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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No, it wasn't.
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Suggest you create an eBay alert - get told when they come up for sale. (The secondhand ones that exist surely won't be much use into the future?)
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Did you mean Battle of Rorke's Drift? I have not wobbled.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Did any of you see the story about guide dogs and the NI border? Seems it will be illegal for a guide dog to cross the border post-brexit - other than through Rosslare and Cork (I think that's what they said) as there is no other entry point deemed to have proper animal reception status. Fun...
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hero BJ, again. As if it had all been developed since he became PM and was like a successful garden bridge. Seventy years ago, at a laboratory south of Oxford, western Europe’s first nuclear fission reactor was developed. The technology, however, was commercialised abroad. Thirty years ago, the...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just as well the GLA oversight committee will likely be demanding him attend before he is sacked as PM. Otherwise, squatting in Downing Street would be a problem. The landlord might change the locks when he attends the committee.
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I see Barnier tells us to blame BJ if there is no deal. I have no problem at all blaming BJ... And not just for no deal.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No, you didn't - and I didn't mean to imply you did. Simply what jumped straight into my mind when I saw the piccie.
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Brexit is a mug's game?
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I've been wondering if they could technically ask for an extension and, assuming it is granted, choose not to take it up?
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not a consumer product - neither by description nor by the fact the owner is an organisation.
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It isn't me doing anything wrong at all. My job was to find out what the manufacturer repair options were. Not to find the cheapest.
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Was dealing with a laptop that needs fixing today. Out of warranty so I asked what the options are. Fixed price, on-site repair at £374 plus VAT. Thinking that was quite a lot, I wondered if there was a return-to-base option. No, sorry, no longer available due to brexit. (Base being not in the UK.)
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Quite a lot of years ago, I lived in a city which has a very famous public school. Much of the time, I really didn’t notice them because they were within their extensive grounds. From time to time, though, the general population came into contact with them. One example: In one of the local...
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My Irish side came through Newcastle-upon-Tyne. :)
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I wouldn't be at all surprised.
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    To quote Wiki: As of 2018, the United Kingdom is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'm sure Messrs Musk and Branson (and Putin?) could do that for us. I'm sure they wouldn't charge very much.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    So just how does "using Galileo" differ from "piggy backing off Galileo"? That is what you have not explained.
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just what do you mean by piggy backing off Galileo? What do you really mean by that?