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leaffan2005 said:
I can't believe nobody else on the bus said anything. Too bad it is bad PR to hit women. Cause this excuse for a human being should have been tackled shortly after she opened her mouth.
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It's so difficult to be in that position. You tend to get frozen. I was once in McDonald. This young mother and her son came in. The mother was on the phone and everytime the kid (maybe 5 years old) did something she would curse at him and turn around on the phone complaining how tough being a mother was.

I absolutely froze. Did not say or do anything. I still think about it once in a while. Not sure why I didn't say anything but then I also understand why I froze.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
It's so difficult to be in that position. You tend to get frozen. I was once in McDonald. This young mother and her son came in. The mother was on the phone and everytime the kid (maybe 5 years old) did something she would curse at him and turn around on the phone complaining how tough being a mother was.

I absolutely froze. Did not say or do anything. I still think about it once in a while. Not sure why I didn't say anything but then I also understand why I froze.
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Yeah, I think it's a bit different when it is a mother and their kid.

But this was an unprovoked verbal assault on an elderly lady where this scumbag was telling this woman to "get cancer". I agree that you can't assault people over this stuff, but that is definitely what was deserved in this case. At the very least somebody should have stood up and gotten between to help facilitate her getting off. Especially loved the "my dad is a cop" part. Can't believe people like this exist.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
It's so difficult to be in that position. You tend to get frozen. I was once in McDonald. This young mother and her son came in. The mother was on the phone and everytime the kid (maybe 5 years old) did something she would curse at him and turn around on the phone complaining how tough being a mother was.

I absolutely froze. Did not say or do anything. I still think about it once in a while. Not sure why I didn't say anything but then I also understand why I froze.
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I would have said something. My wife gets embarrassed sometimes. I have a no filter issue.
 
leaffan2005 said:
Yeah, I think it's a bit different when it is a mother and their kid.

But this was an unprovoked verbal assault on an elderly lady where this scumbag was telling this woman to "get cancer". I agree that you can't assault people over this stuff, but that is definitely what was deserved in this case. At the very least somebody should have stood up and gotten between to help facilitate her getting off. Especially loved the "my dad is a cop" part. Can't believe people like this exist.
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If she keep that up she might be prime minister one day
 
Habsy said:
I would have said something. My wife gets embarrassed sometimes. I have a no filter issue.
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Yeah. I had plenty of time to contemplate too. Should I say something? Am I saying it to actually fix this or just to remove the potential guilt of not having said anything (I knew me saying something wouldn't all of a sudden make this a good mom or put any stoppage to anything she says or does)? Should I call the authorities? If I do and they come, what happens if they separate this kid from his mom? Would that be a good thing or bad? Who knows.

It was a tough situation. As I said, I still think about it sometime.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
Yeah. I had plenty of time to contemplate too. Should I say something? Am I saying it to actually fix this or just to remove the potential guilt of not having said anything (I knew me saying something wouldn't all of a sudden make this a good mom or put any stoppage to anything she says or does)? Should I call the authorities? If I do and they come, what happens if they separate this kid from his mom? Would that be a good thing or bad? Who knows.

It was a tough situation. As I said, I still think about it sometime.
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You're a very pensive person and that's not something to be worried about. It's a good trait to have.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...itains-economic-prospects-brexit-fears-prove/

The UK has defied fears of a slump in the wake of the Brexit vote, forcing the International Monetary Fund to tear up its original gloomy forecast for Britain’s economy.

The Fund had predicted that the UK economy would grow by 1.1pc in 2017. However, on Monday the international body’s economists revised upwards their downbeat assessment, instead predicting Britain would grow by 1.5pc this year.

The Fund had already been forced to make a U-turn in October and admit that its forecasts for UK growth in 2016 had been too pessimistic. At the time it remained doubtful about the country's prospects for this year, cutting its prediction from 1.3pc growth to 1.1pc.

Revealing its new forecasts today, the Fund said the upgrade was “mostly account of a stronger than expected performance during the latter part of 2016”.

This indicates that doom-laden predictions of Britain’s economy shuddering to a halt because of the country’s decision to vote leave were wrong.
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Damn, look at that. Third highest growth in the G7.

So much for economic ruin. Those infallible experts, am I right?
 
Did I miss the part where they actually finished leaving Europe? Because, that was kind of where the harm was going to occur from what I understand. I mean, if you read that article with even a basic understanding of the issues the UK is going to face when they leave, all I see is a slight uptick in economic growth, while still attached to the European common market with no trade boundaries.

