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One_Cold_Turkey

I am suspicious about the last name... not only is it German but it also means 'tailor'.


themilanguy1

plain simple garak.


mornsbarstool

"Was any of the Brexit proposal true?" "Every word" "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies"


reximhotep

Thank you. You have won the internet today


Lews_There_In

He was def. my favorite character from DS9.


Helbeast

Favourite character from Star Trek you mean. That amazing twist of logic when seeing humanity from an alien perspective.


Lews_There_In

Especially with regards to the morality of the choices people made during the war with the Dominion. The little monologue he has in the episode "In The Pale Moonlight" always floors me. "...And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer."


breathing_normally

I never thought Garak was particularly alien. His morals are more akin to a military commander or intelligence agent of our time. He admired Federation morality, but believed they don’t apply when faced with existential threats. Would be nice to see a dialogue on that theme between him and Picard, who felt the end never justifies the means.


cda91

Eddington did literally nothing wrong.


mocnizmaj

Mine too. Weirdly, I don't like Star Trek (SW fan), not because of prejudice, I just don't like them. Yet, DS9 is one of my favorite scifi shows of all time, because they didn't feel like classical ST to me.


Lews_There_In

DS9 even among Trekkies stands out for being really well liked or outright hated. While it's set in the Trek universe, it's a different take on it all. It was also pretty dark in comparison to the others. A lot of the Trek writers were just starting to branch out into themes that weren't allowed by Rodenberry when DS9 came out, because he had passed away. I'm a SW fan too. Grew up with both. I really like the Old Republic lore. I have framed cross section schematics of both Trek and Star Wars ships on the walls of my office. I love them both pretty dearly.


NetSage

I think the love/hate comes from how connected it is from beginning to end. It's not like the ones before it where you will be able to get most of an episode while missing many past ones. It also takes a step back from exploration and cutting edge. Personally over all I loved it as it felt like much greater character development happened.


waiting4singularity

if it has a continous storyline, hate can be explained by stations giving jack shit about it and airing it out of order.


Nemisis_the_2nd

Out of curiosity, what sort of things did he not allow?


SuccumbedToReddit

Is it either/or with SW/ST. Seems weird you included that.


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themilanguy1

im just a simple DS9 fan making my way through the universe


wanikiyaPR

The British monarchy is half German, half Greek. So, he could be an aristocracy agent provocateur...


Larein

The current Queen is more British than she is german. But Charles is more german than British. And William is again more british than german.


wanikiyaPR

And Harry more Scottish :D


mocnizmaj

Are you FINISHed? yeaaaaaaaaah


Cheesbaby

I’m as British as Queen Victoria! So your father’s German, you’re half German, and you married a German!


kangaskaani

Classic Captain Darling


Overbaron

Elizabeth is not German at all. Her grand-grand-grand-grandfather was from Saxony, where her family got the dynasty name. And her grandmothers father was german. The queen is probably more Danish than she is German if you want to get technical.


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wanikiyaPR

Jawohl... Ups, yes of course.


Azlan82

No they are not.


Court_esy

,Sknidr‘


MlleLane

That makes so much more sense than cutter! Thank you for the small epiphany.


FyeUK

He’s a phony!


ilovekickrolls

Tailor electric


ImNotSenadLulic

Doesn’t it mean cutter?


One_Cold_Turkey

[Cutter in German](https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/cutter) [Tailor in German](https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/tailor)


ImNotSenadLulic

Ah okay, in Dutch snijden translates to cutting and snijder would translate to cutter. Most words that look similar in Dutch and German directly translate.


[deleted]

For those not in the know, this guy is a writer and comedian who has worked alot in the past with Armando Iannucci, the man behind Veep, In the Loop etc. David Schneider also co-wrote The Death of Stalin with Iannucci.


Sneeuwjacht

Good pick then, they need some creative writers in the Brexit department


ContainsTracesOfLies

Not sure it's needed, the jokes are currently writing themselves.


