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Gay tw*t maybe, but not homosexual 
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith -
homosexual is the official spellingComment
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Everyone associates FOPOG with it
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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what world do you live in?
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Well, here's a personal example:Originally posted by VetLegion
Exactly. That's the whole idea. The market integration thingy is working but nobody knows what it is doing, all the legislation is maybe useful, maybe not -- that's why I am interested in personal opinions.
The Germans have an extremely efficient way to send money from a bank account to another. It works, it's free, it's fast
I'd LOVE to see this system extended to the EU as a whole (through regulation, naturally), so that:
- When I work for a German company for two weeks, the salary goes directly to my French bank account. As it stands now, I needed to use a German bank account to get money from them.
- When I pay for a service in Germany, they take money on my primary French bank account, instead of forcing me to have a German bank account (the Germans enjoy very much paying themselves directly on your account).
- When I do some online work for a Polish SME, I get paid through an easy transfer, instead of waiting for a Polish friend to carry the cash next time he goes to Paris
(All these situations are real, and have mattered to me in the past days)"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- DisComment
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OK Spiffor, those are cool examples. You travel around a lot and you seem to have benefits from this EU thing. Now you only need to start growing something to get the subsidies also
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The EU has helped my best friend fulfill her life long dream of studying in Austria thanks to the ERASMUS programme. It's also enforced strict environmental laws that have cleaned up the beaches where I live. Oh, and pours money into Cornwall where a lot of my family still live. That's just off the top of my head. I have even mentioned that thanks to the Union once I graduate I can live and work anywhere in it and it's a source of funding for nifty science things.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Really? How about continuing boozing?Originally posted by Spiffor
I can't think of any surest way to go puke...Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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These things always get overlooked - Hull was the recipient of hundreds of millions of pounds worth of grants from the EU, I know some of my friends had their research funded by the EPSRC (European Physical Sciences Research Council). But these kinds of things always get overlooked in favour of straight bananasOriginally posted by Starchild
The EU has helped my best friend fulfill her life long dream of studying in Austria thanks to the ERASMUS programme. It's also enforced strict environmental laws that have cleaned up the beaches where I live. Oh, and pours money into Cornwall where a lot of my family still live. That's just off the top of my head. I have even mentioned that thanks to the Union once I graduate I can live and work anywhere in it and it's a source of funding for nifty science things.
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Here in Sweden the picture of Schengen and free movement within the EU is a bit tainted by media reports. There has been quite alot of news about "Fortress Europe" as they call it, basically how immigrants are trying desperately to get inside the "golden zone". And how money is being invested in tightening border security.
A few days ago there was an article about a horde of immigrants trying to storm a Spanish outpost in Marocco with homemade ladders, five people died supposedly. Is this even an issue in other european countries?It's candy. Surely there are more important things the NAACP could be boycotting. If the candy were shaped like a burning cross or a black man made of regular chocolate being dragged behind a truck made of white chocolate I could understand the outrage and would share it. - DrosedarsComment
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That's got to be a pretty short life (to date) then. Damn, girl, why not set your sights a little higher?Originally posted by Starchild
The EU has helped my best friend fulfill her life long dream of studying in Austria thanks to the ERASMUS programme.
Oh, and the EU are never going to get me to win the FA Cup for Newcastle.
And after all those taxes I paid them!
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It hasn't done a whole lot of good for me.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Don't ask what the EU has done for you....ask what you can do for the Eu
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You make it sound like it's some kind of human rights violation to deny access to illegal immigrants.Originally posted by Footie Mad
Here in Sweden the picture of Schengen and free movement within the EU is a bit tainted by media reports. There has been quite alot of news about "Fortress Europe" as they call it, basically how immigrants are trying desperately to get inside the "golden zone". And how money is being invested in tightening border security.
A few days ago there was an article about a horde of immigrants trying to storm a Spanish outpost in Marocco with homemade ladders, five people died supposedly. Is this even an issue in other european countries?Comment
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Did Denmark care so much about human rights violations back when it engaged in slave trade of the ancestors of today's immigrants?Comment
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