The kicker of course is the reason given by the IMF for the bullishness (if forecasting 1.5% growth is bullish...it's really not, that's kind of shit) was in large part the effects of the massive bailout package the BOE threw at the UK business community. Taking on a ****ton of additional public debt has kicked the can down the road, until they actually leave the union and we see what the reaction of the European business community is. Nothing has changed.
 
MindzEye said:
Did I miss the part where they actually finished leaving Europe? Because, that was kind of where the harm was going to occur from what I understand. I mean, if you read that article with even a basic understanding of the issues the UK is going to face when they leave, all I see is a slight uptick in economic growth, while still attached to the European common market with no trade boundaries.

The kicker of course is the reason given by the IMF for the bullishness (if forecasting 1.5% growth is bullish...it's really not, that's kind of shit) was in large part the effects of the massive bailout package the BOE threw at the UK business community. Taking on a ****ton of additional public debt has kicked the can down the road, until they actually leave the union and we see what the reaction of the European business community is. Nothing has changed.
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I remember hearing that immediately after the vote the massive uncertainty would be a massive drag on the economy and things would got from bad to ugly after the split was finalized.

Well, first part of that prediction from the experts was dead wrong, and I'm of the opinion that the second half of it will be as well.

All of these experts predicting immediate calamity trying to scare regular people into voting the way the experts want, and now it turns out they were wrong. Go figure.

Maybe, just maybe, the experts don't know everything. Maybe, just maybe, the people of a country know what's best for their nation, experts be damned.

You are right, nothing has changed yet, and there are challenges to be faced by the brits going forward, but to date they have been just fine, despite the forcast of so called experts claiming that the mere act of voting to leave would cause a recession.

As for the 1.5 being kind of shit, we'll, look at the rest of the G7. The EU isn't exactly a growth engine right now despite everyone talking up all the benefits of being part of it.

France. Really Shit.

Italy. Extremely Shitty.

Germany. Exactly as shitty as the UK.

Canada, slightly better than the UK.

USA, decent.

Japan, as shit as Italy.
 
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leaffan2005 said:
I can't believe nobody else on the bus said anything. Too bad it is bad PR to hit women. Cause this excuse for a human being should have been tackled shortly after she opened her mouth.
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I guarantee if a guy said anything to her, he would be the one getting crapped on for verbally assaulting a woman and making her feel unsafe on transit.
 
Habitants87 said:
I remember hearing that immediately after the vote the massive uncertainty would be a massive drag on the economy and things would got from bad to ugly after the split was finalized.
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Sure, and then this happened

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bank-of-englands-brexit-bailout-1470266132

Mark Carney being the smart **** he is, fire a cannon full of public money out into the market to calm it down. It worked for now and mitigated the panic based potential effects. It does nothing to change the structural issues facing the UK when they finally do split, but it pushed back the immediate concern

Well, first part of that prediction from the experts was dead wrong
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Except it wasn't dead wrong at all. Pretty severe measures were required to avoid it. Billions upon Billions of pounds, and an interest rate cut down to 0.25% to try to juice the markets.

and I'm of the opinion that the second half of it will be as well.
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and you'll be wrong there too.


All of these experts predicting immediate calamity trying to scare regular people into voting the way the experts want, and now it turns out they were wrong. Go figure.
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You really couldn't have a worse understanding of the issue if you tried. You're so caught up in the social nonsense of it and not nearly concerned enough about the economic fundamentals of it. Simply put, the way that the UK and every business in the UK, does business with the common European market is going to change drastically. This will lead to a ton of additional cost for UK business. There are a large number of MNC's that have set up shop in London as their European HQ. For many of them, there will be significant additional costs to sell their products and services to the much larger EU market when this is all said and done. There will be new trade barriers where before their were none.

100's of Billions of dollars in additional cost in doing business, just for setting up shop in London, if selling products and services to the EU common market is your business. Why stay in London now?

Maybe, just maybe, the experts don't know everything. Maybe, just maybe, the people of a country know what's best for their nation, experts be damned.
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Maybe, just maybe, people who can't balance their own cheque book without a calculator don't understand international economics? Maybe they do themselves a massive disservice by not understanding how their society and economies actually function?

You are right, nothing has changed yet, and there are challenges to be faced by the brits going forward, but to date they have been just fine, despite the forcast of so called experts claiming that the mere act of voting to leave would cause a recession.
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Read up on the UK brexit bail out and get back to me.
 
I appreciate you posts ME

you might be dead wrong but you have purty words

helps to keep an average guy like me in the loop
 
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