#787

Got as far as them citing Eoin O’Malley :joy:

#788

(revised text on the lhs)

lhs = left hand side, I presume. Certainly the one on the left feels like it must be the revised one, right?

#789

Even without any real understanding of the detail that was a painful read.

I also liked this little snippet:

Euroskeptic parties in Germany, France, and Italy have mostly abandoned previous plans to follow Britain out of the EU, plotting instead to dismantle the bloc from within.

as if all those other guys Farage hung out with were like, “Yeah, leave the EU let’s do it, you do it first, Nige, we’re right behind you! Actually it’s a shit idea isn’t it, we’ll just ‘dismantle it from within’, yeah? Cool. Not sure how long that will take, mind you…”

#790

yeah, but the third tweet seems to be under the impression that it’s the other way around, which threw me

i mean the one on the left is still sugarcoated but obviously a big improvement from the bullshit on the right

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#791

Well obviously putting the new stuff up first is a bit confusing but I thought they were talking about their issues with the new one when they said 'connection’s [sic.] and the new one just says “The British Empire connected Scots with the world” which very much feels like it’s downplaying their active involvement even though ‘British’ naturally includes Scottish. So they’re implying the old version was more accurate in terms of how it includes Scotland?

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#793

Came in here to post this. Good work Lonzo.

#794

I’m German when posting in this thread.

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#795

There’s also basically no supporting infrastructure around there for it to plug into. So you’re either ploughing new motorways through parts of rural Scotland or decanting the traffic onto an A-road.

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#796

That road from Stranraer to Dumfries is already a nightmare.

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#797

My wife is from Kirkcudbright which is on that route.

Nice town, complete and utter dickhead to drive to from literally anywhere.

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#798

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#799

yeah that’s the main problem, not the sea that’s literally made of bombs :grinning:

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#800

Takes four hours to get to it, and then you only bloody blow up once you get there anyway! Shambles!

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#801

I get the ferry across sometimes and the long bus journey on the other side is the worst bit*. Imagine going by bus the entire way across the sea as well.

*Lovely views though.

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#802

Ah balls to that. At least on the ferry you can have a walk round, watch telly, get a bite to eat etc

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#803

I drove there once to get the ferry. you can only imagine how many times i said the line

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#804

Don’t the ferries only go from Cairnryan now? Ruined.

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#805

yeah it was, but I drove through/around Stranraer and there were loads of lovely signs for it

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#806

when I got on the ferry I sat in the cinema room and the free film was the tom hanks one about the plane crash.

couldn’t work out if it was an awful choice or inspired

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