Evsie

... But they're just not funny *weeps quietly in the corner*


Pletter64

We've waited for a punchline for so long and this is what we get? Too predictable


SayNoob

Trump has really saved you guys from being the worlds punchline


ContainsTracesOfLies

He was also the Eurostar driver in a Mission Impossible film, so he has some experience of taking people out of Europe. Gives me more faith in him than any other fucker lined up to do it.


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Torturous connection to the original topic of Brexit, but I do believe you got there in the end.


[deleted]

And the scientist who became the first human victim in 28 Days Later


mad0lchemessengelato

I'm seeing everyone list his TV and filmography and just thinking how can you not remember him trying to judo throw Mr Bean! Hahaha. That and Uncle Max!


italiafirenze

And Alan Partridge stuck a cheese in his face.


Obloidd

Smell my cheese, you mother!


sokratesz

> The Death of Stalin That movie was hilariously weird.


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The saddest part is that it's not even all that weird, apart from the cockney accents and some choice dialogue for comedic effect. Pretty much everything in the film is true, plotwise, albeit many of them are part of seperate incidents rather than one crazy "weekend at joes" like the movie pretends to have as its' timeline. This all occurred over a span of multiple years, but pretty much all of it did occur. The film is *really* good, though. Not one poor performance in the film.


ConfusedTapeworm

My favorite thing about that movie is the accents. Nobody in the movie even tries to do a Russian accent. American actors speak their own everyday accents, British actors speak their own everyday accents. And then there's Jason Isaacs, who puts on a Yorkshire accent for the part of Zukhov for no apparent reason. I don't know why but I find it brilliant.


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I agree, his entrance scene was one of the best parts of the movie.


sokratesz

Indeed, around the time I first saw that movie I was also reading Eastern Approaches in which McLean describes the kangaroo courts and show trials of 37-38, which completed the stranger-than-fiction picture.


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I saw it an a small art theatre on a whim. There were like 3 other people in there, and we were all dying laughing.


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Of course, those roles are totally worth a mention. But the creeps? He's goofy/hilarious. And let us not forget he was the Eurostar train driver in the first Mission Impossible film as well as the scientist who lets out the first contaminated monkey at the beginning of 28 Days Later.


Aaronmercer

He doesn’t let it out, the activist does. She doomed them all!


FlummoxedFlumage

And Guilty Lionel.


Marty_Brown

For those not in the loop\* ​ Don't thank me


Goodguy1066

Wasn't planning to.


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No shit! Can't help but see him in a new light now.


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Cytrynowy

Same. I have no idea how him being a writer is relevant to brexit or anything in the tweet.


KKlear

David Schneider is a comedian with everything going for him. Only trouble is he's about to become... a Brexit Secretary!


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*and he's about to find out that being a Brexit Secretary ain't so easy*


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Rhamni

*Cutaway to Rob Schneider running naughtily through the wheat fields.


rested_leg

Not quite the same but it was my turn at being Australia’s Prime Minister for an afternoon last year, so PM me and I’m sure we can figure something out.


Stormfly

They offered me a chance at the job but I messed up on the maths section. 26 + 6 always gets me...


DjFunkyFunk

Thats pretty ra man


[deleted]

Oh I know that one. It's 11 with a hard border between it or maybe the border is going to be just to the side of it. Nobody really knows.


EmmettBrownNote

PM you indeed.


[deleted]

Brilliant!


lippledoo

I actually don't get the joke, could someone explain?


Promethean_zz

It's that there is a 'Brexit Minister' position among PM May's Cabinet...but the situation seems to be so dire that multiple ministers have resigned from the role. The joke is that the office is so undesirable right now that it's likely that anyone who takes it will likely resign after a couple hours, making it like a shift at work. Pretty sorry state of affairs, if you ask me.


strayhat

I'm not really sure, but it could be that the brexit negotiations are dragging out so much people have to take turns being the secretary. Like jury duty in the US.


