The United Kingdom and the Death of Boris Johnson as we know it.

[Turkish]

38 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

At least I have never been banned from an Internet forum or come on pretending to be someone I am not. Little wonder you side with Johnson. You share many of his traits.

As for “very angry,” no, just deeply frustrated that there are still people in this country who think that it is perfectly ok that Johnson remains as PM and that we are being governed by a bunch of total incompetents. 

I am not sure about using “very old” as a pejorative term. If you are fortunate enough one day you will be “very old.” Probably best to hope that there is no WW3 and you are called up to feed a submarine crew though. At least I will just be sat in an underground bunker regaling all those bored enough to listen with tales about strange characters on an Internet forum.

 

 

Rather than talk about character on an Internet forum won’t you be impressing them with your career prosecuting knife crime and rape, telling them how you did your bit for BLM by tipping your mixed race bar maid or explaining to them that the Useless PM is personally responsible for your significant personal debts?

[whelk]

Playing a blinder 

 

[AlexLaw76]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

Tony Blair grrrr. Saints are always shit. Russia big and strong. Trump is my hero. Public servants are lazy. Whinge whinge whinge. Liverpool are great.  Oh and I am a selfish cowardly cunt. Who am I?

Angry?

[whelk]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Angry?

Who not what thick boy. Keep coming back with the clever retorts though. Stinging

[AlexLaw76]

2 minutes ago, whelk said:

Who not what thick boy. Keep coming back with the clever retorts though. Stinging

Almost like the forum hard-man.

https://images.app.goo.gl/Lnx5kieyyVEqLD2L7

[badgerx16]

Boris is psychic.....

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/grant-shapps-claims-not-partying-27047663

"Tory Grant Shapps has bizarrely claimed Boris Johnson was “clearly not partying” when he raised fizz surrounded by booze at a No10 party.

The Cabinet ally said the Prime Minister "lost his mum during the period", despite the fact Charlotte Johnson Wahl died “suddenly” 10 months after the party happened."

Edited 28 May, 2022 by badgerx16

[sadoldgit]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Almost like the forum hard-man.

https://images.app.goo.gl/Lnx5kieyyVEqLD2L7

You think that is funny?

[badgerx16]

6 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

You think that is funny?

It's a selfie he took this morning.

[badgerx16]

2 more letters of no confidence submitted to Sir Graham Brady.

 

Drip, drip, drip.......

[rallyboy]

That's a bit harsh - they might be drips but at least they're doing the right thing at last.  😎

[badgerx16]

22 minutes ago, rallyboy said:

That's a bit harsh - they might be drips but at least they're doing the right thing at last.  😎

Ducky would call them soaking wet pinkos.

[Tamesaint]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Ducky would call them soaking wet pinkos.

Duckie would think that Genghis Khan was a Commie.

[moonraker]

Dead man walking, if by-elections go against him he’s finished.

 

 

[rooney]

The DT says that if the current polls  were replicated at  a General Election, Johnson would lose his seat at Uxbridge as well as all but three in the Red Wall. Now that really is a strong statement and time for more Tory Backbenchers to put pen to paper.

[Sheaf Saint]

1 hour ago, rooney said:

The DT says that if the current polls  were replicated at  a General Election, Johnson would lose his seat at Uxbridge as well as all but three in the Red Wall. Now that really is a strong statement and time for more Tory Backbenchers to put pen to paper.

It's OK, he's come up with a brilliant plan to win back those votes and make Brexit Britain truly great again...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee

[badgerx16]

16 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It's OK, he's come up with a brilliant plan to win back those votes and make Brexit Britain truly great again...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee

Anybody under 40 is likely to have no idea what pounds and ounces are. Let alone adding cost for industry with retooling packing machines.

[Whitey Grandad]

29 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It's OK, he's come up with a brilliant plan to win back those votes and make Brexit Britain truly great again...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee

They really are f****ing idiots.

[Sheaf Saint]

16 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Anybody under 40 is likely to have no idea what pounds and ounces are. Let alone adding cost for industry with retooling packing machines.

I'm 47 and the only vague memory I have of buying imperial weights is when I used get a quarter pound of sweets from the local newsagents as a young kid.

Still, I'm sure some of the fervent Brexit supporters on here will be along shortly to tell us what a great victory this will be to go with our blue passports.

[badgerx16]

6 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

I'm 47 and the only vague memory I have of buying imperial weights is when I used get a quarter pound of sweets from the local newsagents as a young kid.

Still, I'm sure some of the fervent Brexit supporters on here will be along shortly to tell us what a great victory this will be to go with our blue passports.

One thing they are pushing is that it will help trade with the US. Unfortunately, whilst the US pound and ounce are the same as the old Imperial measures, the US hundredweight and ton are smaller than the British versions, and US pints and gallons are similarly smaller.

[sadoldgit]

The Mail on Sunday making a big deal about the Crown having to be removed from pint glasses after an edict from the EU 18 years ago and now being brought back as part of a benefit of Brexit. Only there was no edict to remove the crown from pint glasses. But never mind, it makes for a brilliant jingoistic front page when you are trying to save Johnson’s job for him.

Edited 29 May, 2022 by sadoldgit

[badgerx16]

5 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

The Mail on Sunday making a big deal about the Crown having to be removed from pint glasses after an edict from the EU 18 years ago and now being brought back as part of a benefit of Brexit. Only there was no edict to remove the crown from pint glasses. But never mind, it makes for a brilliant jingoistic front page when you are trying to save Johnson’s job for him.

