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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostI have:
- warm coat
- thermal vest
- umbrella
- wooly hat
- scarf
- hipflask of whiskey
All the essential ingredients for attending an Irish cricket match.His rival it seems, had broken his dreams,By stealing the girl of his fancy.Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil,But everyone knew her as Nancy.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostJust polishing off a very large breakfast in Kennedys.
As an established attendee of a single Ashes day one ever time in my life I feel like you should embrace the brit side a bit more.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFinal comment on the UK election. Mad system where you can be a party that gets 4 million votes - UKIP -, be the third most voted for party in the country, and just get one seat. Or the Ulster Unionist party with 115.000 votes and get two seats. Seems like a fairly shite way of recognising the will of the people really.
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Originally posted by Emmet View PostAh you'd need a few sausage rolls or a pork pie or two for the cricket.
As an established attendee of a single Ashes day one ever time in my life I feel like you should embrace the brit side a bit more.
I do have a fairly chequered career when it comes to attending Irish games. Of the last three games, I've been to, I've seen the grand total of 12 balls.
Still, drinking on a Friday afternoon should be viewed as a Good Thing. Although previous misadventures with V are costing me in the abuse stakes."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFinal comment on the UK election. Mad system where you can be a party that gets 4 million votes - UKIP -, be the third most voted for party in the country, and just get one seat. Or the Ulster Unionist party with 115.000 votes and get two seats. Seems like a fairly shite way of recognising the will of the people really.
Move on."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFinal comment on the UK election. Mad system where you can be a party that gets 4 million votes - UKIP -, be the third most voted for party in the country, and just get one seat. Or the Ulster Unionist party with 115.000 votes and get two seats. Seems like a fairly shite way of recognising the will of the people really.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostFinal comment on the UK election. Mad system where you can be a party that gets 4 million votes - UKIP -, be the third most voted for party in the country, and just get one seat. Or the Ulster Unionist party with 115.000 votes and get two seats. Seems like a fairly shite way of recognising the will of the people really.
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Most annoying thing about their system is that they call it First Past the Post when its almost the opposite of such. Theres no actual post, no minimum amount or percentage of votes you need to get to win a seat.
The ARV system they rejected where you needed 50%+1 to win each seat was more of a genuine FPP system.
When is Thanet expected, kind of rooting for Farage now just to add a bit of entertainment to Westminister proceedings.
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Think of UKIP as being the Brit equivalent of the AAA\SP\Independents i.e. a safe way of expressing general dissatisfaction with a 0% risk that their nutty policies ever get implemented. Then it actually aligns quite closely with our own political model."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThey got 0.4% of the national vote vs 12.6% for UKIP though. It just seems as if those UKIP voters aren't being fairly represented. Now we might all agree that's a good thing, but is it the right thing?
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"A conservative government would be giving the security agencies and law enforcement agencies the powers that they need to ensure they're keeping up to date as people communicate with communications data. We were prevented from bringing in that legislation into the last government because of the coalitions with the Lib Dems and we are determined to bring that through because we believe that is necessary to maintain the capabilities of our law enforcement agencies so they can continue to do the excellent job day in day out of keeping us safe and secure"People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTop jerb from the chdster during the early hours.
will organise shippage with horatio, sigh. never bet against the fear-of-otherness of the english. Remember having a conversation with a work colleague over there about Scottish independence. Nice middle class lady, bankrupting herself to send her kids to £20k a year secondary school so they'd never have to mix with the common people. She was always moaning about the Scots having everything, so I said 'wouldn't it be great if they left so?' (part-troll obv) and she goes: no, but its ours. As if the Scots were ingrate guests on land the english had won fairly and squarely, and fck em for being uppity.
You probably have enough banking crap going on with the move so I will suggest this as a way of turning a loss to a profit ;
Enter yourself and nominate a willing participant for entry to the GAA predictions comp . If you or the other entrant win I'll take 25% of the winnings which should be around € 50 ( if it's anymore I'll donate the extra to charity). If you lose your still a tenner ahead.
What you think?
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Further to the example earlier. Consider a League in Football.
Team 1 wins 8 games 1-0, and lose 2 games 4-0.
Team 2 wins 4 games 4-0, and lose 6 games 1-0.
Farage (& Hitch by extension) is bitching about scoring loads of goals and having a better goal difference, but still losing on points.
Last edited by Emmet; 08-05-15, 09:59. Reason: Should probably have combined the two results properly first!
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Originally posted by Emmet View PostFurther to the example earlier. Consider a League in Football.
Team 1 wins 8 games 1-0, and lose 2 games 4-0.
Team 2 wins 3 games 6-3, and lose 7 games 1-0.
Farage (& Hitch by extension) is bitching about scoring loads of goals and having a better goal difference, but still losing on points.
Ukip get 4 million votes, 1 seat.
SNP get 1.5 million votes, 56 seats.
When the context is democracy, i.e. that in some sense the outcome should reflect the intention of the voters, then the 'votes per seat' required ratio is clearly skewed.
I'm not arguing that there should be an absolute relationship between votes and seats, but clearly '4 million to get one seat' for one party, and 30,000 to get each seat for another is disproportionate.
Obviously is unlikely to change in the near future as it has suited the two large parties for many decades. Even the LD influence in the last coalition was not enough to bring it about. But the outcome, as above, seems inherently unfair on considerable numbers of voters.
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