How do you deal with Brexit friends
I had to ask this question.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Among all my friends in London (I've been there more than 50 times to buy Science Fiction books at the Forbidden Planet and other places) and my family (my sister's married to an Englishman) there is no Brexit friend at all, so I can't help you there.
We had a family reunion at a brewery in Munich a few weeks ago (another nephew of mine who works for Amazon married his US girlfriend) and you should have heard my niece which is married to an Irish guy (working and living in London) ranting about her stupid ***expletive deleted*** ... They've all got German passports too and the young ones are thinking about moving ... It's a crazy world! |
Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
99% of my friends voted Brexit. This includes one long time friend who has a Japanese girlfriend. He owns an enormous plot of agriculture land which he rents out. Funny thing is he moans about EU citizens taking over his home town! Hey, his girlfriend is Japanese!!!!! I have to say this but if 99% of my friends are thinking to come visit me ..... I am not picking them up from airport. Why should I? They voted Brexit.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Respect other people's choices. Just because they may choose to vote differently from us does not mean that they are badly educated, selfish or have not carefully considered their voting decision. Our opinion of others says more about us than it does about them ...
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by hobgoblins
(Post 12778693)
Respect other people's choices. Just because they may choose to vote differently from us does not mean that they are badly educated, selfish or have not carefully considered their voting decision. Our opinion of others says more about us than it does about them ...
I could count on one hand the friends I have left these days, and I am very grateful for their friendship. We have deeper feelings for each other and the idea of dropping people as friends because of their views on Brexit seems rather shallow to me. |
Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by Pollyana
(Post 12778697)
:thumbup:
I could count on one hand the friends I have left these days, and I am very grateful for their friendship. We have deeper feelings for each other and the idea of dropping people as friends because of their views on Brexit seems rather shallow to me. |
Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by FenTiger
(Post 12778904)
Shallow .... are you joking? That's an insult to me and the hardship my Hungarian wife has gone through. I had to take on the burden of the debts her first husband left her with. You have no idea what I have sacrificed to take on those debts.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
I don't think there's anything to 'deal with'. They have their opinions, I have mine. If a difference of opinion over Brexit spoils a friendship I'd have to question how strong/real that friendship was.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by FenTiger
(Post 12778904)
Shallow .... are you joking? That's an insult to me and the hardship my Hungarian wife has gone through. I had to take on the burden of the debts her first husband left her with. You have no idea what I have sacrificed to take on those debts.
Some of my friends have different political, religious etc., viewpoints to myself. If I shunned all those whose views don't align with mine, then I'd be a very lonely person. I suspect many of us would be in the same boat. Their friendship means more to me than their opinions on any given topic. So I'd agree with "shallow." |
Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by BritInParis
(Post 12778906)
Unless your wife’s first husband was Nigel Farage, what has any of that got to do with Brexit?
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by Pollyana
(Post 12779011)
Thats what I'm wondering!!! I've never dumped any friends because of their political views I consider that their own business, like religion. Doesn't define them as a person, there are many qualities that I prize above olitical affiliation such as trust, honour, honesty and tolerance.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
If any of you thought I'd quit this forum. Wrong answer. I'm sticking around.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by FenTiger
(Post 12779018)
If any of you thought I'd quit this forum. Wrong answer. I'm sticking around.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Originally Posted by FenTiger
(Post 12779018)
If any of you thought I'd quit this forum. Wrong answer. I'm sticking around.
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Re: How do you deal with Brexit friends
Fen sure has his knickers in a twist. I wouldn't like to go for a drink with him and not like what he was drinking!
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