The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat.
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@cstross and where one of the fourth raccoon’s personalities *really* likes brown bears and is convinced that it is in fact one itself
"Actually we're the bear's leg, who would want to be a distinct animal!"
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The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
@cstross I thought we deported the racoons to their native country of Rwanda?
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"Actually we're the bear's leg, who would want to be a distinct animal!"
@davey_cakes @mark_f_lynch @cstross All of this is very unfair to the bears and the raccoon: who are much more civilised and decent.
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@cstross
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@kirtai @cstross Fast forward. When IndyRef2 comes, I will gladly and publicly encourage Scots to vote Go. It’s about European union, a fight in which I very emphatically have a dog. The EU will fast-track Scottish accession; Spain, specifically and expressly, has stated it will throw up no barriers. Scotland won’t be the seceder. It will be abandoning a seceder to rejoin the Union it overwhelmingly supports. And Europe will welcome it back home.
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@kirtai @cstross Fast forward. When IndyRef2 comes, I will gladly and publicly encourage Scots to vote Go. It’s about European union, a fight in which I very emphatically have a dog. The EU will fast-track Scottish accession; Spain, specifically and expressly, has stated it will throw up no barriers. Scotland won’t be the seceder. It will be abandoning a seceder to rejoin the Union it overwhelmingly supports. And Europe will welcome it back home.
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The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
@cstross
Tattered remnants of the English Empire. -
The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
Surely it’s a weasel, stoat, ferret and a mink dressed in an ankle length puffer jacket.
The raccoon only sees a stuffed puffer jacket/rag doll to chuck about and play games with.
Three of the creatures in the puffer jacket have sussed that the raccoon is actually a skunk, but one is still obliviously chewing its own leg off.
Meanwhile the sleek otter on the other side of the Channel is growing impatient of this whole anthropomorphic tale…
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The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
@cstross
Concise summary.
DID racoon just wants to be with its closest neighbouring raccoons, the bear can just lumber off into the woods. -
The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
@cstross Yay Northern Ireland. I feel so seen. *snort*
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The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
@cstross The United Kingdom is the world's biggest oxymoron.
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@alansuspect @cstross Picked up by your wee suspenders and just tossed in the boat are yas.
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yes.
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yes.
@jd @cstross
Seriously? Trump, Bondi, Miller, and Patel for 4 heads of Parliaments that you pick? Don’t make me beg.And there are a couple states we could trade for Wales and Northern Ireland. Be careful what you wish for. You have no idea. And we’re not trading West Coast states.
The more I think about it, either trade would make the plot outline of a hilarious TV comedy.
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The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
@cstross It's weird to me how the UK insists that its constituent parts are "countries" not provinces. Similar to how the USA insists its provinces are actually "states".
Otherwise, this whole situation is pretty similar for most countries. One big province where most of the people live, especially the rich people, that bullies everyone else: Ontario, Ile de France, CDMX, Tokyo. A rural province with a much smaller population that often feels bullied (often this is where you find separatist movements and/or anti-immigrant movements). And then there's the problem child that just doesn't fit in: Quebec, French Guiana, Norfolk Island, Puerto Rico, Xinjiang...
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