How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

[bluethrunthru]

This is well worth a watch....

Yeah I follow Phil he is on the money.......

 

[Brewster's millions]

I can't say I've really noticed any good or bad things arising from Brexit - a bit of a damp squib tbh, like the y2k bug thing.

That’s an interesting analogy - the y2k bug was mitigated by spending billions on what would previously have been viewed as unproductive investment, and individual companies can do the same with Brexit. But on a macro level, there’s obviously still a cost.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Yeah I follow Phil he is on the money.......

I follow him too.

Guess we'll not be around when we rejoin.

 

[west didsblue]

That’s an interesting analogy - the y2k bug was mitigated by spending billions on what would previously have been viewed as unproductive investment, and individual companies can do the same with Brexit. But on a macro level, there’s obviously still a cost.

It really is not the slightest bit analogous.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I follow him too.

Guess we'll not be around when we rejoin.

sadly not but I have 3 ambitions
1/ we rejoin on the best terms we can ( we said goodbye to the best terms we ever could have had )
2/ I leave enough financially for my kids to exploit whatever window we may gain
3/ the lying bastards behind it are outed and publicly exposed for the wankers they were so the likes of Johnson Rees-Smug Hannan Frost and the rest are publicly humiliated and denied access to public office and funding forever

 

[Brewster's millions]

It really is not the slightest bit analogous.

If you can’t see the analogy, then there’s not much point in discussing it.

 

[west didsblue]

If you can’t see the analogy, then there’s not much point in discussing it.

That’s why I’m not.

 

[Brewster's millions]

That’s why I’m not.

Ignorance is bliss.

 

[west didsblue]

Ignorance is bliss.

I would say solving a problem with the date function on some 20th century computers is about as far from Brexit as planning a trip to the pub, and I say that as someone involved in the planning and implementation of solutions to potential Y2K problems in my industry.

 

[Vic]

The year 2000 was inevitable. Brexit wasn't. End of "analogy".

 

[west didsblue]

The year 2000 was inevitable. Brexit wasn't. End of "analogy".

Y2K was a known problem with a solution that made things carry on as they were.

Brexit created multiple problems, both known and unforeseen, many with no solutions or inferior resolutions that we will continue to pay for long into the future.

A car has more in common with a banana than Brexit has to Y2K.

 

[Debaser]

We also listened to experts, implemented safe guards and reduced the effects of y2k. Brexit we just ignored experts.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

That’s an interesting analogy - the y2k bug was mitigated by spending billions on what would previously have been viewed as unproductive investment, and individual companies can do the same with Brexit. But on a macro level, there’s obviously still a cost.

Individual companies can mitigate the effect of Brexit by spending billions?

 

[west didsblue]

The annoying thing is that Cheese knob has got his wish that people are discussing a totally ludicrous analogy just to amuse him.

 

[Vic]

The annoying thing is that Cheese knob has got his wish that people are discussing a totally ludicrous analogy just to amuse him.

Aye, but it needed Brewster to take the ludicrous analogy seriously.

 

[somapop]

If anyone wants to know how fucking deluded some influential Brexiteers are, look at the projection and lack of actual content in this article.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/next-year-im-giving-up-on-diehard-remainers/

A slightly more refined Julia Hartley-Brewer. I'd forgotten all about her. One of the original newspaper WUMs.
That piece is utterly vacuous. What solutions is she offering?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The annoying thing is that Cheese knob has got his wish that people are discussing a totally ludicrous analogy just to amuse him.

I didn't want to do the whole grammar police thing, but I wasn't really drawing a direct analogy, just a comparison with the hysteria surrounding the millennium bug and that around brexit.
Also, I've no wish to threaten the hive mind of the latest incarnation of the Brexit thread, just making the point that I've not noticed any real harm (or benefit) of brexit at a personal level - YMMV.

 

[journolud]

I would say solving a problem with the date function on some 20th century computers is about as far from Brexit as planning a trip to the pub, and I say that as someone involved in the planning and implementation of solutions to potential Y2K problems in my industry.

And as someone who is planning a trip to the pub, I agree. I think

 

[journolud]

I didn't want to do the whole grammar police thing, but I wasn't really drawing a direct analogy, just a comparison with the hysteria surrounding the millennium bug and that around brexit.
Also, I've no wish to threaten the hive mind of the latest incarnation of the Brexit thread, just making the point that I've not noticed any real harm (or benefit) of brexit at a personal level - YMMV.

A point you knew would lead to the sort of discussion it has and which isn’t really the point of Brexit discussions at all. On a personal level I haven’t noticed any disruption from all the strikes going on at the minute or the Extinction Rebellion protests so I guess that means they’ve had little impact

 

[Vic]

I didn't want to do the whole grammar police thing, but I wasn't really drawing a direct analogy, just a comparison with the hysteria surrounding the millennium bug and that around brexit.
Also, I've no wish to threaten the hive mind of the latest incarnation of the Brexit thread, just making the point that I've not noticed any real harm (or benefit) of brexit at a personal level - YMMV.

How long were you sent down for?