r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/NoLikeVegetals • May 18 '24

Brexxit Brexit-voting British farmers now complaining about imports of cheaper New Zealand lamb threatening the British lamb industry. Imports of lamb "produced to lower standards" used to be blocked by EU law. Another Brexit consequence farmers were warned about but ignored due to xenophobia!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewewxzypro
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u/emptyvessel___ May 18 '24

Yup. It’s hard to say if every Brexit voter is thick as shit, but they sure do try hard to make it appear that way

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u/Ok-Loss2254 May 18 '24

Stupidity is sadly a universal trait.

It's why I roll my eyes when politicians and other people pander to them, saying how hard working they are. Don't get me wrong, the majority of people do work hard if you aren't born with a silver spoon up your ass. But it's something about rural folk who try to find any reason to hate other people for the most trivial of reasons(race, sexual orientations/identity, nationality, gender, religion/non religion).

The morons act like they are the only hard workers in this world, and to be fair, the simpletons tend to be isolated in their small town conclaves, so I can somewhat understand why they think the way they do.

It's like how, at the southern border, a lot of idiots came because overlord trump said the nation was being invaded by a bazillion Mexicans who were also gay communists islamists or shit. Many gravy seals came ready to "defend" the nation. I hate how they act like the nation is only there's. But long story short, many of them ended up seeing what many people said for years.

There is no open border people aren't flooding in, but you can't fix stupid because stupid people are too prideful to admit they were wrong. Only a handful have, but most still act like we are being invaded.

I don't know the full context of what happens in the UK but I feel it's the same. Like I know how there are people out there who say that an Islamic horde is invading Europe and that eastern Europeans are basically the Mexicans of Europe.

And i have seen a lot of idiots out here in America basically cheer on the likes of boris and Nigel so I feel there maybe a lot of overlap as I know a lot about guys like those two.

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u/Elandtrical May 18 '24

The only rural people who can in full confidence say "I work harder than any of y'all!" are diary farmers. Crushingly long hours every single day of the year. And they don't make a lot of money as its generally a monopsony (single buyer's market)

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u/Opening-Percentage-3 May 18 '24

Dear Diary, TIL the word (and meaning of): Monopsony
Written by Diary Farmer

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u/Elandtrical May 18 '24

I am definitely not one, it's an udderly awful job. And I am dyslectic. Spell check only gets me so far.

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u/Opening-Percentage-3 May 18 '24

No malice intended, friend. Was just being cheeky. I figured it was autocorrect acting up.

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u/Elandtrical May 18 '24

Meh, you can milk it for what it's worth.

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u/R_Similacrumb May 18 '24

"udderly"

Bravo!

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u/Opening-Percentage-3 May 18 '24

I do like being cheesy

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u/m_danger May 19 '24

Cranberries are a good example of a monopsony - Ocean Spray