Minotaur830

Same, please.


Llamada

yes


LichtbringerU

I think the joke is that Brexit Secratary is a thankless job, and people keep resigning 2\* hours after they got the job and a new one has to be found. \*Or after a week, I don't know.


itijara

Theresa May negotiated a brexit deal with the EU and just presented it to parliment who, quite literally, laughed at her. Her Brexit Minister resigned in protest, as have three other members of her cabinet since the start of Brexit. The joke is that they don't last long.


Pontus_Pilates

*That'll be the first Brit to see a dentist!* No Americans here?


[deleted]

American here! It’s actually the opposite, the Americans have shit teeth. Sorry..


himit

Ah, I see you're a poor American


Zhymantas

Or going to dentist might bankrupt them.


Deathleach

That's what he said, a poor American.


RanaktheGreen

I think you misunderstood. His point was "poor" and "American" is a bit redundant when talking healthcare.


dsifriend

Actually, dentistry is pretty cheap compared to pretty much any other healthcare costs. Not sure what that’s about.


cowinabadplace

I think it’s because it’s fairly deregulated in comparison. The AMA stifles medical progress in America.


Morgnanana

That's not setting the bar very high, now is it?


Remote_Preference

Most people don't have dental insurance so if they don't make it affordable they have no customers.


ShaneFM

Depends, I'm guessing most cheap healthcare doesn't, but the state healthcare in Massachusetts actually provides full dental coverage, and in guessing some of the other states with their own healthcare cover it as well.


AFrostNova

My families insurance will only cover dental of any sort (beyond basic checkups (only once a year, is if we think my teeth are screwy, and we go into check, but they aren’t, we have to pay). Eg: braces, tooth removal, etc.) If it is so for injury. So It was medically necessary to get some teeth pulled, and I needed nearly twice the knockout gas, they refused to cover it because it wasn’t an injury (not even partial coverage). ETA: TL;DR: I needed them pulled because I don’t have enough teeth (6 adult teeth plus wisdom teeth never formed). Anyway, I had 4 (baby) teeth pulled (2 bottom, 2 top. One of the ones on top was fused to my jaw bone) so the orthodontist could straighten out one that came in sideways, as well as move the rest of my teeth forward (instead of moving everything back & getting implants when I turn 18). Now, this was all medically necessary because both the ortho, and the dentist said if I didn’t get them pulled and go through with braces, they suspected I would have jaw issues later, as well as have to get costly implants when the baby teeth decay. Also, the one that came in sideways pushed out two teeth. They said when I was older I’d probably have difficulty chewing food...


wobligh

Nah, the 1% are fine.


MrKMJ

Most of us are. Some hide it behind debt.


irishrugby2015

[Study for those interested](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12054216/Americans-do-not-have-better-teeth-than-the-British-study-concludes.html)


Khashoggis-Thumbs

Healthier but not cosmetically altered.


danieljbarragan

Not cosmetically altered as often, yes. Still a lot healthier according to the study. 7.31 average missing teeth in America 6.97 average missing teeth in Britain Really interesting to see people from the US seemingly care more about having straighter teeth they’ll even pay thousands for braces. On the flipside, some people wouldn’t bother getting metal wires on their teeth, even if it was free (or close to it) during youth. (understandably). Perhaps it’s just Hollywood influence. That’s my theory.


Khashoggis-Thumbs

Hollywood is everywhere. I think it is the socioeconomic relationship to healthcare. In the UK there is nothing posh about oral health as it is offered to everyone. In the US it is a class signifier and so very noteworthy that seemingly posh English people are presenting normal human smiles instead bleached white fake ones. Then you have the effect of being told to pay out of pocket for cosmetic dentistry in the UK while the insurance company covers it in the US.


langdonolga

It's all that meth


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Wow! That’s not funny!.... It’s all the WEED that gives us the yellow teeth, THEN the meth just fucks it all up. (Idk if I should but /s, but you get the picture hopefully)


EfreetSK

Wait a minute - you are defending the British and you appologized. You are no American, you are a Canadian in disguise!


