BREXIT. Why Is It Existentially Bad For The Elites? [CBD]

Okay....I got this from Elizabeth Hurley's twitter feed, so I am predisposed to approving of the sentiment.

The Washington Examiner had a good piece on it, interestingly titled, Brexit vote: It's more American than you think

But the possible withdrawal from the super-national government of the EU on the part of Great Britain is certainly, in the short term, bad for the financial markets. There were essentially no boundaries between the London financial markets and the rest of Europe, so a withdrawal will add complexity to the transactions between Britain and Europe...and that means added cost.

So who does that hurt? Certainly the green grocer at the end of the lane will be penalized in some small way. His financial transaction costs may rise slightly, and the cheap labor he uses to dump the trash and swab out the toilet will probably become more expensive as the labor market is slightly more restricted for "foreigners."

But it is JP Morgan and DeutscheBank and Goldman Sachs and HSBC and Barclay's and the heavy hitters in finance (and their wealthy customers) that will be penalized as well. And the organizations that thrive on cheap labor crossing porous or nonexistent borders will also be hurt.

Sound familiar?

Who will be helped?

That green grocer who pines for the days when being "British" was a point of pride. When he could think back about his grandfather, the fueler on some remote airfield, who helped Great Britain beat back the Luftwaffe onslaught during the summer of 1940, and realize that he was connected to a grand and glorious endeavor that was bigger than any one man. Or the 60 year old woman who saved up to visit her uncle's grave in France, and cried despite never having met him.

Eurotrash will never admit it or understand it, but there is something good about the simple declaration, "I am an Englishman."

They will have some small measure of pride in country returned to them, as the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels froth and seethe that they can no longer tell the British what size garbage bag must be used in which size can. Or the appropriate font for tinned meat labels....

Posted by: Open Blogger at 03:39 PM

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1 br-1

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 03:35 PM (pC96u)

2 good enough

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 03:36 PM (pC96u)

3
There just might always be an England after all.

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 03:36 PM (pC96u)

4 Should be interesting, for quite a number of reasons.

Posted by: HH at June 21, 2016 03:36 PM (DrCtv)

5 It's still not too late for them to change the name to Airstrip One on the way out!

Posted by: Gaff at June 21, 2016 03:37 PM (jPS2y)

6 Mmmmm that fresh thread smell

Posted by: TeamRawDog at June 21, 2016 03:37 PM (10hEu)

7 Exactly - local control instead of being governed by nameless, faceless bureaucrats in Belgium.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2016 03:37 PM (NOIQH)

8 Didn't she blow Clinton, too?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:38 PM (oeOT+)

9 Yes,better to be controlled by nameles faceless bureacrats in London.

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (B48dK)

10 Out. Is that another gay reference?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (IqV8l)

11 TEXIT!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (v5iqM)

12 Their government sucks even more badly than ours does.

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (B48dK)

13 "There were essentially no boundaries between the London financial markets "

Ping number one.

Posted by: Boss Taggert......TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (9ym/8)

14 Who wouldn't want every facet of their lives controlled by bureaucrats in Brussels who don't even have faces?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (8ZskC)

15 I want the Brexit to succeed if for no other reason than to know that we're not the only ones still fighting the fight of liberty.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 03:40 PM (KUaJL)

16 Seriously?

I'll be gobsmacked if Brexit succeeds.

Seriously gobsmacked.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 21, 2016 03:40 PM (C9pBZ)

17 >>Or the appropriate font for tinned meat labels....

Sans Serif!

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:40 PM (oeOT+)

18 Brussels has been telling England how much fossil fuel they could burn each year causing their coal fired plants to be shut down while it's still cold.

Posted by: Old Blue at June 21, 2016 03:41 PM (9iR5/)

19 Battle of Britain? Pfft. I thought that modern Brits all believe that the NHS is their greatest national achievement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2016 03:41 PM (8ZskC)

20 The Common Market was a great idea, the EU not so much.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at June 21, 2016 03:41 PM (evdj2)

21 I want this to happen just to see Soros lose his shit.

Posted by: Iblis at June 21, 2016 03:42 PM (9221z)

22 TEXIT

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at June 21, 2016 03:42 PM (evdj2)

23 I'm not sure that it matters a lot.

They made the right call at Maastricht in 1992.

"Sure, we'll sign your EU petition but we're keeping the Pound".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 03:42 PM (1xUj/)

24 Krugman's against it, so, you know.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:42 PM (CGjum)

25 "And the organizations that thrive on cheap labor crossing porous or nonexistent borders will also be hurt."

Ping Two.

Posted by: Boss Taggert......TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:42 PM (9ym/8)

26 21 I want this to happen just to see Soros lose his shit.
Posted by: Iblis at June 21, 2016 03:42 PM (9221z)

Some brave souls need to find and destroy his phylactery.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (KUaJL)

27 Shit. Get away, Boss

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (9ym/8)

28 I am Englishman!

Posted by: ~~John Bull~~ Mohammed M. Muhammad at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (H9MG5)

29 National sovereignty is such last century

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (6Ll1u)

30 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (oeOT+)

31
Okay....I got this from Elizabeth Hurley's twitter feed, so I am predisposed to approving of the sentiment.

*clicks link*

*drools*

*wipes chin*

Errrrr.....brb

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (dJec7)

32 Texcession.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (wtvvX)

33 "as the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels froth and seethe that they can no longer tell the British what size garbage bag must be used in which size can. Or the appropriate font for tinned meat labels...."

Ping Three.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:44 PM (9ym/8)

34 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?
Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (oeOT+)

If you're very old and need large numbers on your phone, that's the one to get.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2016 03:44 PM (8ZskC)

35 And when Britain sends their official notice of their withdrawal from the EU, it should be printed in Comic Sans.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (wtvvX)

36 If England were a burrito, it would be called a Beany Flappyroll. But I would eat it anyway.

Posted by: Michael Moore at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (T9F5V)

37 >>I got this from Elizabeth Hurley's twitter feed, so I am predisposed to approving of the sentiment.

Helllooo Mons!

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (oeOT+)

38 America needs commonsense font control.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (8ZskC)

39 Would the green grocer in a little village really be penalized in some way? Wouldn't it be cheaper for him to run his store without having to comply with EU regulations?

Posted by: josephistan at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (7HtZB)

40 When thinking of visiting Britain one day, I'll confess I imagine seeing pale skinned English-looking people speaking a spectrum of English accents while drinking in pubs, driving through leafy countrysides on the wrong side of the road, etc.

Imagine finally getting there and finding yourself in a sea of Pakistanis and Indians eating curry and vindaloo. Like visiting New Hampshire for the covered bridges and fall colors and finding oneself amidst no one but mestizos.

So why visit Britain, or, for that matter, New Hampshire at all? Why not the original Pakistan, India, or Guatemala?

Some day it may dawn on nation states that their own signature inhabitants are one of their premier assets.

Posted by: Jamie at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (O9rIh)

41 30
Could someone please explain Cricket to me?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (oeOT+)
--------I read the rules one time and came away more confused than when I started.

Posted by: Old Blue at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (9iR5/)

42 If Calexico secedes from the nation, would that be the Calexiexit?

Posted by: zombie at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (jBuUi)

43 I'll be gobsmacked if Brexit succeeds.

Seriously gobsmacked.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 21, 2016 03:40 PM (C9pBZ)

----

"I.... Stand Alone....."

Oh..... wait.... GOB smack..... nevermind.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (8XRCm)

44 If TFG is fer it, I'm agin it.

That's before knowing a single fact about it.

We don't call him Shit Midas for nothing.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (gyKtp)

45 i can has Caexit?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (4/aeb)

46 Brexit, then Texit!

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (HalrA)

47 If they pull out of the EU, the flames for leaving Ireland will grow. I saw this repeated over and over in Dublin during the anniversary of The Rising, so this might be something worth watching.
I might just be nothing too, but the EU splintering can only get worse. Who's next?

Posted by: IP at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (Fol9S)

48 12
Their government sucks even more badly than ours does.

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:39 PM (B48dK)

And that takes a lot of effort.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (HalrA)

49 Semi-related: Obozo lied to us. Again. Ten times as much crime committed by illegals as the Obozo administration admitted to congress. The great elitist view that we're all equal except the elites are better than us has sustained another blow.

See Drudge.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (Nwg0u)

50 Some brave souls need to find and destroy his phylactery.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (KUaJL)

The Lich King

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Tent Sale at the Outrage Outlet! Sizzling Savings on Slurs, Slams, and Slanders! at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (hLRSq)

51 30 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?
Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (oeOT+)
------------------
The insect, yes.
The game, no. No one can.
It's like the major league balk rule, an ineffable mystery.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (T/5A0)

52 37 >>I got this from Elizabeth Hurley's twitter feed, so I am predisposed to approving of the sentiment.

Helllooo Mons!
Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (oeOT+)

She's the Angel of Mons

Posted by: josephistan at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (7HtZB)

53 If Florida were to secede (as if), it would be FLEXIT.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (1ZOkK)

54 BTW,
"There were essentially no boundaries between the London financial markets and the rest of Europe,"

not really - it's more a function of English financial practices (and the US self financial immolation) that gave London such a jump on a number of financial markets.
The "price" of transactions across the Channel really wouldn't change that much, IMO.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (C9pBZ)

55 " If Calexico secedes from the nation, would that be the Calexiexit?"

Calexico is not part part of the U.S.

Oh, wait.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (9ym/8)

56 England leaving the EU is a blow against International Socialism and the concept of eliminating borders. One Worlders and International Socialists want to eliminate nations because they stupidly think that's where war and conflict comes from. Each nation that separates from this idea hurts their momentum and push to internationalism.

Yeah, leaving the EU hurts profits for huge investors, slightly. It hurts the EU considerably to lose 20-30% of their GDP when England steps out. but it helps the English and it saves them from the inevitable EU collapse, as well as detaching them from the tyrannical radicals in the EU government. Telling Brits that they couldn't make cricket bats from the right wood any longer was probably a mistake.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (39g3+)

57 So who does that hurt?
...............

Barry's Global Degenerates

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (HgMAr)

58 Hurley was also one of my favorite movie devils.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (CGjum)

59
Could someone please explain Cricket to me?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (oeOT+)

White Person Sport, culturally appropriated by dusky Pakistanis.

Just as a side note, have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (dJec7)

60 For me, the face of the "Remain" camp is Sir Bob Geldof, swanning around on his yacht with a bunch of other champagne socialists. He literally gave the finger to poor fishermen who are suffering due to all the EU regulations they have to meet.

(BTW, how did Geldof get so damned rich? The Boomtown Rats weren't that big and the LiveAid stuff wasn't supposed to line his pockets. What other music has he recorded? What hit songs does he have? I can't think of anything else.)

A rich has-been pop star whose heart supposedly bled for poor Africans has nothing but contempt and hatred for poor white Britons.

The sickness is everywhere.

