talahtnut

15 hours ago, owl sees all said:

The answer to OP is as follows: 

 

The Muslims have taken over towns and stop non-Islamists walking on the mosque side of the street in London and Brum (it's easy just to cross the street to avoid confrontration). The ladies have put on a few pounds - or should it be kilos - lately, and they love to show the fleshy legs (well the girls in Essex do) when the sun come out. The 'friends of Israel' lobby is getting so strong it has monopolised sections of the media (as the US), and has infiltrated even the most seemingly benign UK organisations. The BBC, that bastion of fair and balanced reporting, refuses to tell the truth about the Royal Family and Israel particularly.

 

Drunks on the street in Kilburn. Teenagers knocking old people over by riding their bikes on the pavement. No go areas in Northern Cities and East London. Gun crime with teenages up, London overcrowded. Fundamental Christians, and Catholics moaning that there are not enough young people coming to their gatherings. Beer prices are through the roof; a pack of snout is a tenner; a train journey from London to Wales is getting on for 100 squids and the lotto is harder than ever to win.

 

But on the upside we have some good fishing and English footy is set to dominate Europe. And the Essex girls are letting their underarm hair grow longer and dying it also.

 

When's the next bus back!!??

When you get back, can I sign you up as another UK tourist guide...That's the second one today!

23 hours ago, The manic said:

UK. Over regulated joyless sh##hole full of depressed politically correct morons and  creeping sharia law. Stupid laws from hate crime to drug laws. expensive. no nightlife. no available women.elf and safety insanity. yuman rites. lazy millennial slobs. Anti white male hate...Ageism. ...  crap pubs, expensive clubs. And whole areas ethnically cleansed of white working classes leaving Is!@#mic ghettoes spreading poison. England is lost.Full of bullies, jobsworths and touts. police and government and media corrupt to the core but in denial. I remember when The UK was a great place to live. It's been destroyed by Diversity, The EU, multiculturalism and immigration. Bad education by cultural marxist teachers..And fear. Most people are too scared to walk around after dark.  

You've got the job!...UK tourist guide.

15 hours ago, oldhippy said:

And what would the difference in treatment be?

Would it not be a lot more simple to treat everybody as people?

I agree entirely.  But some women like to be treated as special, and others get all titsy near men. there have been several 'waves' of feminism that hasn't been helpful.     It would be nice if they all had your social logic. 

But I don't think they have..

Its something about the UK women,  I'm never sure whether I should treat them as men or women. The Upset Enigma.

16 hours ago, Cranky said:

Stereotyping Thai birds is harsh, but fair.  It's a bit like calling all British Leyland cars crap, whilst it is mostly true, good ones could occasionally be found.  You just had to watch out for bullshit mileage, knackered boxes on the Maxi, the Allegro's saggy suspension, Austin Princesses that looked good but fell to bits from day one, the pig-ugly but reasonable workhorse Montego and the scary as hell Dolomite Sprint (A decent brand till Leyland got hold of it).  

 

Everybody starts with a Mini, they have many experiences to report, mostly fantastic fond memories as they've had nothing else to compare it with being full of the joys of their first motoring experience. Totally unfazed by constant boiling over, awful reliability, rotten to the core under the shiny surface, leaks everywhere and terribly difficult to get rid of, basically nothing but trouble. They would often find out that the "one careful owner" as advertised was total BS and it had been thrashed to bits. Most owners smile on reflection but never, ever get a second Mini.

 

Now and again you would find a real bargain though, I had a great Morris Marina, true it had been touched-up many times and had a fair bit of body-filler with a lot of miles on the clock but it was cheap to run as it didn't drink much and nobody would dream of nicking it.  Sadly, I didn't like being seen with it so I traded it in for a brand new sporty job that bought nothing but grief.  It went like a rocket but cost a fortune to run as it gobbled fuel, needed new tyres every five minutes and everybody wanted a ride in it.  Ended up giving it away rather than fill it up again.

 

In the market for something different now, think I'll rent a pick-up.

Got just the thing for you mate..Nice 2cv, birdsh!t welding underneath, and a kangaroo clutch.

On 11/20/2017 at 1:54 PM, SheungWan said:

Oh, so that's the forum Hard Brexiteer plan for the future of UK international trade. Stick everything on ebay. Welcome to the Noddy School of Economics.

