Wait is the Eyjafjallajökull volcano from a few years back?
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At least I'm Welsh so I only have to worry about half of that...
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I hate you right now. :( Give us Gareth Bale please.
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I doubt he would want to contribute to the migrant crisis, it's caused enough trouble already.
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Haha, political satire towards an Englishman who's just suffered footballing pain....brave man! Made me chuckle though!
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You have the 3-0 NZ tour drubbing to feel bad about. Oh and the midweek pounding by the Chiefs.
(Go the Chiefs!)
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It isn't all good news, I'm the first to admit. And Belgium could well make it worse. I'm trying to focus on the positives though.
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I'm Portuguese and I'm rather baffled as to how in the hell are we still in the Euro 2016, playing the way we are :O
Regarding Brexit, I lived and worked in the Bristol Central Library for a couple of years a while back and I still visit my friends in England every now and then... they're all incredibly upset with the outcome. I wish you all the best, is kind of all I can say.
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I'm astounded you are going to get further than we are. You've been awful no disrespect intended. One of the few teams who've actually been worse than us.
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I see no disrespect there, just the plain truth ^^
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We are Greecing it...
If we can we will 90' tie every game to the finals. No one will notice us. We are not there, shhhhhhhhhh....
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Its all strategy , we make the opponents fall asleep and then we score :)
Tying up games for the win!!
Hope everything turns out good for you and if it doesn't ... there are loads and loads of other countries out there :)
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As an american who gives zero shits about britain or the eu, can you explain why you dont think leaving the eu was a good thing? I mean from my limited viewpoint, I would think that just the fact that you will have taken the power away from belgium and put it in your hands again would be a good thing. I dont believe that the majority of people who voted to exit did it because of imigration but again, i dont really know much about the situation.
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I believe it was just a political scheme to put Cameron aside...
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Although the referendum was Cameron's idea, i don't think he predicted this outcome though.
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Yea, I definitely got the impression that he called the referendum expecting it to fail, and well we know the rest.
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Yep, I'm sure he's regretting it...
He accepted the people's demand for a referendum because he thought it would've been won by the "remain" front, but something went wrong...
Most young ones didn't vote because they didn't think their vote would've changed anything, while the elder voted en masse to leave, probably after being "inspired" by the Labour Party, with the intent of sending Cameron home.
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I don't think Cameron is as important in this as you might think. I'm pretty sure most Labour voters were hoping he would stay because he's clearly only going to be replaced by someone even more right wing. And Labour leadership were officially in favour of 'remain' (although not very enthusiastically in some cases).
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Imagine you lived in New York and suddenly to travel to Flordia you needed a visa. No one but New York natives could go into New York without lots of passports.
Now ALL your companies residing in New York now need to negotiate new deals to stay in New York, some of these companies will wonder why they shouldn't just stay in Florida like they always have.
New York had safety laws when it was part of USA which protected jobs, now all those laws don't exist and New York's fat cats get to make new rules however they feel like.
Also...the dickheads in New York are now going around New York beating up people who look or sound like they aren't from New York.
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Speaking for myself this isn't exactly how I would have wanted things - but I've always been uncomfortable about the amount of power in the hands of unelected and unaccountable EU officials and I'll be glad if we can return to real democracy. In the short term at least it is going to really hurt economically and in the longer term as well if we don't get things right. And right now our leadership looks like a shambles - there is plenty for everyone to worry about here whichever way they voted.
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On the one hand, I'm glad we've got more say in the running of things. On the other hand, we've just isolated ourselves from the world.
We've literally taken our ball and gone home.
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We haven't really isolated ourselves from the world. We'll almost certainly accept a deal similar to Norways in order to regain access to the single market which will include freedom of movement. Probably half the country will get burned down though when the far right realise this referendum will do sod all about immigration.
Beyond that, people moved about in Europe before the EU and have always moved about outside of the EU. The majority of our exports went outside the EU and are unaffected. Things will change but this isn't the end of the world.
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It was a bluff that went terribly wrong.
The power was not in Belgium, only Brussels is in Belgium, as in any partnership the power is divided by its constituents, being outside of the partnership doesn't give the UK more power, it does just the opposite, the EU its UK's biggest market , they didn't lose that market but they lost the say to how that market should work and what rules the UK companies have to comply with.
If something good its not working properly you should work to fix it and not dispose of it.
As an American you can give zero shits about Europe, the EU or the UK until it hits your wallet and it will eventually.
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Lol, to your last sentence, travel companies here in the states are already pushing vacations to britain, because the pound is plummeting, so its like a sale on tourism there.
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Yes, they should quickly turn their economy to tourism alone, never mind that their biggest exports are machines, pills , gems and all sorts of physical goods that now will start paying custom fees whenever they want to access the clients that buy half of what they produce.
They better order an extra dose of sun because tourism with that weather ... will not feed the whole population.
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I wasnt suggesting a switch to a tourist based economy, just commenting about america's view on it, oh hey, look theyre screwed, lets go visit while its cheap.
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Also the devaluation of the pound is a big win for exporters - it was too high for too long and I'm already doing well of it. I'm hoping it comes back a bit though after the initial shock to the markets or else the prices of imported goods are going to start going up (which probably means everything when you factor in oil prices and transport costs).
