Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[BeBMan]

Finally we find out the real issues with Brexit:

It is a debate that has torn the nation in two, ripped friends and family apart, and entrenched deep and uncrossable lines throughout the land. Should the Royal Mint have used an Oxford comma on its Brexit 50p piece?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/27/brexit-50p-coin-boycott-philip-pullman-oxford-comma

[Dinner]

They never used the Euro and so should just keep doing it like they've always done it.

[Dauphin]

What has the Euro got to do with it?

[Uncle Sparky]

Happy Year of the Rat!

[BeBMan]

My morbid side likes that cartoon....


In other news:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51315772

"so long and thanks for all the fish"

[giblets]

Most EU laws will continue to be in force - including the free movement of people - until the end of December, by which time the UK aims to have reached a permanent free trade agreement with the EU.

So he'll claim the UK has left the EU 11 months before any of the practical consequences kick in, hoping that the public doesn't see the connection.

[Uncle Sparky]

Diversion @ Mar-a-Lago.

[BeBMan]

Intl. League of the Amoeba People congratulated GOP senators to their lack of spine.

[BeBMan]

#PalindromeDay: Geeks around the world celebrate 02/02/2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51349158

[Uncle Sparky]

A real tweet by the smartest man in America-

[BeBMan]

They moved Kansas City out to make the pres look bad. Deep State!

[Dauphin]

Glory hunter. Bet he would have said the same about the ‘69ers (sic) if they had won.

[BeBMan]

Looks like Trump won the Democrats/Iowa thing

[giblets]

Pete Buttgiggle declaring victory before results have been announced

[BeBMan]

I guess it would be absurd to assume something was hacked...?