Paid Members Cod Eye Posted August 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 9 hours ago, SpursRiot2012 said: So, I've long known I'm entitled to Irish citizenship and am in the process of acquiring an Irish passport. I and my partner looked into ways, at the time I first started looking at it, that she too could get Irish citizenship, but it isn't as simple as her marrying an Irish citizen to get a passport. You would have to live in the Republic for, I believe three or five years before you could be considered. Today, my partner found out that her grandfather, although he didn't actually live in Ireland for very long at all, was actually born there. Thus, she too is entitled to Irish citizenship, meaning we can both retain our European citizenship and our rights to freedom of movement to live, work and study in any one of 27 other nations and, just as importantly (once we get married) any children we have will also have that right, the right *everyone* in the UK currently has and most are about to lose. So fuck you, Brexit. Fuck you, Boris Johnson. Fuck you, Michael Gove. Fuck you, David Davis. Fuck you, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Fuck you, John Redwood. Fuck you, Theresa May. Oh, and an extra special fuck you to Nigel Farage. Have your "red, white and blue Brexit." Have your sunshine and lollipops and rainbows and unicorns Brexit. Or, alternatively, enjoy the shithole that the UK will further become once Brexit happens. It's going to be monumentally shit and I'm so happy that I can take myself off to any number of other countries, without having to worry about a work visa or anything else. I'm sorry if I've offended any Leave voters here who still think Brexit is a good idea but I am so incredibly happy that me and my future wife and our future children get to Remain European. I can't blame anyone for taking advantage of a second (EU) nationality in this day and age. You're going to have the best of both worlds. If Brexit does have a positive effect on the UK you will reap the benefits, but if it does indeed become a shit show, you can trundle off somewhere else. Personally speaking though, I feel that long term it won't matter as I can honestly see the EU as we know it crumbling in the mid term future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted August 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 39 minutes ago, Cod Eye said: Personally speaking though, I feel that long term it won't matter as I can honestly see the EU as we know it crumbling in the mid term future. 1 I don't exactly disagree that the EU as we know it will undergo significant changes in the future, but I think freedom of movement is such a core ideal to the whole European project that "European citizenship" and freedom of movement will be retained, in whatever form the EU takes in the future. Those are the most important elements of being a European citizen for me, my partner and I want my children to have the same freedom of movement rights I've always had, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 Why are people still using this thread. Isn't there a Brexit thread somewhere, there must be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted August 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 14 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: Why are people still using this thread. Isn't there a Brexit thread somewhere, there must be? You will not stop until every, last megathread is consigned to history, will you?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 13, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 13, 2018 (edited) Yeah. I'm sure there is, or the general politics thread. Really not a conversation that needs to be in here. I'm looking at you, Spurs! This thread has its purposes but your post easily fits elsewhere! Edited August 13, 2018 by Chest Rockwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted August 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 (edited) 1 minute ago, Chest Rockwell said: Yeah. I'm sure there is, or the general politics thread. Really not a conversation that needs to be in here. I'm looking at you, Spurs! Don't look at me like that, Chest To be fair, my intitial post was simply me celebrating the fact that my future wife has found out she's entitled to Irish citizenship. It then did degenerate into a Brexit conversation, I grant you. Edited August 13, 2018 by SpursRiot2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 15 minutes ago, SpursRiot2012 said: You will not stop until every, last megathread is consigned to history, will you?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 I got so annoyed by a co-worker whistling tonight that I told him to stop. Felt bad afterwards, but whistling is the fucking worst isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted August 22, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2018 1 hour ago, SuperBacon said: I got so annoyed by a co-worker whistling tonight that I told him to stop. Felt bad afterwards, but whistling is the fucking worst isn't it? A quick whistle here and there, fair enough. Incessant whistling however - innocent though it may be - is like needles on a chalkboard. Had a similar situation with a colleague a couple of months ago - we're both on the late in the same part of the office and even whilst editing a voice over file with a music bed underneath I can still, STILL hear this mouth-breather singing, not whistling, singing in the corner. Not even under his breath-type singing either, he was a few decibels off from thinking he was in the Greatest Showman or something. Again, quote a lyric here or there and I'm fine with it, I may even finish the line with you or recite the next one to you if it's an artist of shared interest. But for you to sit there and sing along to Ed Sheeran repeatedly, I couldn't hold it in and had to tell him to keep it shut. I did so jokingly to avoid confrontation but it was still rather awkward. No place for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 22, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 22, 2018 On the train this morning I saw someone playing Words With Friends, and tabbing between that and a scrabble word finder in his browser for every word. What's the fucking point? What a loser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted August 22, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2018 (edited) Has anyone else had someone contact them via Facebook under the guise of catching up, only for them to try and flog them a pyramid scheme? I had a message from a girl I went to primary and secondary school with, asking how'd I'd been etc, we had about 3 messages back and forth and the next thing I know she is banging on about that Herbalife muck. Insidious! Edited August 22, 2018 by gmoney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted August 22, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2018 1 minute ago, gmoney said: Has anyone else had someone contact them via Facebook under the guise of catching up, only for them to try and flog them a pyramid scheme? I had a message from a girl I went to primary and secondary school with, asking how'd I'd been etc, we had about 3 messages back and forth and the next thing I know she is banging on about that Herbalife muck. Insidious! No, but one old schoolmate called me randomly out of the blue last year, starting going on about a "business opportunity" that he wanted people to invest in. He's always posting pictures of himself suited and booted, surrounded mainly by businessmen-like Asian dudes at conferences of some sort. I'm pretty sure he's involved in some sort of multi-level marketing scheme or worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted August 22, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2018 I've got a mate from school who only ever posts about his property business and how hard he works. He tags them with things like #noexcuses #mostwontiwill #keepupormoveon #thinkandgrowrich I reckon he will have a breakdown within 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted August 22, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 22, 2018 I won't name names because it's mortifying but some lad from round here apparently got into serious debt with some wrong uns and disappeared for a few years. Only someone recognised him on a Spanish gay porn website and it turns out he's doing that to get the money back. Nobody knew, not even his girlfriend. There's a picture of him finishing a lad off on a sofa and he looks absolutely gutted. Proper miserable. Gossips spread quickly, his life is utterly fucked now on top of the debt. Feel bad for him. He's only like 23. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, FelatioLips said: I won't name names because it's mortifying but some lad from round here apparently got into serious debt with some wrong uns and disappeared for a few years. Only someone recognised him on a Spanish gay porn website and it turns out he's doing that to get the money back. Nobody knew, not even his girlfriend. There's a picture of him finishing a lad off on a sofa and he looks absolutely gutted. Proper miserable. Gossips spread quickly, his life is utterly fucked now on top of the debt. Feel bad for him. He's only like 23. If he was 10 years older I'd have put money on it being bAz. (Not gay, just gay for pay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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