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[Loud Whispers]

The ship or her empire-ness?

The ship is so powerful it renders all other ships obsolete. ElizaMerkel is the dreadnought ship that shall end the world I tell you!

[Darvi]

Even stronger than Obama/Putin?

[Loud Whispers]

Even stronger than Obama/Putin?

Pft, Blair/Bush > Obama/Putin.

[Frumple]

From geriatric lesbianism to political foursomes, this discussion is really going places. I'm not quite sure why LW is expressing his fetishes regarding politicians, but... maybe this discussion should be heading in a direction somewhat less salacious?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Even stronger than Obama/Putin?

Pft, Blair/Bush > Obama/Putin.

Hey, you can't divide by zero

[Frumple]

*pats UR on the back* There's no division going on in that scenario. Just implausible attempts at multiplication.

E: Though, thinking on it, if there's anyone on the planet that has access to blackbox medical tech that would allow for mpreg, it would be one of those four. Maybe it's unfortunately not as implausible as one might think...

[Sinistar]

Even stronger than Obama/Putin?

Pft, Blair/Bush > Obama/Putin.

Hey, you can't divide by zero

This is a terrific pun.

Because of that, I do believe this topic deserves some appropriate music.

[Owlbread]

A little bird told me that on a 32% turnout (2 million voters) Catalans voted over 80% in favour of outright independence

[smjjames]

You'd think turnout would be higher for something like that.

[Dutchling]

I am confused. I thought the unofficial elections/poll was called off?

[scriver]

Spain wanted it to be called off, but Catalonia did not agree.

That's a really low turn-out, though. Then again, Spain has has done basically all it can to either prevent it from happening or just make it a harder to pull off. But a number pike that makes it hard to say much anything about the actual wish of the people.

[Owlbread]

You'd think turnout would be higher for something like that.

I think it's normal for Catalonia. This wasn't THE referendum though - it waa a non binding symbolic vote to show there was big support for independence,  therefore Artur Mas can seek international support on this basis for the real refetendum.

[da_nang]

A little bird told me that on a 32% turnout (2 million voters) Catalans voted over 80% in favour of outright independence

So roughly only 26% voted yes.

[Descan]

Yes, and only 6% voted no, and 68% voted "I don't give a shit, do whatever."

[Owlbread]

A little bird told me that on a 32% turnout (2 million voters) Catalans voted over 80% in favour of outright independence

So roughly only 26% voted yes.

I have read that the turnout was 38%. But yes, we can apply similar principles to the Scottish referendum and create a far bigger No vote than was actually there. I think that unlike the Scottish referendum the turnout is far more relevant because this vote was basically just a huge opinion poll of 2 million people. We can determine whether the Catalans are actually close to winning on this basis. With 80% in favour,  drop 30-40% or so in against based on the missing No vote and it's still a victory.