hope I never come across you lot out on the bike.

    You must be radically over to the remoaner side if you think this thread is a bunch of upper class Brexiteers. Coopster, tell him what this thread is really full of.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    Goo, you'd better change the thread name again. Johnson says we're no longer allowed to mention the B-word because it's "done".😂
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    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    rjsterry said:

    Goo, you'd better change the thread name again. Johnson says we're no longer allowed to mention the B-word because it's "done".😂


    To extend the amputation analogy, that's rather like saying your amputation has 'been done' when you've just paid for the Pay & Display at the hospital, and checked in at Amputation Reception. But then I suppose expecting realism from Johnson is setting the bar rather too high.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    Bulls*** got him this far; why give up on a winning strategy now? Beats having to do any real planning.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • phelim21
    phelim21 Posts: 49
    Half a dozen still too many. What are they gonna be like before all of this is sorted. I bet you they already have their blue passports and are going to Europe a few times this yr.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    If, as I suspect, you think I am not far enough along on the Remoaner scale for your liking, just to let you know my burgundy passport is taking me to Europe 6 times this year.
    Happy to cheer you up. :)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    phelim21 said:

    Half a dozen still too many. What are they gonna be like before all of this is sorted. I bet you they already have their blue passports and are going to Europe a few times this yr.

    I received a new passport only last week. It is Burgundy.
    There may be a few disappointed for a while yet.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • phelim21
    phelim21 Posts: 49
    ballysmate said:

    If, as I suspect, you think I am not far enough along on the Remoaner scale for your liking, just to let you know my burgundy passport is taking me to Europe 6 times this year.
    Happy to cheer you up. :)

    That cheered me up no end.😁
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,408
    rick_chasey said:

    Luckily we have such wonderful people like Bally and Stevo to help puncture it.

    What service they provide.

    Think of it as a free public service to those less fortunate than us. We're giving something back :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]

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