dick dasterdly

44 minutes ago, robblok said:

That is too bad for them, and if they can't live without alcohol for a day they got a serious problem. If they let something like that spoil their holiday they got a problem. I mean that is just something minor. 

 

My parents and brother did not like it got caught out a few times but did not make much of a problem about it. Joked about it being a crazy country and forgot about it and enjoyed their holiday. That would have been different had they been dependent on alcohol.

 

Contrary to me my family does like to drink, mom with gin tonic, dad with beer and rum cola and my brother with beer. They all have been here many times and got caught out.. made a comment and a joke about it and went on enjoying their holiday.

 

I seen this argument before from people who live here  using tourist as an excuse.

Everyone to their own.

People pay a lot of money to go on holidays, and expect to be able to relax and enjoy their holiday - and that (generally) includes being able to have a drink when they feel like it.

On an expensive holiday to Jordan (over Xmas/New Year), we stopped at a restaurant for lunch and asked for a beer whilst we were perusing the menu.  It turned out to be a Muslim restaurant that didn't serve alcohol, so even though we only wanted the one beer over lunch - we moved to another restaurant.

Edit - It had nothing to do with 'having a problem' - just a determination to enjoy our holiday in the way that suited us best.

48 minutes ago, Grouse said:

https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/

 

Please don't post disinformation here.

 

Its hard to tell if this is done with malintent, ignorance or stupidity. Anyway, the situation is complex enough and serious enough without bringing fake news in to the mix. Thanks.

I looked into this a while ago, and can't be bothered to do so again.

As far as I could make out, the eu auditors 'sort-of signed off' their accounts, whilst also saying that there were serious discrepancies in various areas, and as far as they could make out - a fair amount of the money spent was 'unaccountable'.

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

I am sure I posted to the other one as well but TBH I am bored sh1tless with Brexit and the sad and bad news is that it won't die a natural death on 29th March.

 

If anything it will get worse and not better (at least on TVF). I think I will take a break from the 30th from the Brexit forums and broaden my perceptual horizons.

Agree entirely with the first para. - but it is entertaining to watch the uk govt. desperately try to find a way to effect BRINO...

I disagree with your second para., as I think it will be uk citizens that voted for brexit that will eventually become even more annoyed with their govt. as they backtrack, delay and try every measure to ignore the referendum result.

Us TV posters are quite rightly, irrelevant - and of course as it drags on, we'll continue posting.  If the uk and eu govts. get their way, and we end up with BRINO, plus paying a large sum for the privilege - it depends on how uk voters react.  If they don't care, there's no reason for us to drone on!

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It has been explained to you that arrests and extradition in the UK are under the jurisdiction of British Courts of law and British law, plus European Human Rights law.

 

The British courts will not extradite Assange if he faces torture or execution.

 

You are ignoring these facts and trolling your hogwash claims.

 

 

That's ok then?

Can I remind you that Sweden has dropped it's 'charges' against Assange, and we know that he is wanted by the US (although they are trying to hide the fact).

Assange had (IMO) every reason to fear extratdition to Sweden, and then the US, and so jumped bail.

As Sweden has dropped the charges, that should (again IMO) be the end of the matter, but no - for some obscure (????) reason the uk had police posted camped around the Ecuadorian Embassy in case he left, and are still determined to arrest him!

How many bail jumpers have been treated this way?

There can be no doubt that this farce is entirely political.

2 hours ago, rixalex said:

As has been pointed out, the question asked has been answered quite literally thousands of times on this forum, since the vote you lost in 2016. Impolite and disingenuous to continue asking a question that has already been answered. I think this has been the remainer tactic though from the beginning. Keep the debate going around in circles. Never moving forward. Then bemoan how nothing is moving forward.

 

And there's nothing courteous about calling someone's post absurd and moronic.

I wish remainers would give up on the insults.

It doesn't encourage genuine discussion - rather the opposite. ☹️

I suspect they're trying to encourage even worse insults in return - that will result in closing down threads?

Even if I'm wrong in this suspicion, how on earth does insulting those with a different opinion further their cause?

4 hours ago, Grouse said:

There is nothing about several key concerns:

 

1) Protection against meat laced with growth hormones and not labelled as such

Agree entirely.

4 hours ago, Grouse said:

 

2) No word of Of cruel animal welfare practices such as lifetime none grazing -

 

RESPONSE - I'm pretty sure the eu still has battery farming.

4 hours ago, Grouse said:

 

3) No mention of cruel and insanitary abbatoir conditions resulting in final cleansing with chlorine

Abbatoirs are cruel - full stop.  Not sure about insanitary, as presumably cooking would take care of this?  Also not sure about final cleansing with chlorine, as presumably this can be washed off?  But I'm open to learning how I'm wrong in this respect.

4 hours ago, Grouse said:

 

4) No mention of labling to identify GM crop as ingedients

Agree entirely.

4 hours ago, Grouse said:

 

5) No mention of detailed ingredients as specified by EU including trans fats, corn syrup. E numbers, preservatives, calories etc etc

Agree entirely.

I apologise for the 'messed up' response to the various points.☹️

17 hours ago, Grouse said:

I can imagine what the organisers say, but what do the morons actually want? <snip>

 

I hope they all have mittens sewn into their coats so they don't get a chill

1 hour ago, rixalex said:

"Why would the "morons" bother to explain to you?"

 

<snip>

1 hour ago, Spidey said:

Why would the "morons" bother to explain to you?

 

So they're not as polite as remainers then?

 

<snip>

I've snipped parts of all the quoted posts as I'm only responding to "So they're not as polite as remainers then?".

(I hope this is ok as I certainly didn't intend to change the context of any post.)

Spidey - Do you seriously think that Grouse's original post that elicited Rivalex's response was "polite"??? ????

"The European Union is ready to give Britain more guarantees that the Irish "backstop" is only intended to be temporary"

"we are ready to give further guarantees, assurances and clarifications that the backstop should only be temporary."

"We don't want to make use of it.  It's only intended for the worst-case scenario."

How can you guarantee that something is "only intended" "or should only" be temporary?  The terms are mutually exclusive IMO.

Pure waffle that guarantees nothing.  But both eu and uk govts. hope that the electorate are daft enough to fall for this waffle. ☹️

6 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Source YouGov (Owned by a Tory) and Government statistics.

"Source YouGov (Owned by a Tory) and Government statistics."

Quite....

If MPs were absolutely confident that a second referendum would result in a remain vote - they would have called one immediately.

1 hour ago, dick dasterdly said:

"This bird would have been a much better choice."

 

Misogynist much? ????

 

I base this not only on the above post, but also a previous post in which you said something along the lines of QT needed to get another man as the 'ring master'.

 

Perhaps you now understand why I don't openly 'advertise' on this forum that I'm a female?

13 minutes ago, Grouse said:

I'm no mysogynist; some of my best friends are wimmin!

 

At 65 years old I'm not going to take lessons from you, Madame.

 

Finally I don't give a damn what sex you are. The fact is that Fiona Bruce is hopeless compare to Dimbleby or Day

"At 65 years old I'm not going to take lessons from you, Madame."

You don't give up on your misogynist attitude do you.....

My post wasn't in any way a "lesson", it was only pointing out the obvious.

53 minutes ago, evadgib said:

This Jarrow-esque march has just been announced from Sunderland to Westminster on 16 March.

 

I wish it well, and would have joined if I was still living in the uk.

I'm sick and tired of politicians and MPs doing their best to circumvent the referendum result.

Initially after the referendum result, I thought politicians had been taught a harsh lesson about ignoring the electorate.  They clearly have not, and so need to be reminded.