Is it something in the water?
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Yup, just like dutchland then.
for some reason we store them close to the Dutch border
Just like the nuclear power plants?
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The Belgian Federal Government m'am.
I actually misread your post (mentally inserted a 't' before 'here') and thought you were talking about nukes stored in the UK.
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"Is it something in the water?" is a question that comes to mind about this thread.
Damn, we're still on topic.
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for some reason we store them close to the Dutch border
Isn't everything in Belgium close to the Dutch border?
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close to the Dutch border
Define 'close' but personally I don't consider the French border close to the Dutch border
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I heard you like suing people.
So I put a lawsuit in yer lawsuit so you can sue the people who helped you sue.
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Define 'close' but personally I don't consider the French border close to the Dutch border
hmmm..... Cambrai to Breda... 149 miles (yes miles)
(In my head 240km = 2x60 +40 = 120 + a marathon = 120 + 26 = ~150. yess! fistpump)
Hmm, far enough to be annoyance to drive.
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actual French French
Do you mean the Celtic French, the Aquitani, the Belgae, the Germanic Franks or some other "actual French French"?
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Good points, but you're still ignoring the knee-jerk reactions from other nuclear countries.
Ah yes, because those made so much difference when France decided it wanted to do some more nuclear testing in the Pacific.
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It very possibly IS something in the water.
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Ah yes, because those made so much difference when France decided it wanted to do some more nuclear testing in the Pacific.
And that's totally the same thing as an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.
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Do you mean the Celtic French, the Aquitani, the Belgae, the Germanic Franks or some other "actual French French"?
Probably all of them?
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I think discourse messed up your link.
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And that's totally the same thing as an
unprovokedcompletely justifiedattackretaliation on asovereign nationon your own territory because they have the temerity to:- embargo Soap Operas
- brew and sell pseudo-beer
- have better beaches and tans
- have far cooler wildlife...
sigh
Filed under: What happens in the UK, stays in the UK.
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I'm OK with the Aussies having cooler wildlife, since so much of it is always trying to kill them ;)
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Ah yes, because those made so much difference when France decided it wanted to do some more nuclear testing in the Pacific.
New Zealand is still pissed about that, haha.
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And that's totally the same thing as an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.
Of course not. But suppose the UK negotiated to do some more testing at Maralinga, for example? All nice and friendly and above board. And then, if word ever got out that somehow a large contingent of Brits had been dumped in the vicinity shortly before, then everyone could be appalled and horrified at this dreadful human tragedy that, sadly, nobody could have foreseen or prevented.
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if word ever got out that somehow a large contingent of Brits had been dumped in the vicinity shortly before
If that included Parliament, I'm sure you'd get people elsewhere taking notes…
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If that included Parliament, I'm sure you'd get people elsewhere taking notes…
What? Dumped Parliament in Australia and blew them up?
Nonono you've got it all wrong. You dig underneath Parliament and blow them up in-situ at Westminster.
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Guy Fawkes: the last man to have entered Parliament with honest intentions
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Maybe for the 2020 vote, there should be a party who's main policy is to reduce idiocy in the UK, even if that means just shipping them off to another country. I'd vote for them.
They already did that, starting with the Mayflower.
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Guy Fawkes: the last man to have entered Parliament with honest intentions
There is a school of thought that it was all a conspiracy, though. But it's seems likely that even if it was, Fawkes was set up, and did think he was going to blow up Parliament.
(I incline to thinking it wasn't a conspiracy, because in a high school history lesson they 'presented the evidence' and 'let us interpret it' and the whole class concluded it was. I don't know if it's just my school but they did that a lot, and in every case that in adult life I actually found out more about it, it turned out they'd given us a ridiculously and obviously biased set of sources. So now I just assume that everything I 'concluded' in a history lesson is wrong.)
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Of course not. But suppose the UK negotiated to do some more testing at Maralinga, for example? All nice and friendly and above board. And then, if word ever got out that somehow a large contingent of Brits had been dumped in the vicinity shortly before, then everyone could be appalled and horrified at this dreadful human tragedy that, sadly, nobody could have foreseen or prevented.
How is that anything like what was previously being discussed?
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IIRC that's only UK Fosters.
I'm told that it's authentically close to the Australian version, and that the attitude of the UK towards it is nowhere near as dismissive as that of most Australians…
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How is that anything like what was previously being discussed?
Well, more or less like this:
Maybe for the 2020 vote, there should be a party who's main policy is to reduce idiocy in the UK, even if that means just shipping them off to another country.
The last time this was tried it didn't work out very well for the Australians of the time. Since that's now me, I do not approve.
The technological discrepancy still exists: The UK is a nuclear power and Australia is not because the UK fucked us over, using us for nuclear testing and not giving us the technology promised.
@abarker said:
if they nuke Australia, where would they send the stupid people in your scenario?
Still Australia, of course.Look, we were just testing... it's not like anybody is actually filling the place up... v2: we were aiming at Tasmania and missed.
So, to me, it seemed like a natural extension of some of the things previously discussed.
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What do double yellow lines mean in that sort of position? No parking? We would typically paint the curb red (or put up signs).
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What do double yellow lines mean in that sort of position? No parking?
Ah, forgot that might not be known elsewhere. Yes, essentially.
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What do double yellow lines mean in that sort of position? No parking? We would typically paint the curb red (or put up signs).
In the UK, red line is more strict than yellow: no stopping at all for anything except queuing traffic. You don't see it very often.
I had to look it up but single red or yellow lines means the restriction is at certain times and double means 24/7.
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I believe I'm right in thinking red lines are only used in London; certainly I've never seen one in Manchester.
Edit: Turns out there's some in Birmingham too.
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