Rayvin

Meaningless really though, isn't it? I think we've all been sucked into this thought that the act of the referendum itself would destabilise the economy. And of course it did, but not as much as actual Brexit will. Very little has changed economically because the only real difference at the moment is that 'Brexit means Brexit' and the pound has tanked. When Brexit actually happens, if we leave the single market, there's going to be hell on.

brilliant

Hull fans seem confident... not sure why, exactly...

Great draw. Even if we lose, as has been said, we'll get a sense for where we are.

It seems Wham and Chelsea fans have decided to try to kill each other...

I like the bit where he says it'll be different on Saturday and then admits in the next line that he can't promise anything with respect of the scoreline, but that, basically, he's hoping and praying that they don't lose 6-0 again.

Comments from the poor soul who manages Preston: "I'm not going through that again on Saturday. This is a big arena; it's a big pitch - they make it big. It will be different on Saturday. "I'm not going to make promises that it's going to be a different scoreline, but I'd like to think that it will be. "We could have played our strongest team from Saturday and still been beaten tonight. The league is our priority, but we are hugely disappointed."

I was gonna post a video of someone saying it but really, it's not worth watching. To be fair to them though, Hong Kong comedy films have always been pretty good. Kung Fu Hustle is superb

He's right like, Howay. Villa fans and Essembee anyway.

Exactly.

Never been asked that. They have puns and word-play so it's kind of similar to ours. They lack the desolate, embracing-of-the-void style gallows humour of the Europeans though. So for instance, they have a finite number of word sounds, or syllables; English has as many as you can think of, but they're forced to combine the same sounds to make different meanings. Their verb for 'to be' is 'shi'. Shi can also (out of context) mean city, a grammatical particle, certain animals, and the number 10. Therefore, there is a Chinese poem that is made up entirely of the syllable 'shi'. It's multiple lines long, is ridiculous, but actually makes sense. The Chinese find it hilarious: Transcript (traditional Chinese): 《施氏食獅史》 石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。 氏時時適市視獅。 十時，適十獅適市。 是時，適施氏適市。 氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。 氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。 石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。 石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。 食時，始識是十獅屍，實十石獅屍。 試釋是事。 Phonetically spelled: « Shī Shì shí shī shǐ » Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī. Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì. Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì. Translation: « Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den » In a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions. He often went to the market to look for lions. At ten o'clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market. At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market. He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die. He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den. The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it. After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions. When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses. Try to explain this matter.

Does anyone seriously believe that we aren't talking about two sides of the same coin in the New Labour/Tory discussion? http://www.academia.edu/5373503/Blair_s_New_Labour_and_the_power_of_the_neoliberal_consensus https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/04/gordon-browns-legacy-rampant-neoliberalism

...? New Labour were pro austerity too, weren't they?

This is why it makes no fucking difference who you vote for in the establishment

...or maybe he wasn't less of a Neocon...

I have completely and utterly lost track of the CT references in here. Do you have to be a regular reader of the Food thread to get a lot of this?

It's a fair point - maybe the Guardian didn't release it in time for his planned speech. I can't imagine Corbyn is great at picking things up on the fly like that. I think this will run on for weeks though, so he'll have plenty of other opportunities.

I was just referring back to my other point... That you can be both Neocon and Neoliberal because one is a foreign policy strategy and the other is the prevailing ideology in all Western countries. Bill Clinton was less Neocon than many other presidents, but all recent ones have been Neoliberal.

That's Neoconservatism

There are no words...

The standard of jokes on here has been shocking recently. Worse than usual and that's saying something.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/26/jeremy-corbyn-attacks-theresa-may-at-pmqs-over-lack-of-brexit-strategy Labour seem to be finally getting their act together on this, sounds like they've really gone for May in PMQs today. Nice to see the party pulling the same way.

Maybe... fair enough if I'm wrong about this. Did the US have troops on the ground?