Y2K was a known problem with a solution that made things carry on as they were.The year 2000 was inevitable. Brexit wasn't. End of "analogy".
Individual companies can mitigate the effect of Brexit by spending billions?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.
Aye, but it needed Brewster to take the ludicrous analogy seriously.The annoying thing is that Cheese knob has got his wish that people are discussing a totally ludicrous analogy just to amuse him.
A slightly more refined Julia Hartley-Brewer. I'd forgotten all about her. One of the original newspaper WUMs.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/
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.The annoying thing is that Cheese knob has got his wish that people are discussing a totally ludicrous analogy just to amuse him.
And as someone who is planning a trip to the pub, I agree. I thinkI 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.
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 impactI 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?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.