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On a sunny day (Wed, 18 May 2022 19:10:54 +1200) it happened snipped-for-privacy@f1.n.z2.fidonet.org (Vincent Coen) wrote in snipped-for-privacy@f1.n.z2.fidonet.org>:

Yes, languages, here in the Netherlands we learn Dutch, French and German all required in high school Later I did some Spanish. As I have satellite TV with a movable dish I can get so many countries, one of those is Russia TV1 on Hotbird 13 degrees East I like to listen to different viewpoints and now with the war in Ukrain I sometimes watch that Russian channel. My Russian is bad (understatement), but then a while back I picked up some words from that channel and last week I was stunned listening to some guy and then realized I understood what he was talking about. Language is a funny thing, maybe easier to learn than you think. Here in kindergarten, I already got some French,

.. A common language for the whole EU? I dunno, grin: Think English is out now they left, OTOH then all have to learn it so equal effort for everybody, why not.

Not *that* many ...

Euro opt-out ... plenty others obliged to join but <cough>waiting</c> for years Schengen opt-out ... several including Ireland EMU opt out ... maybe only Denmark? The rebate ... chalk one up for Maggie

We got out just in time.

And there is a cat that needs belling.

No one in Britain objected to *an* EU.

We objected to *this* one, and the pandemic and Ukraine has shown why. Too slow to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, offers no military protectioni all, and is comprised of incompetent corrupt people no one has ever heard of who cannot be fired.

It is essentially a copy of the USSR, minus the tanks (so far)

Not surprsising since it was designed by a communist.

Well when your country is smaller than a British county, it is not surprising

The idea of unifying Europe is great. It's the reality of the EU that is such a mess.

Er no, it is the EU that has problems with Ireland's border.

No, they do not.

That says it all

Only of EU produce. No one buys it any more if they can avoid it.

With the whole of Africa desperate to sell vegetables and fruit to the UK, who needs Spain Italy and Greece, not to mention S American produce?

- all in the shops now. EU produce simply has too much red tape - its over priced and its EU.

Its easier to buy tech from China than from the EU. China wants to trade. Its not a closed shop.

The problem he has is that the unelected house of lords naturally supports the unelected Brussels EU, so getting any legislation through would be hard, and he doesn't really care anyway.

But I think the time is coming. By the way opinion polls show that well over half of Scotland and Northern ireland want to stay in the UK.

And that has been a f****ng disaster as well.

I was able to get hold of a Pi4 with only 2G memory recently. I'm happy to say that it *comfortably* runs a rather complex soft-synth, along with a fully featured sequencer :)

The EU has problems with the UK not sticking to its agreement about the Ireland's border. Or more accurately, borders - between the north and south, the the UK and the the north.

Consensus now that Sinn Fein's had a decent election showing is that the writing's on the wall for the north - reunification will happen. Sooner rather than later.

But agreed, it's unlikely that the north would vote for reunification if there was an election tomorrow.

You're not alone :-)

Insofar as any of that is true, any issues with the EU being a 'closed shop' are a direct result of the negotiated Brexit agreement. We knew what we were signing up to. We signed. We have now decided we don't like it.

And the notion that China is a free and unfettered market is laughable.

Attempts to "dissolve" nations- sort of like the Russians are trying as we speak - is precisely what cause the pen to fail and the sword to come back.

Ah, you mean like it was before the EU? When in 1967/68 I took my car across the channel, showed my passport and green card, and immediately was able to cross France and then do the same to enter Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Germany, Austria, Spain, even communist Yugoslavia. So I don't understand your comment.

It's the EU that has the problem, not us.

The Irish speak English, too - they're still in.

And Greenland, Iceland, and Switzerland took the "we're not going to join" opt-out. They formally withdrew their applications to join. Small countries, yes, but one has to wonder why.

Eire population ~5M - already free of the UK N Ireland population ~2M - about half want independence.

So a majority for freedom from the UK

That wasn't what he meant. In NI and Scotland the majority want to remain in the UK, NI is not ROI, and there is no country called 'Ireland'

Its staggering how ill informed most people who subscribe to the EU, are.

But like Russia, disinformation is what the EU does best...

The old myth that the EU, rather than nuclear weapons, is what stopped the next European war.

Oh look how successful its being. Germany and Hungary have to have Russian gas and cant afford to upset Putin. Faugh! Its all a sham.

Precisely.

Sweden stayed out of the Euro and saved its economy.