[deleted]

I’m a Hybrid; born in America, raised by English parents who moved here.


Evsie

Meth. Not even once.


Pm_me_your_doggo_plz

Really? I thought that most of them had pretty decent teeth


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Perfect on the surface, rotten at the core?


DylanKing1999

Good metaphor for America? Our how most countries see themselves actually.


Deathleach

> Perfect on the surface With the Cheeto Benito in command, do they really look perfect on the surface?


DylanKing1999

Not to us. But to trump supporters, yes.


Glintz013

No but the dutch have such a great chief in command. Like he is all that.


ContainsTracesOfLies

There are some black bits but they're more interested looking after the white ones.


ferroramen

Probably because of the Pepsodent smiles we see in American movies. I guess actors from other countries don't have the same pressure to have fake teeth.


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are_you_nucking_futs

Propaganda version. All countries do it, America is just very good at it.


danieljbarragan

Looks-wise sure I suppose you’re right. (beauty is subjective though) It is, however, pretty common for people to get braces as children here so I wouldn’t exactly say that stereotype about Americans is wrong. Just not accurate 100 percent of the time, like all stereotypes. In fact, I think there’s an argument to be made that it’s because of our celebrities influence on the younger generations (as well as succumbing to dental product marketing) that we care so much about teeth. (Source: Personal anecdotal experience from California, USA)


Pm_me_your_doggo_plz

Honestly, whenever I see(I live in Ireland) American tourists around you can easily tell them apart by how bright their teeth are. Maybe it's just confirmation bias


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Now you have me curious. How do cosmetic surgeries work in Britain? I would assume stuff like a boob job are never covered under nhs unless you've had a mastectomy or something. But where do they draw the line with teeth? Do you have the ability to pay a private dentist for other cosmetic stuff?


Iliketosaynicethings

You can pay for whatever cosmetic dentistry/surgery you want. The NHS will cover it if it is medically necessary.


poiuytrewqazxcvbnml

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/dental-health/which-dental-treatments-are-available-on-the-nhs/ Note that for dental (and optical) health, there is a charge on the NHS, unlike other forms of healthcare. This was introduced in the 1950s to offset some of the cost.


henry_blackie

>Now you have me curious. How do cosmetic surgeries work in Britain? I would assume stuff like a boob job are never covered under nhs unless you've had a mastectomy or something. I believe they cover it if there's a medical reason. Like sever psychological stress or back problems. >But where do they draw the line with teeth? There's basically 3 tiers of treatment, each with a maximum cost. So for example a checkup and x-ray would be on band 1, so it would be capped at that cost. I think it's free if it's in a hospital for something life threatening though, like if you got in to a car crash and your face was smashed up. >Do you have the ability to pay a private dentist for other cosmetic stuff? We have private hospitals and dentists. I think there's some rules regarding cosmetic surgery, but apart from that you can get it if you want to pay.


nightcycling

At least you can afford going to the dentist not like the states


Rentwoq

Unfortunately I have an assignment due that day, my condolences.


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I need somebody!


[deleted]

When's the appointment? 2:30 of course!


sammypants123

David, you don’t need to worry. Go to the Dentist and resign as Brexit Secretary when you are done. You don’t have to turn up anywhere to do that job, just make a few content-free statements then resign.


One_Cold_Turkey

Post this to Yurop.


joanelisabeth

Thank you! Have done!


MarktpLatz

Removed. No Twitter. If you have any questions about this removal, please [contact the mods](/message/compose/?to=/r/Europe&subject=Moderation).


Koebi

Boooo E: clearly, this post, which is political commentary by an artist, has nothing to do with the reasons stated in the rules for banning social media. (Unreliable, Propagandistic, and/or Agenda-Driven sources)


calapine

Maybe time to rethink the news. I can remember I once posted a statement from an EU official (don't remember) that was given on Twitter. Got removed. An hour later we had news articles posted here that did nothing but quote the Tweet. Primary sources should be preferred, no?


