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3 minutes ago, galenflagler said:
really?
Coronavirus fears fuel racism and hostility, say British-Chinese
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/coronavirus-weaponised-way-to-be-openly-racist
Ethnic Chinese are the most common victims of racism in the UK according to a YouGov poll
How East Asians in the UK are fighting back against a rising tide of racism
That's sad to hear. It sounds like some racist idiots have decided that people who "look Chinese" and live in the UK are somehow to blame for COVID. Presumably Thais, Japanese etc are getting the same treatment.
A Yougov poll shows Brits to be largely in favour of helping Hongkongers come to the UK:
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/travel/survey-results/daily/2020/05/29/9742c/3
I suspect the support would have been a lot stronger pre-COVID. People are dumb.
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1 minute ago, misterjames said:The reason is the difference between Hong Kongese and the other types of immigrants UK gets are that the Hong Kongese are smart, rich and share our values they will contribute something.
The reason China is butthurt is because they know this also many of the rich Hong Kongese own factories which would help UK to bypass China which is great news for the British people.
I agree, people from HK could make a great contribution to UK society if they choose to come.
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7 minutes ago, galenflagler said:
I've got no problem citizens of Hong Kong emigrating to UK. But those figures of yours are seriously misleading. Better to look at the median wage.
Hong Kong US$12600US
UK US$37560
I am always happy to be corrected, but in this case I think your own numbers must be faulty.
2018 - median HK household income $27000 HKD/month ($3483 USD)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/962649/hong-kong-median-monthly-household-income/
2020 - average individual wage (not household) $16955 HKD/month ($2187 USD)
https://tradingeconomics.com/hong-kong/wages
Perhaps you could post the link to your own statistic? Your numbers are not even close to the other sites that I have looked at.
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3 hours ago, Enoon said:The problem for Brexiteers in the UK is "foreigners".
That's why they voted for Brexit.
Now 3,000,0000 "culturally dissimilars" are on their way in.
Three cheers for Boris.
That's strange, I don't see anybody in this thread complaining about the decision. Not even "Brexiteers".
In fact, you are the only person to mention Brexit at all.
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3 hours ago, natway09 said:
The problem with the UK taking all these folks from HK is they will get a lot of undesirables
Rubbish. Hongkongers are richer than Brits, and well-educated.
GDP per capita:
Hong Kong $48675
UK $42943
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On 7/22/2020 at 2:19 AM, JonnyF said:
So now the Tuk Tuk drivers and taxis will be ripping off locals instead of foreigners.
This should be fun ????.
Phuket's Thai population get ripped off by tuk tuk drivers too, on the rare occasion that they take one.
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21 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:How many of the 52% wanted a No-Deal Brexit?
That trade agreement was supposed to be super easy to get and nothing would change...
The "52%" voted for Brexit. The terms of how Brexit was to be achieved was not discussed until after the vote by either side.
Perhaps both sides should have been more specific beforehand. But it was not considered important until after the result.
If only we had had a series of further votes regarding the minutiae of the outcome. The more referendums you have, the more democratic the eventual result, right? ????
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23 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:
A nice western woman that will love me unconditionally.
It's possible, in a "winning the lottery" kind of way ????
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On 7/16/2020 at 1:51 AM, Chomper Higgot said:The indications are that Britain has responded to US demands.
Get used to it, there’s more to come.
Erm, what would you have preferred that Britain have done, Chomper? And how would that have benefitted British interests?
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On 6/20/2020 at 4:36 AM, villageidiotY2K said:
I pretty much have nothing to look forward to everyday, and I've recently stopped drinking. Cuz alcohol seems to lower or numb the neurological stimulant in the brain whuch leads me to further sollow.
You've already quit the booze, so if you have been drinking heavily for a while, you will naturally reap the rewards.
Your brain reprograms itself, and as the days and weeks pass, you will feel better and better. If you can keep it up for another month or 2, you will feel like a new man.
Getting bored is the biggest barrier to quitting booze, so make sure you always have things to do ???? Download some movies and TV series, get some exercise, read some books. Good luck ????