Surely you don't think facts are important in discussions over the Big Bad EU ? That's just Project Fear.

Edited 29 May, 2022 by badgerx16

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

One thing they are pushing is that it will help trade with the US. Unfortunately, whilst the US pound and ounce are the same as the old Imperial measures, the US hundredweight and ton are smaller than the British versions, and US pints and gallons are similarly smaller.

It won’t help at all with selling to the US.

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Anybody under 40 is likely to have no idea what pounds and ounces are. Let alone adding cost for industry with retooling packing machines.

I'd say probably closer to 60.  I'm way over 40 and only learnt imperial weights in my 20's from a fishmonger from Fleetwood.

[mack rill]

no way will we go back to imperial us fickos will realise we are paying £7.50 & more a gallon.

[Weston Super Saint]

5 minutes ago, mack rill said:

no way will we go back to imperial us fickos will realise we are paying £7.50 & more a gallon.

To be fair, that's not bad for moonshine.

[Whitey Grandad]

11 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I'd say probably closer to 60.  I'm way over 40 and only learnt imperial weights in my 20's from a fishmonger from Fleetwood.

When I started my engineering degree at Cambridge in 1968 we were the first year that used the metric SI system instead of imperial measurements. That was over half a century ago.

[Whitey Grandad]

7 minutes ago, mack rill said:

no way will we go back to imperial us fickos will realise we are paying £7.50 & more a gallon.

I can remember when you could get four gallons for under a £

[whelk]

I am hoping we can soon see the return of the 100yards sprint. I can never truly understand how long the 100metres actually is. 

[Tamesaint]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I'd say probably closer to 60.  I'm way over 40 and only learnt imperial weights in my 20's from a fishmonger from Fleetwood.

i exprct that,is when you also learned how to count.  😁

[Holmes_and_Watson]

I remember asking for a quarter of sweets when I was a nipper at an old newsagents. I had no idea what it was a quarter of, only that's what you said to get the right amount for your money.

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

I am hoping we can soon see the return of the 100yards sprint. I can never truly understand how long the 100metres actually is. 

That’s easy. It’s 109.361 yards approximately.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

My gran would mention LSD, which turned out to be old currency, and not a new age experience.

[Fan The Flames]

7 hours ago, rooney said:

The DT says that if the current polls  were replicated at  a General Election, Johnson would lose his seat at Uxbridge as well as all but three in the Red Wall. Now that really is a strong statement and time for more Tory Backbenchers to put pen to paper.

I've got a hit list of who I want to lose seats, my top five

Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Gullis, Baker, Mad Nads 

[Fan The Flames]

5 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

It's OK, he's come up with a brilliant plan to win back those votes and make Brexit Britain truly great again...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee

Brexit has jumped the shark.

[Fan The Flames]

"Johnson claimed that measuring in pounds and ounces was an “ancient liberty” as he heralded a “new era of generosity and tolerance” towards traditional measurements."

What a pathetic cunt.

[ecuk268]

2 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

When I started my engineering degree at Cambridge in 1968 we were the first year that used the metric SI system instead of imperial measurements. That was over half a century ago.

I remember back in the 70's trying to explain to my boss that kilograms were measures of mass and not weight, something that the imperial system doesn't seem to recognize.

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

i exprct that,is when you also learned how to count.  😁

Yep.  But I had spelling mastered by then  

[badgerx16]

4 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I'd say probably closer to 60.  I'm way over 40 and only learnt imperial weights in my 20's from a fishmonger from Fleetwood.

Other people refer to it as "the birds and the bees".

[badgerx16]

In a fabric shop last week my wife bought some material: it was measured in yards and sold by the kilogram.

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, ecuk268 said:

I remember back in the 70's trying to explain to my boss that kilograms were measures of mass and not weight, something that the imperial system doesn't seem to recognize.

That takes me back. Lbf, foot-poundals, British Thermal Units. What’s not to like?

[farawaysaint]

Oh Jesus duck I was taught the imperial system when I was six and don’t remember a thing. BORIS PLEASE NO I’M TOO OLD TO RELEARN THINGS.

[badgerx16]

Brexit is a scheme to take us back to the 50's, ( alternatively - to "level up" the entire country with the Isle of Wight ), this is merely a step in that journey.

[Turkish]

[31cc]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Brexit is a scheme to take us back to the 50's, ( alternatively - to "level up" the entire country with the Isle of Wight ), this is merely a step in that journey.

If you mean the 1850's Rees-Mogg is already there.

[Jeremy Corbyn]

I know the imperial measurements thing is supposed to stoke the culture war, but it feels like an own goal for the government as 1. Noone under 60 understands it so will see it as a pain and 2. I can imagine some brexiteers thinking "ermmm, is that the biggest benefit?".

Distraction from Partygate I guess.

[kyle04]

4 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

That takes me back. Lbf, foot-poundals, British Thermal Units. What’s not to like?

Exactly, UNF. UNC, Whitworth bolt thread pitches, bring them all back I say, together with everyone wearing a hat that signified their class in society. Not sure how we're going to deal with those pesky women who seem more interested in "working" than keeping their front step clean though...

[Fan The Flames]

So it's confirmed, dead cats are weigthed in pounds and ounces.

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Fan The Flames said:

So it's confirmed, dead cats are weigthed in pounds and ounces.

Ounce bounce. Bounce rhymes with ounce. There aren’t many words that rhyme with kilogram.

[badgerx16]

Less than 10% of recorded crimes result in criminal charges being brought. This is after 12 years of Government by "the Party of Law and Order".

[rallyboy]

and low taxes.