@Rembrandt He had some interesting points although he did also argue that he needs an AR-15 in case he gets attacked by a bear.
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@Billy-Webb That's my view as well. Neither side can move on the backstop at this point as they've spent too much capital on it. Unless Boris get's rolled it's looking like no deal.
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@MajorRage Is Boris serious about finding a solution though?
Why hasn't anyone tabled a proper proposal for the border yet - they've had months to at least come up with some sort of feasible workaround but nothing concrete has been proposed yet. There must be a technological solution that can track freight without requiring physical inspection at the border. So why hasn't anyone in the UK put the effort into working it out?
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@Victor-Meldrew One question I’ve not seen properly debated is how MPs that have remain constituencies should vote. Are they disrespecting the result of the referendum by voting in line with the preference of their constituents?
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Fuck it. This is how I would have liked it to play out:
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At end of series six all seven rulers would have met and decided to send their armies north to face the Night King. Tyrion convinces Cersei that they are the last of the Lannisters and it's the right thing to do. She reluctantly agrees that there's no point in having the crown when her children are dead.
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Cersei then finds out she's pregnant so decides to hang on to the crown for her son. She also looks at a map of Westeros and correctly deduces that the North is massive and will be overrun and the only place to stop the army of the dead is the Neck. (Think Thermopylae with flaming peat bogs). She decides to cut the North loose (correctly figuring they will refuse to abandon their lands) and tells Jaime to fortify the Twins and prevent the other five armies marching north as they'll be needed to defend the Neck.
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Night King really starts to fuck shit up in the north. Danaerys realises her advisers are idiots, have fucked it up and they are trapped. She flies south to convince Cersei to let reinforcements go north.
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Cersei barricades population in Kings Landing and tells Dany that she's put wildfire all around the city and one spark from Drogon will create a Dresden fire storm. Cersei plays on Dany's mad daddy issues about burning the city and mocks Dany that the North is fucked and her army is about to be wiped out. Dany has moral quandary - destroy Kings Landing or everyone in the north dies. So she incinerates Cersei and in doing so the entire city goes up.
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Dany then confronts Jamie who bends the knee. But he then explains again how strategically the North is already fucked and should be abandoned (he can call back to how he abandoned Casterly Rock to show he actually understands this). Dany realises Cersei was actually right after all and she should have listened to her. She then flies North and pulls her armies out.
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Night King overruns the North but gets stuck at the Neck due to flaming peat bogs and flaming dragons. Meanwhile Bran (who I would have left in his cave) works out how to use his tree network and warg skills to provide real time communication allowing various raids to kill each of the white walkers. Each one killed takes out 10% or so of the army of the dead. Move the Hodor scene here - once the Night King works out who is coordinating the attacks he can assault the cave and Hodor can have a more meaningful end.
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Night King gets desperate as his army is destroyed and decides himself to force through the Neck and is defeated (don't really care how or by who).
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Cue big celebration at Winterfell to celebrate the victory (also J+D wedding perhaps?). Jon tells Sansa how she reminds him of Ned. Sansa comments that her mother taught her some lessons too. She then orders repeat of Red Wedding and Dany, Unsullied and Dothraki are all killed. Jon goes for Sansa. Arya sticks him with the pointy end. Sansa makes the point that Dany's decisions killed entire population of Kings Landing and the North so had it coming.
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Sansa is Queen in North. She tells the other kingdoms all to fuck off and rebuilds the wall on her southern border (got to stop all the other kingdoms sending their rapers and murderers across the border...).
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Final shot - iron throne is abandoned in the ruins of the Red Keep.
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Ending was fine. A bit too neat as people have said above but at least wrapped everything up. I think the issue I (and many others) have with the last few series is that characters started to act to 'type' as noted above. The evil people were always evil. The good were always good etc. What was interesting about the earlier series was that the people who always acted 'good' tended to die and the people who were morally ambiguous but played the odds correctly tended to live.
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Mandatory UK police training video
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Those ballista were just a bit OP. Semi automatic. Recoiless. Presumably rifled as those bolts flew dead straight. Must have been gimballed as weren’t affected by pitching of the boat. 100 percent accurate at picking out high altitude moving targets. No ranging shots needed. But that could have been because the bolts were unaffected by gravity so no ballistic trajectory to worry about.
Stealth tech included on the ships too.
I can see why they weren’t too worried by all those ballista on KL at the end though. They would have hit Doorne before they hit a target 50 feet away. While she’s waiting for Jon Snow to arrive, Cersei should start raining artillery down on Winterfell.
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@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD Nah we stuck the “kick me” sign on our own back. We just didn’t think they’d put the boot in because they’re our friends. And because they’re lazy Euros. And they need us more than we need them. And because we’re the fucking British Empire wot wot.
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@MajorRage My insurance company keeps asking me to put a black box on my car but I’d rather pay the higher premium thanks. You can guarantee they would use any indiscretion to deny cover.
To another point you’ve raised, the EU is also mandating alcohol immobilisers that would be activated on cars for anyone serving a DUI conviction.
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@MajorRage isn’t the point though that they won’t be able to drive like a nut job (or at least, not a speeding nut job).