You are very good at sneering, but you missed the point.  The UK should be outward looking for trade..as I do.  If Germany drops out of the EU, the EU is dead in the water... Whatever happens the ultimate power of the international financial hegemony will pervade.  

20 hours ago, SheungWan said:

The best solution to not understanding is to just make something up.

Or issue derogatory remarks, unconstructive insults, as you do so expertly.

18 hours ago, soalbundy said:

on borrowed money to build armaments and autobahns for troop movements that he never intended to pay back.

Not true..Google it.

16 hours ago, SheungWan said:

Know-nothing nonsense. Typical rubbish of the type one finds on Neo-Nazi websites

A flippant comment by one not familiar with German history..And in a grumpy mood. tut tut.

15 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

Report from a German freight forwarder
The trucks drive back empty
About the Brexit is still negotiating. But the economy is already anticipating many consequences.

Achim Junker has already revised the plans of his drivers, recalculated their working hours, calculated their new routes. While representatives of the British government in Brussels are still negotiating how the exit of Great Britain from the EU is to take place, the forwarder from Blankenbach in Lower Franconia already provides facts. He sends fewer and fewer trucks towards the island. It used to be ten 40-tonners every week, the entrepreneur says, but now there are only four or five. "Some colleagues have already completely withdrawn from the market," says the entrepreneur.

No one yet knows what Brexit will look like at the end of the negotiations in March 2019, yet it is already casting its shadow ahead. Too vague are the ideas of Theresa May, as the Brexit and its proposed in Florence transitional solution should look like. Too unsure what kind of free trade agreement the EU will eventually reach with the British. The economy is reacting, trade between Germany and the United Kingdom is suffering. Exports from Germany to Great Britain, which had risen sharply after 2012, have been decreasing slightly since June 2016. At that time, the British voted for the exit. Conversely, exports from the UK to Germany have been particularly striking, from 1.65 million tonnes in June 2016 to 1.48 million in June 2017. And this despite the fact that the British pound has clearly lost value during this period - that would have actually need to boost British exports.

In Blankenheim, Achim Junker knows exactly why. The forwarder just has to think about his customers. In the past, his drivers drove to automotive suppliers in Aschaffenburg and Frankfurt, where they loaded parts such as fenders or other materials. From there, the trucks drove the semi-finished products hundreds of miles west, through Belgium, through France, to England. There, they delivered the products to companies that made car seats out of the materials or painted the fenders. The trade was so busy that the drivers fully loaded also returned to Germany. Junker's lorries lined up in a stream of three million trucks a year, shuttling between Britain and continental Europe to deliver goods. They are all part of tightly knit supply chains and production processes, which are difficult to re-allocate, but an example of what is possible when there are no customs duties and goods can be traded freely between countries - as in the EU's internal market.

But now? "The business is not running anymore," says Junker. One customer, a German company, switched immediately after the referendum on Brexit in the UK. "He was looking for producers in Eastern Europe at the next trade fair," says Junker, "so the business was gone for us." The entrepreneur observes that more and more companies in Germany are switching without hanging on to the big bell. The forwarder sees it on the websites of freight exchanges that he can access. At present, on the return trips from the UK to continental Europe, 67 percent of the cargo hold of the trucks are empty and only 33 percent are loaded with cargo, sometimes only 25 percent, he has observed. "The price for the outward journey can not be so good as to go back empty-handed," says Junker.

The economy, as experienced by the freight forwarder, anticipates the Brexit. There are still no tariffs, nor are there trade restrictions, nor is there a bureaucracy at the border. But because the German companies expect it, they are already looking for new customers and suppliers. Companies do not even want to risk having to shut down their machines just because a truck with components stuck in customs at the border.

 

Figures from the Federal Statistical Office show Junker's impressions: German exports to the United Kingdom fell by three percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period of the previous year. At the same time, exports to other EU countries increased by six percent. Trade in Europe is flourishing - business with Great Britain is stagnating.

And nothing happens that could provide confidence. Prime Minister May has not been able to point out a clear line in her speech in Florence; her cabinet is too divided.

If the UK leaves the European Economic Area and the Customs Union, exporters and importers have to complete extensive formalities, there will have to be border controls, trade agreements or not. That means additional costs and, depending on trade agreements, tariffs. A digital customs system, as the British imagine for the future, would be a novelty, nowhere in the world, has never been tested. In parliamentary committees, representatives of the ministries condescendingly admit to parliamentarians that they have no idea how such a system should be implemented at all.

