Joining a Club

[AtW]

Its not a club its a cartel.

So you want to oppose legal cartel rather than join it?

[PurpleGorilla]

It's a club we joined early in its life, not right at the start but early in its life. We have shaped the design of it and helped it grow. We want to leave the club. There is no retired member status or honouree member Status. We are told that if we leave our years of contributions mean nothing. We will be treated like a non member, and no favours will be extended.

So clearly no one in the club likes us, or wants us to buy any rounds of drinks anymore. They don't like our jokes and stories, they hate our choice of music on the juke box, and don't want our phone number to stay in touch when we leave.

[Bee]

It's a club we joined early in its life, not right at the start but early in its life. We have shaped the design of it and helped it grow. We want to leave the club. There is no retired member status or honouree member Status. We are told that if we leave our years of contributions mean nothing. We will be treated like a non member, and no favours will be extended.

So clearly no one in the club likes us, or wants us to buy any rounds of drinks anymore. They don't like our jokes and stories, they hate our choice of music on the juke box, and don't want our phone number to stay in touch when we leave.

Stop.

You are breaking my heart.

[MarillionFan]

It's a club we joined early in its life, not right at the start but early in its life. We have shaped the design of it and helped it grow. We want to leave the club. There is no retired member status or honouree member Status. We are told that if we leave our years of contributions mean nothing. We will be treated like a non member, and no favours will be extended.

So clearly no one in the club likes us, or wants us to buy any rounds of drinks anymore. They don't like our jokes and stories, they hate our choice of music on the juke box, and don't want our phone number to stay in touch when we leave.

?????
U at the same club as Shaunbhoy or?.....

[NotAllThere]

Imagine you are contemplating joining a Club (of any sort really).

You unearth beforehand that, if you subsequently opt to Leave that Club, they would do their best to punish you.

How many people here would still go ahead and join that Club?

A simple YES, I would still join up, or a NO, I would tell them where to stick their Membership will do.

Seeing as you failed to understand my previous answer, even though there were pictures.

There is no simple YES. There is no simple NO. It depends on the nature of the club and the nature of the benefits.

Here is a question for you:

Imagine you joined a club (of any sort really) over 30 years ago, and for various reasons (there are some very real issues with it) are contemplating leaving it, and then you realise that if you do, not only do you lose all the benefits of being in that club, but the remaining members of the club would do their best to punish you.

How many people here would still go ahead and leave that Club?

A simple YES, I would leave regardless and damn the torpedoes, or a NO, I would use my great power and influence to drive reform from within.

[WTFH]

So, a snowflake wants to leave a club, but maintain many of the benefits of being in it, and is now blaming the club for them saying "no, you can't have those benefits any more".
Poor ickle snowflake.
You can't blame the club. Part of choosing to leave it is about accepting responsibility for your actions and the repercussions of those actions.

[Bee]

Seeing as you failed to understand my previous answer, even though there were pictures.

There is no simple YES. There is no simple NO. It depends on the nature of the club and the nature of the benefits.

That's the point.

Here is a question for you:

Imagine you joined a club (of any sort really) over 30 years ago, and for various reasons (there are some very real issues with it) are contemplating leaving it, and then you realise that if you do, not only do you lose all the benefits of being in that club, but the remaining members of the club would do their best to punish you.

How many people here would still go ahead and leave that Club?

A simple YES, I would leave regardless and damn the torpedoes, or a NO, I would use my great power and influence to drive reform from within.

Absolutely correct, but this is difficult too. Imagine that you stay in the Club and you use your influence to reform and the rest of the members don't give a tulip about you. Would you stay?

[scooterscot]

We are told that if we leave our years of contributions mean nothing. We will be treated like a non member, and no favours will be extended.

So you thought all those payments for saving for some great pension day payout rather than for trade free access to the single market?

[original PM]

So, a snowflake wants to leave a club, but maintain many of the benefits of being in it, and is now blaming the club for them saying "no, you can't have those benefits any more".
Poor ickle snowflake.
You can't blame the club. Part of choosing to leave it is about accepting responsibility for your actions and the repercussions of those actions.

You fu<king dense tw@.

How about we want to leave the club but we will still remain friends with many of the members and have our own events and relationships as we see fit.

But the club says no you cannot be friends with anyone still in the club.

Have you ever watched spoiled children playing?

Ignorant tit

[PurpleGorilla]

Joining a Club

So you thought all those payments for saving for some great pension day payout rather than for trade free access to the single market?

"There must be a threat, there must be a risk, there must be a price, otherwise we will be in negotiations that will not end well and, inevitably, will have economic and human consequences,” the French president said.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...?client=safari

Canadians get fair access without all the bull tulip. I would like favourable access given our shared history. That doesn't seem too much to ask.

I would even have a half membership as long as when I go play a game my buggy isn't full of other new members who got in for free and want to play with me on my round.