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  • An adult post from someone who is not OLD STUPID AND UNEDUCATED! Thank you FUDDLE from the bottom of my troubled heart, you are the voice of reality and experience and you speak the truth from that experience. Your post is humbling and I thank you for it so much!!!
  • Witless
    Witless Posts: 728 Forumite
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    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

    You have confidence in the unelected politicians in the EU?

    OK.

    I've freely admitted that I'm a bear of little brain.

    I also freely admit that I despise sound-bites, partly because I don't understand them but mostly because they're meaningless.

    Could someone please explain 'unelected politicians in the EU'?

    Am I the only one that remembers voting in this election - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/events/vote2014/eu-uk-results

    Or do they mean 'unelected bureaucrats'?

    If so - would someone please remind me when we elected the bureaucrats in London,Edinburgh, Cardiff & Belfast?

    I certainly don't remember voting in that election.
  • boultdj
    boultdj Posts: 5,334 Forumite
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    mardatha wrote: »
    Do we grow tomatoes here commercially? Or is that going to become a rare fabled item spoken of in hushed terms lol

    Yes Mar,we do, the biggest grower is actualy british sugar and uses waste heat,water and spent air[something to do with higher co levels the plants love] and you might still be able to find the program in BBC archive or what ever they call it. It was done by Jammie O's freind, think was called Jimmy's food heroes.hth
    £71.93/ £180.00
  • ivyleaf
    ivyleaf Posts: 6,431 Forumite
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    jk0 wrote: »
    I've just been reading about U-boats on Wikipedia. Can you believe Germany are indeed still making them? This is a U32:

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    File:U-Boot_U32.jpg

    But no need to worry; U-boat (Untersee Boot) is simply the German for "submarine" :)
  • craigywv
    craigywv Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    hi all well i am all brexitted out so i thought i would come on here and talk about my garden as oh is away to watch Northern Ireland play and son is zoned out on playstation. regarding tomatoes i have 3 plants which have at least 8-10 green balls on them big excite about them! my 6 strawberry plants are in one of those clay plant pot jobbies with numerous holes in them and have so many berries i had to support the plants as they were being pulled out of the pot!
    blackcurrants roughly 10 pots of jam and i mean big pots shall be made as bushes are bent to the ground with weight of berries.
    gooseberry bush ...................bald as a coot!
    plum tree..............laden yehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
    red apple tree .............17 apples yes i have counted each one and keep checking them daily.
    golden deliscious............none.
    pear tree...........only got it this year.
    potatoes ....10 plants and they are thriving no sign of blight YET! i get it every year.
    lettuce,scallions,radishes,beets,all growing like mad i am delighted with this.
    all my herbs are good too.
    even my plants which i have perenials only are lovely i happy with my little garden.
    made 6 hanging baskets from bulbs and seeds cost total 12 quidish are going mad i love sweet pea and they are near touching the ground.
    the place where i work (the green one) have big big bags of sugar for a quid also same caster sugar,brown sugar and light brown sugar. great for prepping.yesterday was a horrendously busy day in work i def think peeps were panic buying a bit it was all longer life stuff ..................or maybe thats just me being over excited dont know could be the latter. well i away on to cheer on the boys and hope they win have a lovely weekend all xxx
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater :p I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)
  • jk0
    jk0 Posts: 3,479 Forumite
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    edited 25 June 2016 at 4:52PM
    ivyleaf wrote: »
    But no need to worry; U-boat (Untersee Boot) is simply the German for "submarine" :)

    Hmm. Bit tactless not to call them something else though. :)

    Rather like the national anthem still being the same tune (though different words) as 'Deutschland Uber Alles'.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 12,492 Forumite
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    fuddle wrote: »
    I simply put my thoughts into it and voted. Had we remained I would have accepted and got on with it. I feel we now must all get on with it. The time has passed for mud slaying but unfortunately 'passions' are continuing with accusations or nose rubbing within society. Of course, once a mood of finger pointing and name calling get wrapped under 'passion' it isn't going to be easy to change

    wow, triple wow, fuddle that was quite some post and I only quoted the end bit. Intelligent, thoughtful and calming. Such very wise words from a young person. Truly someone to look up to. Awesome
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    edited 25 June 2016 at 5:12PM
    :) As a middle-aged person with an undergraduate degree, I suppose I don't get filed in the old and uneducated camp.

