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Forum: General Chat 02-02-2020, 15:13
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

According to Wikipedia Slovakia is already in and the list 'must be up to date' because we are not on it any more.
Forum: General Chat 02-02-2020, 13:47
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Apparently some other countries are 'interested' in joining the EU. Who else in Europe other than Switzerland, Turkey and Russia are not in. If its Lebanon, Israel (they turn up for the song...
Forum: General Chat 30-01-2020, 22:08
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

The generational divide widened when pocket calculators came out. Children no longer needed to know how to do arithmetic. It widened again when the Web became widely available, now you just look up...
Forum: General Chat 15-05-2019, 09:37
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Probably the best hope now for a reasonably clean exit is for this country and its new MEPs to be such a pain in the neck that europe decides we are not worth the trouble and throws us out.
Anyone...
Forum: General Chat 10-04-2019, 13:41
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister' will never be the same again - pity I used to enjoy them.
Forum: General Chat 06-04-2019, 16:25
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Seems the confusion and chaos has spread into the Passport Office
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47833702

Perhaps just trying to cover all possibilities.
Forum: General Chat 30-03-2019, 10:40
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

I have an image stuck in my head that is driving me nuts. It is of a box of animated Punch and Judy puppets endlessly performing, powered unfortunately by the batteries of a well known manufacturer...
Forum: General Chat 26-03-2019, 22:44
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

The fabric* of the Palace of Westminster is currently being repaired and parts of the building are covered in scaffolding which in turn is covered in coloured plastic sheeting. They have been using...
Forum: General Chat 25-01-2019, 15:31
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Like her predecessor she is clearly not amused.
Forum: General Chat 24-01-2019, 14:01
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

From Wikipedia:-
In 1974, Prime Minister Harold Wilson confirmed that the government would use the word billion only in its short scale meaning (one thousand million). In a written answer to Robin...
Forum: General Chat 17-01-2019, 14:37
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Isn't politics the art of the devious?
Forum: General Chat 17-01-2019, 13:47
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Put another way the unexpected result produced the conundrum:-

We have an answer, now what's the question?
Forum: General Chat 17-01-2019, 13:40
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Consider for a moment the definition of the word 'All' in the context of insurance 'All Risks' means all risks except 'Acts of God' and 'whatever other get out clauses they can think up'.

My...
Forum: General Chat 17-01-2019, 13:26
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Referring back to an earlier post, the big problem was that 'LEAVE' was not defined.


http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/1171349-post919.html


This sloppyness gives politicians freedom to...
Forum: General Chat 11-01-2019, 13:51
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Whenever communicating with a politician or civil servant one should always remember to sign the communication correctly namely:-


You are Sir/Madam MY humble servant
Your Name (Tax Payer)
Forum: General Chat 01-01-2019, 12:20
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Not sure it would have been that different, the Chinese, Tai, Indian take-aways didn't come from the EU. Nor did the Caliifornian and many other wines. In fact on the food and drink side I cannot...
Forum: General Chat 16-11-2018, 12:48
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

I find it a real shame that the Trades Description Act does not apply to politics. If it did we would have had less rubbish talked by both sides before the referendum (possibly even some useful...
Forum: General Chat 06-08-2018, 15:13
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Yesterday evening I sat down and watched the repeat of “Whatever Happened to Spitting Image (2014)”. “What a shame its no longer being broadcast”, I thought, then I realised it would be impossible. ...
Forum: General Chat 05-08-2018, 20:31
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Leaving the EU will result in a whole raft of changes. Some will happen quickly, some slowly, some will be greeted by the majority, some by one or more minorities. Some of these changes will be...
Forum: General Chat 28-06-2016, 16:22
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Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Margaret, sorry I thought I had pitched it about right, clearly I hadn't, blame a lifetime working in an environment where it was policy (original usage being 'intention' rather than current usage...
Forum: General Chat 28-06-2016, 09:15
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Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

English is a wonderful language, over many centuries it has harvested words from a huge variety of sources and as a result it is probably the most capable language on the planet of expressing the...
Forum: General Chat 26-06-2016, 20:06
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

In my ignorance I thought we had just voted on EU membership - not the seating plan in Westminster. They have just been given their biggest job in the last 50 years and all they seem to be thinking...
Forum: General Chat 24-06-2016, 10:08
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By Hill Walker
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

A poor but not completely inaccurate analagy is that this is like buying a new house where you have to pay the lawyers, the movers and work out a new morgage, buy a few new bits and chuck out a few...
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