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  • #13,361
  • May 4, 2018 8:43am May 4, 2018 8:43am
Quoting Devauxt
{quote} I know, it is completely ridiculous. The Europhiles kep saying that we get to vote in the EU parliament, but fail to mention that it is the unelected EU Commission (EU governmant to you and me) who determine what it is they vote on

I am trying to educate one of my American friends through a podcast as he seems to think the EU is a good thing as he pontificates on his hegemony of Russia being our adversary, and such like "omg Russia is doing a good job of destroying the EU. My reaction is "Good"! I hope they do!" Pretty funny actually, until I mention to him the Nazi connection, and his reaction is "I did not know that" with wide eye balls. I need to pull up that video you sent me a few months ago explaining that nice little tidbit of detail that doesn't nearly get mentioned enough when talking about the EU. Fascist they are, and they will not stop until they achieve their agenda. The UN is not to far behind in that respect!
  • #13,362
  • May 4, 2018 8:54am May 4, 2018 8:54am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} I am trying to educate one of my American friends through a podcast as he seems to think the EU is a good thing as he pontificates on his hegemony of Russia being our adversary, and such like "omg Russia is doing a good job of destroying the EU. My reaction is "Good"! I hope they do!" Pretty funny actually, until I mention to him the Nazi connection, and his reaction is "I did not know that" with wide eye balls. I need to pull up that video you sent me a few months ago explaining that nice little tidbit of detail that doesn't nearly get...
There is a general willingness in the EU and Europe to forget the Nazi-Fascist background of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty is Satan's anti-democratic constitution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nf5KeC4dAs&index=8&t=0s&list=PL-dmjPMCiEEBGRSdVO3o0JBWjR-kV1A8e
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  • #13,363
  • May 4, 2018 8:56am May 4, 2018 8:56am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} More cushion, the better the pushin!
I was going to acuse you of sounding typically American and then saw from your profile you are here in the U.K.
  • #13,364
  • May 4, 2018 8:57am May 4, 2018 8:57am
Quoting Devauxt
{quote} There is a general willingness in the EU and Europe to forget the Nazi-Fascist background of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty is Satan's anti-democratic constitution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nf5KeC4dAs&index=8&t=0s&list=PL-dmjPMCiEEBGRSdVO3o0JBWjR-kV1A8e {image} {image}
I missed this one. I'll try to watch tonight
  • #13,365
  • May 4, 2018 9:04am May 4, 2018 9:04am
Quoting robgsxr
{quote} I was going to acuse you of sounding typically American and then saw from your profile you are here in the U.K.
He is a full Yank!
  • #13,366
  • May 4, 2018 9:07am May 4, 2018 9:07am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} I am trying to educate one of my American friends through a podcast as he seems to think the EU is a good thing as he pontificates on his hegemony of Russia being our adversary, and such like "omg Russia is doing a good job of destroying the EU. My reaction is "Good"! I hope they do!" Pretty funny actually, until I mention to him the Nazi connection, and his reaction is "I did not know that" with wide eye balls. I need to pull up that video you sent me a few months ago explaining that nice little tidbit of detail that doesn't nearly get...
You should also see this one, it's a real "eye opener". The are 30,00 EU employees in Brussels but there are 25,000 EU lobbyists and 1500 lobby firms. These firms have access to the EU Commission (the unelected EU Gov'), yet the EU Commission has no accountability to the EU electorate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFevdq4wZRw&t=78s&list=PL-dmjPMCiEEANVEq-o-oyE7Dht42VMcRA&index=138
  • #13,367
  • May 4, 2018 9:11am May 4, 2018 9:11am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} A lot more slopes? I did not know that. I boarded a lot in the US and Whistler in Canada and we have quite a few. Colorado of course, but also New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, California, but out of all those Utah, without a doubt has the best powder!
In the US, you say you have x acres of ski area. Means nothing. In Europe, it is x kilometres of pistes. Trois Vallees is the largest ski area in the world and has 650km of pistes. There are many other areas that have several hundred too. I mainly talk about the French Alps, but as you know there is a lot more to it. Granted, your slopes are legendary for powder, but I'm not that bothered about the conditions so long as I can see where I am going.
  • #13,368
  • May 4, 2018 9:16am May 4, 2018 9:16am
Quoting DrManhatten
My Music tastes for this Friday https://youtu.be/BkRmIieRqlk https://youtu.be/cNoOLCsqNTE This one is especially for you Jen. I can imagine you as one of these sultry girls adorned in fine elegant chiffon, teasing and playing hard to get over expensive china! Lol! https://youtu.be/gS4Aw01QISk
Playing hard to get?! That's boring! I am hard to get, unless you're a better skier than I am.
  • #13,369
  • May 4, 2018 9:17am May 4, 2018 9:17am
How to bully a libtard:
https://youtu.be/XKH5Gd92k74
  • #13,370
  • May 4, 2018 9:24am May 4, 2018 9:24am
Quoting Devauxt
{quote} You should also see this one, it's a real "eye opener". The are 30,00 EU employees in Brussels but there are 25,000 EU lobbyists and 1500 lobby firms. These firms have access to the EU Commission (the unelected EU Gov'), yet the EU Commission has no accountability to the EU electorate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFevdq4wZRw&t=78s&list=PL-dmjPMCiEEANVEq-o-oyE7Dht42VMcRA&index=138
That's a biggy. Laters.
  • #13,371
  • May 4, 2018 9:26am May 4, 2018 9:26am
Quoting jen101
How to bully a libtard: https://youtu.be/XKH5Gd92k74
Nice one Gavin
  • #13,372
  • May 4, 2018 9:29am May 4, 2018 9:29am
Quoting jen101
{quote} That's a biggy. Laters.
It is not night time reading and you need to be out of earshot of your girls. You will not be able to refrain from loud utterances of W T F
  • #13,373
  • May 4, 2018 9:30am May 4, 2018 9:30am
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} More cushion, the better the pushin!
Not concerned about the bounce back.
  • #13,374
  • May 4, 2018 11:30am May 4, 2018 11:30am
Can I have your feedback on the following

