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[โ€“] sizzler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm talking after the UK was in the EU but after that first waffley paragraph of bollocks I think I'll stop talking to you now.

[โ€“] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about "The EU forbids direct state aid" was waffley bollocks? Why didn't the UK have Berlaymont nuke Germany's practice from orbit?

Or are we at a cultural impasse, here, I know that at least Americans often don't understand the practice of what we call, over here, when speaking English, taking the piss.

[โ€“] sizzler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think a yank would write "waffley bollocks"? You truly are lost.

[โ€“] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It is impossible for that to have been sarcasm, of course, as I am German and therefore do not partake in such frivolities. It all makes perfect sense now. Toodeloo.