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Oh dear Terry.
There are perfectly good arguments for and against the EU which we can all express to the best of our ability. A good one against it is that it is a huge lumbering bureaucratic organisation and just running it is costly. I don’t agree with you but I can appreciate where some of your evidence comes from.
Whether you like the EU or not, you do know that most of our trade is with them and has been for many years. That is one of the main reasons we joined the club in the first place. Accepting that we should leave means accepting a complex and unmeasurable counter-factual about how our economic relations with the rest of the world would improve if we left. I also understand your point about costs but the direct costs have to be set against the regional aid we receive and the reversing of the positive trade effect we enjoyed when we joined.
All these things are of course debatable. As you are aware I believe that on balance we are better in a club with our European neighbours, who have political systems very much like ours, as opposed to trying in vain to expand our ties with English speaking countries, such as the USA, who have radically different political systems and economic interests.
Looking round here though we seem to have people on both sides of the argument as well as don’t knows. I think that is great and considerably better than much of the debate elsewhere on the web which frankly gets pretty racist and unpleasant at times.
I’m only too pleased to be debating on here (even with a little bit of below the belt banter) rather than just trading insults elsewhere.
:wink: :D 8)
Btw – you might want to explain the “cheese-eating, surrender monkey” statement. I’m not sure I get it or its historical roots.
no-one really know what……
flabbergasted.
Another day wasted waiting for an important delivery!
@pepsi wrote:
No surprises – Radiohead
Time is a train
Makes the future the past……Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glassU2 Zoo Station
You lock the cuffs in your pocket around my wrist
I’ll even let you pretend that I didn’t resist
Sing me a kiss, sing to me?
in the shape of…..
Eeeek.
If it didn’t work before . . . . . . . . .
My answer to your questions would be
- Long distance relationships can definitely work and they have for me in he past.
Going back. Maybe but only maybe. Did it once to try to mend a broken heart and it just hurt me even more.
People make all sorts of excuses to themselves about why they can’t find a relationship or make their current relationship work, chief amongst them being something from the past they never found again.
I have at least one ex who seems to accept who I am better than my current partner and often seems to be more of a friend. Even if I was tempted (and neither of us are) I would need to remind myself that she doesn’t have to live with me and there were plenty of reasons why we didn’t make it work.
My instinct would be to move forward, but I do know people who got back together with and old flame and are now happily married with children.
Do what feels right. At worst, you can only mess it up. Whatever option you go for you can never be sure it was for the best.
At the very least feel really flattered that she feels this way about her time with you, and get some confidence for the rest of your life from that.
@anc wrote:
Probs couldn’t twitter you! 8)
Hehe.
Bizarrely they could Twitter me – it’s just my name!
:roll:
@anc wrote:
@terry wrote:
@momentaryloss wrote:
@terry wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
Good post, momentary.
A post that Gordon Brown would’ve been proud of.
I think there may be something less than flattering in what you have just said.
I’m off to cry.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
No offence intended.
Having said that, I do feel that yourself, panda and sceptical guy fall into the category of the blind leading the blind.
Are you after a fight or what?! lmao :D
Goes over my head – just like your husband’s baked potato!
My potato was cold by the time I sorted out my training resources with a famous international delivery company. They have my address and mobile number and they need more details. Really?
:?
@panda12 wrote:
Just had lunch, Momentary!
I think some ppl forget we don’t have an Empire to rape and pillage anymore.
Sadly I haven’t – just getting a bit too involved.
I hear a baked potato calling – I know how to live!
