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    Easy come, easy go

    Or should that be nature gives with one hand and takes with the other?

    Just saw this.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ygtr1

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    "It's about 250 to 300 years offshore"

    Nice typo Auntie Beeb
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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Meh, space and time are the same thing.

    The BBC and accuracy, however.....

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    I'm sure someone will find a way to blame this on Brexit.

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    I'm sure someone will find a way to blame this on Brexit.
    When it's a beach in Ireland?

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by wazzickle View Post
    When it's a beach in Ireland?
    Well you could say it's a natural illustration of how the EU will retract their good-will (and physical goods more likely) to sit 250-300yards offshore and leave us stuck between rocks and a hard place. And it will probably take a good number of years (agreed BBC editing is appalling these days) to sort out. Wishful hoping will get us nowhere however, and just like trying to tell nature what to do we will have little power to persuade the EU.

    As a tangent - has anyone apart from me ever tried to notify the BBC of errors in their articles? Not just typos but factual ones? Dismissive and disinterested doesn't come close. They're not a patch on what they used to be.

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by wazzickle View Post
    When it's a beach in Ireland?
    Irish beach, British sand. It got delivered there by accident, due to a Royal Fail labelling error.
    But we're leaving now, so we have to take our non-EU compliant sand with us.

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by wazzickle View Post
    When it's a beach in Ireland?
    definately...

    and if not Brexit... then it's Apple... or the Russians.....or Google...

    most likely Facebook....

    but SOMEONE STOLE THE SAND!!!!!

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by wazzickle View Post
    When it's a beach in Ireland?
    Good point.

    If it's in Ireland, it can't have anytjing to do with Brexit, because nothing in Ireland has or has had any bearing on Brexit.

    I think your sarcasm detector might need a service.

    Explanation of comment - it's a beach, never mind where, and wave action. But ket's face it, everything else seems to get blamed on Brexit, so why not this, or an earthquake, bird flu, alien invasion?

    <end sarcasm>

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    I'm far more forgiving of tentative connections like that when they're funny

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Ouch. I'm wounded. Hurt, even.


    PS. I did think the big grin on the original post might have been taken as a hint at a lack of seriousness, but obviously I was mistaken.

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    Ouch. I'm wounded. Hurt, even.


    PS. I did think the big grin on the original post might have been taken as a hint at a lack of seriousness, but obviously I was mistaken.
    yes.. I think you were ...

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    yes.. I think you were ...
    I agree... Might have been better suggesting someone'd find a way to blame it on the French!!

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    I agree... Might have been better suggesting someone'd find a way to blame it on the French!!
    Satan, get thee behind me. I'd love to blame those nefarious frogs.




    PS. For anyone missing it, please note the grins.

    PPS, That means I'm kidding.

    PPPS. No honestly, I am.

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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    Satan, get thee behind me. I'd love to blame those nefarious frogs.




    PS. For anyone missing it, please note the grins.

    PPS, That means I'm kidding.

    PPPS. No honestly, I am.
    allo allo. Wot's all zis Frenshh bash-eeng we ere of? Zis simply will nit dough. After all zis time I thought we ad moved on from zees stereotips. And you, monsier! A mod no less. You shed know butter.


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    Re: Easy come, easy go

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    allo allo. Wot's all zis Frenshh bash-eeng we ere of? Zis simply will nit dough. After all zis time I thought we ad moved on from zees stereotips. And you, monsier! A mod no less. You shed know butter.

    Mais non .... ex-mod.

    Also, a bit of a bitsa, including a portion of Francais in the old gene pool. And a part-French wife.

    Mind you, French in addition to English, Irish, a portion of the family tree that we've traced to 12th century Scotland, some Azkenaze jew, a slice of Singaporean Chinese, a large chunk of the family living in Germany. And, currently, USA, Australia, New Zealand .... and that's what I can remember, off-hand.

    If we appointed a family Secretary General, we could give the United Nations a run for it's money.

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