"Wot you got there, then?"
"Uh, it's a painting by some Italian chap..."
"The Mona Lisa?"
"Nawr, I think 'is name was Leonardo or somefing like that."
"No, the painting is called the Mona Lisa. How'd you come by it, then?"
"Well, that's a bit of a story then, innit? I was walking through this huge building in Paris..."
"The Louvre?"
"Naw mate, I done a pee 'fore I got here!"
"The building is called The Louvre."
".. and anyway, there's this group of people all lolly-gaggin' about and looking at this picture on the wall. I thought, 'ere -- that looks nice then, dunnit? So I walked over, pried it off the wall, and sodded off with it."
"You stole the Mona Lisa?"
"It weren't so much stealin' loike as much as it were, y'know, takin' it on me own accord what for I wanted it."
"Aaand what would you like to know about it?"
"Give me five quid?"
"For the Mona Lisa?!"
"4 pound six, then."
"It's STOLEN, mate!"
"Only a little..."
"The French are going to want that back, you know."
"Ok then -- uh, three bob and we stop this ridiculous thing right here and now."
"Two and I'll hit 'delete' as soon as were done."
"Deal!"

Nobody can deny that the current situation made the life of that lady and her children infinitely more complicated, and it will make it more miserable in the future.

However, what about all the Chavs? No, I'm not being sarcastic. What about all the people whose life can hardly become more miserable, because it's been miserable all along with no hope for improvement? Life is shit for a lot of people, and it has been for a long time.

What were their options in this referendum?

Remain told them that their quality of living would decline in case of a Brexit, and that it would decline more slowly if they remain part of the EU. In short, they offered them fuck all. Any notion of reforming the EU from within to make it care about the proletariat is an illusion, and a costly one if you look at either Greece or the recessionary EU in general.

So they went with the demagogues, who spewed such outrageous lies that even Goebbels would be ashamed. But they made an offer nonetheless.

All this talk about stock prices or the exchange value of the Pound is meaningless dribble if you live in places like Nuneaton. How is telling them all to sod off an irrational decision if all they did for decades was shit on you?

So yeah, I fucking hate the anti-immigration part of the discussion. It's despicable. But the patronising reactions from not just the elites but also large swaths of the Remain campaign gives me assteroids.

The casual way they discuss how to ignore or reverse the result of the referendum is a sign of why it went this way in the first place. They look down on the decision made by "those people". It makes no sense to them, so it has to be irrational. Silly plebs are not informed enough to make smart decisions, let's educate them. Or better yet, let's make the decisions for them.

It just oozes condescension. And it breeds contempt.

To end on a personal note: how the German government now appears to be the moderating factor on the EU side is beyond fucked up, given how they were the ones to piss on the plebs the most with their anal fixation on austerity. You really cannot make this shit up...

Edit:
Here's one for sovereignty: just last night, Jean-Claude Juncker said that the European Commission doesn't want national parliaments to vote on CETA. What's the point of democracy then?

"We won't let the terrorists change the way we live our lives." -- Almost every politician right after something happened.

"Here's the list of things you have to give up in order for us to be able to meet the new threat." -- Same people 24h later.

Case in point, David Cameron:
"In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which […] we cannot read?"

Yes, Dave, we do. Now kindly sod off.

I was so angry I wanted to march right out there and tell them to sod off, but then thought better of it.

I see it as *notdead, but siftbot will probably tell me to sod off.

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That's fair enough @ctrlaltbleach, I don't have a big problem with this prank. It's dickish, but life goes on and no one will really be worse off for it. What pisses me off is @lurgee's reaction, the idea that people are passionate about something he (presumably) isn't, therefore they are sheep, they are morons. Sod off mate, what should they do? Not care about sports because you deem it unworthy of your interest? That would make them sheep.

I don't like the implication that they only enjoy football because they've been told by the TV networks to enjoy football, which is what I see the word sheeple as implying. I'd like to say I enjoy association football despite the TV networks pimping it, but that's probably naive of me and Sky Sports pushing the Premier League probably has led me to watch more football. However, I still enjoy football because I enjoy football, not because Sky Sports tells me that I enjoy football. I resent the implication that I lack free will because I don't agree with someone.

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I need to use more British swear words. Bollocks, sod off and wanker are pretty cool, and they have that classy 'Masterpiece Theater' effect to boot. Any other British swear words I should know about?

I guess Fuck would be my favorite. Cunt and cock are nice too.

They can sod off.

umm it anoys me how religoin tries to hijack comon sence and good human will its actualy benoficail to be good and shair and help thats got nothing to do with religoin so sod off annyone who claims its religoin that installs good into man.

allso the best system for a diverse soicity to exist in is a diverse system capatilisum works remocably well however you need to be very cerfull and make sure you apliy socolist ideals to capatalisum. anny system can become eveal comunisum ore capatalisum the fact is u need to be pro human life and pro people living and shairing that wealth maby u still need a propotoinal system that rewards people that work hardest and not so mutch people who dont work so hard. but the reality is in america plenty of people r stupidly ritch who have done fuck all work. and way more people are very pore who work very hard.

you can always juge a country on how good it is by its ritch pore margin. I submit that the best soicities in the world to live in are the ones that have the smallest seperatoin between ritch and pore. moderate capatlisum with socolist mentality is the best way for everything to work.