bencooper has no time for facts, bearGrease!
Not when I'm making a comparison for comic effect, no.
You probably need more smileys on this forum, ben - not everybody realises that you are never serious.
Well I say good luck to you George - rather than sitting about moaning and wailing you are doing something positive about your situation. It is a very brave move to change countries and I hope it is better for you and your family. The weather is certainly better, and the wine.
All this chat reminds me of a quote from former Kiwi PM Rob Muldoon on the brain drain to Australia. Something about every Kiwi who leaves for Australia raising the average IQ of both countries.
I'm hearing there's a new name for 'the 45' getting touted about, independent scots for independent scotland. or ISIS if you like! 😆
The pedant in me wants to correct people on facebook from 'the 45' to the 'the 37.8' ish.
I'm liking the Banksy cheeky modifications.
I'm hearing there's a new name for 'the 45' getting touted about, independent scots for independent scotland. or ISIS if you like!
Is "inward investment" a euphemism for air strikes, do you think?
Going by the number of beards at the Green meeting last night there might be something in this.
The pedant in me wants to correct people on facebook from 'the 45' to the 'the 37.8' ish.
We could call ourselves "The Crazy 37.8" in a Kill Bill style.
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It's actually an important point, at the moment there's a lot of anger and blame directed outward, which is correct to a point. But, and maybe it's just a little bit too early at the moment, but there's needs to be an introspective look as to why it didn't happen, rather than retype, i'll just paste my thoughts from elsewhere.piemonster - Member
The pedant in me wants to correct people on facebook from 'the 45' to the 'the 37.8' ish.
Well if you look at holyrood. You can say its not far off 50/50 unionist/pro Indy. It slightly favours pro Indy at the moment. So take the over all campaign and the biased media effect and you end up with around 45% yes.I think there's a direct corelation there. So basically we can account that a biased media will have around a 5 to 10% effect. So IMO next time the Scottish parliament needs to have a 60+% pro Indy majority for it to go through.
The effect that this will also have is that there are less Scottish msps arguing for independence. Allowing the debate to be more focused on Scotland v London.
All just my opinion of course.
I think there's a wee bit too much anger being directed outward away from the yes camp, rightly so. but we also need to use some of that energy to figure out what was wrong on our side.
A split parliament was one thing that was wrong. IMO.
Beyond that I think holyrood having a completely different ideological direction from westminster would help too. I don't think a replacing unionist msps with SNP ones will work either. I think the unionist msps need to be replaced with a pro Indy left wing opposition to demonstrate politics in an independent Scotland. Which will take away some of the doubt.
btw regarding "the45" it's really just a social media thing imo, It'll be gone soon enough.
You can't smash cultural hegemony through hashtags.
yip.
I'm glad I'm not in charge of the Daily Records social media. Not exactly the friendliest interactions.
at the moment there's a lot of anger and blame directed outward, which is correct to a point. But, and maybe it's just a little bit too early at the moment, but there's needs to be an introspective look as to why it didn't happen
like this?