I hadn't given Brexit that much thought before. When I saw that picture, I really wanted "Leave" to pass.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 03:48 PM (u0lmX)

61
Could someone please explain Cricket to me?

Pinocchio's conscience.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 21, 2016 03:48 PM (IqV8l)

62 Hurley was also one of my favorite movie devils.

She was devilishly delicious in Bedazzled.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:48 PM (39g3+)

63 I don't think they will leave. And even if that was the vote, pretty sure they would "find" enough votes to carry the day

Posted by: ThunderB at June 21, 2016 03:48 PM (Gnd/x)

64 "If Florida were to secede (as if), it would be FLEXIT."

We could offer it to Spain. They'd flip us off. And there here we are.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (9ym/8)

65 Just as a side note, have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (dJec7)

What about crew?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (KUaJL)

66 47 If they pull out of the EU, the flames for leaving Ireland will grow. I saw this repeated over and over in Dublin during the anniversary of The Rising, so this might be something worth watching.
I might just be nothing too, but the EU splintering can only get worse. Who's next?
Posted by: IP at June 21, 2016 03:46 PM (Fol9S)

Spain has threatened to invade Gibraltar if Britain leaves the EU. I can't imagine Hungary or the other Eastern European nations hardest hit by the islamic invasion wanting to say in much longer.

Posted by: josephistan at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (7HtZB)

67 Brexit.
Texit.

I'd be down with Flexit, too.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (8nAzo)

68 Buy gold at Goldine.com

Posted by: Glenn Wee Todd Id Beck at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (HgMAr)

69 >>Just as a side note, have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

True Fact : Most modern day Sports are remnants of the ancient pagan rites and celebration of 'Whacking Day'.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (oeOT+)

70 There is no explanation of cricket, it just sucks because why not have another boring sport besides soccer. Now Rugby is a real man's sport, and also boring, it's like required in England or something.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (6Ll1u)

71 In the original Bedazzled it was Raquel Welch.Advantage:Original

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (B48dK)

72 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?Posted by: garrett�

Let your conscience be your guide, mate.

Posted by: Jiminy Cricket at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (ZnIt3)

73 One of my favorite Wikipedia articles: http://tinyurl.com/oghbdu2

Rich vein of interesting and WTF.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (u0s1P)

74 I thought being "out" was a desirable thing, according to our betters. So what are they complaining about.

Posted by: dissent555 at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (VFhMt)

75 I might just be nothing too, but the EU splintering can only get worse. Who's next?

Spain's got separatist movements. Italy's never been that firm. Denmark's made noises. The Scots might actually pull the trigger and go their own way.

Really, the only ones who will still want this before long are the Med nations (dependent on Northern capital) and France and Germany (whose plan this was to begin with). The Muzzies will do what they're doing and overrun anyone that doesn't start tending their gardens.

I always half expected another war to cover Continental Europe in my lifetime, but I'm not sure this is quite how I expected it.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (9krrF)

76 72 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?Posted by: garrett

Let your conscience be your guide, mate.
Posted by: Jiminy Cricket at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (ZnIt3)

Fcuk off, you annoying little prat.

Posted by: Pinocchio at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (8nAzo)

77 "Could someone please explain Cricket to me?Posted by: garrett"

Like the phone thing?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (9ym/8)

78
I might just be nothing too, but the EU splintering can only get worse. Who's next?

Germany? I hear they're getting tired of footing the bill for the whole show.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (lKyWE)

79 Just as a side note, have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (dJec7)

That's true of hockey also, although it's usually more than one ball at a time that gets hit with a stick.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (u0lmX)

80 It's going to cost them but they will be much better for it, now how to loose all those Muzzies

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (d9qXV)

81 60 For me, the face of the "Remain" camp is Sir Bob Geldof, swanning around on his yacht with a bunch of other champagne socialists. He literally gave the finger to poor fishermen who are suffering due to all the EU regulations they have to meet.

(BTW, how did Geldof get so damned rich? The Boomtown Rats weren't that big and the LiveAid stuff wasn't supposed to line his pockets. What other music has he recorded? What hit songs does he have? I can't think of anything else.)

A rich has-been pop star whose heart supposedly bled for poor Africans has nothing but contempt and hatred for poor white Britons.

The sickness is everywhere.

I hadn't given Brexit that much thought before. When I saw that picture, I really wanted "Leave" to pass.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 03:48 PM (u0lmX)

The recently assassinated MP was also a part of that flotilla of tossers.

Posted by: josephistan at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (7HtZB)

82 GAXIT. Heh. I like that spelling.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (1ZOkK)

83 The "price" of transactions across the Channel really wouldn't change that much, IMO.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (C9pBZ)

Regulation will double. One version for Britain, and one version for the EU. That is a huge expense for banks and other investment firms, not to mention consumer goods governed by a different regulatory scheme.

Sorry, but it will increase transaction costs across the channel.

Personally, I think it is well worth the additional cost....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo -- Am Yisrael Chai at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (Zu3d9)

84 George Soros hardest hit

Posted by: ThunderB at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (Gnd/x)

85 How many divisions does the EU have?

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (CGjum)

86
Bitchslap!

https://goo.gl/3AKqS8

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (iQIUe)

87 have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

Using tools to enhance your physical ability is one of the most fundamental and initial signs of civilization.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (39g3+)

88 79 And in hockey,the puck is black!

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (B48dK)

89 "'Whacking Day'."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (9ym/8)

90 To gain traction at the polls, the "La Raza" people who want to reclaim all of the Southwest US back for Mexico ought to rebrand it from "the Reconquista" to "Mexit."

Posted by: zombie at June 21, 2016 03:51 PM (jBuUi)

91 The highest aspiration of man is to be a Citizen of the World.

Posted by: King Shit Midas at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (k8tEg)

92 >>>Hurley was also one of my favorite movie devils.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (CGjum)<<<

The best movie devil was the one in the Keanu Reeves' Constantine movie. He was all kinds of hilarious/awesome.

Posted by: never thought I'd be praising a devil at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (H9MG5)

93 In the original Bedazzled it was Raquel Welch. Advantage:Original

Some dude played the Devil in the original. Raquel Welch played one of his underlings. Why yes it was Lust, why do you ask...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (9krrF)

94 The forerunner of the modern cricket bat is the ancient Egyptian smiting stick.

Posted by: Soledad O'Brien's Earpiece at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (8ZskC)

95
Just as a side note, have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (dJec7)

What about crew?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (KUaJL)

Hence the "usually".

Although, there ARE great big sticks. But oar fights at the Harvard Yacht Club are strictly against the rules.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (dJec7)

96 32
Texcession.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (wtvvX)

Technically Texas doesn't need to secede. Texas joined the United States of America by treaty. As we all know, treaties are only legally binding and enforceable when both of the signatory parties still exist.

Can a government that does not follow its own Constitution and laws be held as legitimate? I think the answer is a self-evident no. And in that case, there is no legitimate United States of America, and the treaty is null and void.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (HalrA)

97 Didn't South Americans use a stick to beat heads or something? That must count.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (d9qXV)

98
Could someone please explain Cricket to me?Posted by: garrett
---------------------

Kosher, in Britspeak.

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (pC96u)

99
EU referendum 2016: Who is allowed to vote?

British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens who live in the UK, along with Britons who have lived abroad for less than 15 years, are eligible to vote.

Commonwealth migrants from 54 states - including �Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan and Nigeria - can join the electoral roll as long are they are residents in the UK.

Muslim "resident" block voting

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 21, 2016 03:53 PM (kdS6q)

100 What are the odds of this actually happening?

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at June 21, 2016 03:53 PM (Lixdp)

101 Cricket is like someone throws a ball at you and you're like "Wot, wot?" If you hit the ball they yell "Crikey blokes!" if it hits them in the mouth your team yells "Good on yew mate!" Then everyone goes to the pub and never brush their teeth.

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (HgMAr)

102 93 Right,and she is only on screen for 7 minutes.Still...

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (B48dK)

103 Regulation will double. One version for Britain, and one version for the EU.

Yeah expect a snit from France and Germany to punish England not only because of hurt feelings but to encourage others to not join the UK in leaving the sinking ship.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (39g3+)

104 Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (8nAzo)

Florida?

Flanders?

Liechtenstein?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo -- Am Yisrael Chai at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (Zu3d9)

105 Hockey pucks are black because there rubber, they could be white chalk but seeing it might be hard and the first connection to a stick would be it's last.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (d9qXV)

106 "How many divisions does the EU have?"

EU has nothing. NATO minus the U.S.? 20. Under-armed. Under-covered. Under-armored (except maybe Germany.)

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (9ym/8)

107 >>There is no explanation of cricket, it just sucks because why not have another boring sport besides soccer. Now Rugby is a real man's sport, and also boring, it's like required in England or something.

I'll give you cricket, it's just boring as shit, but I love me some rugby.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (/tuJf)

108
I have read some weird ass comments:

"The electorate have no right to a referendum after they elected representatives. The MPs should solely have the power to decide what is best for you. "

"Why should a small % (UK) have the right to make a decision that affects the entire EU? "

"We have entered the post democratic state of human development..."

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (iQIUe)

109 Taking refuge here in the basement. Looks like nasty weather coming my way. Strong winds, and big black wall of cloud in the northwest. Crackle of lightning static on the AM radio, too.

Half an hour, hour, maybe, it will either hit here or pass me by.

Now, back to read the content.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (GSdpU)

110 My English friend pointed out that the UK went to Germany and said "well here's what we'd like to happen if you want us to stay" and Germany said "uppen yours, limey!" Then didn't even consider any of them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (39g3+)

111 Ummm. Been busy. Drudge is all red. Hillary hacked. Something about the foundation. Is this something?

Posted by: ThunderB at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (Gnd/x)

112 Access to cheap labor necessarily cannot be the basis of wealth for nations considering the most impoverished nations have plentiful access to cheap labor.

Posted by: Jonathan Ellis at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (lZqU7)

113
Using tools to enhance your physical ability is one of the most fundamental and initial signs of civilization.

Hurling has been played for over 3000 years

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (lKyWE)

114 Gah. I need to get over my visceral loathing of cutsey abbreviations and acronyms because seeing the term Brexit makes my eye twitch and the ragey rage gets in the way of reading and considering the actual arguments presented.

Here's my new hobby horse on this. Those who claim to be above and beyond nationalism aren't. It's merely that they've replaced national tribalism with international tribalism. Oh I'm European. I'm part of the EU. I don't believe in borders. All of those positions signal membership in the tribe of internationalists. That is just as much of a tribe as British or Irish or Lithuanian or whatever.

Posted by: alexthechick - I despair I despair at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (mf5HN)

115 105 I know,it was a joke.Racist.

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (B48dK)

116 Heavy rains in Delaware, but I need rain here damn it.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (d9qXV)

117 "We have entered the post democratic state of human development..."

