british frantically googling what e.u. is, hours after voting to leave

[Associate Justice PiT]

The arrogance displayed in this thread is why you guys lost.

I lost nothing. The only ones who lost something are Britons.

Sometimes you gotta lose a few pounds after a bad breakup. Then you'll gain them back (which already happened).

What do you mean? The real damage hasn't even begun yet. Even former Brexiters understand it, and are already trying to do all they can to backpedal without looking like they're betraying the people's will.

     The damage will be so brutal, they'll end up like one of those poor non-EU countries like, um, Switzerland. Heaven forfend!

[Associate Justice PiT]

The arrogance displayed in this thread is why you guys lost.

I lost nothing. The only ones who lost something are Britons.

Sometimes you gotta lose a few pounds after a bad breakup. Then you'll gain them back (which already happened).

What do you mean? The real damage hasn't even begun yet. Even former Brexiters understand it, and are already trying to do all they can to backpedal without looking like they're betraying the people's will.

     The damage will be so brutal, they'll end up like one of those poor non-EU countries like, um, Switzerland. Heaven forfend!

You mean the Switzerland that pays into the European funds and enforces freedom of movement just like Britain did until now? I'm sure Farage and Johnson will have fun explaining that to their voters.

     The point I took away from your post was that Brexit is going to cause long-term damage to the country. I certainly concur that it will not work out just as planned or hoped for by its supporters (such complex political processes seldom do), but I think Great Britain will do just fine for itself.

[Associate Justice PiT]

The arrogance displayed in this thread is why you guys lost.

I lost nothing. The only ones who lost something are Britons.

Sometimes you gotta lose a few pounds after a bad breakup. Then you'll gain them back (which already happened).

What do you mean? The real damage hasn't even begun yet. Even former Brexiters understand it, and are already trying to do all they can to backpedal without looking like they're betraying the people's will.

     The damage will be so brutal, they'll end up like one of those poor non-EU countries like, um, Switzerland. Heaven forfend!

London has a bigger population than Switzerland... among a bunch of other differences that are too numerous to name.  This is like the ol' let's have tax rates like Ireland argument.  Stop cherrypicking these tiny countries and trying to extrapolate results countries ten times their size with far more diverse geography, populations, religions, cultures, etc.

     We can pick another non-EU country then, like the United States. Of course, the same problem applies in reverse in that England is not as powerful as the United States is, such that it can resist the power of the Socialist Sixth of the World.