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10 hours ago, coastguard said:
Back to OP original comment. The US is losing it's position as the world's leader. I think it will be replaced by Germany. It could have been so so different. Imagine a normal administration, like Bush W. We'd have lead the world, helped the less fortunate etc. But now we are the outcast. We blew it. Sad
The US GDP per capita is still 30% higher than Germany, despite having 3 times the population. And Germany's population is predicted to fall to 80M by 2050, compared to the US rising to 380M by 2050.
I'm not from either country, but saying that Germany will replace the US is a bold prediction.
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I would say forget it. Find yourself a nice Western woman, who will love you unconditionally and stand by you no matter what.
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On 7/20/2020 at 1:40 PM, Chomper Higgot said:
The next round of corporate financial reporting is going to be interesting - perhaps rather compelling.
The biggest US companies now are their tech companies. With everyone staying at home and shopping online, if anything they have benefitted from COVID-19.
Look at the top 20 US companies - 17 are worth more than they were 12 months ago (column on the far right). Like it or not, investors are still throwing their money at big US corps.
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11 hours ago, A1Str8 said:
I like to wear them as a belt.
Why do you need a 4 meter-long belt? ????
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3 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:Except these are different times and people are losing their jobs through this crisis, next is the housing market collpase. Everything is linked and unstoppable. People rightly or wrongly are seeing freedoms being taken away. When will this all end?
Thailand apparently has no local transmissions but still having to wear masks, so how many more weeks or months will it continue...
Well, Thailand's issues with COVID-19 are another matter. They have 58 official deaths, but I'm guessing that recent poverty-related deaths will be in the tens of thousands or higher.
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Just now, tribalfusion001 said:Won't make any difference, the hot spots are in multi occupancy accommodation like fruit pickers and people who work garment factories In Leicester, in general multi occupancy housing for certain ethnicities. Care homes too.
Care home workers visit shops and go on buses. In all likelihood, most of the COVID deaths in care homes were triggered by members of staff. It isn't like the 90 year-old residents were wandering around town getting infected. Even doctors and nurses go to the supermarket.
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39 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:The WHO must be held accountable for the Mask Debate.... They diluted the argument for the necessity for masks with their initial failure to commit to the ideology that wearing masks was helpful.
Yes. Apparently their initial reluctance to recommend the masks was to ensure that there would be enough masks for front-line hospital workers.
What they actually achieved was making their own advice appear untrustworthy. Now we have a bunch of idiots claiming that masks are a symbol of government oppression ????
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8 hours ago, Bob A Kneale said:21 hours ago, nkg said:On 7/10/2020 at 12:10 PM, Bob A Kneale said:
Easy, testing allows an estimate of an alcohol level 11 hours earlier to be made.
Really? Can you link to some examples of 11-hour old "estimates" like this being used in a court of law?
No, not without doing a research exercise, if you want some examples do it yourself.
So in other words, you can't, and "an estimate of an alcohol level 11 hours earlier" would have no legal standing.
Somebody could be forgiven for thinking that you didn't have any actual knowledge of the "alcohol estimates" that you talk about with such confidence. ????????????
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On 7/10/2020 at 12:10 PM, Bob A Kneale said:
Easy, testing allows an estimate of an alcohol level 11 hours earlier to be made.
Really? Can you link to some examples of 11-hour old "estimates" like this being used in a court of law?
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The ombudsman sounds good for consumer complaints - however, she hasn't been ripped off. She needs some solid financial advice from somebody who knows the laws regarding debts etc.
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I have a Thai friend in Phuket who is struggling with her finances thanks to COVID-19. Is there any Thai equivalent to the UK's Citizen's Advice Bureau that she could visit in Phuket?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Advice
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Thailand, hub of Monkey Business ????
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The first day I tried, BKK-LHR for £253
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Nearly one in six Britons would refuse Covid-19 vaccine
in COVID-19 Coronavirus
Posted
Trust The Guardian to run with a clickbait headline.
"70% of people say they will definitely take a vaccine, and a further 15% say they are likely to" is the alternative headline, but that wouldn't stir up quite so much outrage ..... ????