Leftist ideal of democracy: One Man, One Vote, One Time.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (9krrF)

118 Didn't South Americans use a stick to beat heads or something? That must count.

Posted by: Skip

Ollamaliztli. - Mayan

One player from the losing team lost his head.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (p2X2f)

119 Foosball (soccer) would be greatly improved by each side having large clubs to swing at each other on the field.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (gyKtp)

120 Cricket is like someone throws a ball at you and you're like "Wot, wot?" If you hit the ball they yell "Crikey blokes!" if it hits them in the mouth your team yells "Good on yew mate!" Then everyone goes to the pub and never brush their teeth.

Good primer, but maybe a little technical for the Moron audience.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (8ZskC)

121 "What are the odds of this actually happening?"

I don't know what you're talking about but "it" just happened. Look behind you.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (9ym/8)

122 The best movie devil was the one in the Keanu Reeves' Constantine movie. He was all kinds of hilarious/awesome.

That actually was a good movie. Terrible Constantine, but great movie. They should have just made it without pretending it had anything at all to do with the comic book.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)

123 I loved that the Constantine devil just had shit dripping off his feet.

Also, Viggo Mortensen's devil in The Prophecy was horrifying.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (CGjum)

124 TEXIT!!

Posted by: lindafell de spair in TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:57 PM (xVgrA)

125 116 Heavy rains in Delaware, but I need rain here damn it.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (d9qXV)

We're about get severely pissed on in Mordor.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at June 21, 2016 03:57 PM (Lixdp)

126 If we leave the EU do we get to rename the country?

I'd vote for England McBritainface.

Posted by: online voter at June 21, 2016 03:57 PM (H9MG5)

127 In the original Bedazzled it was Raquel Welch. Advantage:Original

Some dude played the Devil in the original. Raquel Welch played one of his underlings. Why yes it was Lust, why do you ask...
Posted by: Brother Cavil

Peter Cook played the devil.

Posted by: The GOP clown car at June 21, 2016 03:57 PM (326rv)

128
I have read some weird ass comments:
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

This is the place where someone said he lost his taste for crabs after seeing them crawl on the face of his drowned friend.

So who are we to judge?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 21, 2016 03:57 PM (kdS6q)

129 92 >>>Hurley was also one of my favorite movie devils.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:47 PM (CGjum)

The best movie devil was the one in the Keanu Reeves' Constantine movie. He was all kinds of hilarious/awesome.
Posted by: never thought I'd be praising a devil at June 21, 2016 03:52 PM (H9MG5)

Ray Wise was hysterical as the Devil in Reaper and JOhn Glover was good in Brimstone.

Posted by: Iblis at June 21, 2016 03:57 PM (9221z)

130 I remember a story about an elderly woman in some small village in Greece who wd make cheese in her kitchen and sell it at the outdoor market to make a little cash. Well, until she was slapped with fines by the EU thugs. Seriously, why mess with her?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (iQIUe)

131 Leftist ideal of democracy: One Man, One Vote, One Time.

Don't be ridiculous. They can vote as often as they want, as long as its for the side leftists want to win. then they stop voting.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (39g3+)

132 Ummm. Been busy. Drudge is all red. Hillary hacked. Something about the foundation. Is this something?

If it goes in the memory hole, no.

If it gets reported, she gets indicted and it's Hello, Joe!

(I am increasingly expecting the latter scenario...)

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (9krrF)

133 I just had to sit through a lunch meeting where bunch of firm partners were going on about how silly Brexit is, and how it's mostly racist and immigration isn't really a problem and after all the UK really needs those immigrants anyway.

The class condescension was nauseating.

Posted by: brak at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (MJuTN)

134 126 Limey McBrownteeth.

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (B48dK)

135 116 Heavy rains in Delaware, but I need rain here damn it.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (d9qXV)

Are you a Delaware Moron too?

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (326rv)

136 One version for Britain, and one version for the EU"

Hmm. Thought Britain (and Denmark) didn't join the EBU after 2012?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (C9pBZ)

137 The EU is like slathering a layer of unelected, highly paid bureaucrats and having them live in the Bahamas and controlling us.

Does anyone think that is a good idea?

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (UBBWX)

138 I thought being "out" was a desirable thing, according to our betters. So what are they complaining about.

Posted by: dissent555 at June 21, 2016 03:50 PM (VFhMt)

He's not gay, he's British!
http://tinyurl.com/hcdks9w

Posted by: Country Singer at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (GUBah)

139 "TEXIT!!
Posted by: lindafell"

You been yelling that a lot lately.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (9ym/8)

140 The most amazing part of this vote is that there is a vote at all.

"Well, the rubes could vote the wrong way and that'll never do. Much better if we just tell them what's we, their moral and intellectual betters, have decided."

Posted by: all doubt removed at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (KWGc0)

141 Since they invented Rugby 7s, Rugby is becoming more popular. I can't watch regular Rugby, but 7s is very exciting.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (6Ll1u)

142 Don't be ridiculous. They can vote as often as they want, as long as its for the side leftists want to win. then they stop voting.

Realized it right after I hit "Post", naturally. Quite true.

Odd the muzzies work that way too. It's as if all totalitarians think alike or something, I wonder how that comes about...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (9krrF)

143 51 30 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?
Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 03:43 PM (oeOT+)

People think extra-inning baseball games can go on too long (and they can!) but cricket matches go on for days.

A team can score 200 or 300 runs in a game.

It's OK to hit the batsman with the ball, which is why they wear those funny padded uniforms.

They're so sportsmanlike that cricket players have been known to correct game officials if they think a call was wrong even if it's a call that benefits them.

(Just imagine Bryce Harper turning to the ump and saying, "You called that ball 4 but really it clearly was strike 3. Rather than go to first, I will go back to the dugout. The inning is over.")

Mick Jagger is an avid cricket fan.

That's all I know.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (u0lmX)

144 JOhn Glover was good in Brimstone.

He's good in everything. Wish he got more work. He'd be in my dream western movie.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (39g3+)

145 >>>Also, Viggo Mortensen's devil in The Prophecy was horrifying.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 03:56 PM (CGjum)<<<
Dude... I was gonna add him as a close second, but figured so few others would know what I was talking about.

Posted by: never thought I'd be at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (H9MG5)

146 The EU may punish the UK if she leaves, to send a message.

Which is funny when you consider that Greece was punished for staying, kinda.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (UBBWX)

147 Best movie devil, Tim Curry - Legend.

http://tinyurl.com/hk4np37

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (/tuJf)

148 Eurotrash will never admit it or understand it, but there is something good about the simple declaration, "I am an Englishman."

I say this frequently on Twitter when I'm getting in a dust up with some poncey English twat who believes the EU is the greatest thing since baguettes: no TRUE Englishman would ever refer to him or herself as "European." Never. My mother never would; nor would my grandparents. Being called "European" was an insult in their day, not some pretentious point of pride. Being European implied that you were soft and lazy, with no stomach for hard work. It also meant you were given to corruption and dishonesty. It was not, in short, a nice thing to be called.

My grandparents would weep over the state of Britain today. My mother can't even stand to read news about her old stomping grounds. That's why I sincerely, dearly hope the Brits vote for Brexit. They have a long, long way to go to reclaim their lost glory days, but that's not going to happen at all until they tell the Euroweenies to GTFO.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 21, 2016 03:59 PM (4df7R)

149 132 And don't forget me!Woo Woo Woo Woo
Liz Warren

Posted by: steevy at June 21, 2016 04:00 PM (B48dK)

150 130
I remember a story about an elderly woman in some small village in
Greece who wd make cheese in her kitchen and sell it at the outdoor
market to make a little cash. Well, until she was slapped with fines by
the EU thugs. Seriously, why mess with her?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 03:58 PM (iQIUe)

Because power addicts can't pass up a chance to use their powers anymore than a coke addict could walk away from a 10 ton pile of blow.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 04:00 PM (HalrA)

151 Basically it all comes down to a familiar refrain whether we speak of a splintering of the EU or the fetid swamp that is Washington DC: the plebes are beginning to understand that they have taxation with no representation.

Texit it is.

Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?

Posted by: Jollyroger at June 21, 2016 04:00 PM (t06LC)

152 "Or the appropriate font for tinned meat labels...."

As long as it is not comic sans, some people on the internet would be ok with that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2016 04:00 PM (3ZoRf)

153 I'm in SE Pa, it hasn't rained here in weeks, last Thursday it lightly drizzled on and off but not a quarter of my rain barrel was filled and I used half that up watering things that didn't get any being under trees.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:00 PM (d9qXV)

154 125 We just had TORRENTIAL rain in Fairfax - about 3:50pm

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:01 PM (6xtq3)

155 I think the EU might make more sense for the smaller european countries.

Say you're Latvia. Why not just "borrow" EU regulations and thus avoid having to have your own regulators.

That said, "economies of scale" often don't apply as much as you think, especially for government.

Los Angeles School District is huge. It has diseconomies of scale.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:01 PM (UBBWX)

156
On this day and all night long, people all over France go out on the street and make music. It's pretty wild.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 04:01 PM (iQIUe)

157 40----
Posted by: Jamie at June 21, 2016 03:45 PM (O9rIh)
---------------------
Heh. Couldn't agree more.

Related to your point, I come from a family of first-generation immigrants. I remember my late (Panamanian) father grousing about all of the illegals invading the area of VA where he lived:
"Damn. If I wanted to be surrounded by Mexicans, I would have moved to Mexico!"

In his case it wasn't really any particular dislike of Mexicans. It's just that he wanted America to stay ... American.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:01 PM (T/5A0)

158 Margaret Thatcher in an issue of Forbes, 1992 was interviewed. Great stuff on why the Union should never have happened, even though it did. She spoke of it again in Bruges. Why won't anyone listen? Greece is a prime example of what the EU created. Coming soon to America....
People want their cultures to survive but the leaders of every EU nation were in it for themselves. This will destroy the rest and maybe we can keep what's left of such cultures that used to be revered by the leaders...
Otherwise...Let.it.burn.

Posted by: DefendUSA at June 21, 2016 04:01 PM (nAHMK)

159 >>Thursday it lightly drizzled on and off but not a quarter of my rain barrel was filled and I used half that up watering things that didn't get any being under trees.

Did you declare that rainwater on your taxes?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (oeOT+)

160 My English friend pointed out that the UK went to Germany and said "well here's what we'd like to happen if you want us to stay" and Germany said "uppen yours, limey!" Then didn't even consider any of them.

Kinda uppity for a country that's had it's ass kicked twice in one century.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (qpKia)

161 I wasn't an Englishman. I was an Angevin, dammit.

Posted by: Richard I Lionheart at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (8ZskC)

162 I take it a cricket match can last two days, no thanks.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (d9qXV)

163 "The bigger the govt the smaller the person"

I hope Leave wins but it seems everyone in power is against it, so I'd be surprised. It'll be a close vote to appease the other side but I don't think the EU and the UK govt will allow Leave to win.

