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[ChairmanPoo]

Fucking dumbass rich people, its literally just ice. You can put tap water in the freezer and get the exact same thing with exponentially less personal cost, waste of fuel, and environmental destruction.

No no no, you see...

1: It's pretty
"This piece is 1000 years old, and it has an exquisite structure of air bubbles trapped inside it."
-Svaice Founder Geir Ludvik Olsen, showing off a test chunk

2: It's more tastelier
"Europe uses chlorinated water to make ice cubes, which ruins the flavor of the water and thereby also ruins the flavor of whatever you use those ice cubes for."
-From the official website's "Controversy/Facts" section

3: It's soundery niceable
"When you put it in a drink, you can hear the popping. You can actually hear the cracks forming!"
-Geir Olsen, being enthusiastic

Emphasis mine.

Reminds me of the raw water fad in the US and is probably at least just as unhealthy.

I say "probably" because of the 1000 years mark. I kind of wonder if you can get the black plague from drinking unsanitized ancient ice. Grandfather Nurgle must be rolling on the floor laughing.

[smjjames]

Second ref vote got shot down, probably increasing the likelihood an extension request is rejected. What seems to be the current options for UK: No deal in the face of yesterday's vote, general election and pray the EU grants an extension for it, revoking A50, accept whatever deal the EU feels like giving at the last minute. The clusterfuck continues to fuck clusterly.

The motion for the extension passed by over 200 votes, but the EU still has to approve it. Also, from this Vox article:

"May has said that she would ask the EU for “a short limited technical extension,” until June 30, if Parliament approved her Brexit deal on March 20. This means she would try to pass her plan a third time. If her deal were to pass, the delay would simply provide the UK Parliament more time to pass the legislation to put the Brexit deal into law.

But, May warned, if Parliament doesn’t want to accept her deal a third time and doesn’t want to leave without a plan in place, then it’s possible any delay will have to be a long one, beyond the end of June.

Isn't an extension for 'just more time' exactly the kind of limbo that the EU wanted to avoid with article 50? If this is the best that they can get after at least a year (technically they had 2 1/2, but wasted a good chunk of it with a snap election), I don't see how giving more time would help things.

edit: Apparently May didn't even want the extension....

[scriver]

Fucking dumbass rich people, its literally just ice. You can put tap water in the freezer and get the exact same thing with exponentially less personal cost, waste of fuel, and environmental destruction.

It's not just black ice

[Sergarr]

Wow I didn't think the British government could've found a way to embarrass themselves even more than they already did by allowed the Brexit referendum to actually go through, but begging the EU to move the deadline and keep them in just a teeny bit longer so that they can actually get their shit together and decide on a Brexit plan is just... it's really hard to put into words just how much of an epic failure that is.

They've had two years. Two. Fucking. Years. To plan this stuff well in advance. Did they really think that they could just simply bully the EU into literally giving them everything they want on demand?!

[smjjames]

Not to mention that Theresa May also wasted about half of that time trying to increase her majority with a snap election.

I don't see how they could get any better deal than the current one, especially if this is all they could get after a year. While it might not be workable treaty-wise, it seems like it would be better to make the Irish border stuff a separate issue from everything else so that it's not under so much pressure from everything else. AFAIK, the Irish border is the ONLY thing that's left unagreed-on, other than maybe minor details that can be hashed out as needed.

[Kagus]

Spoiler: here, have a terrible joke (click to show/hide)

[Culise]

EDIT: Ah, this is the EU thread and not AmeriPol. Not the place to discuss the DoEd's centralization or lack therein.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: here, have a terrible joke (click to show/hide)

I share the earth with fools

also

“The proposed venture would have people cherishing the aesthetic of ice,” Box says. “The way even small pieces of glacier ice floats in a glass resemble identically the shape and form of icebergs; that fractal geometry of nature floating in your whisky glass is aesthetically far more pleasing than artificial ice.”

Who the fuck are these people

Also in a minor note, Brexit is being procrastinated by May again, exactly as expected. Never ending extensions, that just go on and on

[RedKing]

Also in a minor note, Brexit is being procrastinated by May again, exactly as expected. Never ending extensions, that just go on and on

Can't walk the plank if you keep building a longer plank

[TD1]

Can't take the exit until you stop going 'round the roundabout.

[hector13]

Well, she’s not finished trying to flog her dead horse yet; they’re scheduled to vote on it again on Wednesday.

Still bemused how they still have a government, presumably shit will go down after Wednesday or the 29th.

[TD1]

Would I advocate riots?

.....

I would advocate riots.

[scriver]

Do I predict a Kaiser Chiefs? I predict a Kaiser Chiefs.

[Kagus]

Nationless, directionless, the British nomad hordes would squabble with each other over territory disputes and the shrinking natural resource of wild Freddos.

Then, a passionate and charismatic leader emerged... Uniting the tribes who would listen and crushing those who would not, he rallied the scattered Britons and assembled them under a new banner, a new nation which would challenge the world.


And thus began the immortal legacy of Genghis Chav.

[TD1]

Mate I think you just described the Avatar.