Westminstenders: Just another DEADline

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Today is the last scheduled day for talks with the EU.

We have til 30th June to ask for a transition extension. We won't.

That leaves us starring down the barrel of a no deal exit, when we still could be in a covid-19 crisis and the US may be in turmoil given recent events and the coming election...

It's not a pretty picture.

Aha!!!
I believe I did use the utterly offensive verb beginning with an S that is a synonym for scoff/ scorn/ laugh derisively to describe how French people have been reacting to Dominic Twatting Twattery Twatface Cummings' eye test drive.
I'm pretty sure it had an -ING ending, but still...

Thanks for solving the mystery, prettybird.
I do use the t-word the Scottish way, which I also realised very belatedly was not just a synonym for twit...

On the BootCamp thread, the post did eventually get reinstated. I think it's an automatic filter that they must recently have installed.

On second thoughts, while I wouldn't use the c-word in normal conversation, it is a word that I am using a lot nowadays to describe the fucking numpties in the Government. Because they're worse than numpties They are evil

It’s pretty hard to say Jeremy Cunt without it.

And if it was good enough for Radio 4

....it's also not possible to sing that brilliant song, Boris Johnson is a cunt without repeating it

Ah, so tomorrow my very boring post may be revealed in all its scoffing dullness, now with a twist of added angst.
Perhaps it will be revealed that I actually become less rude after a glass or two and called DC a damned supercilious cad.

Jeremy Cunt, though, remains a favourite radio moment, so thanks for that.

P.S.
Thank you Louise, for your flowers, but it is my friend's dad who is ill (with ALS, a truly shitty disease).

Dmitry Grozoubinski@DmitryOpines

If Nigel Farage's race riot is going to be anything like his Brexit Betrayal March, I hope BLM UK is ready to fight off 50 soaked pensioners whose spiritual leader abandoned them in a muddy field.

That Twitter link is shocking. How does he say that, without a trace of shame, to a British POC? He must think you can't be British if you aren't Caucasian.

I thought it was just an alternative for twit too.

That Twitter clip is horrific.

There is nothing innocuous about the verb "leave", is there?

Twatt is both a village in Orkney and a surname in NE Scotland. Poor sods.

It's only more recently that I learned the T word as I shall call it now was not another version of twit and was linked to genitalia.

That said, an awful lot of insults do seem to be centred on genitalia! So maybe I should just assume they all are unless someone corrects me

Elements

Now I'm wondering what "tube" refers to. I thought it was intestinal...
www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns3936

When YouTube first appeared, I always read it as "ya choob" and thought it was a strange choice of name.

Me too, ohlook
We are a pure-minded pair
(even though we're Westministenders !)

Pretty I wonder how many people hum that earworm under their breath when they meet him Would be great if in his memoirs (I have no doubt he will make someone write them for him at some point) he ponders on why that song followed him around...

I forget who mentioned how redundant nukes were yesterday (?) but Russia seem to realise that they can get some global kudos out of them www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/russia-will-open-nuclear-disarmament-talks-with-us

Fwiw, I have often seen people be told on here that if they don't like Britain they should leave. No one wants to be told there is anything less than perfect about Britain at the moment. The exceptionalism is truly exceptional.

Finally, good news .... for Australia

www.afr.com/world/europe/australia-wins-tobacco-case-at-world-trade-organisation-20200610-p5511o

Australia has seen off a final challenge to its "plain packaging" rules for cigarettes, as the tobacco industry's epic campaign against the measures finally runs out of road.

The World Trade Organisation's now-defunct < bloody Trump > Appellate Body on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) ruled against an appeal
by Honduras and the Dominican Republic which claimed Australia's plain packaging rules were a technical barrier to trade.

It's all about cyber warfare now. Why detonate a nuclear bomb which can fallout over your own country when you can develop an Internet which is entirely disconnected from the rest of the world's, then you hack and melt everyone else's computers causing untold chaos, whilst your just fine or you have mass troll farms (outsourced to former satellite states) to spread disinformation and manipulate social division in other countries.

Yep there's a good argument there that they've had their day.

What food people buy should be up to, well, people.

Is that how you think it works?

That if I fancy a dozen eggs from a free range chicken which spends vher life peck-peck-pecking in a farmyard I can park the old jalopy outside my local Whole Foods Market, select the eggs, and leave?

Or do the contents of my wallet come into it at any point? The price difference today between WFM eggs and Aldi eggs is $4.00, fwiw.

Do you think British consumers will like being reminded every time they go shopping that they can only afford second rate food?

I seem to recall a TV prog from the 80s about a poor young student receiving advice from a sweet lady who'd got through the last war on rationing with lots of handy recepies for boiled nettles and potato peelings on stale bread.

Could be worth digging out for the Netflix generation.

Boris is way ahead of you.

Not that Boris.

Seven different recipes for potato peels made into snacc, and also potato peels for 'end of month' Gratuitous cat video.

We'll build this Brexit on nettles, potato peelings & stale bread .....

BigChoc - that image isn't accurate. Boris will have run a mile by then!