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Date: 2011-11-09 03:05 pm (UTC)Someone doesn't want to get kissed ;)
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:06 pm (UTC)Or kiss her before she notices, so that she can make awful faces at me.
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-09 03:06 pm (UTC)Ready salted Pringles are BAD because they taste good and I can't eat just one, even though they are full of chemicals and my favourite crisps are much nicer.
The other things are just BAD - I can't stand onion flavouring, am not a fan of garlic, and suffer from SAD.
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:09 pm (UTC)And do you just not have an opinion on European border controls?
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:17 pm (UTC)I don't have a particularly educated opinion. My natural instinct is towards openness, thus the 'yes', but I admit to not having thought through the possible consequences. Is there a decent reason why we aren't currently members, or is it just because successive British Governments are obsessed with keeping out 'foreigners' and think the Daily Hate Mail readers would scream the place down if they joined?
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:24 pm (UTC)Or something.
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-09 03:59 pm (UTC)Going all the way to places like Budapest and Copenhagen with Shengen is just super.
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Date: 2011-11-09 04:05 pm (UTC)I suspect that within 20 years you'll be able to go as far as the borders of Russia. Just need to get Belarus and Ukraine on board!
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Date: 2011-11-09 09:53 pm (UTC)Belarus isn't joining any free movement area any time soon. Lukashenko is about as evil a leader as you'll find in Europe, and might even make a world top ten.
(OTOH Ukraine I can definitely see making it in 20 years. I don't trust Yanukovych an inch, but Tymoshenko has his number.)
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Date: 2011-11-09 09:58 pm (UTC)(And less than 20 years since there was a USSR!)
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Date: 2011-11-09 04:11 pm (UTC)Dang! You beat me to it! :D
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Date: 2011-11-09 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-10 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-10 02:10 pm (UTC)In fact I wonder if the entrepreneurial spirits who are in a refugee camp in Calais clamouring to get in to our country to give jobs to our women and rent our beer aren’t exactly the sort of person our country needs.
Perhaps the reverse of a joke I once heard on Australian TV.
“The emigration of New Zealanders to Australia has lowered the average IQ of both countries.
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-10 02:12 pm (UTC)Rather, I don't like being too hot and having to do something other than read a book, have a wee snooze and drink some cold beer.
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Date: 2011-11-09 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-09 04:27 pm (UTC)Due to my job[s] invoking cycling in very possible weather - or just not getting paid - winter has been something to survive rather than in any way enjoy. I'm hoping that will change this year.
it bloody well better, since I intend to spend New Year in Moscow, which is a bit chilly.
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Date: 2011-11-09 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-09 03:56 pm (UTC)And I'm definitely a night time kind of guy. There's mystery and excitement in the air. And a gazillion amazing stars. The daytime is just too bright and a bit boring. And I really don't like mornings and would rather skip them. Except for the part where I have get up and use them because I'm not allowed to start work any later than 9.30. Though I occasionally do manage to. Ah the trails and tribulations of, and little victories over, life.
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Date: 2011-11-09 05:09 pm (UTC)Even my friends in the States who are not expats but just want to come to the UK several times a year to visit friends or boyfriends/girlfriends have stopped doing so because of the relentless questioning/threats/homophobia/misogyny that the UK border people are guilty of.
One of my female friends has her UK boyfriend meet her in Portugual now because she absolutely refuses to spend one more minute at Heathrow being asked if she's a prostitute and having to justify the lingerie packed in her suitcase. And in general everyone I know has their UK friends come to France when they want to hang out because going to the UK is such a ridiculous nightmare.
There are supposed to be free borders in the EU - but, honestly, I had less trouble traveling between borders of drug infested South American countries than most people I know have had trying to go from mainland Europe to the UK.
But, that's fine. If the UK would rather we spent our recreational income in Spain and Portugal that's the UK's choice.
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Date: 2011-11-09 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-09 05:32 pm (UTC)Like if you are just a normal tourist who checked a guitar with your luggage because you like to play guitar being turned away and sent back at your expense because they assume you are a busker - all of which, and more, has happened to people I know trying to go to the UK and has not happened to anyone I know anywhere else in Europe.
Shit we are people who want to spend money in your country, which, would, you know, help the economy.
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Date: 2011-11-09 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-09 05:55 pm (UTC)*draws a great circle that passes through 25 Dalgety Road and the corner shop to illustrate* :)
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Date: 2011-11-10 09:44 am (UTC)Tricky - Sour Cream & Onion Pringles: GOOD
Onion and Garlic dip: BAD
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Date: 2011-11-10 10:16 am (UTC)The first few winters were really bad. After that it's not quite so bad.
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Date: 2011-11-10 09:21 pm (UTC)Sour cream & onion Pringles = nommy. Onion & garlic dip = nommy. Both at once might be a bit much, but probably overall nommy.
Dark... I don't really mind much; each season has its own appeal. Summer is broadly my favourite though so I guess I'll vote vaguely against the dark.