to quote Adrian Bott

[james_davis_nicoll]

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.

The blame apparently is with "Brussels".

— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020

Comments

[the_siobhan]

I think there might be a thesis in "seriously, what did you think was going to happen?"

[foobar137]

Clearly, they wanted a Brexit where all the EU restrictions they didn't like went away, and the UK gave no money to the EU, and all the non-UK EU citizens had to leave the UK, but they still got to keep all the benefits of being in the EU like freedom of travel and residency, and no tariffs when selling UK goods into the EU.

Exactly why the EU would give them that is a mystery, but that's what they expected.

But, you know, they get blue passports out of the deal, and that makes it all worthwhile, one hopes.

[ba_munronoe]

"...and a Pony."

[mcbadger]

Think the coverage from Trafalgar Square on Brexit day said it all.
Lots of incoherent bawling along the lines of "yeah! yeah! f***ing do one! f***ing do one!"
Yup, plenty of profound thought going into that.

[ffutures]

Seeing a lot of that - also selective amnesia from people who were in favour of Brexit then but now seem to think that they were always opposed.

[(Anonymous)]

That happens for any election. Surveys done after an election show many more people claimed to have voted for the winner, than the total votes the winner received.

--
Nathan H.

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm not sure that person isn't a sock puppet (their book series doesn't seem to exist...)

[zotz]

It's a stock picture as well. Either it's fiction or it's someone writing under a very thorough pseudonym.

Having said that, one of my flatmates spent a few weeks late last year in Greece and met several Brits in exactly that position with exactly that attitude, so they do exist.

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, I believe there are people like that out there (though the details get increasingly baroque as you read through the thread...), I just think this one's astroturf.

[(Anonymous)]

Quoth the author:

To all the people saying I use a stock photo in my bio. Yes of course I bloody do, I write under a nom de plume so I'm hardly likely to use a real photo of me am I ?

Twats.

[zotz]

Yes. Right.

Slightly surer it's fictitious after that response.

[rosefox]

That's pretty much where I am: not sure it's real, but it's mostly plausible (I really can't imagine a presumably middle-aged Brit claiming not to understand kilometers when the U.K. went metric before he was born) and funny as hell, so I'm going to enjoy it.

[autopope]

The UK went metric with exceptions -- road distances/speeds are in miles and MPH, beer is sold in pints (568ml precisely), and so on. So not having their head around kilometres is actually plausible if they weren't paying attention during science classes.

[dormouse1953]

What gets me is the number of people my age or younger who still use Fahrenheit. They started giving temperatures in Celsius (or centigrade as we called it then) in the early sixties.

[andrewducker]

Most adults around me still used Farenheit for air temperature all the way through my schooling (up to the late 80s), so it's what I'm used to for that.

[dormouse1953]

I wonder why. Weather forecasts on TV are all in Celsius. Public thermometers are usually in Celsius. Sometime in the last fifty years I've switched over to thinking in Celsius. I know 30 is very hot, 5 is very cold. The weather apps on my computer and my phone display in Celsius.

When I'm staying in hotels in the US where possible I set the thermostat to display in Celsius. The hotel where I was staying for Sasquan in Spokane a few years ago, the room had an alarm clock which included a temperature display. I set that to Celsius. Seeing public thermometers in the US, I need to do the conversion.

[andrewducker]

I actually find I think in centigrade for near freezing, and Fareinheit for hot. So "5" is chilly, and "90" is hot.

Which is very unhelpful in the middle.

[dormouse1953]

I've heard that one before.

I find Celsius breaks up into nice five degree intervals:

<0 - freezing (by definition)
0-5 - very cold
5-10 - cold
10-15 - cool
15-20 - tolerable
20-25 - warm
25-30 - hot
>30 - very hot

[ethelmay]

I learned "Thirty's hot, twenty's nice, ten is chilly, zero's ice." Every ten degrees C is 18 F, starting from 32 F = 0 C, so 0, 10, 20, 30 C are 32, 50, 68, 86 F.

[princessofgeeks]

Not enough headdesk in the world.

[theresawright]

Yeah. The story is just too perfect. And of course he was there for every important moment of it - The couple's son made him their representative to the mayor, the son's boss called him to confirm the family emergency, etc. I suspect whoever is behind the account is setting up a marketing scheme.

[cyprinella]

Account's been deleted. Apparently too many people called him out on the fakery.

[(Anonymous)]

Given the last message on the thread was:
"So that was an entertaining 20 minutes.

There was a co-ordinated attack on my Twitter password and now my DM's are filling up with loads of attack posts by Brexit supporters including threats to me and my wife." (source (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1277505330885386240.html))
that seems a somewhat ungenerous supposition.

[andrewducker]

FYI, as you dislike being misquoted on your own famous quote, here's the source:
https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736

(Adrian is well worth following in general. Fascinating chap.)