Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 15 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 15 4 minutes ago, Xann said: GDP is a shit method of rating the success of a country. Are we happier? I just flushed some gross domestic product down the toilet. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 5 minutes ago, Xann said: GDP is a shit method of rating the success of a country. Are we happier? It’s absolutely reliant on us buying plastic shite from China. Then we have to protect the plastic shite from Houthi missiles. Then we stress about all the shipping and packaging pollution. It’s an absolutely counter productive bunch of bollocks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 11 minutes ago, Xann said: GDP is a shit method of rating the success of a country. Are we happier? Not on here we are not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 11 minutes ago, Xann said: GDP is a shit method of rating the success of a country. Are we happier? I remember seeing it described that purely in economic terms, the nation's GDP hero is a terminal cancer patient going through a costly divorce. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 If a capitalist employs a bloke to make widgets and the productivity from that is ‘x’ he can potentially sack off the worker and buy a machine that can make and sell more widgets cheaper. GDP is up, productivity is up, one of the two guys is richer. One of the two guys is unemployed. The system says this is a success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: If a capitalist employs a bloke to make widgets and the productivity from that is ‘x’ he can potentially sack off the worker and buy a machine that can make and sell more widgets cheaper. GDP is up, productivity is up, one of the two guys is richer. One of the two guys is unemployed. The system says this is a success. The company that made the machine is also up, and the engineers who designed it, and the freight company who put it in position, and the people that maintain and service the machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Just now, Genie said: The company that made the machine is also up, and the engineers who designed it, and the freight company who put it in position, and the people that maintain and service the machine. …so an absolute win for Chinese factories, Japanese finance and French logistics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted February 15 Moderator Share Posted February 15 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: …so an absolute win for Chinese factories, Japanese finance and French logistics. "Don't forget me!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 The single, solitary, teeny weeny Brexit benefit will be phased out this year. Non EU citizens will no longer have their passports stamped on entry to EU countries and will instead pass through an automated passport scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 31 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: The single, solitary, teeny weeny Brexit benefit will be phased out this year. Non EU citizens will no longer have their passports stamped on entry to EU countries and will instead pass through an automated passport scanner. I don’t think this ever actually happened: I’ve been to Europe loads of times since Brexit and never got a stamp once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 5 minutes ago, Genie said: I don’t think this ever actually happened: I’ve been to Europe loads of times since Brexit and never got a stamp once. I got stamped in Germany (twice) and Malta last year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I have a stamp from Paris CDG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 32 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: I got stamped in Germany (twice) and Malta last year. Maybe it’s just the Spanish who aren’t stamping then as I think all my European trips have been to Spain, Balearics, Canaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 17 minutes ago, Genie said: Maybe it’s just the Spanish who aren’t stamping then as I think all my European trips have been to Spain, Balearics, Canaries. I've got stamps both in and out of Girona. So the Spanish are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 7 minutes ago, ml1dch said: I've got stamps both in and out of Girona. So the Spanish are. Maybe they just don’t like me then For some reason no stamps from several trips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 23 Moderator Share Posted February 23 23 minutes ago, Genie said: Maybe they just don’t like me then For some reason no stamps from several trips Maybe that woman at the council was in a different job then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/sewage-pollution-alerts/ Monitor how well Brexit is doing with the Surfers Against Sewage shit map. Today is a very shitty day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 43 minutes ago, Xann said: https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/sewage-pollution-alerts/ Monitor how well Brexit is doing with the Surfers Against Sewage shit map. Today is a very shitty day. How do you compare with pre Brexit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 (edited) 2 hours ago, Genie said: I don’t think this ever actually happened: I’ve been to Europe loads of times since Brexit and never got a stamp once. You may have problems then. If you don’t get an exit stamp then you’ve no proof when you left. Then the 90 day limit becomes awkward. I got held up along with a few others in Greece a while back. It only takes one officious prick to stop you entering, and boy did I meet one. Took 2 hours and a lot of arguing with him before someone senior to him allowed us in. F****ing Brexit bollocks. Edited February 23 by meregreen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 34 minutes ago, LondonLax said: How do you compare with pre Brexit? https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac Though these figures are on the wonk because of the increase in monitoring. If you're trying to get deeper into the matter then the surfers and Grauniad's reporting over the past years will add nuance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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