UK's EU membership fee for 2016 was £8.6bn net, this paid from taxes and I'm trying to calculate the GDP required to generate the £8.6bn fee paid.

My assumtions were 20% tax on profits and 20% margin on products and services sold, so my calculation ran something like this.

£8.6bn/20= .43, .43*100= £43bn = taxable profit required to generate £8.6bn fee. £43bn profit/20 = 2.15bn* 100 = £215bn of products sold (GDP) required to generate £8.6bn EU membership fee.

Please feel free to correct me on this
  • #13,375
  • May 4, 2018 12:09pm May 4, 2018 12:09pm
Quoting DrManhatten
{quote} A lot more slopes? I did not know that. I boarded a lot in the US and Whistler in Canada and we have quite a few. Colorado of course, but also New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, California, but out of all those Utah, without a doubt has the best powder!
As you know I like to quantify and use facts so here goes: out of the 12 biggest ski areas in the world, the top 10 are in Europe.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-biggest-ski-areas/index.html
  • #13,376
  • Edited May 5, 2018 1:33am May 4, 2018 2:01pm | Edited May 5, 2018 1:33am
Quoting Devauxt
Can I have your feedback on the following UK's EU membership fee for 2016 was £8.6bn net, this paid from taxes and I'm trying to calculate the GDP required to generate the £8.6bn fee paid. My assumtions were 20% tax on profits and 20% margin on products and services sold, so my calculation ran something like this. £8.6bn/20= .43, .43*100= £43bn = taxable profit required to generate £8.6bn fee. £43bn profit/20 = 2.15bn* 100 = £215bn of products sold (GDP) required to generate £8.6bn EU membership fee. Please feel free to correct me on this
What percentage of the GDP is the EU fee? What should it be? Is there a fixed percentage or do they just charge us what they like to balance their books?

I think it is too rudimentary to assume 20%. VAT has 2 bands and many things are VAT exempt. What is the duty on fuel? About 80%? Corporation tax is now 19%, was 20% for all. But how about PAYE? That has numerous bands and it would be too complicated to work out a mean. The top 1% of taxpayers pay 27% of all income tax and you can be sure that's a lot more than 20%. You may find that the top 5- 10% of taxpayers pay 50%. Any income over 100k and they lose half their personal allowance. Over £123,700 and they lose it all. I would therefore guess the PAYE mean to be nearer 35%. Then of course you have other things like stamp duty which has a number of bands too.
  • #13,377
  • May 5, 2018 3:46am May 5, 2018 3:46am
Vive la France! That could never happen here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5690533/amp/Outrage-Muslims-leaders-French-manifesto-calling-deletion-Koran-verses.html
  • #13,378
  • May 5, 2018 5:37am May 5, 2018 5:37am
Quoting jen101
{quote} As you know I like to quantify and use facts so here goes: out of the 12 biggest ski areas in the world, the top 10 are in Europe. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-biggest-ski-areas/index.html
Well I wasn't disputing your claim of having more slopes without looking it up I simply didn't know that fact. On second thought it makes sense considering Europe has more land mass and mountains. Anyway, it's not about quantity but quality that matters. I much like less traffic and sharing slopes with people who know how to get on a lift and know proper etiquette when skiing. Judging from some of the stories you have shared with me, I am not too enthused to go skiing in Europe. Nope I will take my back yard any day, with better snow, and less people to worry about.
  • #13,379
  • May 5, 2018 5:43am May 5, 2018 5:43am
Saturday Morning Cinema


These next couple of weeks we will be exploring the genre of Science Fiction. This is genre that is pretty diverse in the subjects that it projects onto the silver screen and so this should interest a few in discussing topics of interests.


"Gattaca"

https://youtu.be/DO_x-po_Nsc
  • #13,380
  • Edited May 6, 2018 3:24am May 5, 2018 5:44am | Edited May 6, 2018 3:24am
Some one should share this with Barkie!


https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/04/almost-90-of-refugees-are-still-unemployed-after-living-for-2-5-years-in-the-netherlands/
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