To spin it round, when I buy my son his first car I absolutely support him not being able to speed in it. I can still remember what a shit driver I was at 15 and how fast I drove.
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@MajorRage @Kirwan I'm happy to disagree with views on this. I think it's a good idea. It's always seemed odd to me that speed limiters on cars were north of 100mph when the legal limit was 70mph. I'd support fully limiting cars to no more than 20% over the speed limit at any time.
I'm much more likely to get killed by some kid driving like an idiot than I am having to outrun a tsunami. And the proposal is that it works as a warning system but can be overridden (at least until they change that part of it).
I disagree that people have a right to make their own decision when that decision is a deliberate choice to break a law that is in place for my safety.
In any event, once cars are autonomous there won't be any speeding anyway.
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@MajorRage The theoretical benefit of another vote would be to get an actual mandate to do something. The politicians have failed miserably so they need to find a way through.
The problem is that the politicians now won't be able to agree on what question to ask. May's deal vs no deal? Deal vs remain? No deal vs fantasy managed no deal. Labour will also want their fantasy deal on the table. So I think this will also get bogged down.
A general election would, in theory, also work, but in all likelihood, no party will run with a coherent manifesto on Brexit so nothing will really change.
I agree that May's deal is rubbish. Which is what you get when you chuck all leverage away at the beginning of the process.
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@MajorRage said in Brexit:
Situation is royally fucked!
Now there’s an idea! Get the Queen to dissolve parliament and go all Charles I on the situation to sort it out. Bring back the divine right of Kings (or Queens).
The Tower is still fit for purpose for anyone who disagrees.
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@Catogrande It's ironic that we're now in a position where whether or not we leave with no deal is probably going to be decided by the EU. We haven't done a great job so far of taking back control. Even worse, each EU member has to agree. So Malta, for example, has the ability to totally fuck up our economy. (Although Malta always votes for us in Eurovision so we should be OK.)
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@Catogrande Technically it seems the house could override the speaker by either suspending the standing orders or closing and reopening parliament (as the rule only apply during the same session of parliament). But I think she'd need a house majority to do that.
They could also unilaterally withdraw and resubmit Article 50 and restart the 2 year clock. But that would also be very unpopular.
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@Siam said in Racism in NZ:
Do you believe any race is inherently better or worse than another?
Looks at men's 100m field. Scratches head....
But I basically agree with what you're saying which is that judge people as individuals. Race shouldn't form part of the calculus.
I do find it odd though that if I do mention that there are, across populations, differences between races that I am a racist. It would amuse me to take a "Check your privilege" sign to the next 100m final.
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@No-Quarter said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@Calf I don't agree with the overall slant of the article - Muslims themselves make up the majority of victims of Islamic terror - but it does raise an interesting point re: lack of coverage/outrage over these absolute atrocities in third world countries.
Might be I'm biased as my wife is from a 3rd world country, but the selective outrage, and also the skewed view we have of terrorism due to largely ignoring what happens around the world doesn't sit well with me. I do understand that western media will focus on western countries, but terrorism is not a western issue; it's a global issue that also impacts the west.
I agree with all of that. Coverage is definitely imbalanced and third world issues are routinely ignored by western media.
Journalists using this event as evidence for their own pet conspiracy theories can fuck off though. And to add to this, CNN going out of their way to make this about Trump is equally fucking annoying.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
This article makes a salient point. Do black Christian lives matter less?
Obviously to New Zelaanders at the moment .. yes! But the world media? Supposedly liberal and hating of racism?What a fucked article.
Nice to use a tragedy to push their political POV. I’m pretty sure if it was a Christian Church that had been attacked in NZ it would have made the mainstream news. It’s more newsworthy in first world countries because it happened in a first world country. Just like 7/7 or any other Islamic attack in a Western country has had massive coverage.
Yeah, the Western media doesn’t report on mass killings in Africa and the Middle East because they are third world basket cases with little relevance to their readers. And mass killings happen there all the time so aren’t news.
I mean fuck, even Fox has had it front page every day and they’re not even fake news right?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Brexit:
Brexiteers (Boris Johnson, Liam Fox, Dominic Raab, David Davis) were put in charge of the process
It's a complete myth they were put in charge of the process and that's the problem.
The negotiations were handled (in secret) by Theresa May and Ollie Robbins - a senior civil servant. The first time Brexiteers like Michael Gove, Liam Fox & David David heard about May's Chequers plan for withdrawal was when she presented to Cabinet - and Davis was Brexit Secretary, FFS. That's why the likes of David Davis & Dominic Rabb resigned - May shut them out of the process.
The current Brexit mess is mainly down to May. She has made a complete pig's ear of this and has alienating everyone by changing her mind continuously and with breath-taking incompetence. Just look at the current fiasco where she hailed Tuesday's agreement as sorting out the backstop issue without having it checked legally first.
The other view on that is that they deliberately stayed clear of the process to avoid being tainted. I think it was reported that David Davis only attended half a day of negotiations for his whole stint as Brexit secretary. (Raab, to be fair, came in when it was pretty much all sewn up.)
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