@craig @jimthefish

Fun fact: EU subsidies make up the entire profit margin of British agriculture.

Also: at any one time the UK has on hand between 4 and 7 days food.

Also (also): we do not have the customs infrastructure to deal with things (at the Tunnel there is literally nowhere to build a customs post).

So (so (so)): the only solution…[Read more]

@craig @jimthefish Blimey. That’s absolutely crazy.

I don’t even know where I got my wrong opinions from. Sorry.

@idiotsavon

Yes, I’m afraid the animosity between Slab and the SNP (which seems kind of one-sided actually) is incredibly vicious and unlikely to go anywhere soon.

@craig

Yes, sorry about that. I was actually quite dismayed to find that I’m not half as Scottish as I always previously assumed.

@craig Really?? I’ve been hearing that one so long I never thought to check. Surely a combination of Scottish Labour and SNP put a nice spanner in the works though?

OK, I’ve been deliberately staying the hell away from Brexit (one of the advantages of no longer being a hack is that I don’t have to engage with this stuff every day).

@craig

That’s a pretty fair assessment and I pretty much stand with you on this. (Although I am one of those annoying gits who also has Irish citizenship so will avoid most of…[Read more]

@craig

I am a big fan of South Park and its humor. I had every intention of being nice. This episode was about judging people (trans included) on their behavior – not only because they are trans (the PC thing to do, it seems, these days).

As much as I consider myself “woke,” Bruce, now Kaitlyn, Jenner has always been kind of a jerk. Olympic…[Read more]

Thanks @lisa for your comments. No big response from me just now. I’m mulljng it all over though.

@craig Basically everything you said I agree with. (Except Scottish Independence. If that happens I’ll never see anything but a Tory majority again in my lifetime. Please think it through!) But it’s really refreshing and kind of nice to get an…[Read more]

@craig

In the words of PC Principle from South Park, “… this kind of transphobic, bigoted hate speech isn’t going to fly around here, bro. I thought we were all on board Kaitlyn Jenner is an amazing, beautiful woman who had the exquisite bravery of a butterfly flying against the wind. AND THEN THIS SH!T COMES FLYING OUT OF PEOPLE’S MOUTH!!!”

@craig

Isn’t the European Court of Human rights separate from the EU?

If the EU continues to insist on a hard border then any issue with the IRA will be on them!

Good solutions to this do exist and the EU is just using the issue to blackmail the UK.

Thanks,  seems I have been doing a lot of arguing all over the place lately,  although we ne…[Read more]

@Craig

I have 2 questions  but there  will probably be others

I wonder if Scotland will still get free University if they leave the UK  and also how does the

Scottish fishing industry feel about Brexit?

As for the rest of what you say,   I  think you might be over thinking your loss.  Whether  you

have to do some of those things or not I hu…[Read more]

@craig

Thanks for the tip.(-😀

<span class=”useratname”>@craig</span>

Thank you! I am new to this site so I still need to get a better understanding of how thing work around here

@jimthefish, @craig, @pedant, @thane16, and other long-standing participants to this forum,

Some random thoughts on why this current incarnation of the Doctor and the recent stories are attracting so much bile and toxic responses on the web generally and, unfortunately, even here; a site established as a place where we could engage in polite,…[Read more]

@craig @pedant

Yeah, it’s mostly troll and run at the moment, or people who get the message that there’s not much sympathy to be had for them here. We haven’t had a really persistent problem for years now I don’t think.

And that’s probably now jinxed it.

@Craig @jimthefish

:shrugs: It seems to me we all came here because we were tired of that sort of nonsense on the Guardian.

The problem with treating small-minded little Hitlers as jokes to be pointed and laughed at is, one minute you’re a joke and the next you’re president of Brazil.

@craig @pedant et al

I don’t really mind the on-topic trolls as there’s enough intelligent and articulate voices to put them in their place. And as @craig says, it’s only to be expected this year and it really hasn’t been half as bad as I was expecting. The only thing I’ve really modded was one comment that was to my view pretty damn misogynist.…[Read more]

@Craig @jimthefish

You may find this of interest. I think it is what we, in the usenet days, would have called “on-topic trolling”.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/29/lets-talk-comments-android-police/

The (slightly buried) lede.

The second, though, is a newer one for us, and one we feel obligated to confront. On the web, a certain kind…

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@craig @blenkinsopthebrave @pedant

I’m not going to dignify him with a link but if you truly want to see the Whoflake idiocy at its absolute nadir then pop over to YouTube and type in ‘bowlestrek’. But I warn you, it’s not pretty.

@craig

Have only just seen the videos, thank you so much!

@swordwhale

As do I. For me he was the best Doctor. Thanks for the photos.

Missy

@craig – oh, i agree about the look (though i wonder if a tango in the coat and pants would really have been much harder?), and the theme arrangement was done well, i was just horrified by cyber-kevin… and glitter (?) on the tardis!

i do imagine there’s been a nice spike in the number of doctor themed costumes this halloween, because of the…[Read more]