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    UK Supreme Court enables $18.5 billion class action against Mastercard

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    2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

    That’s plain nonsense.

     

    Credit businesses are regulated by law, hence the ruling and subsequent class action.

     

     

     

        The Court "ruling" has ruled that a legal Court case can go ahead , the Court case about any wrong doing hasnt happened yet , you seem to think a forthcoming Court case proves guilt .

      The Court case hasnt happened yet and its yet to be shown whether any laws were broken 

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    UK Supreme Court enables $18.5 billion class action against Mastercard

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    3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

    Systematically overcharging customers is an abuse.

     

    Hence the ruling against the credit card companies and the subject class action.

     

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse

     

     

      They can charge whatever fees they want to charge and its up to the customer whether they stay with the company or find another one .

      Having high fees isnt overcharging , its setting the fees at a level that the market will endure , its not illegal to make a profit  

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    Time to move on, maybe?

    in Visas and migration to other countries

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    5 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

    Sorry, I omitted to end my comment with a '?'. Now edited.

     

    You'll need to ask them what does but I suspect they'll still defend their choice with the usual offerings that Thai slappers are older, fatter, materialistic, can't speak English, etc., etc..

     

       Is the quality better in PI ?

    We've had reports that its just as bad in Angeles .

    I found that with PI girls, theres  always a slight guilt about Religion

    Thai girls are less inhibited and enjoy it more

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    Differing views on facemask use between expats and locals

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    5 minutes ago, HappyinNE said:

    Finally, it has been published.

    The Danish study on the effectiveness of masks – or lack thereof – in protecting us from COVID-19 was just published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

    The study has been around since June, but no medical journals were willing to publish it. Now we can understand why.

    Before I share the results, it’s worth noting that this is the most comprehensive study on masks and COVID-19 that exists. This was a tightly run trial that was incredibly well-balanced. It is the best scientific study available on this subject.

    There were 4,862 participants selected for the trial who were very carefully balanced among a wide range of characteristics that we can see below.

    Characteristics of Participants Completing the Study

     

     

     

    Source: Henning Bundgaard, DMSc, et al.

    The participants in the face mask group were all given high-quality surgical masks with a filtration rate of 98%. Worth noting is that this quality of mask is even better than the N95 masks that some use today, and it is many times better than the cloth masks that we are told to wear “for our own safety.”

    The members of the control group did not wear masks.

    What were the results?

    §  1.8% of those who wore masks got infected with COVID-19.

    §  2.1% of those who did not wear masks got infected with COVID-19.

    Almost exactly the same.

    I’d be willing to bet if the face masks the study used were cloth masks, the face mask group’s infection rate would have been much higher. Scientific research shows that particles from an airborne virus get trapped in a cloth mask, which is porous and prolongs the wearer’s exposure to the virus.

    But here is the conclusion of the Danish study in the authors’ words:

    Our results suggest that the recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mask wearers in a setting where social distancing and other public health measures were in effect…

    I’ll put this a simpler way: Masks don’t protect the wearer from COVID-19.

    And now we know definitively that is the “science.”

     

    Maybe people should look at actual science not what politicians claim is science.  Sorry the characteristics  did not copy.  I have them if interested.

     

       I thought that the reason for wearing masks was to stop the wearer from spreading the virus, moreso that the wearer contracting the virus

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    Brexit talks still stuck because EU is asking too much, UK says

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    1 hour ago, Phulublub said:

    So, if BJ accepts some restrictions in exchange for a trade deal (something Ministers have today been beriefing they are pulling out all thw stops to achieve), you will not have obtained what you voted for...I almost feel sorry for you.

     

    PH

     

       Either way, you will put a negative spin on things .

    Whatever the outcome of the talks, we will have completely left the E.U.

    If we have to make concessions for a beneficial trade deal , then so be it , it will have no effect on the man in the street and we wont even notice it 

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    Brexit talks still stuck because EU is asking too much, UK says

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    1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

    Alternatively the UK might be back begging at the IMF.

     

    Leaving the UK’s largest trading partnership without a deal in the midst the worst recession for 300 years is not a smart move.

     

    https://wap.business-standard.com/article/international/uk will-suffer-its-deepest-recession-in-more-than-300-years-rishi-sunak-120112600083_1.html

     

      Yes, you can live in hope , who knows what will happen in the future .

    You can live in hope that the UK gets the most severe punishment and Brits suffer horrendously  because we left you .

      That can make you feel better and see it as some sort of revenge 

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    Brexit talks still stuck because EU is asking too much, UK says

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    3 minutes ago, Phulublub said:

    As is the further fall in the Pound today as the prospect of No Deal becomes more likely

     

    Cost of Living rises baked in.  But you knew what you were voting for.

     

    PH

     

      The Pound is at the same level as it was back in March .

    But you would love it wouldnt you, if the Pound plunged and foods costs rose and Brits suffered .

    British people have sacrificed their lives for freedom , a few hardships wont bother us .

    We may soar in the future , whilst you will still be bailing out Greece and Poland 

    Time to move on, maybe?

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    1 hour ago, SailingHome said:

    My wife and I are great friends, and we can stay married or not. We have no financial ties, she travels a lot for her business, and I live alone. I plan to remarry some day and so does she

     

      ???? Thats the very first time in my life that I have heard someone say that and its not often you hear something said for the very first time, these days ????

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