Heckler456
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I doubt lending her pen was all she was doing.
Brexit |OT| UK Referendum on EU Membership - 23 June 2016
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I doubt lending her pen was all she was doing.
This sounds more likely. Political talk inside is unacceptable
If she wants to stand outside and lend pens to people as part of some crazy conspiracy theory then more power to her though, I guess.
ClosingADoor
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Huh? Do you need to bring your own pencil or something and people forget? And why call the police? And why does this woman define herself by her EU and Islam opinion on Twitter? Everything is weird today.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Some councils are advising against pens because they can smear and spoil ballot votes..... Possibly that? Oops, I meant pencil-hating Space Lizards are melting steel EU beams.
Because the weather is wet?
Audioboxer
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TAKE THIS PEN, THERE ARE MEN IN BLACK IN THE CUPBOARDS CHANGING PENCIL VOTES. THEY ARE REMAIN BADDIES. PLS VOTE LEAVE WITH THIS PEN. I'M NOT CRAZY.
If you write your leave vote in pencil MI5 are going to rub it out before they count the votes, duh
Red Liquorice
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Wow, that 90s xtreme design philosophy!does anyone else remember this dude
also, I used to like the ice version of tizer
tizer's been ruined now, the taste is bollocks now and look at this shit:
wheres the edginess and cool
Last time I had Tizer it looked like this..
Which I guess the new version is an update of.
It is very much rooted in reality. Neither side disputes economy will falter after brexit.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Yep, she makes you proud to be British, doesn't she?
APZonerunner
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A lot of people (mostly Leave people, it seems) are convinced that if you vote in pencil (which is what is provided) the government will rub out the pencil and re-cast your vote to fix it. Which, obviously, is nigh-on impossible given the turnaround on British counts.
I had the exact same conversation today, actually. It coaxed out some very inconsistent logic from someone who wanted to vote leave.
Garrett Hawke
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Just voted. Now the wait 😁
I've mentioned before, but it's interesting to see the evolution in viewpoint as I travel to work. I live in Oxford, and I've not seen a single Leave poster in any windows, but quite a few Remain ones. As I travel to work - which is in the countryside, about halfway to Reading - I see an awful lot of large Leave placards in the fields. Fair's fair, though, recently spotted one big Remain placard in the field, too.
And then I get to work, where there's no actual canvassing (understandably!), but we're a company with an awful lot of skilled immigrant employees on a business site that also heavily favours an international workforce, so all the talk is back to Remain.
So the EU is an "evil superstate", Islam is evil too....
...lives in Alicante, Spain.
I've resisted the urge to use this argument at work - I think there are people here that would sincerely agree with it...
Zvonimir Boban
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Pencils are provided at the polling stations, you don't need to bring anything.
Leave voters are just nutters who don't understand how voting works and think that Erdogan is hiding on the other side of the door with an eraser so he can change all the ballots.
Garrett Hawke
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Well she got hers, fuck everyone else!
SymbiantXenos
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Alicante Spain.
Cosmonaut X
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They really need to explain voting better - or the reason for pencils - next time there's an election. I saw far too many "don't use pencils!"/"Why are they using pencils?" things circulating on FB during the Scottish indyref, and this is just a repeat performance.
High turnouts, misinformation and lots of voters who don't normally vote makes for a toxic stew and paranoia over pencils is just one outcome.
High turnouts, misinformation and lots of voters who don't normally vote makes for a toxic stew and paranoia over pencils is just one outcome.
JonnyDBrit
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I do wonder to what extent being able to actually afford direct interactions with Europe (rather than benefiting or suffering through a web of interconnected policies) affects the position of some voters.
Like, I can't really deny that A) My family is comfortably middle class and B) Much of my positive view of Europe and its potential comes from the holidays I've had on the continent growing up. My mother is trilingual, so there was no issue of a language barrier in having holidays in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, while Denmark - which we went to last year - proved to support english speakers well enough. I've had many experiences with the continent, and many fond memories, so of course that has to play a part in my vote today.
Yet I imagine for a lot of people, that sort of thing is a much larger ask of their finances, which renders the rest of Europe as distant, yet somehow affecting their lives on British soil.
Also on the pencil point I would have figured it was just you can buy the pencils once thirty years ago, and they'll still work despite no use in between elections.
Yeah I'm W1, hard pressed to find a leave poster or anything round here.
CyclopsRock
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Oioi, a cheeky campaigner-of-the-night, huh? JACQUELIIINNNEEE, you don't have to use that red pen!
345triangle
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does anyone else remember this dude
also, I used to like the ice version of tizer
yo i've been living on the other side of the planet for nearly eight years now but this post made me feel a little bit proud to be british after the referendum campaign sucked out basically every drop of patriotism i ever might have felt. so ta
NekoFever
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Wow, a 93-year-old on GAF!
