"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

sorry didn't realise i need 10,000 posts to be allowed to raise the fact that the term "regional accents" is seldom used except to dismiss people from certain parts of britain.

london is a region too. maybe we should be more precise about the nature of those we oppose lest we alienate others in the process.

there have been more fractious disagreements itt and there will be again.

So this isn't how it was intended here, glad that's been settled and now we can all move on.

i disagree.

but am happy to move on.

Oh stop being a ninny, hardly anyone on this thread is from London and I imagine all of them have regional accents of one kind or another.

everyone not from london does. yorkshiremen. scots. irish etc.

So what?

(If you'd take off the sock for a minute, it would be easier to take you seriously)

LDs have confirmed they won’t support labour in future VONCs

fh clearly not a sock ffs

LDs gonna LD.

Meanwhile:

Theresa May’s spokesman says May is not willing to drop her red lines on the customs union, or seemingly anything else that may win over opposition parties. Talks being set up to fail.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) January 17, 2019

the ladys not for remaining

(If you'd take off the sock for a minute, it would be easier to take you seriously)

are there rules for posting opinions here? it seems strange that a poster's name would be such an influence on the interpretation of what's posted.

Getting called a sock when posting a mildly contrarian opinion in a rolling thread with a recognizable cast of characters that doesn't include you is ILX tradition.

it's a quirk of our region

I guess it might also help if you don’t keep popping up telling g people to take a Xanax or eat cyanide (lols!)

They're clearly familiar with ILX, and I'm pretty certain the manager of the Spanish football team was not previously posting here...?

Alright Corbyn time to out yourself

back in my day not being able to fathom the identity of a sock was a shameful admission that made it hard for ppl to take you seriously

Michael Gove sneaks out the back of ILE, chuckling to himself until he trips on De Subjectivisten and falls right through The Cheese Board

I guess it might also help if you don’t keep popping up telling g people to take a Xanax or eat cyanide (lols!)

i believe in one such incident i just posted a fairly detailed response to an article about civil justice reform itt, which didn't even disagree with another poster, and was randomly attacked for doing so based on the fact i don't post very often and have an id related to a football manager.

can we please, in general, engage with posters' views rather than their ids? it doesn't seem too much to ask on a messageboard.

this derail has gone on long enough, in no way should i have to start talking about myself or my identity to post on ilx, and shame on anyone who attempts to insist otherwise - no wonder there are almost no new posters.

end derail.

ogmor makes a perfectly fair point - I come over here, but I've not really made the effort to integrate, have I?

xp that's nice, but could you also piss off?

OK.

for what reason andrew? i haven't actually attacked you in any way. how is "piss off" a beacon of the civility and sincerity you seem to demand?

What is Theresa Mays plan to come back after the biggest defeat in British history if she isn't willing to compromise? It's like the definition of insanity.

internecine irish squabbling taking over uk politics as usual *vaudevillian eyeroll*

Farrell claimed not to have heard of poster D40/deej a couple of years ago so not sure he's the best qualified to opine on people's posting histories.

Nothing wrong with not being into face tats.

That is indeed the point I was making, *checks notes* oh fuck it, none of this is remotely important.

I'd hoped that having to bring the plan back within three days would mean it'd get debated early next week - it won't be until the 29th now.

this is all a diversionary tactic

I'm only talking locally, you only need to get on train to London to see vast swathes of the tory heartlands where Corbz would be considered a joke or dangerous terrorist, and ditto the northern gammonlands of Yorkshire.

London is mostly Labour

On the train to London.

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-01-16/mps-bid-to-ban-low-level-letterboxes-gets-stamp-of-approval/

Keep looking at this. Despite all the commentariat demanding/expecting a cross-party agreement, this clearly shows no appetite for an even softer Brexit among most of rebels in Cons party. May would depend on hundreds of opposition votes. And no incentive for Corbyn to help. pic.twitter.com/pERhVDdO1a

— Ryan Bourne (@MrRBourne) January 17, 2019

as i was going to st ives
i took a train with seven clives

Can I ask why people have low-level letterboxes?

so their letters don't get bruised

duh

So their dogs can bite canvassers.

postman is eight inches tall

I always find them weird though - isn’t the real worry that people can get at your post easily?

not if your a postie with missing digits and a bad back!

for sending low-level letters or tweets as i call them

does that joke work? no it does not

Bruised letters must be the rationale; people are so weird.

maybe it's just me but i settle for the letterbox that's already there when i move in somewhere

I assumed it was a leftover from those doors, v.popular in the 70s (I think?) that were almost all glass.

meanwhile back in Hull

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/brexit/brexit-the-students-view-1.3760313?mode=amp&fbclid=IwAR1h9kaiSjadYeVwwPKEeD8CrZFD7yXjAl_vz1ugAEeWp_Gz4kwGAiI4IOA

its the obvious post-hock solution to gammon leafletting

low-level letterboxes usefully double as a tortoise-flap