Posted by: brak at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (MJuTN)

164 As a resident of Northern California, can we come up with a Jeffersexit?

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (UBBWX)

165 Frankly I'm amazed that the UK put up with the EU's pissant rules and regulations as long as they did. Talk about control freaks, they wrote rules about every single thing down to the smallest detail. It is some serious 1984 crap in Europe right now.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (39g3+)

166
Ummm. Been busy. Drudge is all red. Hillary hacked. Something about the foundation. Is this something?
Posted by: ThunderB at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (Gnd/x)
----------------------

Nice work, ya made me look.

The "DNC dirt file" is typical Smoking Gun stuff about luxury travel and charging big while being stingy.

The Foundation being hacked is "according to three people familiar with the matter" and, big whoop, casts a shadow on her claims that her clintonemail server was never hacked.

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 04:03 PM (pC96u)

167 Basically it all comes down to a familiar refrain whether we speak of a splintering of the EU or the fetid swamp that is Washington DC: the plebes are beginning to understand that they have taxation with no representation.

Texit it is.

Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?
Posted by: Jollyroger

:-)

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:03 PM (qpKia)

168 Who cares? The UK is an Islamic state anyway so fuck them.

Posted by: CrustyB at June 21, 2016 04:03 PM (GvSpB)

169 My rain falls in my yard I'll do with it what I want.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:03 PM (d9qXV)

170 Anarchy for the UK. It's coming sometime, maybe.

Posted by: Johnny Rotten at June 21, 2016 04:03 PM (OD2ni)

171 >>On this day and all night long, people all over France go out on the street and make music. It's pretty wild.

Isn't this also the one day of the year they wash themselves.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:03 PM (oeOT+)

172 >>Isn't this also the one day of the year they wash themselves.

Allegedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2016 04:04 PM (/tuJf)

173 Elizabeth Hurley is a fine example of womanhood.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:04 PM (ptqRm)

174
Fun Fact

The UK did this before in 1975 for the EEC, the EU 1.0

http://tinyurl.com/zll5e6w

For that vote, the lefties were "outs" because they wanted labor and trade restrictions. This time around, they're the ones most frevorently embracing the International State.

It's a funny ol' world.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (kdS6q)

175 3 Right,and she is only on screen for 7 minutes."

What to do for the other 6 minutes and 37 seconds?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (C9pBZ)

176 True Fact : Most modern day Sports are remnants of the ancient pagan rites and celebration of 'Whacking Day'.

Twas all in good fun.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (evdj2)

177 Kinda uppity for a country that's had it's ass kicked twice in one century.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (qpKia)

Of course, everyone approaches Germany with their hands out. Germany these days seems to be a weird combo of civic duty, historic shame leading to national suicide, and also some good old top down control.

Odd mix.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (3ZoRf)

178 Cricket is simple.

A guy throws something at another guy who holds a pledge paddle. Then people run around catching the ball, I forget whether on the batter's team or the other.

Also there are things called centuries and the game can last one day or four, depending on your mood.

What's so hard to understand?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (1xUj/)

179 "In his case it wasn't really any particular dislike of Mexicans. It's just that he wanted America to stay ... American."

But some of that is "when I was your age, music was better!" or "get of my lawn!" thinking.

We had "Mexican" neighbors who had been in California for generations...like a hundred years. They didn't speak any Spanish.

Once also met a Sikh liquor store owner who complained about "all the foreigners Clinton is letting in."

I want to say he was trolling, but Khalsa!

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (UBBWX)

180 159 >>Thursday it lightly drizzled on and off but not a quarter of my rain barrel was filled and I used half that up watering things that didn't get any being under trees.

Did you declare that rainwater on your taxes?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:02 PM (oeOT+)

In Maryland that's not a joke. Although I don't know how they charge you.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at June 21, 2016 04:06 PM (Lixdp)

181 I was briefly stationed in England a couple years after the EU was established and got an earful about the lengths petty bEUrocrats would go to regularize every fucking thing. It was the little intrusions that rankled the most, the attempts to erase small touchstones of British culture, like the imperial pint, or those distinctive Royal Mail boxes, or the mile.

They actually wanted to replace The Pint with some Eurofagulous eqivalent, but settled for 568 ml, aka a pint. In normal conversation, the mile was still used unofficially.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at June 21, 2016 04:06 PM (jR7Wy)

182 "Elizabeth Hurley is a fine example of womanhood."

No, she's not. She's supposedly frigid.

That's why hugh grant was paying for hummers.

Life is not fair.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (UBBWX)

183 I take it a cricket match can last two days, no thanks.

Supposedly they changed the rules so its only certain kinds of matches that happens with but really, they're still too long. The only bonus of soccer is that its over quickly. Hour, seventy minutes, tops.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (39g3+)

184 Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (1xUj/)

Don't forget tea.

They stop for tea.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo -- Am Yisrael Chai at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (Zu3d9)

185 Fort Weasel is in Fairfax?

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (HgMAr)

186 I think the pride argument is the weakest of arguments for a nation as it is for a person. Pride in mere existence isn't worth much.

Pride in accomplishments, pride in dynamism. Those are things worth considering.

The better argument, if not a more difficult one, is the lost of sovereignty to a faceless, grasping bureaucracy. Being tied to the EU diminishes every UK citizen.

To paraphrase Prager, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

So bizarre that the average #Remain voter would never consider returning to a full-fledged, absolute monarchy, yet they're willing to pledge fealty to a cadre of unaccountable neo-gentry.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (p2X2f)

187 "Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?"

Well it's a big state...

Posted by: Lauren...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (E/vjf)

188 "the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. "

Great line. I shall steal this.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (UBBWX)

189
What's so hard to understand?

Why do wickets get sticky?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (lKyWE)

190 Only British thing I picked up being there for two years was darts, still have my British style bristled dart board, used it yesterday.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (d9qXV)

191 She's supposedly frigid.

That's why hugh grant was paying for hummers.

Well, for him she was frigid, sure. But Hugh Grant isn't actually a raging torrent of testosterone, either. He's practically wearing the onesie.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)

192 One of my pbs channels used to show Australian rules football, was pretty good and a score of a hundred was normal. A lot of dropkicks, which is still legal but rarely done in American football.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (6Ll1u)

193 Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?

*raises hand*

Posted by: Grump928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, twice as smug as you at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (evdj2)

194 "No, she's not. She's supposedly frigid. "

She looks rather warm in that photo.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (ptqRm)

195 How will this affect the most important thing in the world?
Global Warming/Change/Cooling...hell, we don't know. Just send us money dammit

Posted by: Bruce at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (8ikIW)

196 185 Fort Weasel, aka The Palatial Weasel Estate, is in Alexandria. The office is in Fairfax (Merrifield, actually)

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:09 PM (6xtq3)

197 Pine tar legal in cricket to make them sticky?

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:09 PM (d9qXV)

198 You know who benefits, either way? Greece. You heard it here first. Call me to invest in this once in a lifetime opportunity. .. 1-800-You-Lose

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton's Occasional Sperm Donor at June 21, 2016 04:09 PM (ZnIt3)

199 "Why do wickets get sticky?"

Ooh Ooh, I know this one.

From looking at pictures of Ms Hurley?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (ptqRm)

200 114
Those who claim to be above and beyond nationalism aren't. It's merely that they've replaced national tribalism with international tribalism.
Posted by: alexthechick - I despair I despair at June 21, 2016 03:55 PM (mf5HN)
--------------------------
And with racialism, classism, genderism, etc.
The very people who insist that dividing people by nation is wicked are the most rabid at provoking other divisions.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (T/5A0)

201 "She looks rather warm in that photo."

I think she learned that she could do that for money, look sexy, but then not actually seal the deal in life.

Imagine all those gay leading men, for example.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (UBBWX)

202
In cricket you lay back in those low slung old fashioned lawn chairs and people bring you G&Ts. What's not to like?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (iQIUe)

203 Back at work from relaxing lunch. Wits about me. Reality checked.

This post is merit-less because the Brits will not exit just as we shall elect Clinton. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but these exercises in futility (dreaming of Brexit and #nothillary) are just that.

What we need, and I'm willing to help/support is a cause that can actually come to fruition.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (Ljj7+)

204 The EU may punish the UK if she leaves, to send a message.
.......................

What are they gonna do? Refuse to send them more refugees? Refuse to let them pay for Greek pensions and Spanish solar subsidies?

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (HgMAr)

205 One of my pbs channels used to show Australian rules football, was
pretty good and a score of a hundred was normal. A lot of dropkicks,
which is still legal but rarely done in American football.

I remember that being on. Never really understood it, but it seemed to be non stop action

Posted by: Bruce at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (8ikIW)

206 Doug Flutie's dropkick was a perfect capper to a weird and wild career. It hadn't been executed since WW2, and he nailed it. Pretty sure it hasn't been done since.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (2cS/G)

207 So bizarre that the average #Remain voter would never consider returning to a full-fledged, absolute monarchy, yet they're willing to pledge fealty to a cadre of unaccountable neo-gentry.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 21, 2016 04:07 PM (p2X2f)

Or Socialists. Socialists are just monarchists who want to be the monarchs, but were born into other classes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (3ZoRf)

208 Why do wickets get sticky?

When momma and daddy wickets love each other very, very much......

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (qpKia)

209 Could someone please explain Cricket to me?

Way back in the 70's, before the gubmint convinced everyone that just seeing a lit cigarette could be instantly lethal, Gillette introduced a cute little lighter with a cute little name and cute little jingle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGf0CZ3Lug

Posted by: db at June 21, 2016 04:11 PM (Gh3mF)

210 "No, she's not. She's supposedly frigid. "

She looks rather warm in that photo.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:08 PM (ptqRm)

Well, I'd like to test that theory

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:11 PM (t06LC)

211 A "sticky wicket" is a colloquialism meaning a problematic circumstance, which derives from when cricketers would have a tough time on the cricket field due to wet ground that was soft and spongy underfoot.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 21, 2016 04:11 PM (4df7R)

212 >>Supposedly they changed the rules so its only certain kinds of matches that happens with but really, they're still too long. The only bonus of soccer is that its over quickly. Hour, seventy minutes, tops.

I've mentioned this before but a couple years ago I was trying to reach a customer in India who left me an urgent message. Could not get him to respond for 4 days. When I finally got ahold of him and said that I had been trying to reach him for 4 days he said "India was playing Pakistan in cricket and the country was pretty much closed.".

They are fanatical about cricket in India.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2016 04:11 PM (/tuJf)

213 As a proud 50% Englishman, hailing from the Southworth and Gillette families on my mother's side, I am for exiting the EU.

We're only a few generations from immigrating to the U.S. to scrub some of the best floors in Newport, RI.

Posted by: jwest at June 21, 2016 04:11 PM (Zs4uk)

214 Vox just explained that Elizabeth Hurley pictures require a trigger warning, because she excites the libido in even the most extreme pajama cases.

Posted by: MTF at June 21, 2016 04:11 PM (AaCJy)

215 Forgot to add, #TheMoreYouKnow!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 21, 2016 04:12 PM (4df7R)

216 "Fort Weasel, aka The Palatial Weasel Estate, is in Alexandria. The office is in Fairfax (Merrifield, actually)"

Too far east.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:12 PM (9ym/8)

217 They stop for tea.

Oh there's that. And I'm a sucker for that.

