Except if the Loyalist paramilitaries start blowing shit up and setting fire to stuff and people. Already one person is dead from a right wind nutter. We do not want more. See what happened over the whole flag debacle. It is not so straight forward. The fate of NI is in the hands of the people of NI as per the Good…

Especially Scotland, their vote has always been of little consequence to British politics and now the Brexit will only further accentuate it. Go join your European cousins!

I typically try to stay away from sweeping generational blame, but this morning someone in my FB feed posted a phenomenally depressing infographic that displayed the voting preferences for the Brexit broken down by age group, along with “how many years they’ll live with this decision”. Damn if it wasn’t the most…

I just got this from a friend in Wells, UK

The Guardian had a great write-up of how immigration fear was the biggest driver of “Leave,” not immigration; in neighborhoods with large percentages of recent immigrants, the majority of British voters voted “Remain.”

I was a little shocked by the number of people on my Facebook feed this morning who were all “good for them” and then going on about “fear for their way of life” and of course, immigration. I hope that they get a big dose of reality as the day sets in and start to change their tune but I fear that some people have…

I hope these idiots who say things like “This country deserves someone as horrible as Trump as a president. I might just vote for him to prove a point” realize that toying with the country like this isn’t cute and has real consequences.

My feelings on Scottish independence have done a complete 180 in the last 12 hours, which may be the fastest reversal I’ve ever managed.

A protest vote. You know, like voting third party because Bernie didn’t get the nomination...

I am sure many legitimately want to leave the EU, however there is a non-zero portion of the vote who wanted to signal their discontent with the EU by making the vote close never believing it would pass, that the tight polling was just another form of signalling by people who would not actually be crazy enough to turn…

Symbolic protest votes in the US is how we might potentially end up with commander in chief Trump.

Buzzfeed Quiz. If he were an ice cream he’d be a Dilly Bar.

Well we were once their colony?

So let me get this straight, the UK is about to leave the EU, the PM is about to resign, and the world economy is about to go on a tailspin... all because more than half the UK thought this was make believe? How do you think your vote doesnt count? Isn’t that the point of a democratic system? That your vote counts?…

Well, if enough people cast symbolic votes in protest, I guess it’s not surprising if their votes end up counting for something. I don’t know, I'm still in shock — now I know how non-US people feel during the elections tbh.

“So, yeah, quite worried now.”

Whew...here I thought us Americans held the monopoly on stupidity.

@Rev Slow: But your reply just begs the question, what is quality? If a run-of-the-mill axe cuts well and lasts a long time, what exactly is improved by buying a FancyAxe? If I have a very expensive process for custom making an axe, but the handcrafted result is no better than something banged out in a Chines…

I always worry that it would get stuck in said zombie's head, so I think I would have to go with a blunt object. It seems obvious, but I really think an aluminum bat would be perfect.