Meenzer 15524 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Don't worry, sleep tightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Bobby McFerrin didn't commit suicide while I'm at it I only looked this up to confirm in the last few days. 11:11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21915 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Sounds like an urban myth that one. Like 'Dead Ringers' being about bells in coffins. Had a look and the OED seems to back that up, saying it's an archaic use of the adverb tightly meaning 'soundly, properly, well, effectively'. Bobby McFerrin didn't commit suicide while I'm at it i'm not having that. a charming old dear in dressed in full georgian attire told me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Living standards are falling again: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/living-standards-fall-first-time-since-2014-uk-inflation-pay-growth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 i'm not having that. a charming old dear in dressed in full georgian attire told me. Apparently it wasn't in common usage until well after the Georgian era. I checked when I was bored yesterday Good story though. Funnily enough I had a book bought for me a good while ago that was full of these sayings and there supposed origins. I subsequently found out the book was bollocks and most of their claims were based on these types of myths. Can't remember many of them but it definitely made the claim bells were put if coffins hence 'dead ringers' which sprang to mind. Which is fucking ridiculous, if you think about it. I mean, how would that work? Just made me think of something actually, anyone remember that Alfred Hitchcock Presents... where the convict trying to escape gets buried alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Rumours of snap election. Statement at 11.15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Oh ffs, that's the last thing we need right now. Corbyn is so far out of the game that we may as well call it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Still bigger than evens so it could be something else. Mystery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I mean, unless we're about to declare war on someone (which is highly unlikely given that Trump hasn't officially done this either, and that our statement would never be out before his) I can't think what else it could be. She might be resigning I suppose? Wild optimism but still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Would be odd calling an election right after triggering article 50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 There was some suggestion that this might be done so that each party could make a case for their vision of Brexit though. May has perhaps concluded that the Tories are fucked if they deliver the ramshackle Brexit they're putting together without a clear mandate to do so from the populace. If this is a snap election, it's a buck passing exercise. From her to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15524 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 There was some suggestion that this might be done so that each party could make a case for their vision of Brexit though. May has perhaps concluded that the Tories are fucked if they deliver the ramshackle Brexit they're putting together without a clear mandate to do so from the populace. If this is a snap election, it's a buck passing exercise. From her to us. Yep, that would be her argument, and with the opinion polls showing 40%+ for the Tories and a residual 10%-ish for UKIP, if that's repeated in a GE (even before we get to the landslide the Tories would get seat-wise under FPTP) then they can absolutely go ahead with the "overwhelming will of the people" line like they have with the 51.8% from the referendum. Fun times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15524 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Who knows though, maybe it'll just be a U-turn on a second Scottish referendum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Stepping down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 The Guardian seems to think that the fact Downing Street isn't making an attempt to correct the rumour that it is an election, despite the pound collapsing, suggests that it is almost certainly an election. FFS. If Labour has any sense, they won't back it. They don't though, so they will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21915 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 snap election. no brainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21915 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 labour have never been weaker and she secures a mandate to pull the country's trousers down over brexit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 She does need Labour to agree though, she can't just do it unilaterally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15524 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 It'll be good news for Labour in the long run, I suppose, as it's the only way to get rid of Corbyn. Pity about the whole hard Brexit and electoral irrelevance thing in the meantime though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4378 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 It'll be good news for Labour in the long run, I suppose, as it's the only way to get rid of Corbyn. Pity about the whole hard Brexit and electoral irrelevance thing in the meantime though. That's how I see it - itll be very painful though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 It will get rid of Corbyn but at the cost of utterly devastating the country - it's going to be hard Brexit for sure. God damn Cameron, he's fucked everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 CT will be happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Unless she's announcing sugar taxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 BBC suggesting that a June 8th election is being announced... one source though, not confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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