I played for the NYC Rugby Club for a few months without ever learning the rules of Rugby. (There wasn't an internet and there was really no way to look things up).

This is the 80's. Ralph Lauren did an add with people in cricket clothes. It was all white flannel and knee pads. Call me ghey, I wanted to play cricket just to wear the clothes.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:12 PM (1xUj/)

218 Back at work from relaxing lunch. Wits about me. Reality checked.

This post is merit-less because the Brits will not exit just as we shall elect Clinton. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but these exercises in futility (dreaming of Brexit and #nothillary) are just that.

What we need, and I'm willing to help/support is a cause that can actually come to fruition.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:10 PM (Ljj7+)

Man. You're like the anti Winston Churchill. If entropy commented on blogs, it'd be you.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (t06LC)

219 "What are they gonna do? Refuse to send them more refugees? Refuse to let them pay for Greek pensions and Spanish solar subsidies?"

Trade barriers. Tariffs. Try to get finance to move from UK, especially Euro finance.

But yes, there may be offsetting savings.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (UBBWX)

220 One of my pbs channels used to show Australian rules football, was pretty good and a score of a hundred was normal.

Australian Rules Football is like Outback Steakhouse -
No Rules, Just Right.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (qpKia)

221 216 Yeah - my preference would be somewhere west of Denver.

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (6xtq3)

222 Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?
Here!

Posted by: Velvet Ambition Texit at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (QPdNE)

223 "s a proud 50% Englishman, hailing from the Southworth and Gillette families on my mother's side, I am for exiting the EU. "

I read that as "Exiling the EU", and thought jwest has a good idea there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (ptqRm)

224
Cricket is simple.

A guy throws something at another guy who holds a pledge paddle. Then people run around catching the ball, I forget whether on the batter's team or the other.

Also there are things called centuries and the game can last one day or four, depending on your mood.

What's so hard to understand?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (1xUj/)
--------------------

American football.

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (pC96u)

225 187 "Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?"

I'd start looking for jobs down there if a Texit looked like it was going to happen.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (KUaJL)

226 American football.

Ya gotta get a hat on a hat.

Posted by: Grump928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, twice as smug as you at June 21, 2016 04:14 PM (evdj2)

227 The only English in me came from rape and pillage, from the Scandi side (the rapers) and the Irish side (the rapees). Despite that, I approve of upsetting the EU applecart. Fewer numbers of bureaucrats in Brussels is good for everyone.

Posted by: MTF at June 21, 2016 04:14 PM (AaCJy)

228 There are a few sites that try to explain cricket, and not but a page long surprisingly.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:14 PM (d9qXV)

229 "#TheMoreYouKnow!"

Like with the little star? On the TV.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:14 PM (9ym/8)

230 I'd start looking for jobs down there if a Texit looked like it was going to happen.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 21, 2016 04:13 PM (KUaJL)

Same here.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 21, 2016 04:14 PM (GUBah)

231 Just as a side note, have you ever noticed that the stereotypical White
Person Sports usually entail hitting a ball with a club or a stick?

---
Sporting Clays

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 21, 2016 04:14 PM (4/aeb)

232 Dear Jolly, Churchill is dead to the vast majority (though not me).

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:15 PM (Ljj7+)

233 >>like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan

Icky Mexico touchers.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:15 PM (oeOT+)

234
Call me ghey, I wanted to play cricket just to wear the clothes.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:12 PM (1xUj/)
---------------------

You're gay.

Posted by: iforgot at June 21, 2016 04:15 PM (pC96u)

235 "Call me ghey, I wanted to play cricket just to wear the clothes."

If you insist...

You're ghey .

Happy now?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:15 PM (ptqRm)

236 " and the Irish side (the rapees). "

If you're talking about the Irish, can it really be called "rape"?

Posted by: jwest at June 21, 2016 04:15 PM (Zs4uk)

237 Calvin took ideas from Australia football to come up with Calvinball

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (d9qXV)

238 Wait until they all start telling you about drinking water from a muddy hoof print.

Posted by: Grump928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, twice as smug as you at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (evdj2)

239 I played Pee Wee league baseball in the states, then when I lived in Scotland they had me take a crack at batting in cricket.

Took them two days to find the ball.

Posted by: CrustyB at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (GvSpB)

240 Is there Women's Naked Cricket?

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (6xtq3)

241 Cricket is simple.

What's so hard to understand?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:05 PM (1xUj/)

https://youtu.be/UJWQdZW6iHY

Posted by: Country Singer at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (GUBah)

242 "like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan "

Yo!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (9ym/8)

243 Speaking of sports, I'm relatively exultant that I'll be spending the next 5 days at the USABaseball East Tournament. Watching kids play baseball and listening to the National Anthem all day long. Worse ways to make a living.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (2cS/G)

244 That's why hugh grant was paying for hummers.

Or, Hugh Grant is an imbecile.

Posted by: I know which way I'm betting at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM (2WoCi)

245 I would have thought Brexit had a chance of passing before the murder of MP Jo Cox. Not anymore

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM (rmw+9)

246 O/T for a deep breath and baby bunnehs, 'cause we need 'em.

http://tinyurl.com/jjvb5rj

Alrighty then, as ye were.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM (9krrF)

247 "Worse ways to make a living."

Have fun!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM (ptqRm)

248 "Now Rugby is a real man's sport, and also boring,"

There's more action in the hour and half running time of a rugby match than there is in the three plus hours of an NFL game -- it's been timed. The rules aren't that complicated.

Re Rugby 7s in the upcoming Olympics

Regular rugby is 15 a side with a field that's longer and quite a bit wider than a football field. "Sevens" is seven a side on the same field.

7s is like 3-on-3 full court basketball, or even 2-on-2 full court. It can be exciting, but it can be "random" and skills like kicking and the power/strength aspects of the game are de-emphasized. I'm a traditionalist and prefer 15s, but 7s is fun to watch and can fit into the Olympics in a way 15s can't.

The USA men's team has a shot at a medal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM (r1fLd)

249 "India was playing Pakistan in cricket and the country was pretty much closed.".

They are fanatical about cricket in India.
................

hope they don't get all pissed off and start nuking each other.

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (HgMAr)

250 245 I would have thought Brexit had a chance of passing before the murder of MP Jo Cox. Not anymore

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM (rmw+9)

That big a bump?

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (t06LC)

251 Don't label me.

Posted by: Spotted Dick at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (IqV8l)

252 Playing a sport just for the clothes is a bit peni-sipperous.

But I'm not gonna judge.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (sPO/s)

253 EPSN back when it was worth a crap used to show Aussie rules football, and it was great. I wish that would have come here instead of Soccer.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (39g3+)

254 Oh, and Jolly, Thank you for the comparison to entropy; a more accurate simile could not be had.

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (Ljj7+)

255 I will, thanks! Been two weeks since I've worked at all, this is going to be 10 games in 4 days. Full baseball immersion.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (2cS/G)

256 The USA men's team has a shot at a medal.

Do they have a womens team?
That plays on the beach??

Posted by: Bruce at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (8ikIW)

257 really good essay from Jim Demint.

But, then again, any essay that approvingly quotes Margaret Thatcher is a really good essay, kind of by definition.

Posted by: MTF at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (AaCJy)

258 Rugby players make Football players seem like Rhodes Scholars.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (oeOT+)

259 Elizabeth Hurley, Nice.

One of life's great mysteries is why Hugh Grant cheated on her. Just....wow.

Posted by: WisRich at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (hdpay)

260 I'm mostly Irish (with some rapey scandi thrown in) but my husband is almost entirely of British ancestry.

Our kids all look like little Brits so I tell him his genes oppressed mine.

Posted by: Lauren...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (E/vjf)

261 Is there Women's Naked Cricket?

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:16 PM (6xtq3)
..................

There must AT LEAST be a lingerie league.

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (HgMAr)

262 " I would have thought Brexit had a chance of passing before the murder of MP Jo Cox. Not anymore"

These guys need to do their shooting AFTER the vote.

I assume they are just psychotics piggybacking on politics.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (UBBWX)

263 I like rugby but it is kind of dull. So is American Football, which is why all the blasting music and replays and cheerleaders and stuff. Its like 85% standing around the field, doing nothing.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (39g3+)

264 Remember when we had a special relationship with the UK? Man, weren't those good times?

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (sPO/s)

265 Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (t06LC)

It's hard to know how much bias goes into reporting of the polls but I think it was still up in the air.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (rmw+9)

266 259 I'd hit it. Whole thing would be over in 2 minutes.

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (6xtq3)

267 Looks like the Islamic assholes have evolved their tactics....again

http://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=278698

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (ptqRm)

268 254 Oh, and Jolly, Thank you for the comparison to entropy; a more accurate simile could not be had.

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (Ljj7+)

No problem. Just look at the bright side: even when Hillary! wins we've only got another 2 to 3 years tops before the inevitable civil war happens.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:21 PM (t06LC)

269 BREXIT

Sorry, but I just can't believe that there's a chance in hell of the UK doing it. They took the poison pill to commit cultural suicide decades ago - caught up in the pandemic PC Western self-loathing - and it's already too late for them, demographically. In another decade or two they'll be the Yugoslavia of the bad ol' days.

Why would anybody think they would wake up NOW? Did the US wake up after 4 years of Obama? Have we woken up after 8?

It's so surreal that the country that found a leader who could rally the population against the f'in Nazis - when it seemed IMPOSSIBLE to win - would then just turn around and slit its own throat.

Posted by: Optimizer at June 21, 2016 04:21 PM (jPHi7)

270 One of life's great mysteries is why Hugh Grant cheated on her

Maybe he's such a mincing, mumbling low-T pajama boy he has to pay to get women to notice him.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:21 PM (39g3+)

271 >>Rugby players make Football players seem like Rhodes Scholars.

ah .. ummm..... er .. no!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2016 04:22 PM (/tuJf)

272 Looks like the Islamic assholes have evolved their tactics....again

Isn't that against the rules or something?
Why would moderate mooslimbs do something like that?

Posted by: Bruce at June 21, 2016 04:22 PM (8ikIW)

273 speaking of "white people sports", there's another document dump from the guy who hacked the DNC, including their report on the Clinton Foundation and its vulnerabilities.

https://guccifer2.wordpress. com/2016/06/21/hillary-clinton/

now, if only there was some way to get that information out to the public...

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 21, 2016 04:22 PM (4/aeb)

274 Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:18 PM (t06LC)

It's hard to know how much bias goes into reporting of the polls but I think it was still up in the air.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:20 PM (rmw+9)

I think the FT polls had it deadlocked today. It seems to me the passion would favor the leave votes.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (t06LC)

275 >>> Maybe he's such a mincing, mumbling low-T pajama boy he has to pay to get women to notice him.

I don't think he was paying just for the attention...

