Kindly Old Uncle Stu wrote:
Mr Christmassyfur wrote:
Really? I thought only about 75% of EU members are in the Euro, so it's a bit odd new entrants would have to join it.
I haven't looked into it so I'll defer to you on this one.
You shouldn't, because he's talking complete bollocks as usual.
http://stephennoon.blogspot.co.uk/2011/ ... rship.htmlIf you'd like actual properly-researched and fully-sourced facts on any aspect of Scottish politics rather than some dolt repeating half-arsed cobblers they saw in the Telegraph, pop by Wings Over Scotland any time.
/cameo
Heh, love it.
Amazed to see you've finally acquired the cahoneys to show your miserable mug around here. I mean, you do realise, right, that this place is owned by someone who allows free speech; he doesn't indulge in silencing or banning people because [he doesn't like them/they tell him some home truths/he doesn't agree with their views/some other spurious reason - delete as applicable]. Nor does he edit, delete or change the timestamp of posts, or other similar internet dickery, presumably because someone might be getting the better of him? (Shit, he doesn't even "charge" people to post here and/or start new threads, albeit many of us here, myself included, are happy to chuck into the forum's pot without any comment or fanfare, and nor do we expect to become "Star Members", "Subscribers" with gold stars above our names or whatever other ludicrous, childish pseudo-hierarchy it is that you do?)
It is supremely ironic that you are able to do this (albeit of which I am quite glad), with so many here not afforded the same basic courtesy/right on your tumbleweed-infested bombed out shell of a forum, (or your spiteful little blog for that matter). If *anyone* deserves to be banned here, it's surely you?
So no, you'll have no such "protections" here, matey, so pull up a chair and enjoy the free air with the rest of us - come on down! Let's see if anyone dies as a result of this free speech, unfettered level playing field debate and "rude words on the internet" eh? Let's see you finally have to live by the standards that you purport to adhere to when it's
you who has his hands on the controls.
So then, now that's the pleasantries out of the way, a brief comment on the matter at hand. We'll agree to differ on your definition of "actual properly-researched and fully-sourced facts", I think. Personally I don't count antics such as the half-arsed cyber-stalking of someone's Twitter profile as in that category? Besides, the *credentials* of whoever it is doing the researching comes into the equation as well? Pardon me if I shall place more weight on a legal professional person or body than some bod who used to be an (acting?) editor of some long-dead, obscure computer games magazine about an obscure, long-dead computer, from a long defunct company harking back nearly a quarter of a century, whilst making claims along the lines of "... when I was an editor and stories like this crossed by desk" or whatever it was you said on your blog? Fuck me, that's enough to make Walter Mitty blush, you complete and utter buffoon. (I am reminded of your laughable bust-up with the Laws of Physics here also; you remember, right? O-Level Physics laws of gravitation; your arguing with actual, professional Engineers and Scientists with Science Degrees and the like, but hey, *you* presumably know better than all of them, just like you presumably know better than the EU Commission themselves and/or a whole bunch of professionally-qualified practitioners of Law).
Kern has taken the time and trouble and posted, just for your benefit, a whole bunch of stuff that clearly and absolutely refutes your arrogant claims. At the
very least, it clearly illustrates that the whole issue of whether or not an independent Scotland would have to adopt the Euro, in whatever timescale, is FAR from ruled out (and personally I would go much further than that). So go on, have a good read. Educate yourself, learn something. Accept that other people may know more about something than you.
Open your mind. Will you move on, evolve, modify your position in the light of new information or expertise? Or will you go on spouting the same "boilerplate" shite you've done for the last 20 years+, entirely unmodified?
I'd also suggest you tell your glorious leader and hero that the people of Scotland also deserve to be armed with basic, incredibly important facts such as these, one way or another, well before they're asked to take a decision as to whether Scotland is to become independent.
In fact, the entire peoples of the United Kingdom deserve to know, despite our not having a "dog in the fight" as you put it to me last, presumably because some of us weren't born in Scotland itself and so, presumably, don't deserve any say according to you?