The EU referendum's got everyone talking. In pubs, schools and offices up and down the country there's one question on people's lips.
"What are you saying - in or out?"
If we were to vote to leave the EU it could be one of the biggest things to happen to Britain in ages. For better or worse, the result will be a pretty big deal.
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After you lot got in touch with your burning questions about the EU, we spoke to Dr Victoria Honeyman, a lecturer in British politics at the University of Leeds, who agreed to be an 'EU agony aunt' and answer your worries...
Two lads digging the channel tunnel in 1990 (Credit: PA Images)
WHAT WOULD WE DO IF A HURRICANE HIT?
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Cameron, a 16-year-old lad who's currently studying for his GCSEs said he said his main worry was about what might happen in the event of a natural disaster. Fucking hell.
He said: "If a natural disaster occurs throughout the whole of Europe, they will support each other. At the moment we've got alliances with each other and that gives us stability responding to that sort of thing.
"However, if we left would we have no one to rely on and would we have to hope that America was feeling nice?"
What would we even do if a hurricane hit? One thing's for sure, it would probably be better knowing we could call in the Germans and French for back-up.
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Here's what Victoria Honeyman, from the University of Leeds, had to say about his worry: "We're quite lucky in this country in that we don't tend to suffer from volcanoes or earthquakes.
Luckily we don't get many of these in Britain (Credit: PA Images)
"But in the event of something cataclysmic like that, our membership of the EU might allow a slightly quicker response - but it would only be slightly quicker.
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"If you think about Britian - we send aid to disaster areas all over the world that aren't members of the EU, so I don't see that not being a member of the EU would make any significant difference were something terrible to happen."
NO MORE BILLY BIG BOLLOCKS?
Josh, a 26-year-old insurance broker lad, said he was worried about how leaving the EU could affect his career.
He's currently a Billy big bollocks working with 'clients across Europe' and, he adds, 'worldwide'. Apparently his apartment smells of mahogany, too.
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There are concerns leaving the EU could be bad for business (Credit: PA Images)
Anyway Josh is worried that leaving the EU might trigger another recession, saying: "The idea of 'free trading' will be on the front line of potentially being affected in the event of Brexit.
"As a 26-year-old, this downturn in the economy should we vote to leave will affect me in what I consider will be the prime years of my career.
"With no promise that this 15-year struggle will actually bring a prosperous economy, I wonder who on earth thinks the risk is worth taking?"
An insurance broker cut down in the prime of his career - what a nightmare - someone should make a film about that shit.
Here's what Victoria had to say about his worry: "The answer to 'how it will affect business', is we simply don't know.
Business man Richard Branson supports remaining in the EU (Credit: PA Images)
"The impact could be absolutely enormous. A number of big businesses have come out to say the impact would be enormous on them.
"A lot of people who negotiate trade deals have said renegotiating them would be extremely difficult and time consuming - and also that saying one deal would get replaced by another within a short time frame is inaccurate.
"But it's a bit like peering into a black hole; we simply don't know know what the implications could be."
AN EVEN LONGER COMMUTE TO WORK?
Corrin, a lad who works between offices in Northern and The Republic of Ireland, got in touch about his long commute potentially being made even longer.
He said: "I live and work between Dublin and Belfast, which is already a long commute. I'm worried if Brexit happens, I will have to go through a twice daily set of customs at the border, increasing traffic and travel time significantly."
Brexit could increase the time of cross-border commutes (Credit: PA Images)
A quick google search is telling me that the commute between the two cities is 166km and a 2-hour drive, which sounds like a right treck to be honest.
Here's what Dr Honeyman had to say about about it...
"At the moment movement between Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland is somewhat light-touch because we're both members of the EU.
"If Brexit happened you would expect that there'd be more security and more official interference, similar to going through customs. It'd be an end to that light touch that existed before."
So... sorry mate, looks like Brexit might mean a lot of waiting around at the borders in your car.
Border controls could become tighter if we left the EU (Credit: PA Images)
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
But don't worry, as long you're registered to vote, on 23 June you'll have the chance to shape our future in Europe. If you haven't registered yet, you've got until midnight on 7 June to do so. Click the link below to get registered. It only takes a matter of minutes.
Just make sure to get involved, because if you're afraid to get involved then you can't complain about the result.
Don't let them decide for you, have your say.
Words by James Dawson
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