oldhippy

51 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

Surge of supertrawlers off UK before Brexit killing dolphins and destroying fish stocks, say ocean activists

Ten industrial-scale fishing vessels home in on Channel – and may still legally go in Marine Protected Areas

The fleet, mostly Dutch, started arriving last month, and their numbers gradually swelled to reach 10 on Friday. Two have been there for nearly three weeks – longer than supertrawlers usually stay.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supertrawlers-brexit-dolphins-fish-coast-channel-b1770356.html

 

EU fisherman Killing Flipper

Good to hear that you have been converted to an environmentalist.

Any comments on chlorinated chickens?

5 minutes ago, vogie said:

Yes it was. There were only two choices, but should you want to add an imaginary caveat that is entirely your choice however wrong you are.

 

 

Only goes to show how far the UK hiso have drifted away from normal Brits.

37 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

France gears up for war with European neighbours if locked out of British waters by no deal Brexit

 

Dimitri Rogoff, president of the regional Normandy fishing committee, agreed the Dutch posed problem.

“They practice what I would call a scorched-earth policy: when there is nothing left, they look elsewhere. We saw it with electric fishing. That cannot sit with our fishermen who fish locally and don’t look elsewhere when nothing’s left,” he warned.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/12/france-gears-war-european-neighbours-locked-british-waters-no/

I did not know that this Rogoff character was France's president - commander in chief, and that he had plans to use the French nuclear deterrent against his neighbours - or even send in the Foreign Legion.

Thanks for the information.

3 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

 

   Lets keep it simply , the majority voted to leave and leave only .

There was no other option to vote half leave and half stay .

It was either stay or leave 

QUOTE: It was either stay or leave 

No, it was not.

That is what the extremists made of it.

1 hour ago, CorpusChristie said:

 

   Yes. We all voted to leave the E.U .

When we all voted Leave.................we didn't think that leaving the E.U would mean we stayed IN the E.U.

Its very straightforward and simple , its not complicated 

I agree - about straightforward , simple and not complicated.

Time for some advanced algebra

52% voted leave.

If 95% of the leavers wanted to leave under whatever conditions, including No Deal,

Then...... the no dealers were a minority: 48% remainers + (5% of 52% = 2,6%) = 50,2% against No Deal.

Sorry to bother you with things you do not understand, and on top of that: algebra is an arab invention, so cannot be trusted.

Brexit:

A story about having a cake AND eat it.

1 hour ago, shdmn said:

They are grateful for farang money and would prefer you just send that and not actually travel to Thailand. If you must, they really don't want you spending too much time there because they don't really like you that much.

Are you talking about the Thai government, or also the Thai "fiancées"?

I so much like the word "fiancée".

On 12/11/2020 at 1:59 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps because excess capacity is very expensive and perhaps they can't get enough staff anyway. Nursing is so unpopular now that western countries have to import nurses from countries like the Phillipines.

I hear that the UK imports their nurses from Rumania. Until 1 january, that is.

Good for the Rumanian health system after 1 january.

Just now, luckyluke said:

 

Everything is relative.

 

Beans on toast is considered as the ultimate delicacy for many Britons.

 

Here the recipe from : food.com/recipe/british-beans-on-toast

 

DIRECTIONS

• Toast bread.
• In a saucepan, heat up the beans.
• Spoon onto toast and top with Worcestershire sauce. 

 

You forgot the lots of sugar.

And chicken curry has now replaced sugary beans on toast as the UK's top gourmet food. Without pilipili of course.

On 12/10/2020 at 11:12 AM, snoop1130 said:

UK tells EU: back down by Sunday night or we'll walk

OMG

Did "The UK" really say that?

Or was this said by some hardliners in the 52% segment?

Great negotiating skills if those extremists really said that.

1 minute ago, kingdong said:

We voted to be in a COMMON MARKET how. Many more times.

 

If it wasn't for the EU, you would be speaking English with an American accent.

1 hour ago, luckyluke said:

Remain to be seen what the E.U. agreed in lieu of.

I don't believe in capitulation, nor in a absolute winner or looser,  in negotiations on that level.

Would Boris be smart enough to "concede" to not violating an international treaty in return for European concessions?

I read somewhere on this forum that the UK will soon have the ability to admit only well schooled Europeans, such as nurses and doctors from Romenia.

That will solve Transam's problem of rif raf drunk Europeans, pissing at his door.

Great!

That is what development aid should be about!

3 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

Does that mean the EU wouldn't be selling anything to the UK

NO, the EU would only sell the many things the UK is desperate for, such as vaccine produced in Puurs, Belgium. After payment of the export tax of course.

10 hours ago, KhunFred said:

Apparently, written at a time when not many travelers had long hair. The same travelers probably have NO hair, today. I know that during the rule of Marshall Sarit, the rules for men's dress and hair were a bit draconian. I haven't heard the term "hippie" used in many years. These days, the "hippest" music stars seem to have crew cuts.

I was going to give you a like for this post, but then I saw Neeraram likes it - there sure must be something wrong with your post, something above  my comprehension.

4 minutes ago, garyk said:

That was news 15 year ago?

 

15 years ago, 2005? - hippies in 2005?????

Unfortunately, hippies died out just after the dinosaurs.

Except for this one of course.

And even more unfortunately, there are still some dinosaurs around in 2020.

2 hours ago, placeholder said:

If it's achievable for measles, the odds are it's achievable for coronavirus.

QUOTE:

For some diseases, herd immunity can go into effect when 40 percent of the people in a population become immune to the disease, such as through vaccination. But in most cases, 80 to 95 percent of the population must be immune to the disease to stop its spread.

For example, 19 out of every 20 people must have the measles vaccination for herd immunity to go into effect and stop the disease.

SOURCE: healtline.com

Presently I am riding out covid in Madeira, almost no cases here (while Continental Portugal is as bad as the rest of Europe) - all thanks to the fact that from the beginning Madeira asked for a covid test for all arrivals to the island.

Wine at 1 euro a liter, steak from the Azoras, local fish, friendly people and levada walks make it very bearable.

And the climate? Eternal spring.