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I don't think the EU is nearly as bad off as having lost an arm... and in the situations where there's a zero sum choice, for example a corporation choosing a single EU headquarters, the remaining countries are slightly better off.

And for that matter, the UK is slightly better off than a severed limb.

Still, I love the vividness of this analogy and will probably steal it from you...

Eh, more like an inflamed appendix being removed; sure, you'll be in the hospital for a couple of days (and medicate for pain for a few weeks) but then you'll be fine with just a scar to remind you.

The drama was really the 4 years talking to some kind of patient in convalescence, and for what? Now the Cheddar is Irish, oh my.

Not being familiar with origins of British cheddar, where did it come from before?

Cheddar is English in terms of name origin so British Cheddar was more popular to import, but there's not much reason to bother sending your average cheddar over a border that requires paperwork.. So Irish Cheddar is the only effect of Brexit that I've noticed for the European side.

There is for those who want to scare others from following. If the EU was fine without GB there wouldn't be so much gloating.