Current Affairs EU In or Out

In or Out

  • In

    Votes: 688 67.9%

  • Out

    Votes: 325 32.1%
  • Total voters
    1,013
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Spadge Vernacular said:
It is always good to see a new face, even one that joined 10 years ago - howdy partner.

Seeing as you worked in the avaition industry, you might be able to help with a 'hot topic' on here that keeps popping up. You must have lots of experience around aeroplanes and airports. Assuming that this is so and with a firm view on capacity usage, when you travelled to airports with work (or even leisure), did you notice if taxi's leaving the airport were full or empty? I ask as I suspect as it may pose an inversion of the town taxi phenomenon, but with the same issue i.e. no passengers.
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I may not be in the clique of prolific posters on here Spadge, but I can't be a new face to you - we have interacted on other threads. Howdy nonetheless!

I'd be interested to know what the town taxi phenomenon is? It's not something I've come accross. A lazy google search leaves me none the wiser. However, I would say in my industry professional opinion, for what it's worth, that taxis dropping passengers off tend to be empty when leaving the airport whereas taxis picking passengers up tend to be full when leaving the airport. Hope this helps.
 
slipstream86 said:
I may not be in the clique of prolific posters on here Spadge, but I can't be a new face to you - we have interacted on other threads. Howdy nonetheless!

I'd be interested to know what the town taxi phenomenon is? It's not something I've come accross. A lazy google search leaves me none the wiser. However, I would say in my industry professional opinion, for what it's worth, that taxis dropping passengers off tend to be empty when leaving the airport whereas taxis picking passengers up tend to be full when leaving the airport. Hope this helps.
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I just knew this would be the norm, it is an outrage!

 
You can reach me by empty railway, you can reach me by empty trailway
You can reach me on an empty airplane, you can reach me with your mind
You can reach me by empty caravan, cross the desert like an Arab man
I don't care how you get here, just get here if you can
 
slipstream86 said:
Ok guys thanks for the inputs.

If I was now to tell you that I IN FACT VOTED TO REMAIN in the 2016 referendum, how would you feel about the comments you just made?

If I was to tell you that I work in the aviation industry, and having worked for companies all over Europe before, following wherever the latest contract opportunities were, then on Jan 31st 2020 when the UK left the EU and thus by default also left EASA, overnight my qualifications became absolutely f'ing useless to work for any non UK based operator, and will remain so unless I commit to an enormous expense of time and money to repeat my training under EASA (about 18 months and £150k)....Of course, I saw this comming, I knew the prospect of leaving the EU had the potential to be an enormous problem for my professional life. Remain was the only sane choice I could have made, and that's what I did. I wish the result went that way, but here we are where we are.

Are my reasons for wanting to remain in the EU any more valid than those who had 'selfish, dumb, racist, bigoted, facist or gammon' reasons to leave the EU?

Is the bigotry that all leave voters are accused of any worse than the bigotry diplayed just now when some cast me as being a racist, facist gammon when they incorrectly assumed I voted leave?

I guess the point of this post is to highlight that things just aren't as black and white as many people so very desperately want them to be. I know theres an army of guys sat at their keyboards on every social network going, frothing at the mouth waiting for the next opportunity to dive in all guns blazing on what they consider to be a person who holds political opinions that differ from their own.... To bully them into internet submission, establishing once and for all, for the good of humanity, that us ourselves (the virtuous freedom fighters) are right and our opponents (the evil facists) are wrong!....But it never comes. Every point they make we come back with a pre-planned counter, every link we post to support our argument they ignore it...the very essence of a confirmation bias on both sides.

Just consider taking a steb back from the front line of political partisanship guys and take your fellow humans as individuals. The world becomes a much more tranquil place to exist!
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You first sentence stated that you voted for selfish reasons. Ergo, when you asked if you were being selfish, I answered yes. Because you had already said you were being selfish.

Don't claim to be selfish, then get upset if someone agrees with you.
 
WA Toffee said:
You first sentence stated that you voted for selfish reasons. Ergo, when you asked if you were being selfish, I answered yes. Because you had already said you were being selfish.

Don't claim to be selfish, then get upset if someone agrees with you.
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Yes I did vote for selfish reasons. I’d do the same again tomorrow. You also confirmed me to be dumb for the way in which I voted. I was also cast as ignorant, mistaken, bigoted, racist, fascist and gammon by else.

I put it to you that for everyone who blindly voted leave, there were everyday people like me without a University of GOT CA Doctorate level understanding of international law who selfishly voted to remain. What’s the difference?

I’m not upset dude, just offering perspective.
 
slipstream86 said:
Yes I did vote for selfish reasons. I’d do the same again tomorrow. You also confirmed me to be dumb for the way in which I voted. I was also cast as ignorant, mistaken, bigoted, racist, fascist and gammon by else.

I put it to you that for everyone who blindly voted leave, there were everyday people like me without a University of GOT CA Doctorate level understanding of international law who selfishly voted to remain. What’s the difference?

I’m not upset dude, just offering perspective.
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With reflection, I was maybe harsh with including dumb.

My reason was 2 fold
1. You really don't need a doctorate to have an informed opinion about the financial impact of leaving a union of over 300 million people. It would be dumb to think that only people with Doctorates can make an informed opinion.

2. You implied that the economy (and your personal economy in particular) was the only thing you considered when voting. Having only one criteria when voting on an issue that has hugely wide ranging impacts would be dumb.

I appreciate it was one single post, and probably didn't clarify your hypothetical situation fully. I probably should have clarified my decision making process better?
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Heart breaking: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...own-where-brexit-died-but-hope-survives-video

I'm probably as guilty as anyone of taking the mick out of folk for voting leave, but much comes from a sense of frustration. Who wants to see folk struggling like that?
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Aye, that is a tough watch. I take the mick a lot too, but it's genuinely easy to forget that most people who voted Brexit were just hoodwinked by an unscrupulous and targeted campaign of misinformation. There's no shame in it, I hope their lot improves soon
 
Prevenger17 said:
Aye, that is a tough watch. I take the mick a lot too, but it's genuinely easy to forget that most people who voted Brexit were just hoodwinked by an unscrupulous and targeted campaign of misinformation. There's no shame in it, I hope their lot improves soon
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Had 3 workmates who openly voted Brexit.
1) Because of extra money for the NHS
2) Couldn’t make her mind up so let her 5 kids decide who voted to leave cos they thought they’d get to go to euro disney (seriously)
3) cos they didn’t like foreigners

Pretty much sums it up really All 3 were pretty sound as well (although the one who voted cos of foreigners did take 6 months sick leave cos she had a massive boil on her arse)
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Had 3 workmates who openly voted Brexit.
1) Because of extra money for the NHS
2) Couldn’t make her mind up so let her 5 kids decide who voted to leave cos they thought they’d get to go to euro disney (seriously)
3) cos they didn’t like foreigners

Pretty much sums it up really All 3 were pretty sound as well (although the one who voted cos of foreigners did take 6 months sick leave cos she had a massive boil on her arse)
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An incredible twist ending worthy of M Night Shyamalan.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Had 3 workmates who openly voted Brexit.
1) Because of extra money for the NHS
2) Couldn’t make her mind up so let her 5 kids decide who voted to leave cos they thought they’d get to go to euro disney (seriously)
3) cos they didn’t like foreigners

Pretty much sums it up really All 3 were pretty sound as well (although the one who voted cos of foreigners did take 6 months sick leave cos she had a massive boil on her arse)
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Was she the one propositioned by Russel Brand in the toilet?
 
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