Brexit Day

[Mr. Tea]

You do need to rip out and replace a rotten floor though.

So when's our floor replacement work scheduled for?

I get the psychological appeal of a disruption such as Brexit or Trump "ripping off the facade" or however you want to phrase it, but that only becomes a good thing if there's a decent chance of it actually leading to some great revolutionary change. Because the alternative is simply everything getting steadily worse and worse with no end in sight.

 

[IdleRich]

You do need to rip out and replace a rotten floor though.

By dropping an anvil on it?

 

[IdleRich]

Anyway fed up of these overstretched analogies - apt though this one was - going beyond their original purpose...

 

[Leo]

You do need to rip out and replace a rotten floor though.

or not vote to have the anvil fall on it.

 

[IdleRich]

Snap

 

[Mr. Tea]

Anyway fed up of these overstretched analogies - apt though this one was - going beyond their original purpose...

What if Britain is an underperforming race horse that's just had an anvil dropped on its head?

 

[version]

or not vote to have the anvil fall on it.

Yes, but then you're still stuck with a rotten floor people want to pretend isn't rotten.

 

[IdleRich]

Unless you take it out carefully and professionally...

 

[Leo]

Yes, but then you're still stuck with a rotten floor people want to pretend isn't rotten.

and you go about fixing it in a normal, effective manner.

 

[IdleRich]

What if Britain is an underperforming race horse that's just had an anvil dropped on its head?

And there are no lorries to take it to the glue factory

 

[Leo]

it's not a question of whether the floor is rotten, it's a matter of how best to repair it.

 

[IdleRich]

and you go about fixing it in a normal, effective manner.

Snap again.
Leo the voice of reason pointing out there is a middle way between leaving something as it is and smashing fuck out of it like a nutcase.

 

[version]

This is the thing though. Who's going to willingly do that? Look at the British housing market. No government is going to go near it unless it collapses and they're forced to. Everyone just keeps things ticking over and prays it doesn't fall apart on their watch.

 

[Leo]

This is the thing though. Who's going to willingly do that? Look at the British housing market. No government is going to go near it unless it collapses and they're forced to. Everyone just keeps things ticking over and prays it doesn't fall apart on their watch.

true. but I don't recall any "blow shit up" approaches that actually made anything better, so not much of a track record there either.

 

[IdleRich]

Seems weird that there are people who are prepared to anvil the floor and completely destroy it in one go... but not have a crack at fixing it without destroying it first.

 

[Leo]

the world is shit, everyone's corrupt, life sucks and then you die.

 

[IdleRich]

Not me, gonna live forever... or die in the attempt

 

[Mr. Tea]

Just seen this on Twitter - seems pretty apt.

 

[Leo]

Just seen this on Twitter - seems pretty apt.

MAGA, in a nutshell.

 

[version]

Seems weird that there are people who are prepared to anvil the floor and completely destroy it in one go... but not have a crack at fixing it without destroying it first.

The people in a position to have a crack at fixing it and the people wanting to anvil it are two different groups.