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

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

TBH if May was hoping to make any further political capital out of Corbyn's refusal to meet, then telling the other party leaders that she wasn't going to negotiate on any issues of substance is probably the single worst way to go about it. I know Caroline Lucas only has one vote but it was obvious she was going to come straight out and talk.

low-level letterbox burglary sounds like a tough and very unrewarding gig, you'd be laughing stock of the crim fraternity when you are captured on cctv crouching down awkwardly and looking all desperate and sweaty while rifling someones letterbox for only a bubble wrapped pack of germolene or something.

grudging but respectful golf clap for dmac's post-hock / gammon post btw

Ah, I see it now. My knowledge of ungulates is lacking.

Cooper and Benn emerge after long meeting with David Lidington - absolutely adamant that PM has to take no deal off the table before there can be any compromise - they say also that Lidington did not mention any new ideas or ways forward

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) January 17, 2019

government in 'no new ideas' shocker

not saying they look like fools here (I am), but they ignored this request & now have only themselves to blame.

Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn have just walked into the Cabinet Office to see Lidington and Gove. So they're the first to ignore the below. https://t.co/PNEPkuuSAx

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 17, 2019

yvette cooper and hilary benn in 'looking like fools' shocker

Cooper chairs the Home Affairs Committee and Hilary Benn is Chairman of the cross-party Brexit Committee so they're there in that capacity rather than as Labour MPs, is my understanding.

Far be it from me to suggest there might be a bit of shit stirring from the political editor of The Sun here.

And if the Irish Republican Teabag wants to build a wall then The Republic can pay for it

— David Coburn MEP (@DavidCoburnUKip) January 16, 2019

He’s got previous.

the Irish Republic owes us millions from bailing out their bannana republic economy so lets pull the plug.
The Republic are our enemies not our friends https://t.co/NzY7adh2ak

— David Coburn MEP (@DavidCoburnUKip) November 6, 2018

SNP want to bring the politics of N Ireland to Scotland when it never existed before

— David Coburn MEP (@DavidCoburnUKip) February 17, 2017

Always get a bit Stephen Rea in Michael Collins about people calling it “the Irish republic”.

...

What?! pic.twitter.com/ZJVM8UecI2

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) January 17, 2019

Always get a bit Stephen Rea in Michael Collins about people calling it “the Irish republic”.

― gyac, Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:07 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how dwe feel about eire

i visibly start at it these days ive been burnt so often by anyone using it (saorstart eire is the condition imma name after it)

Éire = acceptable as Gaeilge, Eire or variations of should be viewed with suspicion.

oh yeah as gaeilge is true as a die

but i mean pronounce eeey-ra