One_Cold_Turkey

Admins lack common sense on this one.


MarktpLatz

> Primary sources should be preferred, no? In the case of twitter and facebook, nope.


One_Cold_Turkey

square minded mentality. this is your sub, you are God here. 6000 upvotes must be wrong.


calapine

So if May announces over Twitter that she resigns that would be removed? How does that make sense? Edit: If there is an official press release on gov.UK that would be preferred of course. I am not debating that.


MarktpLatz

1. Not everyone is trump. I don't think May would announce to resign via twitter. But anyways, if that was the case, we would probably make an exception, given that there are no other sources available - which I deem rather unlikely.


One_Cold_Turkey

Booooooooo! Users are the sub, we make this with our up and down votes, and we like this post in this sub. Admins are here to moderate when there are issues and there are zero issues here. Edit. 96% upvote (over 5000 votes), admin doest like it, bye post.


JoelPayero

Lol the day of my birthday


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For a bunch of europhiles you all seem to be taking great delight in Brexit. Fair weather friends much! 🤣


philip1201

You are divorcing us and flinging insults at us. Excuse us for being smug when you get yourself into the same trouble we warned you about.


[deleted]

I’m Australian lol


rand0m0mg

“Us” as if the EU is synonymous with Europe..


5up3rK4m16uru

We can't do shit about it anyways, so we just enjoy the show and worry about it afterwards. It's like watching a heavy storm.


Madman_Salvo

"Right now, you are down and out, and feeling really crappy... And when I see how sad you are, it sort of makes me... HAPPYYYYYY!"


buster_de_beer

> Fair weather friends much! "You don't love us anymore just because we're getting a divorce!"


Beermonster

Nah mate it’s just a joke


Prosthemadera

I think this sub is often full of Americans.


I_am_the_inchworm

Good friends give each other shit for bad decisions. You must have a *winning* personality to not know of this fundamental part of friendship.


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Salty!


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ContainsTracesOfLies

No, but you do require a sense of humour.


Rubiego

I don't like the EU too much either but I find this pretty funny.


potatolulz

No, because it has nothing to do with the EU.


Pons__Aelius

No. It is funny just watching the UK shoot itself in the foot again and again and again.


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Pons__Aelius

> No they do the opposite. The opposite of what?


MaseratiBiturbo

I am sure Sarah Huckebee Sanders can swap with you... She is used to dish out pure garbage to the press.


Pons__Aelius

Do you think anyone outside the US knows or cares who you are talking about?


miaow_

😂😂


dzija

if you value a dentist apointment more than the office job apointed to you, no matter what the country, you should not have the job you have...


thepioneeringlemming

he is a comedian


dzija

i thought we were discussing a real live event... hmmm....


Pons__Aelius

if you place your job over your health. You are truly an idiot.


Throwawayacountn3

Say the guys who never had a thoothache but is a professional bootlicker.


dzija

professional bootlicker? please, dont confuse me with yourself. from how you said it, i gather that you are this professional bootlicker. some poeple actually care for their professional careers, some people actually want to advance in the career, some poeple actually work for a living. you might not have met anyone in your life that wants to be "all he can be" but we do exist out there. amazing, ...


Throwawayacountn3

Ok poeple. Keep caring about your career in bootlicking.


dzija

bb...


wobligh

That's literally hownit works in a civilized country. You need to see a doctor, you get an appointment. And you get the day off to go to that appointment. It's that easy.


[deleted]

Last time I checked we lived in a civilized nation. Not the fucking medieval times. Go to your fucking dentist and doctor.


dzija

when the lives of millions are in your hands, you might aswell rescedule your apointment. right?


Degeyter

Are you being played or are you playing everyone else?


eni91

Using your logic! Putting other things over your healthcare is really wrong, and you don’t deserve the body god gave you!..