    My pensioner parents would definately be so-filed by the chattering classes and the pollsters. They left school at 15. My mother was offered the chance to stay on until she was 16, but not to take any exams and only to repeat the same work she had done in the previous year. She couldn't see the point in that and went and got a job. She has not an academic qualification to her name but is a very bright and capable woman. And worked for 40+ years, paid her taxes and nursed elderly parents and raised children. So she can be dissed by a bunch of pr@ts with a fraction of her experience.

    My father also left school at 15. He does have one qualification, a GCSE in French (A*) earned at evening classes in his fifties. He reads books and newspapers in French. Not bad for one of the labouring classes. They've also travelled widely in France and Belgium, speaking French and reading it, as well as other parts of Europe, the parts with interesting cultural offerings and mountains, not the costa-del-booze up.

    Funnily enough, professional persons meeting my Dad out of context have constantly assumed that he is a university lecturer or at least a school history teacher, so great is his knowledge of European and world history.

    And my uneducated parents managed to produce two children with IQs certified after examination by MENSA as eligible to join. I let my membership lapse a long time ago, in disgust over the right-wingers and snobs I encountered among the egg-heads.

    Uneducated, among many generations, just meant didn't make it to grammar school and thus had a second-rate education courtesy of the state. My mother's school had a quota of children who could go up to the grammar school; half a dozen. If that quota was filled, tough, no matter how well you were doing. Such a situation pertained even in the 1970s in the hometown and was a dirty little not-so-secret among the more observant parents and acknowledged among the teachers to parents, in places like parents' meetings.

    I did go to the grammar school and to a prestigious university but, by gawd, did I encounter a lot of privileged, privately-educated arrogant nitwits among my peers. Some of them even tried to hire me to write their dissertations when they realised that I was winning the prizes for the best writing in our academic year. Shame I got ME in my final year or I could have made out like a bandit.:rotfl:

    Perhaps, if the pollsters could see past their predjudices, and listen with some interest to lengthy conversations with real people, rather than try to grab soundbites from people having a mic shoved in their faces when walking down the street, they might just learn something.

    Uneducated does not translate as stupid. A person's speech may be strongly-accented or ungrammatical but it doesn't mean that there isn't a sharp and perceptive mind behind it, a mind which can see through the bullsh*t very very clearly.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • Prepping wise I am off to Lidl one day this week and I shall be buying in basics such as flour, oil, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, soap, herbs and spices, corned beef, tuna, ham in tins, instant mash, bread mixes, crispbreads, lentils, dried fruit , tea and many other long term store items in fair quantity to top up supplies I've been running down because of use by dates. I shall also be combing the sales for undies, a new warm winter coat, new winter shoes and other useful investments to put in waiting for when my current ones wear out. Not panic buying as I'll only get things I normally use and not in huge quantities, just enough to see us through a couple of months. I'll also be working hard putting stuff into the freezer, dehydrating things and making jam and preserves and pickles to add flavour to blander foods. It seems only sensible to do so.
  • machasraven
    machasraven Posts: 106 Forumite
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    I have joined after lurking for a few years both fuddle and greyqueen you both speak total sense. I too voted to leave after after many many nights of hunting out the facts. I too am according to the polls an uneducated person but it only because school was boring.
    My reasoning was as the EU being a business. In 40 years the market share has fallen from over 30% to 16.5% also the number of customers today is 28 out of 51 of which 11 customers pay in to the business and the other 17 take everything possible from the profits. Also those that pay have an extra surcharge added to provide for those unable to pay. then to be able to remain as a customer there are many rules added some which which work in favour but unknown to the average person many that cause hardship to those who put the groundwork in providing the basic goods for a single business.
    I know this is gross over simplificatin but is the basic way that the EU is conducted.
    “HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)” - Sir Terry Pratchett
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