mjmooney Posted June 15, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 15, 2020 37 minutes ago, bickster said: This is actually the quarantine form, so in theory, it's just been designed. It also contains USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia... and a whole host of other countries that no longer exist. It's quite possible on that logic that it doesn't contain some countries that do exist They presumably sourced a very old data file. When I worked at the university we used to have a problem with registering Palestinian students, as the database did not include Palestine as a country. The only option was to put them down as stateless - or Israeli. You can imagine how that went down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 15, 2020 Moderator Share Posted June 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, mjmooney said: They presumably sourced a very old data file Well I guess the data file could be from somewhere between 6th August and 1st December 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 1 hour ago, bickster said: Well I guess the data file could be from somewhere between 6th August and 1st December 1991 Apparently it's from 1975 (the list contains Dahomey, which is apparently what Benin used to be called until then - before my time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 15, 2020 Moderator Share Posted June 15, 2020 8 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Apparently it's from 1975 (the list contains Dahomey, which is apparently what Benin used to be called until then - before my time) My dates were the birth of the internet and the fall of the USSR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, bickster said: Well I guess the data file could be from somewhere between 6th August and 1st December 1991 p.s you mean the World Wide Web being available to the public .... not the internet Edited June 15, 2020 by tonyh29 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 13 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Apparently it's from 1975 (the list contains Dahomey, which is apparently what Benin used to be called until then - before my time) The excuse they've used is that they have been using a list of where people might have been born, rather than where they have travelled from. And I guess in the long list of this Government's errors, it'll probably struggle to break the top thousand. Still funny though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 13 minutes ago, ml1dch said: The excuse they've used is that they have been using a list of where people might have been born, rather than where they have travelled from. Which is a very strange thing to say, as it suggests it was an intentional decision, yet they've updated it and the old countries don't appear in the list anymore. I find the inability to admit to making a mistake far more frustrating than the mistake itself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Well we'll be fine then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 (edited) There is literally nothing we could sell to the antipodeans, that they couldn’t get for a fraction of the cost from South East Asia. Meanwhile, a market of 500,000,000 people just 20 miles away is cast off. Madness. Edited June 17, 2020 by meregreen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, meregreen said: There is literally nothing we could sell to the antipodeans, that they couldn’t get for a fraction of the cost from South East Asia. Meanwhile, a market of 500,000,000 people just 20 miles away is cast off. Madness. You're not accounting for British exceptionalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 We would appear to be exceptionally stupid. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 4 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Well we'll be fine then. It’s not even a parody is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 He avoided saying Michelle Jenneke’s warm up. I would have had a little more respect for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I can believe that Boris is amazed by boomerangs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 17, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted June 17, 2020 46 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I can believe that Boris is amazed by boomerangs. I can see Boomerangs making a come back as a result of this deal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Decent time to remind people that services (teachers, doctors, financial services, scientific researchers), not goods (boomerangs and Tim Tams), comprise 70% of British GDP. If you want actual 21st century free trade, you need to look at getting common recognition for services not goods. You might call it a "single market for services", maybe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted June 17, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2020 32 minutes ago, blandy said: I can see Boomerangs making a come back as a result of this deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 17, 2020 Moderator Share Posted June 17, 2020 I posted Liz Truss' Tweet in the Tory thread this morning. It's actually more risible than the Boris' one. F**k me she lowered the bar further with Dame Edna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Joke of a country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 The EU post Covid stimulus package looks far more effective than the UK commiting over £100 billion into HS2, a thinly disguised, open ended exercise in stuffing cash into the chum's pockets. Profits to be squirrelled away in tax havens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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