Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,alt.usage.english,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: UK Love Is Blind Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:16:15 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 50 Message-ID: <6AAF964F.7BED@ix.netcom.com> References: <6AA8CDE5.6B58@ix.netcom.com> <1789576512-12588@newsgrouper.org> <1spmalhv6kpnoadn6ujv8qjm7aielfk4c3@4ax.com> <118hc19$pfv$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <118j28e$15oqd$1@dont-email.me> <118ka5u$1m855$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="3050292"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/VyiZ9B1uBDJVmraVzjdQn7Q8YSdBB3zo="; posting-host="a7e5a4b95cdd668e79a7be980dec631b" Cancel-Lock: sha1:xTHrUKMTrlhKEalIA3kYJDhBksI= sha256:WF1f7HF1zhBXpPVUwxTM/Sgm3TlUROE81TS+kZUna7Q= sha1:tco9XCn1ga5rPhzA613QlSG3GM8= sha256:jdiFvDu/F3g3UZpE9ixfw149PgbVEoVICz2mxTZpJ/g= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 260919-6, 09/19/2026), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:673432 alt.usage.english:1151058 rec.arts.tv:1857601 Silvano wrote: > > Janet hat am 18.09.2026 um 21:00 geschrieben: > > In article <118j28e$15oqd$1@dont-email.me>, > > Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it says... > >> > >> Charles Hope hat am 17.09.2026 um 20:15 geschrieben: > >>> On 17/09/2026 19:37, Richard Tobin wrote: > >>>> In article <1spmalhv6kpnoadn6ujv8qjm7aielfk4c3@4ax.com>, > >>>> Steve Hayes wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>> I think you're taking the SNP propaganda too seriously. They had the > >>>>>> referendum they asked for in 2014, and convincingly lost. > >>>> > >>>>> That was before Brexit. > >>>>> > >>>>> In the Brexit referendum the majority of Scots voted to remain. > >>>> > >>>> Brexit has made Scottish independence much more difficult. > >>>> > >>>> Since we joined the Common Market (later EU) in the 1970s the SNP's > >>>> slogan was "independence in Europe" - an argument against the > >>>> assertion that Scotland would be economically worse off and less > >>>> secure separate from England. But now Scotland would have to apply to > >>>> join the EU, and if that was successful face a hard border with > >>>> non-member England. > >>> > >>> and a strange one with Northern Ireland> > >> > >> > >> I must be missing something. Where can you walk or drive from Scotland > >> to Northern Ireland? > > > > You can walk or drive onto the ferry at Cairnryan, which takes you to > > Larne or Belfast. > > Of course, now, without crossing any borders. Do you think there will be > no "strange border" or a border with checks like in Dover between > Scotland and Northern Ireland, when either one leaves the Disunited > Kingdom? Can you tell us how it will work? I think I hurt my throat reading dis.. "Disunited Kingdom"??? is dat a train station? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.