Posted by: IP at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (Fol9S)

276 "One of life's great mysteries is why Hugh Grant cheated on her."

Because she's look but don't touch, frigid.

I remember hearing this back when Hugh was caught out. I did not like the idea of sexy women who close up shop, so to speak.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (UBBWX)

277 >>ah .. ummm..... er .. no!

Well, if the ones that show up for Maggot Fest are any indication, then yes.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (oeOT+)

278 The most interesting time in football for me is when they line up with their defense vs the offense and try to set up how they will do the play. Its like the parts in baseball where the players set up in the field for each pitch, moving into position where the ball is most likely to go. These are the parts people who don't know or understand the game call "boring" but they're actually the key point in the game.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (39g3+)

279 What is was was football.

Posted by: Andy Griffith at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (IqV8l)

280 Sovereignty matters. I hope that Britain will accomplish the Brexit.

Posted by: Revenant at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (y64uP)

281 Calexico is not part part of the U.S.

Oh, wait.

It's no less a part of the US than Mexicali is.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (4WhSY)

282 I also think there's too much investment by the elite for it to be a fair vote.

I think they should get out. They're an island, for goodness sake, Why should they accept the number of refugees dying Europe insists they receive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:24 PM (rmw+9)

283 104 Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2016 03:49 PM (8nAzo)

Florida?

Flanders?

Liechtenstein?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo -- Am Yisrael Chai at June 21, 2016 03:54 PM (Zu3d9)

Florida, naturally.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2016 04:24 PM (8nAzo)

284 " Maybe he's such a mincing, mumbling low-T pajama boy he has to pay to get women to notice him."

LOL. Hugh Grant is pretty popular with the ladies, dude.

Maybe really butch gay bears don't like his type.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:24 PM (UBBWX)

285 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at June 21, 2016 04:24 PM (GwIKd)

286 "Don't label me. "

Don't call me late for bean time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:24 PM (9ym/8)

287
I worked for a company that did a couple of projects for Elizabeth Hurley and I met her once,She seemed very sweet.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 21, 2016 04:24 PM (lKyWE)

288 278 Football? Most interesting part?

Cheerleaders.

Posted by: Weasel at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (6xtq3)

289 In before 300

Posted by: Yo! at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (GwIKd)

290
BTW - the Collins GOPe "bi-partisan" gun control bill is out.

http://tinyurl.com/jamkr5s

No fly no buy list and such.

Has about half a dozen GOP types aboard at the git-go. Vote this week or next.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (kdS6q)

291 245 I would have thought Brexit had a chance of passing before the murder of MP Jo Cox. Not anymore
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM
-------------------------
It's amazing that something like that, which has nothing to do with arguments for or against the exit, could have an impact.
But I suspect it will. Feelings. Images.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (T/5A0)

292
Because she's look but don't touch, frigid.

I remember hearing this back when Hugh was caught out. I did not like the idea of sexy women who close up shop, so to speak.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:23 PM (UBBWX)

I dunno. I heard that Bill hit it. Maybe someone should ask Madame Secretary about Liz next presser.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (t06LC)

293 That's why hugh grant was paying for hummers.
.............

Or maybe m-a-r-r-i-e-d.

Posted by: Divine Brown, prostitute at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (HgMAr)

294 >>Football? Most interesting part?

The Felony Arrests.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (oeOT+)

295 "I worked for a company that did a couple of projects for Elizabeth Hurley and I met her once,She seemed very sweet."

Can you confirm if frigid or not?

LOL. Where did I hear that? It totally bummed me out and to this day I remember it.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (UBBWX)

296 OK, I'll mock cricket with all a y'all, but have you ever tried to explain baseball to a foreigner?

I worked for a German law firm in NY. Krauts have a thing called Referendar which means you went to law school but you need to be an indentured servant somewhere. I made friends with the Referendars.

So it's 1986 and the Mets (boo!) are playing the Red Sox (yay!) and the fiancee and I keep having Kurt (looks like Owen Meany) over to watch the series.

And I'm explaining the rules, which seem simple and intuitive to an American. But he's like "what about this?", and I'm "it's only this until that happens, and then there's a different rule".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (1xUj/)

297 "Or maybe m-a-r-r-i-e-d."

This seems more likely.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (UBBWX)

298 291
245 I would have thought Brexit had a chance of passing before the murder of MP Jo Cox. Not anymore

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:17 PM

-------------------------

It's amazing that something like that, which has nothing to do with arguments for or against the exit, could have an impact.

But I suspect it will. Feelings. Images.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:25 PM (T/5A0)

Makes you wonder if they sacrificed her for the cause. Whole thing was timed conveniently enough to set off my bullshit detectors.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (HalrA)

299 LOL. Hugh Grant is pretty popular with the ladies, dude.

Yeah, he's popular with the ladies. Not for sex, but they love him as the romantic idea. The kind of guy that's safe and they can dream about. Then they go to the rough biker dude for the nasty stuff.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (39g3+)

300 It is surprising Liz Hurley would put a piture like that up considering she f*cks guys like Clinton and that douche-nozzle Bing, both big leftists. Liz is what is known in New York as a hoo-aah.

Posted by: Jann Wenner's double headed, spiked dildo at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (VDovR)

301 Fenny, you around?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:27 PM (9ym/8)

302 For me the most exciting part of football is the elbows, and yes it was me who coined that term here. Your welcome.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2016 04:27 PM (6Ll1u)

303 Wouldn't a moment for TX leaving the US be better called TXexit?. Texit sounds to me like an abbreviation for sending a text message

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:27 PM (rmw+9)

304 Fcuk off, you annoying little prat.Posted by: Pinocchio�

Your words are hurtful. Do you know what it's like to go through life with the body of a grasshopper and have everyone call you a cricket? Your only friend has both a wooden nose and penis? The nose grows, the penis? Not so much.

LGB rights! (Little green bugs)

Posted by: Jiminy Cricket at June 21, 2016 04:27 PM (ZnIt3)

305 "Makes you wonder if they sacrificed her for the cause. Whole thing was timed conveniently enough to set off my bullshit detectors."

Can you imagine how this is planned?

"So, who do we off?" All eyes turn to the most unpopular MP.

In the US, it would be Ted Cruz.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:28 PM (UBBWX)

306 Hugh Grant is an imbecile.

-
Up there withTiger Woods.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 04:28 PM (Nwg0u)

307
Makes you wonder if they sacrificed her for the cause. Whole thing was timed conveniently enough to set off my bullshit detectors.

I don't know a ton of Brits but none of them seem to think its made any difference. We'll see in a couple days, I guess.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:28 PM (39g3+)

308 Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:27 PM (9ym/

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:28 PM (rmw+9)

309 300th

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:28 PM (Ljj7+)

310 A few weeks back, someone posted the greatest awards show entrance ever featuring our lady Hurley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BkwnGq2yaA

Posted by: real and spectacular at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (2WoCi)

311 "Yeah, he's popular with the ladies. Not for sex, but they love him as the romantic idea. The kind of guy that's safe and they can dream about. Then they go to the rough biker dude for the nasty stuff."

Well, I know if you go gay, you'll be a huge bear and not into twinks.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (UBBWX)

312 entropy can be slow

Posted by: Sophistahick at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (Ljj7+)

313 It is surprising Liz Hurley would put a piture like that up considering she f*cks guys like Clinton and that douche-nozzle Bing, both big leftists. Liz is what is known in New York as a hoo-aah.

Posted by: Jann Wenner's double headed, spiked dildo at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (VDovR)

Bing Crosby is a leftist? And can still bang her?

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (t06LC)

314 Our kids all look like little Brits so I tell him his genes oppressed mine.

Posted by: Lauren...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:19 PM (E/vjf)

Do they feel the urge to repeatedly rebel against themselves?

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (u0lmX)

315 "In before 300
Posted by: Yo! "

Show already started.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (9ym/8)

316 Makes you wonder if they sacrificed her for the cause. Whole thing was timed conveniently enough to set off my bullshit detectors.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (HalrA)

Yep. Perp sure sounds like the Marinus van der Lubbe type.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (GSdpU)

317 Fenny, you around?Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT

Why? You need somebody offed?

Posted by: Jiminy Cricket at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (ZnIt3)

318
Can you confirm if frigid or not?

Not really, but I did get the impression she was very proper in what I imagined to be a very English way

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (lKyWE)

319 Up there with Tiger Woods.

No, Tiger didn't pay. He was just avalanched in hot women at the end of every golf game. I say now I'd turn them down to run home to be with hot Swedish model but in his shoes? Maybe the threesome with the Japanese triplets was more of a draw.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (39g3+)

320 The most unusual Liz Hurley picture is this one she posted to her Instagram feed of her seemingly giving Elton John a hand job.

http://tinyurl.com/huyvstr

Posted by: MTF at June 21, 2016 04:30 PM (AaCJy)

321 77
"Could someone please explain Cricket to me?Posted by: garrett"

Like the phone thing?
*
*
It's the lighters that puzzle me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (txdEq)

322 Great bit by a comedian about how America is obsessed with beauty. Every actress has to beautiful from movie to TV to commercials. He goes on to say that Americans are surprised the first time they see a BBC program. In his best American accent ' is that the best looking actress they could get? What the hell did the actresses look like that didn't get the part? '

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (L78vw)

323 Rugby is mainly for sissies.

A real man's game is Combat Football. (google it!)

We played it in Korea with 100 guys per team.

The evacuation helicopters didn't fly to the hospital unless they were full or someone was close to dying.

Ambulances were packed.

No rules. Get the ball in goal.

Posted by: jwest at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (Zs4uk)

324 319 Up there with Tiger Woods.

No, Tiger didn't pay. He was just avalanched in hot women at the end of every golf game. I say now I'd turn them down to run home to be with hot Swedish model but in his shoes? Maybe the threesome with the Japanese triplets was more of a draw.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (39g3+)

Got steak at home, but sometimes you just want that cheeseburger. That old chestnut.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (t06LC)

325 but have you ever tried to explain baseball to a foreigner?

A man moves from Scotland to the US and attends his first baseball game. After a base hit he hears the fans roaring, "Run! Run!"

The next batter connects heavily with the ball and the Scotsman stands up and roars with the crowd in his thick accent: "R-r-r-un, yah bloody bahstard. R-r-run!"

A third batter cracks a hard liner and again the Scotsman, obviously pleased with his knowledge of the game, screams, "RRRun, yah bloody bahstard, rrrrun, why don't ya???"

The next batter holds his swing at three and two and as the umpire calls,"Take your base." The Scotsman stands up, yelling, "RRRun, ya bahstard, rrrun!" All the surrounding fans giggle quietly so he sits down, very much confused.

A friendly fan, sensing his embarrassment, whispers, "He doesn't have to run, he's got four balls."

The Scotsman stands up in disbelief and shouts, "Wahlk with prrrride, man!"

