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MrMe said:
What younger people forget is that the UK joined the European Economic Community, a trans-western-european free market, and not a United States of Europe.

There's a lot of money and trade on the line of both sides, so it's not like EU member states are going to completely freeze out the UK.
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No one is freezing anyone. The EU countries trade with almost every other country out there.
UK will trade with the rest of Europe as a non-EU partner, that's it.
 
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Well, the UK could always return to EFTA.
 
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stoper said:
No one is freezing anyone. The EU countries trade with almost every other country out there.
UK will trade with the rest of Europe as a non-EU partner, that's it.
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Yes, but as members of the dominant free market, the EU members now hold significant power over the terms they can impose on us. For as many restrictions as EU law included, it also contained a massive amount of protections. In recent decades the UK has never been a major exporter of anything but financial services, and an importer of physical trade goods. A weak Pound can potentially be a benefit to our meagre physical exports, but is an unmitigated disaster for the financial sector and imports.

Now we're out of the club, we've got nothing to leverage against them anymore. If we want EU imports, we're going to have to answer to them more than ever now.
 
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Related, but not news

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And what happened today? Brits scoring an own goal, provoked by other Brits... :p
 
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Not that I'm glad the UK is going to be so hurt by this but I'm slightly glad that my country isn't the only one fucking itself over in a big way via voting. I know it is always happening but this is happening to the UK so I actually notice.
 
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MrMe said:
Late 20s
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Not to say it invalidates anything, but marking off other people as youngsters who don't know any better when you're not even 30 seems..
 
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I'm 26
GIT OFF MAH LAWN!
 
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I started to say that most people in their 20's are more intelligent than the average teenager, but then I remembered that college students tend to be in their 20's. :rolleyes:

Also, I don't remember being any smarter when I was in my 20's than when I was a teenager.

I consider myself to be more intelligent now that I'm in my 30's.
Then again, I've been posting in these forums quite a bit lately so me being more intelligent now than when I was younger is highly questionable.
 
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It's hard to correlate age and intelligence, given that so many old people have a hard-on for simplistic fearmongering.
 
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ToxicShock said:
Not to say it invalidates anything, but marking off other people as youngsters who don't know any better when you're not even 30 seems..
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Indeed. My version of youngsters is... Well. Actual kids. 14 and below. I'll be 29 in September.

On point though, I have a friend that gets a stipend of pounds to pay her rent in the Netherlands where she lives right now and she is unable to make rent now because of how much the pound went down.

This is a bad situation.
 
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HAHAHAHA can it be tiem for WW3 yet?

Seriously though, you'd think the UK had armed it's nukes and pointed them at the remaining EU!

Of course the pound was going to drop on a vote to leave, the fucks that decide that shit (indirectly) are so conservative and fearful any deviation from the status quo gives them hives.
 
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ToxicShock said:
Not to say it invalidates anything, but marking off other people as youngsters who don't know any better when you're not even 30 seems..
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Uhhh.... 'younger people [voters]' doesn't automatically mean younger than me, the internet doesn't revolve around me.


I mean younger voters as the collective term for the voters that are the young spectrum of the electorate.
You know, the ones that are the majority whining that the 'old farts' voted out and won't be around as long to deal with the fall out.


Actually when you think of it, the old farts will be the worse off.
Their closer to retirement, their retirement funds might still be fucked when they retire, whereas the younger generation will have ample time for the economy to recover.

Paladox said:
I started to say that most people in their 20's are more intelligent than the average teenager, but then I remembered that college students tend to be in their 20's. :rolleyes:

Also, I don't remember being any smarter when I was in my 20's than when I was a teenager.

I consider myself to be more intelligent now that I'm in my 30's.
Then again, I've been posting in these forums quite a bit lately so me being more intelligent now than when I was younger is highly questionable.
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Fun thing to try:
Go to your old forum hang outs and look up your old posts from >5 years ago.

And then think and ask yourself if you feel any smarter than you were back then.
 
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Chibichibi said:
Spain could re-take Gibraltar if they wanted to make a move
Morgan Stanley have started the process to move 2,000 investment banking staff from London to Dublin/Frankfurt
The New York stock exchange is down 500 points
A motion of No Confidence has been leveled at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
The UK has lost £350 billion so far

uhm.
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you forget the :

- they will get more migrants

lot of them have voted for the brexit thinking that will stop the immigration...
but here in france that talk about review the Touquet agreements, that was a agrement that make that the UK border was in nord france Calais, where they stoped the migrants, the france as no real reason to keep the UK border in is territory now, if that agrement broke, the migrants will be able to go to UK (surely by ilégal way) and the UK will not be able to send them back in any EU country, that will be their problem now
 
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MrMe said:
Uhhh.... 'younger people [voters]' doesn't automatically mean younger than me, the internet doesn't revolve around me.
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Well, young voters means young voters. Younger voters is comparative, and you were the one speaking.

So saying young voters, while you're late twenties, would mean that you are talking about a group you're in, and saying what some of them (yourself not included) do.
 
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In other news, that slipped under the radar for the last few days...

A cafe in Geneva is set to open offering a cup of coffee and a blowjob for 60-65 Francs.
 
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Interesting business model

I wish them the best of luck with it, it sounds like the kind of thing that would work

And on Brexit
As predicted, nothing will happen
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Because Scotland, which was overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the EU, is able to veto this by not consenting to the legislative process of leaving.

This means that the UK as a whole can not begin the procedure to leave the EU, and thus nothing changes except that a bunch of panicked politicians and stock market brokers have shown that they don't understand how the systems in place actually work and made fools of themselves.
Or the smarter ones have short sold before, bought cheap, and are now waiting for everyone else to realise that nothing is changing so back to normal

Always bet on bureaucracy, you'll always be right
 
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They're saying it's possible, but others believe that Scotland can't block it. So we'll see how it keeps playing out.
 
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