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If we get President Boris in return for ditching the drunks north of the border then I'm now a YES! 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: ditching the drunks north of the border
That'll be you moving to Scotland, then? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Not Scots, but I can answer...
In strict order of asking:
Near as dammit 50/50 Yes or No
Division
Undecided, but the Royal Family will remain even if they go for a president
No
Not immediately but soon would be
They will try to keep the pound, or possibly go for the Jockish Groat until they join the EU then will have the Neu Deutsche Mark Euro.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Don't mock! After the Jocks and Catalans, Wallonia is next.
Despite the opinion polls, the free and fair vote will return 7,842,698 Yes votes with 3 Nos.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: with 3 Nos
And two of those are Gordon Brown!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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V. wrote: What will you vote tomorrow and why?
No.......because the proposals put forward by the slug are completely delusional.
V. wrote: What would be the consequence?
Anarchy
V. wrote: Will you get a president or royal family
I *think* we will have commonwealth status and have parialment with voted prime minister etc.
V. wrote: Will you still be part of the EU?
No one knows yet
V. wrote: The UN
No one knows yet
V. wrote: Will you keep the pound or convert to another (new or existing) currency
No one knows yet
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Is that "No, I won't vote" or "I'll vote No"?
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I have voted NO.
The question was "What will you vote" 
Keep up! 
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My current understanding is:-*
An independent Scotland will need to apply for membership of the EU.
This does mean it will have to adopt the Euro
Which in turn means it will need its own currency and central bank.
Spain, Italy (and possibly the remainder of the UK) will probably vote against Scotland's EU membership.
This in turn will mean Maggie's EU rebate will be back on the table.
Therefore the transition will be a long drawn-out process of horse trading and corruptions.
*This is largely based on the FT which may well be part of the capitalist conspiracy.
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So, although the immediate impacts of any decision are felt by those that live in the UK and surrounding areas, it is also going to be felt by the international community (the world) as well.
I read and article this morning how the U.S. is a little nervous about the split, referencing ownership of existing nuclear weapons. I guess that is important to national security, but I never viewed Scotland as a group of people I needed to fear with weapons, let alone, nuclear weapons.
Anyhow, this has been interesting to watch from outside the box, so to speak.
modified 17-Sep-14 7:11am.
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The UK's nuclear arsenal, which it shares with the US, is housed in Scotland.
If they gain independence then they want rid of the nuclear weapons from their soil (or their water as it is a sub capability).
That is what the US is nervous about, where their weapons are going to live, not that a load of hairy arsed blokes in skirts and blue makeup will be lobbing them about.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yes indeed - the relocation of the nuclear weapons will be the mother of all NIMBY debates.
(In fact the most likely would be a 50+ year lease on Faslane but that will be politically very unpopular)
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Slacker007 wrote: I never viewed Scotland as a group of people I needed to fear with weapons,
Never been on a night out in Glasgow I take it?
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No. Unfortunately, I have not been to Europe yet. Wife and I would like to make the trip in few years, when the kids are older.
With that said, I grew up in Los Angeles, and also lived near D.C. for a bit, and so, I can't imagine the rougher areas being any worse than Glasgow; I could be wrong though.
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I think the main difference is we don't have guns, so street-fighting is more of a common occurrence here as you can get in a scrap without the fear of being shot. I've probably been in about 15-20 fights in my Adult life.
I think the States and Europe have different styles of roughness.
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P0mpey3 wrote: I think the main difference is we don't have guns, so street-fighting is more of a common occurrence
So true.
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P0mpey3 wrote: I've probably been in about 15-20 fights in my Adult life.
Bloody hell!! You been out looking for trouble, or just been ridiculously unlucky???
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My main concern is that nobody has thought about how sh*t we will be at Curling now.
V. wrote: convert to another (new or existing) currency ?
I believe the currency will remain cigarettes and Tennants Special Brew.
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Never mind the curling[^]
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Completely off-topic:
Did you have to create a new account? Am I wrong in my thinking that you have had several accounts here, with the "pompey" variation? I only bring this up because this account of yours has been active for 5 months and I can swear that you have been gallivanting around here for years.
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I know that you're lucky that you've been here a long time.
There are so many slackers here that being only the 7th to register is quite a feather in your cap.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I regularly disable my account, sometimes it's because I spend too much time here and it impacts my work, sometimes I just want a break. When I come back I alwways use a Pompey variation so every1 knows who I am (if I don't I get voted off as abusive very quickly). Which amuses me as when I would post the same sort of stuff as Pompeyboy3 and get 10 up-votes.
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I returned to the site about two weeks ago, after a 1.5 year vacation. It seems a lot more quiet now, then it did back then. I wonder if people are actually working these days!
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Yeah it's never the same when you come back.
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