 

I buy stuff from China on ebay, delivered, rather than expensive EU goods.

I don't have a trade agreement with China. IMO trade is trade, simples.

15 hours ago, SheungWan said:

The far-right parties in the UK supported Brexit. Well fancy that! Usual Brexiteer junk masquerading as informed comment.

You been drinking again?

15 hours ago, soalbundy said:

populism gave the world Hitler

Hitler delivered the most successful economy ever.  Until the war.

15 hours ago, sandyf said:

Not anything I said. You should realise it is against forum rules to selectively extract text from a post.

My apologies, but why is the facility there? .. However, I am willing to leave the forum if you pay me 50 billion Euros. 

15 hours ago, AlexRich said:

You pay your golf club fees and you use the facilities. Now you want to give up your membership but still use the course? So now you have to pay but get no say on how the club is run, and when the rules change you’ll have to go along with them. 

After a round of golf, I do not expect to pay to leave the course or the clubhouse.

If that was the case, I would play elsewhere.

15 hours ago, AlexRich said:

Some of these people are now in retirement and a commitment was made to them, a proportion of which is down to us.

 

What happened to “they need us more than we need them”? Like a lot of the nonsense spouted by hard line Brexiteers this appears not to be true. We are paying because the Government know that they need to maintain a trading relationship with the economic areas we trade most with. Otherwise they would be paying us.

UK has a trade deficit with the EU..They need us..they should be nice to us instead of getting all titsy about it.    I they succeed, I'll flog my 2cv.

15 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

Except the EU is ignoring this inextricable element, and demanding the UK offer unspecified and unjustified amounts of money in advance of any trade talks.....

I can't quote EU law, but in English law, extortion, and demanding money with menace, are crimes.

15 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Covered in the 700+ pages of previous posts.

But a quick google search gives this background:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-14/brexit-s-costs-and-whether-britain-will-pay-up-quicktake-q-a

 

Thank you for the link, which concluded with:..... The Times newspaper reported on March 4 that government lawyers had found no legal obligation for the U.K. to pay up. A study by the House of Lords also questioned whether there was a legal requirement to pay and calculated the bill could be as low as 15 billion euros. May has said "money paid in the past" into joint EU projects and the European Investment Bank should be taken into account. When all is said and calculated, Johnson said May 13, Brussels could end up owing Britain money.

Earlier it was mentioned by Juncker that a huge bill would put off other members copying Brexit.  

15 hours ago, AlexRich said:

The EU bill is real, and a big sum of money that no one mentioned at the referendum will be paid, wiping out any so-called "savings for the NHS" for 5 or 6 years  ... "what they owe us" is a fiction, no money will ever be received. 

Can I ask you why we owe the EU a big bill.

15 hours ago, SheungWan said:

Fortunately we have your contribution as an alternative shining beacon of light.

15 hours ago, SheungWan said:

18 hours ago, talahtnut said:

The English working class has known nothing else for millennia.

UK news media is full of propaganda, lies, and trivia.

Fortunately we have your contribution as an alternative shining beacon of light.

A truly inspiring comment..radiating like a Toc H lamp.

15 hours ago, sandyf said:

worse-off-households-food-poverty-inflation-

The English working class has known nothing else for millennia.

UK news media is full of propaganda, lies, and trivia.

On 11/19/2017 at 9:56 AM, aright said:

You always were susceptible to Game Pie.

Roast Grouse

22 hours ago, AlexRich said:

After they've paid off the EU, there might not be much left in the party kitty?

If the eu pays back what the owe us..Champagne all round.

15 hours ago, Grouse said:

Nobody, nobody still thinks Brexit will be good for the UK

I do.    Don't forget its still Grouse hunting season.

16 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

They came from..........................................? Did they just appear from nothing? Did dark matter happen to be lurking around for no reason at all? Was there anything in existence before the big bang? Is the universe really infinite? If it is, does every possibility exist within it, like a supernatural power? If it just happened, where was all the "stuff" before? Is it scientific to believe that something can just appear out of nothing?

Many scientist believe there is something god like about the creation.

Truly baffling..I still believe the Earth is flat.

15 hours ago, bazza73 said:

That's OK, I have senior moments too.

I do not have senior moments! I'm only 25   .....ever since I retired at 65.