James105

26 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You did read the link I posted?

 

Oh and there’s this:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

 

 

Every European country requires ID to vote.   Are you suggesting that every European country is "gerrymandering" their votes or denying their citizens the right to vote?  ID has also always been required to pick up a parcel from the post office amongst other things.  

I'd personally take it a step further and would want to see proof of paying tax before letting someone vote.   No representation without taxation and all that... 

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It makes a huge difference.

 

Your crystal ball needs a clean.

No, it does not.  GDP per capita has been going downwards for years.  It will continue to go down as Labour will continue to allow the importation of both legal and illegal low skilled or no skilled immigrants to support the growth of the already rich at the expense of the poor.  One day the people of the UK will realise they are participating in a migration Ponzi scheme and will vote for it to end.   At that point you will scratch your head wondering how it came to be that the UK elected its equivalent of Victor Orban.   

If Labour come in and put a stop to low/no skilled and illegal migration only then will there will be a difference between the 2 parties.  I cannot personally see that happening - can you?

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well those are all the problems 14 years of failing Tory Government have delivered.

It makes no difference who is in government, they are all participants of the same Ponzi growth scheme.   Labour will continue this trend of bringing in low skilled migrants on the flawed basis that more people equals more growth.  It's a house of cards that will come crashing down at some point and then we will end up with a genuinely far right government as people finally wake up and realise that the establishment parties do not represent them.   Low skilled imported labour is only a growth scheme for the already rich.   GDP per capita (the figure that matters most for household incomes) has been going downwards for years.  

12 hours ago, Tug said:

That issue in itself is enough to cost the republicans all 3 branches of government.November is 6 months away thats enough time for the reality of this to sink in.lts  also a long enough time for the guys to realize that they ain’t getting any sex cause it’s the women who suffer the consequences……..as far as trump is concerned it’s just one more reason among many as to why to dump that albatross 

Yes, it's a real pity that nothing has been invented to help prevent unwanted pregnancies (other than abortion) that could mitigate the impact of this policy.  

What she is doing is significantly less offensive to my eyes than the sight of overweight males with much bigger boobs than she has who are legally allowed to walk topless down the streets.  

Where was the good kid with the gun?  Need to get more kids armed to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again.

Signed, the NRA.   

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

I wish all the British right-wingers who posted in support of the decision would share their beliefs with their American right wing counterparts who overwhelmingly favor prayer in schools.

Actually the way that the UK has outgrown christianity has left a bit of a vacuum that Islam is now trying to (and will one day) fill with it's backwards ideology.  The "right wingers" are overwhelmingly in favour of equal rights for women and gay people of any religion.  The left are in favour of being allied with ideologies that would take those rights away as soon as they have the power to do so.  

Islamic countries protect their (backwards) values by not allowing the teaching of other religions in their schools.  Maybe the west should have continued to insist on teaching Christian values rather than kowtowing to the most intolerant religion on the planet and allowing that intolerance to spread via Islamic faith schools.  Maybe then the street would not be full of hateful people on their hate marches every weekend.  

The police here really do put Sherlock Holmes to shame.  I have no idea how they manage to track down these criminal enterprises that are buried so deep underground and make so much effort to cover their tracks that they are practically invisible.   

24 minutes ago, JimGant said:

 

Hmmm. My paraphrased reading of the pwc booklet is: A tax resident of Thailand in year X, who has assessable foreign income earned in year X, will have that income subject to Thai taxes, "in any tax year" brought into Thailand.

 

Otherwise, a Thai tax resident for many years, with years and years of non remitted foreign income -- could take a year off to Tahiti, and remit all their stored foreign income, into Thailand, tax free.

 

I doubt the writers of the new guidance, hoping to plug a loophole, would open up an even bigger one..... Of course, maybe there was a secret handshake with the "too rich."

That is literally my plan (except swap Tahiti for Europe and 1 year for 6 months).  Unless they do announce closure of this seemingly obvious loophole I do intend to take full advantage of it.   Before committing to such flagrant legal tax avoidance I am hoping this does get clarified. 

13 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Is that one of your freedom to live your life without large government interference arguments?

 

Erm if there are categories for transgender sports participants, how does that impact women’s sports.

 

Take your time, give it your best go.

It doesn't, but it is a pointless endeavour as we already have sex based categories that includes everyone.  

Your turn.  How does having an open category exclude anyone.  

Take your time, give it your best go.  

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Right response.

 

Let the sports organizations deal with the issue.

 

No need for all the flush faced, bulging vein outrage.

 

 

 

Let's not.  It needs to be taken out of their hands as the flush faced vein bulging with outrage trans hate mobs have form for bullying those who who do not conform to the fantasy that men can change their sex.  Have you seen the hate and threats that the likes of Sharon Davies or Martina Navratalova get for asking for fairness in women's sports?  There are 2 sexes so there should be 2 categories.  Nobody would object if the mens category was open to accommodate as many genders as you can think and that way nobody is excluded and leave the women's category for actual women.   Simple, fair and inclusive.    

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

As many as turn up.

 

I doubt it will be every 72.

 

But of course feel free to exclude anyone from sports, even if we are told excluding people isn’t a thing.

 

 

Nice bit of pearl clutching there, but if the categories were just based on biological sex and there were 2 of them, who exactly is being "excluded" here?  If we take another example from the list, the "Deliciagender", are you suggesting that person does not have a biological sex and would be excluded on that basis? 

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Or just add a few more activities and save all the flush faced bulging vein outrage.

 

What outrage?  Has somebody been on the sauce already?  Open and womens categories are all that is needed.   There are only 2 sexes so there only needs to be 2 categories.  It obviously cannot be based on "gender" as last time I looked there is an unknown amount of genders and there could be more than 100 now.   So it has to be based on sex but for inclusivity sake (which I'm sure is something you salivate about) we call one of the categories open.   Problem solved.  

59 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I think I’m one of those that agrees sport should be open to anyone who wants to take part.

For once I am in complete agreement with you.  The mens competition is already fully open to men who dress up as women, but for the sake of "inclusivity" the mens competition can be re-branded to "open" where anyone can compete, even legacy women who are bigger, faster, stronger than actual men that you refer to.   The women's competition remains open to only women. 

Such a simple solution that pleases everybody*

*except for mediocre male athletes who have no chance of winning anything when competing against fellow males.