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Westminstenders: Crisis. What Crisis

983 replies

RedToothBrush · 25/10/2018 18:12

October is slowly rolling into November.

Your eyes, rightly, will be distracted by events the other side of the pond.

It won't be good and it won't be pretty and it will have an impact on what happens here in relation to Brexit in one way or another.

May seems to have headed off trouble makers for now. But that means nothing if she can't get a deal through parliament.

And if you think we are in anyway prepared for No Deal I'd like whatever drugs you are taking. That way lies only disorder and to put it bluntly, deaths.

We MUST find a deal, any deal to prevent that. Desperation is the final ingredients in this mess. Who will blink as they realise what's at stake?

The problem is though, is too few MPs have grasped what's at state, such is the quality of our elected representatives. And that's the truly terrifying bit.

If they can't work out the risk of no deal, they certainly not equipped to handle the fall out of no deal.

If you want to shit yourself anymore, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that the minister responsible for hauling all your food and medical supplies in the event if no deal, is Mr Christopher Grayling.

Start praying.

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bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:01

@DGRossetti - fab Hitchhiker's ref!

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:08

I think we're all on the "B" Ark of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame !

DGRossetti · 01/11/2018 09:08

Don't panic !

Worryingly, THHGTTG can be interpreted a la Nostradamus, to have predicted all this. After all, is not Google a shoe-in for the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation ? And Theresa May does have the air of someone who (thinks they) can do 6 impossible things before breakfast (which was of course a coded reference to "Brexit". Adams was forced to write in a convoluted style for fear of the Guardian inquisition.)

I may need more of something which tastes almost - but not entirely - unlike tea.

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:10

So I'll have "Babooshka" in my head all day and will listen to the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tonight. That's me sorted.

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:12

Last time I listened to it - couple of months ago (I'm a huge fan) - the similarities made me shudder.
Glad to be of service!

Mrsr8 · 01/11/2018 09:14

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bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:17

Anyone on here who isn't loving or getting the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes, please look it up. If you can get access to the radio version , so much the better.
Off to do a bit more shoutin' ...

54321go · 01/11/2018 09:23

If it's OK with you people I will settle for Kate Bush for now.

DGRossetti · 01/11/2018 09:25

Somewhere buried in my parents loft, there will be some C60 cassettes which I taped off the radio back in the 80s when they repeated the radio series.

Haven't got a tape player, mind you (what's one of them Grandad ?)

Mind you, if anyone gave me a 3.5" floppy disk I'd struggle. And as for 5.25" or 8" ....

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:26

Whatever cheers you through @54321go . Big part of dealing with tricky stuff is still being able to chill out. Good for stress levels.
Don't overlook it, everyone.

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 09:29

I'm not getting royalties for it (honest) but I think it's downloadable somewhere on the subetha waveband (sorry, must stop quoting from it). I had it on tape, upgraded to cd and uploaded that to my iTunes...,thingie.
It would be a service to the nation if anyone in here spots how to find it now.

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 01/11/2018 09:37

Bellini sorry! (not sorry - there are worse ear worms) Grin

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 01/11/2018 09:41

MrsR8 ok, you’re booked for our first social (will keep a bottle of prosecco stashed for you)

borntobequiet · 01/11/2018 09:42

Buteo Yes the £sd tears were down to me I'm afraid. You should have seen them in another "fun" lesson that featured chains and furlongs.

Now in my Functional Maths role, I have to teach learners how to convert sq metres to acres, and fluid ounces to ml. I ask them if they would like to return to Imperial units, and get a resounding "no" - though they all know their height in feet and inches, and weight in stone and pounds.

Hazardswan · 01/11/2018 09:43

Ok that's me looking up hitchhikers guide to the galaxy radio version. Never knew such a thing existed.

In my head there's a bunch of wielding, soft skinned, MNetters singing Kate Bush while looking at the sky trying to guess the weather Grin now that's my kind of life!

I'm branching out soon into aromatherapy oil stocking. I brought a load of coconut oil because thats three uses, cooking, moisturizing skin and a hair treatment.

DGRossetti · 01/11/2018 09:51

Ok that's me looking up hitchhikers guide to the galaxy radio version. Never knew such a thing existed

Or the TV show ?

I can't speak for the film, not having seen it. But if it helps, no one else I know has either. Which kinda is speaking for the film, really.

h2g2.com/

l8rs !

TheElementsSong · 01/11/2018 10:03

The radio version was the original (we have the entire thing on CD box set).

Hasenstein · 01/11/2018 10:05

Bugger. I was going to offer as my only meagre skills reasonable fluency in a couple of European languages, but now we're apparently going to have a Babel fish, I'm a bit lost for further capabilities. Looks like just crop-picking for all you expert food-growers, then.

TheElementsSong · 01/11/2018 10:12

I'm a scientist too, but as BigChoc has bagsied that position, I can offer my skills in scaling/gutting fish, and plucking/gutting poultry.

lonelyplanetmum · 01/11/2018 10:14

Re Hitchikers - the original radio show and the tv series were legendary. The film not so much.

"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 10:16

@DGRossetti - I saw the film. It really didn't capture it . TV series was ace too with much of the radio cast.
Who knew we'd all have devices with screens and massive storage (ish) when it first came out in the late 70s.
I'd started secondary school when if first came out and remember stumbling upon it on the radio.

bellinisurge · 01/11/2018 10:17

@TheElementsSong - you can never have enough pluckers.

lonelyplanetmum · 01/11/2018 10:19

A brain the size of a planet and here I am parking cars!" In Kent

UnnecessaryFennel · 01/11/2018 10:32

Loving the turn this thread has taken... I'm a midwife and DP is a primary teacher...can we come? Grin

Mrsr will also vouch for the fact that I can help us all smell fabulous while we toil in the fields

DGRossetti · 01/11/2018 10:32

Hardly an advert for a nation trying to sell itself as a high tech economy

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46043668

The UK government is preparing to launch a smartphone app to make it as easy as possible for EU citizens to apply to remain in the UK after Brexit - the only problem is it doesn't fully work on Apple devices.

And hopes that the problem would have been fixed by now have just been dashed.

The app is a key part of the government's drive to get the estimated 3.5 million EU citizens in the UK to apply for "settled status".

(contd)

From the article:

Sajid Javid has met Apple bosses in California to make the UK's case

Well, now we all know what the reply was : 2 words: 2nd word: rhymes with "cough"...

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