comment: >
  
  Fun fact: in the movie Tombstone, when Johnny Ringo and Doc Holiday are speaking in Latin, Johnny says "The fool learns from experience."
context: You're welcome, EU. >
  
  It made Britain look like a selfish asshole while actually it was taking one for the team. >
  
  Not only selfish, but just plain stupid >
  
  Well you have to admit that the plan was genius: give less, take more. >
  
  Thanks UK for showing our idiots what happens when you self impose sanctions on yourself >
  
  ...can our reward for our selfless sacrifice be reentry when the inevitable reentry referendum (empire slinks back? Return of the geordi? Backtrack of the clones? As alternatives to "brejoin" or "breturn"). Obviously we'd lose all our special exceptions, but that's very much the idiot tax >
  
  The EU would take the UK back but with a massive humble pie. No more special rules or exemptions, ditching the pound for the euro, etc. >
  
  Oh yeah, absolutely, I even expect the "Islands are different" exemption from schengen zone to be removed, although I expect Ireland might have something to say about that >
  
  
  Islands are different" exemption from schengen 
  
  Whats this about? I thought Ireland couldn't do schengen because of the soft border with Britain (Northern Ireland) >
  
  I am pretty sure you're right. The Schengen area already contains one island member state (Malta), and numerous sizeable islands belonging to other member states. Ireland cannot join Schengen because it maintains a Common Travel Area with the United Kingdom, and I imagine the UK is uninterested in Schengen for the usual reasons it is against all EU integration. >
  
  Iceland is also in Schengen >
  
  Learning from your own mistakes makes you smart.
  Learning from other people's mistakes makes you wise.