WhatAboutTheFinish

11 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Bloody Socialist.

If Tony had walked into your house to take the sarnie and blankets to give to the homeless man...then you could accuse him of being socialist. 

^

17 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

It's funny that you have these silent majorities - Leave/Tory.

If you have to be quiet about your intentions, based on shame and stigma, then surely it isn't a good thing.

Or maybe they are just confident enough in their own decision making abilities without feeling the need to get all preachy or sanctimonious it? 
It may surprise you but the majority of people actually try to avoid conflict, not create it. Whilst some are busy shouting about how amazing it is that a hundred thousand turn out for some or other protest march...there are still 60+ million others in the country at home just minding their own business.

A case maybe of ‘empty vessels make the most noise’? 

15 hours ago, villa4europe said:

The scariest thing about that for me is realising wyre forest is smack bang in the middle for deprivation... 

I wouldn’t worry too much about where you stand on a list that lists Kensington as being a more deprived than Pontypridd!

On 27/10/2019 at 15:27, Johnnyp said:

I know they didn't get there because they lost and ultimately didn't deserve to be in the semi but can't help but feel France would of asked the Boks more questions.

On 27/10/2019 at 12:54, theboyangel said:

That aged well! 
 

BYE BYE BYE!!!!!

18 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Economics deep thinker Sajid Javid has ‘paused’ the contract to mint 10 million 50p’s celebrating leaving the EU.

If the contract is scrapped, the cancellation fee is apparently £11.5 Million

Stating the obvious, he’d be paying £1.15 for every Brexit 50p

But we don’t need any economic impact statements, we can do this on feels.

FT

 

This may sound like a stupid question but don't the government own the Royal Mint...who I assume are producing these 50p's? So is the story that the government have to pay themselves a cancellation fee?

18 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

Can we try and keep this on Topic please.

I absolutely love Topics!! My only complaint..too bloody small! 

As a kid I would happily chomp through the orange Viscount biscuits in order to sooner bring about the pinnacle... the mint Viscount biscuits (strict one pack open at a time policy in force).

And I still would!

1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said:

I'd be having dual-nationality.

Except of course in Poland, that doesn't recognise dual-nationality.

3 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

The point of no return was Gove's 'we've had enough of experts' nonsense.

Since then, we've just gone further and further down the rabbithole. 

Fortunately we’ve got intellectualism like 

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**** them

That should get us back on track.

1 minute ago, StefanAVFC said:

Brexit is a cult.

Whereas the EU is circa 12th century Catholic Church.

31 minutes ago, peterms said:

I have to buy some foreign currency, and it's hard to know when to do it.  The amount it will save me or cost me depending on when I do it is probably worth about a quid, but it somehow feels like a Strategically Important Decision.

Buy the rumours, sell the facts! 

13 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

 

Wouldn't that have just summoned  the Candyman  ?

 

1 hour ago, snowychap said:

You appear to have missed out the sick, the vulnerable and the etceteras (which would include the poor).

 

*This is probably more inflammatory than I intend. Also marks me out as out of touch and a bit of a**hole (which are both fair)*

I deliberately excluded them as I would have thought the ‘benefit classes’ would have been well versed in producing ID if nothing else?! 

3 hours ago, meregreen said:

The old, sick, vulnerable etc.

Well we are in agreement that the old are probably going to be the demographic most affected by such a change. That would be the same old that are racist, bigoted, uneducated and stole the futures of our children. The same old whose death rate seems to have been offered up as a legitimate excuse for holding a second EU referendum.

I’m interested that everyone seems to think they would also be voting against the tories?

6 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

These bastards are sneaky. They know a GE is coming so they're creating a false problem with Election Fraud and trying to make it harder for people who vote against them, to vote.

Trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist? Ah, so that explains why it is standard practice in nearly every other country of the EU! 

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Not what I said. 

My arbitrarily classified 'Type A' person (e.g. me) would probably say that they were simultaneously a Brummie AND English AND British AND European - with no implied hierarchy. 

Whereas the 'Type B' tends to have a hierarchy - the Brummie/English/British priorities may vary, but they all definitely rank ABOVE being European. In fact I keep seeing Brexiteers on social media insisting: "I'm NOT European, I'm BRITISH" -as if the two were mutually exclusive. Which to me is ridiculous. 

Where do remain backing SNP, Plaid and Sinn Fein voters fit into this categorisation?

So there are things about my private life I don’t want in the public domain. I know, I’ll post them on Instagram.

12 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

I also don’t understand the losing bonus point rule, don’t see the benefit of that 

Such a shame Japan weren’t street smart enough with it!  7 points up with a minute to play against Ireland and a 5m scrum right under the posts, all logic dictated to see the time out and try to drop a goal. Their failure to do so gave Ireland the BP that effectively guarantees a quarter final spot and sadly makes the Japanese passage through so much harder. 
 

I guess that is the benefit. In a tight game like that, Japan should have been motivated to score again whilst Ireland were both motivated to get level or when/if they felt the game was gone...to stay in touch.

I actually think the tournament would benefit from a secondary competition after the group stages. With the knockout stages meaning only Saturdays/Sundays have games, maybe they could fill in the Tuesday/Wednesday slots with a ‘World Bowl’ consisting of the 3rd and 4th placed teams from the groups.

Should make more group games mean something, give the lesser teams something to aspire to and put the lower ranked tier 1 nations on a perch on which they can be shot at!