Posted by: Grump928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, twice as smug as you at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (evdj2)

326 309 300th
Posted by: Sophistahick

300!
-Amy Schumer

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (qpKia)

327 In his country we have Lexit. We've abandon the rule of law.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 04:31 PM (Nwg0u)

328 Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party, TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (HalrA)

That is one theory, but didn't she come out between a fight, or is that wrong?. Its very sad that she was a wife and mother of young children and her life was cut short. It doesn't mean everyone who favors BRexit is an ignorant, racist yahoo with violent tendencies as was suggested by some papers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:32 PM (rmw+9)

329 "Yes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke "

Just wanted to share something with you. Had a moment earlier today. Can't say what it was, but it was more than I had in me.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:32 PM (9ym/8)

330 "Do they feel the urge to repeatedly rebel against themselves?"

Ha! Not yet..not looking forward to puberty.

My 3 year old is the one that looks most Irish though and she...well let's just say if any of my kids start a revolution at the park, it would be her.

Posted by: Lauren...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:32 PM (E/vjf)

331 320 The most unusual Liz Hurley picture is this one she posted to her Instagram feed of her seemingly giving Elton John a hand job.

http://tinyurl.com/huyvstr

Posted by: MTF at June 21, 2016 04:30 PM (AaCJy)

Strange. I have never wanted to be Elton John before.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:32 PM (t06LC)

332
It's so surreal that the country that found a leader who could rally the population against the f'in Nazis - when it seemed IMPOSSIBLE to win - would then just turn around and slit its own throat.

Posted by: Optimizer at June 21, 2016 04:21 PM (jPHi7)

A head scratcher for the ages. But Socialism is all about the big promises of a Nirvana (that never comes to fruition). Maybe the sales pitch was a beauty. Hey, I remember in 2007-2008 the media hard selling some savior and all the wonderful things he would get done.

Posted by: Jann Wenner's double headed, spiked dildo at June 21, 2016 04:33 PM (VDovR)

333 I hesitate to comment until The Spice Girls weigh in.

Posted by: idiot morphodite at June 21, 2016 04:33 PM (HgMAr)

334 > In Maryland that's not a joke. Although I don't know how they charge you.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at June 21, 2016 04:06 PM (Lixdp)

By the area of impervious surfaces on your property. Roofs, pavement, driveway: all contribute runoff volumes to be handled by the storm drain systems...

Posted by: civil engineers in your city hall, snitching to the tax assessors at June 21, 2016 04:33 PM (IQI2h)

335 Dear Cousins: consult History, starting with pg.1776.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 21, 2016 04:33 PM (5oKve)

336 Bill Burr's bit on Tiger Woods is classic, he just nails it. Yeah, he's a rotten bastard but... at least he's an understandable rotten bastard. And who among us has had to put up with that kind of pressure? Its a lot easier to be true to the wife when you're not really getting any temptation, but when its wall to wall hot women throwing panties at you? I would like to believe I'm Godly and true enough to walk away but I've never been tempted like that.

And by my age, I've learned that I'm capable of anything in the wrong circumstances and a weak moment.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:33 PM (39g3+)

337 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (39g3+

Tiger paid for many of the women he had. He had some kinky demands that required call girls.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 21, 2016 04:34 PM (L78vw)

338 Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:32 PM (9ym/

Are you speaking of a spiritual experience and do you want to say more? :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:34 PM (rmw+9)

339 "One of life's great mysteries is why Hugh Grant cheated on her."
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Men cheat on gorgeous women all the time.
Boredom? Variety?
One-per-centers selflessly trying to spread wealth to homeless transvestites?
Who knows?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:34 PM (T/5A0)

340
The globalists sure are having a hissy fit that there is even a vote, not to mention a close vote. I suspect "stay" will win by a ~~nose~~ fraud.

Nevertheless, warms the cockles of my heart the globalists are in a snit.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2016 04:34 PM (ODxAs)

341 "Not really, but I did get the impression she was very proper in what I imagined to be a very English way"

Ohhhhhh.

As in :"Hugh, we only have sex once per year. We're married after all."

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:35 PM (UBBWX)

342 299 LOL. Hugh Grant is pretty popular with the ladies, dude.

Yeah, he's popular with the ladies. Not for sex
============================

Maybe I'm confused but I thought he had about four or five kids by four or five different women, or something...

Posted by: MTF at June 21, 2016 04:35 PM (AaCJy)

343 One-per-centers selflessly trying to spread wealth to homeless transvestites?

So you're saying its charity?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:35 PM (39g3+)

344 319
"Japanese triplets"? Were they robots?

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:36 PM (HgMAr)

345
Maybe the threesome with the Japanese triplets was more of a draw.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

Worked for me!

Posted by: Mothra at June 21, 2016 04:36 PM (IqV8l)

346 Well let's do an informal poll:

Ettes.

Hugh Grant, does he make you hot and bothered or just dreamy and aww romancey?

I mean putting aside all the money.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:37 PM (39g3+)

347 >>Tiger paid for many of the women he had. He had some kinky demands that required call girls.

"That won't be necessary, I have my clubs up here already.
"Just make sure you send up the two Korean Girls, a French Nun, 5 quarts of Sour Cream a and a Fainting Goat.
"Yes.
The Penthouse."

Posted by: Tiger Woods Calls the Front Desk at June 21, 2016 04:37 PM (oeOT+)

348 Christopher thinks only biker guys get tail.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:37 PM (UBBWX)

349 In Maryland that's not a joke. Although I don't know how they charge you.

-
Speaking of charges, from Drudge. Euroweenie will charge employers social security taxes on robots because government gotta eat, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 04:37 PM (Nwg0u)

350 Bing Crosby is a leftist? And can still bang her?

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:29 PM (t06LC)

I forget the guys first name. Some moneybags Socialist, like a mini Soros. I believe she had a kid with him, to partly answer the questions about being frigid. She may be, but she still puts out.

Posted by: Jann Wenner's double headed, spiked dildo at June 21, 2016 04:37 PM (VDovR)

351 "Hugh Grant, does he make you hot and bothered or just dreamy and aww romancey?"

Dude that gets some women hot and bothered.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:38 PM (UBBWX)

352 MAKE MEXICO SPAIN AGAIN.

Posted by: Meremortal at June 21, 2016 04:38 PM (w+6Q7)

353 Can you confirm if frigid or not?
................

Well, she's a pretty good actress so who cares?

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:38 PM (HgMAr)

354 Dude that gets some women hot and bothered.

You're an ette?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:39 PM (39g3+)

355 The globalist sounds like the head of some US company (I don't know if I read about it in a sidebar link here or not) in the US who says "We should throw open the doors for everyone (He was speaking primarily of Mexico because people want to be part of a global community. And no, it wasn't Zuckerberg.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:39 PM (rmw+9)

356 "Are you speaking of a spiritual experience and do you want to say more? :^)"

I can't say "spiritual." I was extremely exasperated with my dad who makes everything 3-times more complicated than it needs to be. Dementia and all that. I was ready to blow up this morning and then I just.........cooled down. It's hard to make me blow, but, when I do, I do. Problem was solved. I don't come off the spout like that.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:40 PM (9ym/8)

357 >>4 Dude that gets some women hot and bothered.

The key is to get them hot and buttered.

Posted by: Marlon Brando at June 21, 2016 04:40 PM (oeOT+)

358 Hurley has had one child, with Steve Bing, who denied it was his...like who does that?

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:40 PM (UBBWX)

359 Well, if the ones that show up for Maggot Fest are any indication, then yes.

The Missoula Maggots tour bus is a veritable museum, and the finest of the kind I've ever seen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2016 04:40 PM (uFuUP)

360 Just make sure you send up the two Korean Girls,

-
Are you familiar with the Singapore sling? No, not the drink.

- Tiger Woods

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 04:41 PM (Nwg0u)

361
I thought Hugh Grant was pretty funny as the office lech in the Bridget Jones films. Also liked him in The Rewrite.

He's not aging well and like Jude Law, any woman who comes within 10 feet of him gets knocked up.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 04:41 PM (iQIUe)

362 296 OK, I'll mock cricket with all a y'all, but have you ever tried to explain baseball to a foreigner?"

An old boyfriend took a German friend to a game. While boyfriend was out buying beer and hot dogs, the pitcher walked the bases full - and then walked a run in.

Boyfriend had explained that getting a hit got a man on base. The German was utterly mystified as to how a run could score when 4 batters in a row had not hit the ball. So then he had to have the strike zone explained to him. It didn't clarify matters for him.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 04:41 PM (u0lmX)

363 Hurley and her friends referred to Bing as "Bing Laden"

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:41 PM (UBBWX)

364 It's hard to make me blow...

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:40 PM (9ym/

Elizabeth...is that you?

Posted by: Hugh Grant at June 21, 2016 04:41 PM (Zu3d9)

365 Steve Bing knocked up two famous women in 2001.

Hurley was one of them.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:42 PM (UBBWX)

366 I should get in touch with my sister and BILabout Brexit. Several years ago she favored being part of the European Union because she felt if something happened to her English husband she could go to another European country. I think he's in favor of BRExit and they both can vote.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:42 PM (rmw+9)

367 Kick out of that little news link headline over at TepidAir:

Trump Warns Evangelican Leaders: "We Don't Know Anything About Hillary in Terms of Religion!"

Exclamation point by me because Trump.

To which one might say, "Well, . . . ah, Mister Trump, . . . "

Posted by: the littl shyning man at June 21, 2016 04:43 PM (U6f54)

368 Hurley has had one child, with Steve Bing, who denied it was his...like who does that?

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I'd be all, "Yeah, that's right. I nailed her." But then, I'm a gentleman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 04:43 PM (Nwg0u)

369 Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:40 PM (9ym/

I'm glad it worked out for you and he.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:44 PM (rmw+9)

370 "You're an ette?"

No, but I've dated and married an ette.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:44 PM (UBBWX)

371 "I'm glad it worked out for you and he."

You got a Bible verse or something?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (9ym/8)

372 2002: Steve Bing gets vasectomy.

Posted by: Sexypig at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (UBBWX)

373 "Elisabeth could fake an orgasm with the best of them." - Huge Rant

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (HgMAr)

374 >>No, but I've dated and married an ette.

Is it true that when you marry an 'ette, Ace gets Prima Nocta?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (oeOT+)

375 I don't think the Donald really knows how to reach out to 'evangelical' 'leaders' at all. I question how many of the people he's reaching out to are either leaders or really evangelical in a historical sense in any case. But he's in a bit of a quandary. He's got no real moral sense beyond his base desires, and while he's somewhat familiar with the Bible in a basic sense, he doesn't have any real comfort with it or Christian culture.

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton is practically an avatar for Satan, so...

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (39g3+)

376 "Hugh Grant, does he make you hot and bothered or just dreamy and aww romancey?"
-----------------------
Aww romancey. I would be more likely to describe him as "charming" than as "sexy."

But, to make a broad generalization, I think with women there's not as big a distinction between "hot" and "romantic" as there may be with men.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (T/5A0)

377 368 Hurley has had one child, with Steve Bing, who denied it was his...like who does that?