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Is this enough to cheer you up?
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From an outsider's perspective looking in I can't really understand how this whole Brexit thing has made so much progress and it really sucks that people actually want it because it is something that'll end up changing the whole world (for the worse imo) and I honestly don't know how to help so I'm going to send all my love your way as well as giving you a picture of a cute puppy.
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Right now, I'm more upset about losing to Iceland, so in a twisted way, that's a good thing!
But yeah, tomorrow I get to worry about how some people I know may no longer be welcome in my country which is nice.
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Now I wish I watched Soccer/Football so I could say something helpful :(
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I have a theory about it, I think the referendum was used as a political tool to put Cameron aside...
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So, entering your plot giveaways would mean sharing your grief, or insulting you?
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And here I was complaining that my toilet broke and I had to buy a new one and magically learn how to replace it on my own... >_>
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and there is more bad news: the cake is (still) a lie:
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Really can't say anything because I'm quite drunk again. One thing I can say: thank you for the giveaways, have a bump!
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Iceland is not part of the EU and it never was, they applied to join though but already retracted the application.
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Well because of the 2008 bank crisis ( that affected everybody there and everywhere where money is a thing although political parties are more interested in blaming each other, social policies and welfare for the huge national debts countries have) and Iceland's unique way to solve the problems with their banks, they arrested everybody , thrown the bankers in jail, nationalize the banks and said " The banks debt is their own and we won't pay it" ( That was decided through a referendum , imagine that). Since then they have capital controls and have struggled to get their country back on track and they seem to be doing a good job although corruption is like the plague and their formed PM was caught in the Panama Papers, think he resigned 2 months ago.
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Well you have upcoming elections in October , just vote for the party that promises to overturn the results of the referendum and that does not invoke article 50.
Lisbon Treaty ... the Portuguese are to blame really.
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I don't think any of the politicians dare to/ will invoke article 50, even the two leaders from "leave" are back pedaling like crazy already I don't think the chest-beaters were expecting a win too
And a referendum is like an opinion poll, It's not a binding result.
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They will be pressured to make a decision, countries have to much debt to see their debt interest raise based purely on the uncertain future.
Hope they stay though , i do love to visit London, love the fact that British people have a good time on vacation in the country i live in and mostly love the fact that i can go to London on a unplanned trip and stay and leave without even needing a Passport. :)
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I really, really miss the late 90s/early 2000s England footy team with Seaman, Adams, Neville brothers, Campbell, Ince, Scholes, McManaman, Beckham, Shearer, Sheringham, Owen, Heskey and others.
(I almost forgot - thanks for the GAs)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMn7I3rImWk
More memories.
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That's not England, don't forget we won against you in 2004...again. ;)
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World Cup semi final do you?
Oh, and we won that, didn't bottle it against Greece.
EDIT: Again, come back when you can show us your winners medals babe.
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1966? Really? How's the more recent years working for you? :P
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Better than you? When was the last time you won an international tournament? I mean 1966 is better than never babe.
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Better than Portugal recently? Not really but yes you have more cups that's true, no denying that. :)
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Semi Final 1990 World Cup
Semi Final 1996 European Championships
Quarter Final 1998 World Cup
Quarter Final 2002 World Cup....
Three of those include losses to the eventual winners of the entire tournament
Your claim to fame is bottling the final against the smallest team to ever win an international tournament. I'd rather be remembered for being World Champions once than our "golden generation" losing to Greece.
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Read the following on Twitter:
England have only won 6 games in knockout football since 1966:
Paraguay 1986
Belgium 1990
Cameroon 1990
Spain 1996
Denmark 2002
Ecuador 2006
Shocked me, honestly.
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That's because its not accurate...
EDIT: Although it might be, id need to check, my brain is telling me otherwise though....
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Euro 2000, 2004, 2008 (England didn't even qualify), 2012, 2016, World Cup 2006 Portugal went further than England. In 2010 and 2014 they both reached the same stages.
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And yet you've won nothing. Hollow victory.
There's no award for being "better than England" unfortunately. Sit down and come back when you've won something.
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We not talking about awards, at least I am not, just saying that Portugal recently is better as shown above. That's all.
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Lol at least we qualified for the Euros, the poor Dutch couldn't even manage that!
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English people after the vote!
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Lets make you forget everything.
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I feel your pain. I have some dozens friends in the UK, either from back when I lived and worked there or friends won via Twitter. All of them voted remain, with >95% of them I share the love for football.
But I must admit that I, as well as probably 90% in Germany and very likely a majority in the rest of Europe too, hoped that Iceland would deliver exactly what they then managed to achieve. That feeling went far beyond the usual rivalry. The match pretty much had the function of a lightning rod, where you could get rid of all your frustration about that nonsense and turmoil that the UK caused.
So maybe consider that losing against Iceland wasn't all bad, if it managed to calm the waves and emotions a bit. ;)
And as a bonus I added you to my whitelist, for whatever that is worth.
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<3
All the loss here is going to do is create a lot of drunk idiots going around causing more violence towards "foreigners".
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....to be English. First Brexit, now out of the Euro's to Iceland. Absolutely fuming. Cheer me up with some gifs or something.
Have some tit games.
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Here is a list of things that have been caused due to Brexit...
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