Cont: Brexit: Now What? 9 Below Zero

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The Don said:
Of course the US wouldn't want the UK to be allowed to subsidise UK farmers in the same way that US farmers are. It's a common theme of US trade deals and WTO complaints that whilst the US should be allowed to subsidise - directly or indirectly, subsidy by foreign countries should be forbidden.
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The typical US approach is to demand that subsides be handled the exact same way the US does it. IOW assistance to farmers is “bad” unless you do it the exact same way the US does it. Eg the dispute between Canada and the US 2 years ago over dairy products. The US provides large direct subsidies to producers while Canada kept it’s producers viable with it’s supply management system (that included significant allowances for US products) The US demanded the supply management system be dismantled, but kept it’s own system of high subsidies in place.

(In a true free market, it’s unlikely that either the Eastern Canada dairy producers protected by the supply management system or the subsidised US dairy farms would be able to compete with the extremely large cost-optimized farms in Western Canada.)
 
catsmate said:
And yet the USA sees a half-million salmonella food poisoning cases (and over 350 deaths) each year. That's ten times the UK illness rate; the UK hasn't had any salmonella fatalities for several years.
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Oh surely you realise that Great Britain will do it's level best to even that score, no?
 
catsmate said:
True. East a soft-boiled USAian egg and you have a significant risk of becoming sock, getting hospitalised (and a huge medical bill) or dying.
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Eat sub food, get sick, get chucked for lack of space, die, Pay post-mortem for ones own funeral. Ceptimus seems to somehow think this is a good model of anything
 
P.J. Denyer said:
catsmate said:
True. East a soft-boiled USAian egg and you have a significant risk of becoming sock, getting hospitalised (and a huge medical bill) or dying.
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Isn't that against the Membership Agreement? :D
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One hell of an amusing typo, though.

Sometimes, I dearly wish I could do that on purpose.

Once in a while I do by accident. Mostly it turns out as a mashed keyboard.

Oh well. I have yet to meet a keyboard that fits my sixteen thumbs. Hope springs eternal.
 
abaddon said:
One hell of an amusing typo, though.

Sometimes, I dearly wish I could do that on purpose.

Once in a while I do by accident. Mostly it turns out as a mashed keyboard.

Oh well. I have yet to meet a keyboard that fits my sixteen thumbs. Hope springs eternal.
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Just get an Amazon Fire 10, the keyboard is amazing, whenever you make a typo it records it and automatically changes future instances of you typing the word correctly into that typo. Hilarity ensues!
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Just get an Amazon Fire 10, the keyboard is amazing, whenever you make a typo it records it and automatically changes future instances of you typing the word correctly into that typo. Hilarity ensues!
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My work PC likes to change to the French dictionary when it sees a typo’s that it thinks is French. It does not, however, notice the next 1000 words are in English so if flags them all as spelling mistakes. It can be a serious PITA to convince it to go back to English.

(No doubt there is at least someone out there who has a similar issue and thinks Brexit is the way to fix it)
 
lomiller said:
My work PC likes to change to the French dictionary when it sees a typo’s that it thinks is French. It does not, however, notice the next 1000 words are in English so if flags them all as spelling mistakes. It can be a serious PITA to convince it to go back to English.

(No doubt there is at least someone out there who has a similar issue and thinks Brexit is the way to fix it)
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The good news is that, post-Brexit, it would be illegal in the UK to do such a thing :D
 
The Don said:
The good news is that, post-Brexit, it would be illegal in the UK to do such a thing :D
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Well it does look like you won’t need to worry much about any business dealing with France post Brexit so French spell checking would probably be redundant.
 
Customs forms will likely be in French. France will probably just print more of the ones they already use for trade with Switzerland.
 
Earthborn said:
Customs forms will likely be in French. France will probably just print more of the ones they already use for trade with Switzerland.
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Well they are printing our new passports so we might as well let them print our custom forms as well!
 
Dave Rogers said:
I remember my high school English teacher saying that one of the great strengths of English was that it didn't need foreign words to express its nuances.



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I think that is a cliché, in English we've always taken an a la carte approach to using words from another language, even apropot the current débâcle I don't think that will change. Sur la vie.*
 
Darat said:
I think that is a cliché, in English we've always taken an a la carte approach to using words from another language, even apropot the current débâcle I don't think that will change. Sur la vie.*
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"a la carte" allows you to pick and choose, but you don't have carte blanche to mess them up.
 
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