Brexcuses

[don4l]

bmw535i said:

£350m isn't a lot, we give that to the EU every week

I've only just found this thread. That was a brilliant comment.

Clearly, you were joking because we will be using the £350M a week to fund the NHS.

[cymtriks]

We made the right decision.

Just look at the utter rubbish that the Remainers have come out with and be glad that we have rejected them.

Our future Olympics are doomed, Jews will flee and global warming will make us starve. Seriously?

No matter what Brexit brings at least we didn't follow those idiots.

[anonymous-user]

They're utter mentalists

[turbobloke]

cymtriks said:

Our future Olympics are doomed, Jews will flee and global warming will make us starve. Seriously?

It's weally weally wight-on

Part of the above has been done before (from the 60s on) even better than that, but foolish people never learn.

Erroneous Environmentalist Erlich said:

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.

By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.

If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

[BlackLabel]

There are 32,000 non-British EU academics making up 17% of UK university teaching and research posts. According to Scientists for EU and German researchers the vast majority of these 32k may leave post Brexit.

Seems legit.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/25/...

[turbobloke]

That's freedomm of movement and freedom of choice.

Some good opportunities for British post-docs may be on the horizon; much better than PhDs flipping burgers, for everyone concerned.

[crankedup]

People in France seem really uptight over the UK Brexit, I reckon they are jealous

[don'tbesilly]

BlackLabel said:

There are 32,000 non-British EU academics making up 17% of UK university teaching and research posts. According to Scientists for EU and German researchers the vast majority of these 32k may leave post Brexit.

Seems legit.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/25/...

Nearly 32,000!

I hope there are nearly 32,000 available positions within the EZ to accommodate them all, given the unemployment rate was 10.1% in the EZ in August, which was down on previous months, they all might struggle to find a job.

cut....nose....face springs to mind.

It's the Guardian though, so hardly surprising.

[don4l]

turbobloke said:

cymtriks said:

Our future Olympics are doomed, Jews will flee and global warming will make us starve. Seriously?

It's weally weally wight-on

Part of the above has been done before (from the 60s on) even better than that, but foolish people never learn.

Erroneous Environmentalist Erlich said:

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.

By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.

If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

Erroneous???

I don't believe that anyone in history has ever been as wrong as Erlich...

...apart from all the journalists at the Guardian, of course.

These idiots refuse to learn from their mistakes.

Erlich still believes that he was right, even though the last 40 years have proved him wrong about almost everything that he predicted.

[mybrainhurts]

BlackLabel said:

There are 32,000 non-British EU academics making up 17% of UK university teaching and research posts. According to Scientists for EU and German researchers the vast majority of these 32k may leave post Brexit.

Seems legit.

I know one who'e just arrived here from Germany. He has no intention of going back. Seems university staffing cultures in some EU countries makes progress impossible unless you're part of the old boy network.

So, maybe not as bad as the Grauniad makes out.

[davepoth]

mybrainhurts said:

I know one who'e just arrived here from Germany. He has no intention of going back. Seems university staffing cultures in some EU countries makes progress impossible unless you're part of the old boy network.

So, maybe not as bad as the Grauniad makes out.

Of course it isn't. In the report they mention less than 40 cases of people either turning down jobs or leaving. By their own admission that's around 0.15% of the total. Hardly a disaster; in any case there are plenty of academics to replace them - ironically they'll probably all come from the EU.

[FiF]

mybrainhurts said:

BlackLabel said:

There are 32,000 non-British EU academics making up 17% of UK university teaching and research posts. According to Scientists for EU and German researchers the vast majority of these 32k may leave post Brexit.

Seems legit.

I know one who'e just arrived here from Germany. He has no intention of going back. Seems university staffing cultures in some EU countries makes progress impossible unless you're part of the old boy network.

So, maybe not as bad as the Grauniad makes out.

On the other hand I can think of three cases where happy to see the back of individuals, and there are some very bright post docs with teaching and supervisory experience ready to step up. Is that being too nasty? Perhaps not seeing as 2 out the 3 post docs are from RoW, no xenophobia here.

[dudleybloke]

I would even say that 0.15% is probably below normal annual staff turnover by some margin.

[anonymous-user]

crankedup said:

People in France seem really uptight over the UK Brexit, I reckon they are jealous

My European friends are all slightly jealous but nervous for us. The one exception is my good french friend and his wife who live in London and work for a French bank who are furious because they don't want to move to Paris!

[don4l]

fblm said:

crankedup said:

People in France seem really uptight over the UK Brexit, I reckon they are jealous

My European friends are all slightly jealous but nervous for us. The one exception is my good french friend and his wife who live in London and work for a French bank who are furious because they don't want to move to Paris!

I was over in Ireland a few weeks ago.

The Irish are far more angry than our Remainers. It was fantastic fun.

I had about 15 youngsters screaming at me at one point. They were absolutely convinced that they had beaten me when I admitted that Brexit would not be good for Ireland. I was, after all, clearly a traitor.

Well, I am not a traitor. I was born in London!

This little fact annoys Irish people far more than it annoys you Remainers.

The rage from them was far better than any reaction that I have managed to get here.

[FN2TypeR]

Why were they mad - the potential economic ramifications for Ireland or some other reason?

[Einion Yrth]

don4l said:

Well, I am not a traitor. I was born in London!

As your namesake Donall O Conaill noted, "being born in a stable does not make a man a horse." (Sorry can't be arsed to find the fada).

[FN2TypeR]

Einion Yrth said:

don4l said:

Well, I am not a traitor. I was born in London!

As your namesake Donall O Conaill noted, "being born in a stable does not make a man a horse." (Sorry can't be arsed to find the fada).

Sounds like something a BNP or National Front member would say.

[Einion Yrth]

FN2TypeR said:

Einion Yrth said:

don4l said:

Well, I am not a traitor. I was born in London!

As your namesake Donall O Conaill noted, "being born in a stable does not make a man a horse." (Sorry can't be arsed to find the fada).

Sounds like something a BNP or National Front member would say.

Sorry, what?

[don4l]

Einion Yrth said:

don4l said:

Well, I am not a traitor. I was born in London!

As your namesake Donall O Conaill noted, "being born in a stable does not make a man a horse." (Sorry can't be arsed to find the fada).

You are not wrong.

Life is great fun.