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Good metaphor of what the EU represents. A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.


Legislation that needs to be translated into 24 languages is better off dull than ambiguous.


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I'll never understand why some British people feel the need to loudly and obnoxiously rail against the EU, especially post Brexit.

Is your current situation not the utopia you once imagined? Or was/is the idea that the EU must be destroyed at all costs, one taunt at a time, if necessary?

Either way, good luck.


I think they progressed from denial onto anger nowadays.


We're all eagerly awaiting the most recent "World survey: the assessment of incompetence and dullness of the para-governmental organizations" report you forgot to link to.


But they will gladly fund a research into whether what you just said is correct or not.


>Legislation that needs to be translated

Maybe that's your real problem right there.


Sure. How about 441-pages long US counterpart?

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf...


A 120-page manual about good writing practices - and that makes the reader a dull person?

I read through the beginning of the document and it looks good to me. It seems to be a well-written readable document which can be immediately useful for people writing company documentation (such as myself - occasionally I have to pause writing code all day).


And most importantly, consistency among documents produced by the same body.


You don't really want to be creative when producing legal documents. Other (supra) government bodies have similar style guides.


I look at the IBM style guide and Microsoft style guide fairly frequently these days. I wonder what does that say about the state of the US economy, politics, and ideology? Exactly the same amount as the EUC Style Guide about the EU, I'd wager.


And? Don't you want your politicians to be boring, really


Try MTV or any other reality tv then.

> A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.

Trump is what you get otherwise. Popularity contest with hollow interior.


Reddit is the only social media that falls so low as to regularly display lynchings and beatings on the front page. "JusticeServed", and other cheap justifications for violence. Reddit and Twitter the biggest dumps of the internet.


I will never gonna financially recover from this..


Whatever the results say, women are discriminated and they need a pay rise and more acknowledgement. Data will say whatever we tell them.


Or simply that boys don't take education seriously until 10 years later?


How does Brexit even matter if border checks are suspended for imports?

Just the usual scaremongering.

I also shop at Tesco and the stocks haven't changed at all.


Oh I agree, what limitations on stock there are, are probably down to Covid and it being winter.

Still, why even have brexit if we're going to do our level best to pretend we're still in the EU as hard as we can. Is being subject to full export restrictions, hammering British businesses, while allowing many European goods to flow in un-checked really the brexit you signed up for?


The Google killer!

Proceeds to introduce you grep.


Uber drivers pay next to no taxes at the moment.. A chat with with them will confirm it.

They don't pay VAT (revenue under 80k). They are self-employed, so corporate tax does not apply. They pay a 10% in National insurance.

And on income they pay for the 10k to 30k tier, at 20%.

Compare this with a normal company hiring staff. Tax burden doubles just with addition of VAT.


how can VAT be related to drivers tax?

VAT is taken from customer and going to government directly.


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