Find some timeOriginally Posted by noel
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Find some time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-live-17122019
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
I don't know if any of you watch Tenable. It's on at 3:00pm when Mrs WP gets home so I usually stop what I'm doing and have a brew with her and watch it.
A light-hearted quiz hosted by Warwick Davies where 5 team members try and build a kitty to win in the final game.
They did Ok today and managed to get £27k.
The team were called "Study Buddies" and were 5 uni students.
In the final game they had two optins and picked "The EU".
I thought, here we go. 5 Uni students, Remainer demographic to a T and they will walk it.
They had to name the last 10 EU members states alphabetically.
Each player has a go, if correct, it lights up on the board and next player goes. If wrong you're out.
Player 1 - Switzerland.
Player 2 - Ukraine.
It wasn't looking good. However two of them managed to get to 8 out of the 10 with Malta at No1, Poland No3 and Sweden No9.
They had to find No2 (Netherlands) and No10 (UK)
The first to go advised she was struggling but took a punt on Moldova. X
The last one focussed on position 10. She couldn't think of a country beginning with T other than Turkey and she rightly dismissed it, moved on through the alphabet.... and opted for Yugoslavia
So they go to Warwick and he calls the whole team forward. "Anyone guessing the two remaining answers?"
Not a peep.
You should have seen their faces when the UK came up as one of the options.
I did feel sorry for them. £27k is a lot to lose. But I did find it a little astounding that the supposedly most pro EU people by profile in the country, couldn't even name the UK as an EU member.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Oh dear. They're probably best giving University Challenge a miss.I don't know if any of you watch Tenable. It's on at 3:00pm when Mrs WP gets home so I usually stop what I'm doing and have a brew with her and watch it.
A light-hearted quiz hosted by Warwick Davies where 5 team members try and build a kitty to win in the final game.
They did Ok today and managed to get £27k.
The team were called "Study Buddies" and were 5 uni students.
In the final game they had two optins and picked "The EU".
I thought, here we go. 5 Uni students, Remainer demographic to a T and they will walk it.
They had to name the last 10 EU members states alphabetically.
Each player has a go, if correct, it lights up on the board and next player goes. If wrong you're out.
Player 1 - Switzerland.
Player 2 - Ukraine.
It wasn't looking good. However two of them managed to get to 8 out of the 10 with Malta at No1, Poland No3 and Sweden No9.
They had to find No2 (Netherlands) and No10 (UK)
The first to go advised she was struggling but took a punt on Moldova. X
The last one focussed on position 10. She couldn't think of a country beginning with T other than Turkey and she rightly dismissed it, moved on through the alphabet.... and opted for Yugoslavia
So they go to Warwick and he calls the whole team forward. "Anyone guessing the two remaining answers?"
Not a peep.
You should have seen their faces when the UK came up as one of the options.
I did feel sorry for them. £27k is a lot to lose. But I did find it a little astounding that the supposedly most pro EU people by profile in the country, couldn't even name the UK as an EU member.
Nah, they're just living in the future. They thought it was already February.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
I think quite a lot of people subconsciously don't really consider the UK a subset of Europe. I'm not sure if it's just us - maybe more to do with the psychology of self and other. People say things like "I'm not holidaying in Europe this year, I'm staying in the UK".
The problem is that for many the EU is just an "idea" of shared value and cooperation, exemplified by the Erasmus scheme.
The hard reality of it is something else entirely. Many confuse being in Europe with being in EU.
Many would be horrified if they knew the inner workings of the EU machine. Few socialists could ever vote for the reality (like horrendous inescapable austerity in southern states, eyewatering youth unemployment- what youth would vote for that?). Spain is about to feel EU wrath, since their budget already exceeds allowable, and a new neo corbynite coalitiion intends to spend more: it is about to do battle and get trounced by the EU when it puts on the fiscal thumbscrews
European Court judgements that have reinforced big employers rights time after time eg refusing to acknowledge permanent workers on temporary contracts as permanent employees. Yet socialists vote for it as some kind of haven of workers rights. If only they knew... I keep hearing ardent socialists claiming to be ardent EU supporters. Cognitive dissonance springs to mind.
It is appalling how little people know about the EU they vote for! They still have this warm fuzzy feeling about it.
Last edited by Oracle; 15-01-2020 at 12:46 PM.
Perhaps. However not realising the UK is in the EU (just) after the last three and a half years takes some doing.
What's this thread doing languishing on P3? Have we come to a concensus?
Luke Appleyard (Wharfedale)- quick on the dissent
if you think panic buying is bad now, just wait until the end of the year.......
....it's all downhill from here.
It will be if the government yields to the stupidity of closing the economy down.
So that manufactured goods and foodstuffs dry up.
When supply is restricted , hyperinflation follows.
Keep calm and carry on is what we should do.
So some people get sick. That’s life.
The biggest tower of cards in Europe is deutschebank.
Even more rickety now.
Bank crashes are becoming a real possibility.
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