==========
A guy who was in back to back sex scandals? He knocked up Kirk Kervorkian's wife at the same time he knocked up Hurley.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (iQIUe)

378 Is it true that when you marry an 'ette, Ace gets Prima Nocta?
Posted by: garrett

Yes.

Sadly, he has no idea what to do with it.

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (326rv)

379 Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (9ym/

About avoiding anger or what?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (rmw+9)

380 "No, but I've dated and married an ette. "

Wait, what?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (9ym/8)

381 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:37 PM (39g3+)

Grant is a good actor, but never struck me as particularly sexy. The Sean Connery of the Bond era is my idea of sexy. Polished and higher -T than Grant.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at June 21, 2016 04:47 PM (u0lmX)

382 Is it true that when you marry an 'ette, Ace gets Prima Nocta?

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (oeOT+)

Yeah, but some fur detangler spray and a good pet brush takes care of the issue.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 21, 2016 04:48 PM (GUBah)

383 339 "One of life's great mysteries is why Hugh Grant cheated on her."
---------------------
Men cheat on gorgeous women all the time.
Boredom? Variety?
One-per-centers selflessly trying to spread wealth to homeless transvestites?
Who knows?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:34 PM (T/5A0)

____

There's that saying when you see a super hot woman....somewhere there's a guy who's bored fucking her.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 21, 2016 04:48 PM (0LHZx)

384 "About avoiding anger or what?"

No. Forget it. What I was looking for was a passage about taking on weight without the weight knowing why. It may be old Bible stuff I'm looking for.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:49 PM (9ym/8)

385 Great Britain rules the world for centuries, sans EU. But now if they leave the EU the world will end.

Sounds legit.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 21, 2016 04:50 PM (0LHZx)

386 Is it true that when you marry an 'ette, Ace gets Prima Nocta?

...aw man, I'm leavin' this one on the table.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 04:50 PM (9krrF)

387 The last reforger I was in outside Koln, we were with the British. When it ended they set up a beer tent and we partied, we partied so hard that the officers had to serve chow to the troops in the morning as punishment. Good times.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2016 04:50 PM (6Ll1u)

388 It's not the votes, it's who counts them.

I say Brexit loses by a hair.

Too much money at stake.

Too much power to be lost.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 21, 2016 04:50 PM (kKHcp)

389 "Which, btw, is like 3/4 of the commenters on this blog Texan?"

You ask that like it might be a bad thing. ;-)

Posted by: Bob in Houston-TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 04:51 PM (XRxxn)

390 Oh wait, you said prima nocte, not nocturnal emissions.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 21, 2016 04:51 PM (GUBah)

391 You know, if it wasn't for the 30 for 30 shows I'd never watch anything from ESPN at all. And I see them on Netflix

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:51 PM (39g3+)

392 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:46 PM (39g3+)

Well stated. However, Satan is beyond redemption. He made his irrevocable choice. With Hillary there's still a chance-but it's kind of like AA. Often people don't go until they hit bottom. Hillary likely have a come to Jesus moment unless she' held accountable and in deep do-do and Hillary being held accountable is unlikely in this life

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2016 04:51 PM (rmw+9)

393 When the evil Skeksis separated from the strange Mystics during The Shattering, it was later referred to as The Skexit.

Posted by: A Stray Gelfling at June 21, 2016 04:52 PM (T9F5V)

394 388 It's not the votes, it's who counts them.

I say Brexit loses by a hair.

Too much money at stake.

Too much power to be lost.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 21, 2016 04:50 PM (kKHcp)

____

They need to win by more than the leftist margin of fraud, so by at least 53%. And it doesn't look like the support is there.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 21, 2016 04:52 PM (0LHZx)

395 Great Britain rules the world for centuries, sans EU. But now if they leave the EU the world will end.

Sounds legit.

Anyone else think the "Remain" folks sound like abusive SO's talking to someone about to walk out?

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 04:52 PM (9krrF)

396 it was later referred to as The Skexit.

Dude, bonus points for Dark Crystal reference.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:53 PM (39g3+)

397 I doubt that Liz is frigid. Probably just cautious from being a woman who has had more than her fair share of two-pump chumps.

Bill Clinton: Huh HUH! Better put some ice on that.

Posted by: Fritz at June 21, 2016 04:53 PM (f40FU)

398 Anyone else think the "Remain" folks sound like abusive SO's talking to someone about to walk out?
Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 21, 2016 04:52 PM (9krrF)

___

That's a good observation. You can't leave me, without me your're nothing!!!

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 21, 2016 04:53 PM (0LHZx)

399 395 ---Anyone else think the "Remain" folks sound like abusive SO's talking to someone about to walk out?Brother Cavil
--------------------
Ziiiiiinnnnngggg.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 21, 2016 04:54 PM (T/5A0)

400
They need to win by more than the leftist margin of fraud, so by at least 53%. And it doesn't look like the support is there.

I dunno, in the last election the polling was off by like 8% so who knows?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:54 PM (39g3+)

401 Jesus. I'm not saying Liz is a gold digger, after research I'm saying I hope she got paid for banging Steve Bing.

Posted by: Jollyroger...TEXIT at June 21, 2016 04:54 PM (t06LC)

402 It's not you, it's me.

Posted by: Britain at June 21, 2016 04:54 PM (evdj2)

403 Steve Bing is a puffter.

Posted by: Steve Google at June 21, 2016 04:56 PM (1xUj/)

404 That's a good observation. You can't leave me, without me your're nothing!!!
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 21, 2016 04:53 PM (0LHZx)

What other nation will even have you?

Posted by: The EU at June 21, 2016 04:56 PM (3ZoRf)

405 It's not you, it's me.
Posted by: Britain

I'm just not ready to settle down. I want to see other bureaucratic cesspools.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 21, 2016 04:56 PM (Nwg0u)

406 Baby, don't go. I really do love you.

Posted by: Ike TEUrner at June 21, 2016 04:57 PM (H9MG5)

407 C'mon, tell the mincing ponces and bull dykes of "Remain" to sod off.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 21, 2016 04:57 PM (BK3ZS)

408 400
They need to win by more than the leftist margin of fraud, so by at least 53%. And it doesn't look like the support is there.

I dunno, in the last election the polling was off by like 8% so who knows?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:54 PM (39g3+)

___

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. 1992 election in the UK was also a "WTF just happened" election since no polls showed Major winning dog catcher, let alone winning a majority.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 21, 2016 04:57 PM (0LHZx)

409 There are gold diggers, then there are those who are worth every penny.

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2016 05:00 PM (d9qXV)

410
Daniel Craig backs Remain - Boooooo!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 05:01 PM (iQIUe)

411 They will have some small measure of pride in country returned to them, as the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels froth and seethe that they can no longer tell the British what size garbage bag must be used in which size can. Or the appropriate font for tinned meat labels....

As if the British government won't impose these exact same regulations.....what difference does it make who requests it at that point? it's ALL communistic in nature.

Posted by: Sponge at June 21, 2016 05:01 PM (xttKs)

412 Nood

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at June 21, 2016 05:02 PM (KcI5m)

413 Daniel Craig backs Remain - Boooooo!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 21, 2016 05:01 PM (iQIUe)

He also backs disarming Americans. Screw him. He knows nothing.

Posted by: Sponge at June 21, 2016 05:02 PM (xttKs)

414 Is it true that when you marry an 'ette, Ace gets Prima Nocta?
Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2016 04:45 PM (oeOT+)

Ay si! Mi prima Nocta dice que Ace es un buen caballero, muy guapo y suave, pero sabe los restaurantes mas chic.

Posted by: Kindltot's Hispanic in-law at June 21, 2016 05:04 PM (ry34m)

415 "If TFG is fer it, I'm agin it.

That's before knowing a single fact about it."

Pretty much how I've felt the last seven years or so.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez_and_the_dogs_relocating_to_more_rural_area_asap at June 21, 2016 05:05 PM (RUssy)

416 It's not you, it's me.
Posted by: Britain at June 21, 2016 04:54 PM (evdj2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxoEwjdgT98

Posted by: Kindltot's Hispanic in-law at June 21, 2016 05:10 PM (ry34m)

417 I invented it's-not-you-it's-me.

Posted by: America at June 21, 2016 05:12 PM (evdj2)

418 You know the old saying: "If voting could change anything, it would be illegal."

Posted by: rickl at June 21, 2016 05:15 PM (zoehZ)

419 417
I invented it's-not-you-it's-me.

Posted by: America at June 21, 2016 05:12 PM (evdj2)
from the mouths of babes

Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 21, 2016 05:15 PM (0O7c5)

420 omg.....the bible throwing hillary story made it in the secret service agents book...........i'm stunned

Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 21, 2016 05:17 PM (0O7c5)

421 Yeah, he's popular with the ladies. Not for sex, but they love him as the romantic idea. The kind of guy that's safe and they can dream about. Then they go to the rough biker dude for the nasty stuff.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 21, 2016 04:26 PM (39g3+)

I see you've met every chick I've ever tried to date.

Posted by: Blano at June 21, 2016 05:21 PM (34FVn)

422 Born in Kilgore. Away for lotsa years as military dependent or military myself. Finally returned not quite two years ago.

Posted by: Empire1-- TEXIT! at June 21, 2016 05:34 PM (jb3dN)

423 Was it Stalin who said, "It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes. I will say a prayer for Brexit and Shakespeare and Churchill.

Posted by: Carmen at June 21, 2016 06:20 PM (RHjCR)

424 Politicians love bureaucracy. Its an attempt to create a hierarchy system, where there's an upstair level to move up to and a system to rule over those who are downstairs

Posted by: oic at June 21, 2016 06:32 PM (uvlNx)

425 Sounds like more and more that people are saying "why the hell is it wrong for me to be me" or "... for me"

There is a fundamental question of for whom does a government exist. The more that comes into question the more difficult things become

Posted by: Former mass resident at June 21, 2016 06:44 PM (UWzjE)

426 Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England's green & pleasant Land

GOD BLESS ENGLAND!

Posted by: sinalco at June 21, 2016 06:44 PM (yODqO)

427 Does Brittain want to be a nation, or an administrative district?

We have watched the United States go from being a Federation of States to becoming a collection of administrative districts. It is not pretty; it is not noble; it is not human.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 21, 2016 08:45 PM (O4NI/)

428 162 I take it a cricket match can last two days, no thanks.

You jest. 5 days for international test cricket. it. is. addictive........

Posted by: NZ Frank at June 21, 2016 09:23 PM (L+RxD)

429 Britain and the rest of Europe have been economically mixed for more tan 4 decades. It is not only the financial market. It is the car-builders, the grocery in Main Street with less Access to cheap fruit, the pensionist living in Spain with free access to hospitals there, the whisky exporter in Scotland with less taxes exporting than selling to London....that is why the younger in Britain favor remaining. It is the older people who want to exit. Because they don't have to survive anymore in a global economy

Posted by: Eurocatholiccon at June 22, 2016 09:43 AM (GaEdC)

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