On the other hand, you can employ someone to do it and he'll have a job for months.
A small step towards lowering unemployment figures, but every job counts.
phisheep
NeoGAF's Chief Barrister
Poignant little moment in the shop at lunchtime.
I was making up a necklace for a very elderly lady - probably mid-90s - and got chatting, the way you do. We talked about her time in Montana, and the time she got stuck in LA with no flight ticket and no money, when she turned to the conversation towards the referendum. So we talked around that, and her attitudes and intention to vote Leave didn't seem to match the rest of her character, and I gently prodded around the issues. She was close to tears when she told me that her political views were entirely formed by her late husband - now dead 50 years. We talked a bit more, and she left with a (by now heavily-discounted) necklace and a determination to vote Remain when she got back to Swindon.
Personal loyalty lays long shadows.
She gave me a big hug as she left.
I was making up a necklace for a very elderly lady - probably mid-90s - and got chatting, the way you do. We talked about her time in Montana, and the time she got stuck in LA with no flight ticket and no money, when she turned to the conversation towards the referendum. So we talked around that, and her attitudes and intention to vote Leave didn't seem to match the rest of her character, and I gently prodded around the issues. She was close to tears when she told me that her political views were entirely formed by her late husband - now dead 50 years. We talked a bit more, and she left with a (by now heavily-discounted) necklace and a determination to vote Remain when she got back to Swindon.
Personal loyalty lays long shadows.
She gave me a big hug as she left.
ReplacementPelican
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Did your Husband die for the right to use pens? Bless you, you 93 year old hero.
ClivePwned
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forget Australian points-based immigration system, you need Australian-style sausage sizzle at your polling stations.
Basically a BBQ set up at the entrance to the polling station and people cook a sausage with onions and give it to you on a slice of bread. They're basically used to raise funds for charities or local schools. They used to be outside giant hardware stores on a saturday morning (food trucks/stalls aren't as common there) but a few years ago they started appearing at schools and other voting stations on election days (it is compulsory to vote in Australia) so that's what a lot of people enjoy most about elections there. There's even a website to tell you which polling stations have sausage sizzles
http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/
I voted by post but ate a sausage for breakfast anyway.
Basically a BBQ set up at the entrance to the polling station and people cook a sausage with onions and give it to you on a slice of bread. They're basically used to raise funds for charities or local schools. They used to be outside giant hardware stores on a saturday morning (food trucks/stalls aren't as common there) but a few years ago they started appearing at schools and other voting stations on election days (it is compulsory to vote in Australia) so that's what a lot of people enjoy most about elections there. There's even a website to tell you which polling stations have sausage sizzles
http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/
I voted by post but ate a sausage for breakfast anyway.
Nah, W3.
Alicante, Spain. :/
RedSparrows
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mere_immortal
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Having a load of people on hand with rubbers changing ballot papers is such a shit conspiracy theory. Like if you're gonna lean into this thing would you not say it's already rigged or there are extra papers or something.
Actually I'm not going to try to reason this out, that way lies madness.
Actually I'm not going to try to reason this out, that way lies madness.
Shotgun Kiss
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Well done on making an old lady cry, you bastard.
HazySaiyan
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Of course, they have a greater need so they're going to use it more. My point is that with an ever aging population there's going to be ever increasing demand, so I don't think it's smart to become so insular and hostile towards migrants. It's ironic that the demographic that would stand to benefit so much from young working migrants are the group most in favour or leaving.
ferrasvansen
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Yeah it's the same thing all over, my family were all Labour voters, felt kinda obliged to be the same until I turned 18, then I decided before I voted to study the parties and what I believed in, so stayed Labour. Hopefully she realises it's her vote, not her husbands, I'm sure he would prefer her to make her own choices.
That's exactly the sort of thing a rubber-toting MI5 agent would say. I'm on to you
wesleyshark
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Good Lord my stomach just growled. So hungry.forget Australian points-based immigration system, you need Australian-style sausage sizzle at your polling stations.
Basically a BBQ set up at the entrance to the polling station and people cook a sausage with onions and give it to you on a slice of bread. They're basically used to raise funds for charities or local schools. They used to be outside giant hardware stores on a saturday morning (food trucks/stalls aren't as common there) but a few years ago they started appearing at schools and other voting stations on election days (it is compulsory to vote in Australia) so that's what a lot of people enjoy most about elections there. There's even a website to tell you which polling stations have sausage sizzles
http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/
I voted by post but ate a sausage for breakfast anyway.
If she's still there when I go vote later I'll ask her what her problem is.
mere_immortal
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Portugeezer
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She just wanted the discount, she then laughed her way to the polling station to vote Leave. /s
Audioboxer
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You're a good person.
RedSparrows
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