BREXIT - Is This Really Still Rumbling On? 😴
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How on earth do Spain and Portugal manage?tailwindhome said:
From Sept 2018tailwindhome said:EU planning to stick with 'summer' time and stop changing the clocks forward and back
The UK currently aren't
Effectively putting NI and ROI into different time zones.
Except it'll be NI and GB in different time zones
Even more lol1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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They're both in the EU which has recognised the difficultly of the status quo, so is proposing legislation to manage it better.rjsterry said:
How on earth do Spain and Portugal manage?tailwindhome said:
From Sept 2018tailwindhome said:EU planning to stick with 'summer' time and stop changing the clocks forward and back
The UK currently aren't
Effectively putting NI and ROI into different time zones.
Except it'll be NI and GB in different time zones
Even more lol0 -
Not all of Australia changes for summer and winter.Dorset_Boy said:Australia has at least 3 time zones and at one stage there was one that was on a half hour difference. And Perth to Sydney is similar to London to Moscow in distance. IIRC each State (or territory) sets its own time.
So long as changes from summer time to winter time occur on the same day, let the time be decided nationally.0 -
My point was that changing time zones when you cross a border is a trivial issue, whether that is within the British Isles or mainland Europe.TheBigBean said:
They're both in the EU which has recognised the difficultly of the status quo, so is proposing legislation to manage it better.rjsterry said:
How on earth do Spain and Portugal manage?tailwindhome said:
From Sept 2018tailwindhome said:EU planning to stick with 'summer' time and stop changing the clocks forward and back
The UK currently aren't
Effectively putting NI and ROI into different time zones.
Except it'll be NI and GB in different time zones
Even more lol1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
I revert to original lol levelsTheBigBean said:
GB and NI will be on the same time which is why ROI is lobbying for a solution. Seems a ridiculous thing to try to regulate and to impose against a population's wishes.tailwindhome said:
From Sept 2018tailwindhome said:EU planning to stick with 'summer' time and stop changing the clocks forward and back
The UK currently aren't
Effectively putting NI and ROI into different time zones.
Except it'll be NI and GB in different time zones
Even more lol
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
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It'll be like that weird time when the clocks change and the kitchen is in a different time zone from the carrjsterry said:
My point was that changing time zones when you cross a border is a trivial issue, whether that is within the British Isles or mainland Europe.TheBigBean said:
They're both in the EU which has recognised the difficultly of the status quo, so is proposing legislation to manage it better.rjsterry said:
How on earth do Spain and Portugal manage?tailwindhome said:
From Sept 2018tailwindhome said:EU planning to stick with 'summer' time and stop changing the clocks forward and back
The UK currently aren't
Effectively putting NI and ROI into different time zones.
Except it'll be NI and GB in different time zones
Even more lol“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!1 -
Yes, it's trivial. Not something a multi-national organisation should be worrying about.rjsterry said:
My point was that changing time zones when you cross a border is a trivial issue, whether that is within the British Isles or mainland Europe.TheBigBean said:
They're both in the EU which has recognised the difficultly of the status quo, so is proposing legislation to manage it better.rjsterry said:
How on earth do Spain and Portugal manage?tailwindhome said:
From Sept 2018tailwindhome said:EU planning to stick with 'summer' time and stop changing the clocks forward and back
The UK currently aren't
Effectively putting NI and ROI into different time zones.
Except it'll be NI and GB in different time zones
Even more lol0 -
Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!2
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Well let's have a single time zone for the whole world then.tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
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Said it before, once the UK decided that agreeing things with 27 other countries represented surrender to a foreign power or having rules imposed on them, there was no way back.
Whether or not it was in the UK's interest to agree these things became irrelevant
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
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That's not really what is being proposed.Dorset_Boy said:
Well let's have a single time zone for the whole world then.tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Yes. Like music. There should only be 1 song and that should be it. I propose Teenage Kicks .TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Everyone learn the words and we can move on to other things.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Is it time for my story about the exact pitch of a concert A being set by the Treaty of Versailles?TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Yep, the War one...We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Are we all eating the same thing?tailwindhome said:
Yes. Like music. There should only be 1 song and that should be it. I propose Teenage Kicks .TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Everyone learn the words and we can move on to other things.0 -
Language then. That would be useful, we just need a sensible transition.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
No. But for the purpose of trading things to eat we agree what things are and how they should be grown/farmed/packaged/distributedTheBigBean said:
Are we all eating the same thing?tailwindhome said:
Yes. Like music. There should only be 1 song and that should be it. I propose Teenage Kicks .TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Everyone learn the words and we can move on to other things.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!1 -
God with those jokes I take my hat off to the EU leaders for not being desperate to get rid of the UK 🙄0
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Standardisation removes technical barriers to trade and is arguably more important than other barriers to trade like tariffs etc.
That is why the EU is preoccupied with it as it is a critical pillar for a functioning free market.1 -
Would solve the language Balkanisation you don't like though. Or joke aside, get everyone to speak English as a first language. In line with what you want, no?rick_chasey said:God with those jokes I take my hat off to the EU leaders for not being desperate to get rid of the UK 🙄
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
You're obviously bored.TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Wenn du nur deine eigenen Witze schreiben könntest. 😁Stevo_666 said:Language then. That would be useful, we just need a sensible transition.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
They already speak it as a second language, so no need.Stevo_666 said:
Would solve the language Balkanisation you don't like though. Or joke aside, get everyone to speak English as a first language. In line with what you want, no?rick_chasey said:God with those jokes I take my hat off to the EU leaders for not being desperate to get rid of the UK 🙄
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
rjsterry said:
You're obviously bored.TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Wenn du nur deine eigenen Witze schreiben könntest. 😁Stevo_666 said:Language then. That would be useful, we just need a sensible transition.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
Ich kann es wahrscheinlich selbst besser machen.
But it's interesting to see goes for Ricks appetite for standardisation goes."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
We need to up the standards though, judging by the past conversations I've tried to have with it taxi drivers etc in various countries. Hence compulsory English for everyone...rjsterry said:
They already speak it as a second language, so no need.Stevo_666 said:
Would solve the language Balkanisation you don't like though. Or joke aside, get everyone to speak English as a first language. In line with what you want, no?rick_chasey said:God with those jokes I take my hat off to the EU leaders for not being desperate to get rid of the UK 🙄
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Probably, but there is a vaguely sensisble point somewhere there. Stanardisation isn't always great.rjsterry said:
You're obviously bored.TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
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Not a fan of the 3:30 pop song aka the 7inch?TheBigBean said:
Probably, but there is a vaguely sensisble point somewhere there. Stanardisation isn't always great.rjsterry said:
You're obviously bored.TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Or that albums are roughly 45 minutes?
If only each artist expressed their music through their own individual play formats so you would have to buy a different player for each release.0 -
A lingua franca is fine by me, so long as it's not Czech.Stevo_666 said:rjsterry said:
You're obviously bored.TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
Wenn du nur deine eigenen Witze schreiben könntest. 😁Stevo_666 said:Language then. That would be useful, we just need a sensible transition.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
Ich kann es wahrscheinlich selbst besser machen.
But it's interesting to see goes for Ricks appetite for standardisation goes.
The funny thing (if you are into linguistics) is that there is actually a pretty standard set of transpositions between German and English.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Musical notation is quite useful. That's fairly standard.TheBigBean said:
Probably, but there is a vaguely sensisble point somewhere there. Stanardisation isn't always great.rjsterry said:
You're obviously bored.TheBigBean said:
Like music?tailwindhome said:Meh. Standardising stuff seems exactly what countries should be agreeing
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
