• Linda R@nord.pub
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    20 hours ago

    Actually it was. Back then it was called “European Economic Community”.

    UK joined it in 1973.

      • Linda R@nord.pub
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        19 hours ago

        So, are you saying that the membership fee rebate and such things that UK had just did not exist? Cool.

        It wasn’t the EU, it was just the same members as those of EU when it renamed as EU, the same flag, the same capitals and the same legislation. Cool, cool. Understood :)

        But, because it had a different name, it was a different thing. Because it had a different name, it was not the EU. Which kind of is true, but… meh. If a woman marries and takes her husbands family name, does it mean the person with old full name and the person with the new full name are not the same thing?

        Sally Smith, born in 1981, becoming Sally Jones in 2005 means that in 2004 Sally Jones did not exist at all? Cool.

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            17 hours ago

            It’s ok to admit on what you’re wrong about; that doesn’t make you lesser. No big deal, we all learned a little more… that should be considered a good thing

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              13 hours ago

              I wasn’t wrong. They were, and defended it at length. I didn’t bother because of the overwhelming petulant sarcasm.