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  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 47,789
    Chris said:

    Surely it won't be too long before the president of the USA is placed in psychiatric care?

    He's just tweeted this:

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179542037479202816
  • "Doctor, doctor, I’ve got huge red spots all over my back, like glacé cherries on a cake.”

    Doctor: “Don’t worry, you have analogy.”
  • Y0kelY0kel Posts: 2,307
    edited October 2019

    Y0kel said:


    @williamglenn

    Northern Irish, but I'd not live in the Republic of Ireland anyway, my entire, cultural, political, and whatever you care to mention, immersion as a person is in a Northern Irish and British context. Thats my association by both choice and wish.

    There is something that the simplification types elsewhere in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland have missed about this place and its the idea of Northern Irishness. Its a thing.

    2011 census

    • 40% of usual residents had a British only national identity
    • 25% had Irish only national identity
    • 21% had Northern Irish only national identity

    • 48% of people included British as a national identity
    • 29% included Northern Irish as a national identity
    • 28 % included Irish as a national identity

    What if there were no longer a British state and England, Scotland and Wales were independent. How do you think British/unionist identity would find expression?
    Expression is in the mind and association of people of like allegiance and mind as much as within a state, Not a great adage but the old Soviet Union no longer exists but some people's attachment to it still finds expression,

    @NickPalmer, people here much more aware and comfortable with a mongrel status than people outside Northern Ireland give us credit for or sometimes seem willing to accept.

    For the uninitiated, the infrastructure for checks on goods passing from Ireland to Northern Ireland is already being built. I already know of one secure area being prepped at the moment. What most people who have their particular axes to grind in this debate seem to miss is that people will be moving across that border without really any impact because no one has any interest in stopping your daytrippers either way.

    A notable amount of items coming south to north doesn't stay in Northern Ireland, it gets on a boat to GB so there is one logical set of check locations. Of that which does stop, a lot of it is held at larger facilities, so there's another set of check points. As for the rest, you do what most countries do in day to day trade, you don't really check it at all.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,575

    Chris said:

    Surely it won't be too long before the president of the USA is placed in psychiatric care?

    He's just tweeted this:

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179542037479202816
    A joint press conference with the President of Finland is not the usual place to have a meltdown during which you accuse your political opponents of treason...
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/trump-press-conference-finland-ukraine-sauli-niinisto.html

    Which some first, 25th amendment or impeachment ?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 53,773
    On the subject of the US, this is an interesting piece on Bernie Sanders:

    https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-diagnosis-stents-chest-pain.html
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,575
    rcs1000 said:

    On the subject of the US, this is an interesting piece on Bernie Sanders:

    https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-diagnosis-stents-chest-pain.html

    I don’t think this need much hedging. Someone who has just undergone such a cardiac procedure shouldn’t be spending the next twelve months in the extraordinary stressful environment of a presidential campaign.
    Let alone at the age of 78.
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