Referendum on Scottish Independence

[Borachio]

Crab in the bucket, eh? That's a new one on me.

So, a bit like the dog in the manger, then?

 

[Pangur Bán]

Exactly.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I guess this is a better one than "lobster in a pot" or the rather unfortunate "squid in a frying pan".

 

[Pangur Bán]

Appears there is some hostility to baby boomers arising:

 

[Algeroth]

Appears there is some hostility to baby boomers arising:

It this authentic? Seems like something the Onion would use....

 

[Takhisis]

You'r enot familiar with British cartoonists then. ^^

 

[Traitorfish]

It's one of the few things in the shared history of Britain that they can be proud of.

I think we bombed a few too many civilians to warrant "pride" on that one. "Less-than-abject guilt" might be more realistic.

 

[Oruc]

Appears there is some hostility to baby boomers arising:

Gas the geriatrics! Generation war now!

 

[gangleri2001]

You blind Scotsmen. Any Catalan observing the social reality of Scotland even if it's at a surface level notices that Salmond has been Scotland's Jordi Pujol. He has basicaly changed the sociology of the country and has set its future composition and opinion for generations to come.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Baby boomers didn't fight Hitler. They were born from those who fought Hitler, and have done nothing for anything except take and destroy the planet. They benefited from their parents' efforts, from the health and education systems created by those who fought Hitler; and then when it came to educating and housing their own offspring, converted it to loans and debt and banked the costs for themselves.

 

[Quackers]

Baby boomers didn't fight Hitler. They were born from those who fought Hitler, and have done nothing for anything except take and destroy the planet. They benefited from their parents' efforts, from the health and education systems created by those who fought Hitler; and then when it came to educating and housing their own offspring, converted it to loans and debt and banked the costs for themselves.

Agreed. The Boomers ruined it for the following generations.
I reckon we ought to legalise involuntary euthanasia for this cohort

 

[Takhisis]

I think we bombed a few too many civilians to warrant "pride" on that one. "Less-than-abject guilt" might be more realistic.

'Did what had to be done', etc. etc.

Hasn't Salmond been comapred to Adolf Hitler?

Baby boomers didn't fight Hitler. They were born from those who fought Hitler, and have done nothing for anything except take and destroy the planet. They benefited from their parents' efforts, from the health and education systems created by those who fought Hitler; and then when it came to educating and housing their own offspring, converted it to loans and debt and banked the costs for themselves.

That is called a market economy IIRC.

 

[Borachio]

Agreed. The Boomers ruined it for the following generations.
I reckon we ought to legalise involuntary euthanasia for this cohort

You, sir, are the enemy! You actively want to kill me! But I'm not telling you where I live. So there. Stick that in your UKIP pipe and smoke it.

 

[Pangur Bán]

That is called a market economy IIRC.

Also, privatized imperialism and congratulated themselves on being 'post-imperial' enlightened ones.

 

[Takhisis]

That, too, is called a market economy, IIRC.

 

[classical_hero]

That, too, is called a marked economy, IIRC.

I fixed that for you.

 

[Takhisis]

Urited's defensive performance earlier today is shown to have an influence on your posting.

 

[SeekTruthFromFacts]

Actually it was very much like that.

Apparently exit polls are not a thing in Scotland, punidits don't have any clue or any valuably analysis to offer, opinions of the moderaters hover somewhere between drunk disinterest and one-sided contempt and 99.999999% of the broadcast's budget went into some clown dancing around a bunch of 3D animations that were so embarrassingly thin on relevance and information that even CNN would not have used them.
And all that in those hideous, hideous colors...

That, if anything, is pretty much the exact politics tv equivalent of the Eurovision song contest.

There are exit polls in general elections. One wasn't commissioned for the referendum - they are extremely expensive and the polls were predicting a No walkover at the time earlier this year when the decision was taken. There was also a difficulty in that 21st century exit polls are all about analysing the differences from the previous poll at the same polling station, which was obviously impossible this time.

(It's worth pointing out though that they are much less necessary than in the US, where it takes weeks for the official results to come through and the 'results' that most people see are just predictions by the TV networks/news agencies).

Also, were you watching the BBC Scotland coverage, the other-nations-of-the-UK coverage, or the rest-of-the-world coverage? What I saw of the rUK coverage had a distinctively B-team feel (no David Dimbelby? no Brian Taylor?) and presumably the C team was worse.

But I would be very surprised at allegations of outright bias.

 

[MacAttack]

Now that I've become a bit more informed about this subject, and with the hindsight of the results, it is clear to me that Scots wanted this referendum because of money, and lost it because of money. Everything else, including power are a far distant second.

 

[Flying Pig]

'The Scots' didn't lose the referendum, they voted in it for what they wanted.