The Brexit Boondoggle
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I also used to think of liberal as being synonymous with leftist or progressive, but the places I hang out online now use it as a pejorative to refer to centrists.
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Yeah, I see the shift happening too, but I don't think that usage is mainstream yet.
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Per Starr: "The Tim Tam Flim Flam Man"
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I'm ambivalent on this one because we have family in Oz and Tim Tams are really fucking good y'all.
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Tim Tams ARE good.
Barney Rubble is bad.
Barney Rubble is bad.
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I feel like I'm missing out. Do we even have them in America? Are they like M&M's?
EDIT: Ah, Wiki says they're a chocolate biscuit. And you can... use them like a straw?
EDIT: Ah, Wiki says they're a chocolate biscuit. And you can... use them like a straw?
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I've only had them with Australian friends when I was in Japan. We bit both ends off and then used them as straws to suck up hot chocolate. They called it a Tim Tam Slam.
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They're kind of like slightly wider Kit Kat, with caramel or some other flavor. I've seen them at Target.
Yeah, you nibble off both ends, slurp up a bit of drink like hot cocoa or coffee, then chormp the whole thing in a bite before the chocolate coating melts and the wafers completely disintegrate.
Yeah, you nibble off both ends, slurp up a bit of drink like hot cocoa or coffee, then chormp the whole thing in a bite before the chocolate coating melts and the wafers completely disintegrate.
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I... never knew about the straw thing!
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also american ones are fucking trash, make sure to get the real deal. we sold the imports at the arthouse theater i worked at for the first year or two that i was there, and we would literally have expats showing up on our concession delivery days to buy the entire cases.
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The daftest thing is that England seceding from the union would have been the quickest, simplest solution to the whole general mess. No other member states would have been dragged unwillingly from Europe with them and they might even have avoided their current government and its absurdist death toll.
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I think "everybody else tried unsuccessfully to stop the English from dragging them through the mud" pretty much sums up the entire history of the Kingdom of England, United Kingdom, British Empire, Commonwealth of Nations, whatever the fuck we're calling it now.
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mharr wrote:The daftest thing is that England seceding from the union would have been the quickest, simplest solution to the whole general mess.
Has any sovereign state ever voluntarily relinquished control of land?
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The United States.
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Referring to the Philippines?
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zaratustra wrote:mharr wrote:The daftest thing is that England seceding from the union would have been the quickest, simplest solution to the whole general mess.
Has any sovereign state ever voluntarily relinquished control of land?
Pretty sure there's a bunch of instances, but if you want a famous one, Rome did it for hundreds of years.
Of course that depends on if you think that "This craphole's not worth the effort keeping it" counts as voluntary.
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This is why I'm Scottish now:
(So much more joy in the full thread)
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