[RLacey]

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[Maquisard]

my image search results came out all wrong

[RLacey]

!sie

[Jatsie]

The election wasn't as decisive as I had hoped for, but I'm still confident that we can achieve a working Conservative government.

Originally Posted by UPtimist

Stupid people voting against the constitutional treaty... Never give the masses any say, they'll just screw it up anyways... Making everyone's lives more difficult...

And now if the EU won't join the European Convention on Human Rights because of some damn conservatists who might win the election in Britain... Bah, I say!

Well, there's always the chance that, for some reason or another it'll be joined anyways (be it that the conservatists will not object after all, or that they don't get so much power).

The EU just needs to wither and die already.

I especially love your opening statement, which is a perfect example of the disgraceful undemocratic attitudes embodied by the EU at its very core, and why every man of sense despises it.

[Squinky]

Silly rabbit, men don't have any scents!

[Trumgottist]

Right now, I smell of shampoo. (I'll be getting up quite early tomorrow, so I showered now before going to bed, so I won't have to do it then.)

[Giligan]

Right now, I smell of meh and indifference towards what the haters say.

[Jelena]

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Just a small advice:
Set the breakfast table before you go to bed. You'll save some minutes in the morning that way.

[RLacey]

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[stepurhan]

Eat breakfast before going to bed and you'll save even more time.

Coming up in "Ask stepurhan" : How much time can be saved by pre-emptive consumption of lunch and dinner as well.

[Jatsie]

Originally Posted by Jelena

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Just a small advice:
Set the breakfast table before you go to bed. You'll save some minutes in the morning that way.

I dislike this.

Every night before my father goes to bed he lays out in the kitchen a bowl, a spoon, a juice glass and a tea cup, and it would annoy the hell out of me.

It takes half a second to take each item out of the cupboard, why is it necessary!? ><

[Sage]

Originally Posted by stepurhan

Do you happen to write for an obscure poetry journal because that review is awesome.

No, I'm just reasonably proficient at shoveling BS.

Originally Posted by stepurhan

Don't you mean illiterary success?

Good point!

[UPtimist]

Originally Posted by Jatsie

I especially love your opening statement, which is a perfect example of the disgraceful undemocratic attitudes embodied by the EU at its very core, and why every man of sense despises it.

Yeah, 'cause I was totally serious

But then I like how your comment embodies the utter populism used by most opponents of the EU There are an unfortunately small number of people who actually use facts to oppose it, overshadowed of the huge number of self-appointed experts who have no understanding of how things really work, but since the other people don't either they just say what they want and the others believe it because it's easier to just listen to the person who shouts the loudest instead of actually learning something and thinking for themselves.

EU is not perfect - by far, but it is in everyone's interest to keep it running. If the EU withers and dies - so does Europe. At that point the USA will have no reason to pay any shreds of the actual interest it may still be showing in Europe, but focus completely in the Pacific, rendering most of Europe into a regressive post-welfare dinosaur without any influentiality.


(And please don't take me so seriously! I'm really not talking about you there - I just really hate nationalism and populism, both of which are far too often embodied in the opposers of the EU. And the reason I originally said what I said was just because I was annoyed at how much extra work it causes a lawyer that the constitutional treaty wasn't ratified - simply because of some poor choices of words)


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[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Jatsie

I dislike this.

Every night before my father goes to bed he lays out in the kitchen a bowl, a spoon, a juice glass and a tea cup, and it would annoy the hell out of me.

It takes half a second to take each item out of the cupboard, why is it necessary!? ><

I think it's more about the illusion of saving time. And it's always fun to annoy your children.

[RLacey]

Hehsie.

?sie

[Trumgottist]

But as I don't have any children, there'd be no point.

[Jazhara7]

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[Hammerite]

^ This.

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Trumgottist

But as I don't have any children, there'd be no point.

But you'd save about 30 seconds!

[Jatsie]

Originally Posted by UPtimist

Yeah, 'cause I was totally serious

But then I like how your comment embodies the utter populism used by most opponents of the EU There are an unfortunately small number of people who actually use facts to oppose it, overshadowed of the huge number of self-appointed experts who have no understanding of how things really work, but since the other people don't either they just say what they want and the others believe it because it's easier to just listen to the person who shouts the loudest instead of actually learning something and thinking for themselves.

EU is not perfect - by far, but it is in everyone's interest to keep it running. If the EU withers and dies - so does Europe. At that point the USA will have no reason to pay any shreds of the actual interest it may still be showing in Europe, but focus completely in the Pacific, rendering most of Europe into a regressive post-welfare dinosaur without any influentiality.


(And please don't take me so seriously! I'm really not talking about you there - I just really hate nationalism and populism, both of which are far too often embodied in the opposers of the EU. And the reason I originally said what I said was just because I was annoyed at how much extra work it causes a lawyer that the constitutional treaty wasn't ratified - simply because of some poor choices of words)


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Oh yeah, I forgot you were also acquainted with the law. My opposition to the EU does largely come from having studied it in depth during my degree.

I'm also a Thatcherite, and hold the Bruges speech to be sacrosanct.

As the Iron Lady said in another famous speech:

"The President of the Commission, Mr. Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community, he wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No!

What they're proposing now, an economic and monetary union, is really a backdoor to a federal Europe, and we oppose that."