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Yeah, that jumped out at me too. I do like a casino, they can be fun, but I wouldn't pay 5k for the privilege of losing my money in one.

Still the same in many cases. My younger brother salary and his wife's salary go in to a joint account and she holds the purse strings. He gets a bit of money to go out now and again but everything is budgeted and controlled by his wife. I couldn't live like that personally but it works for them and they are happy. Plus they'll probably save way more than I ever have.........but I would say I have had more fun.

A friend of mine has done it more than once and had no problems. Personally I wouldn't risk it but I know he has done it - a few years ago now mind.

Personally I think the Deepal is a better looking car but the BYD has more going for it - including performance. But both are very popular.

Please do report back - it seems you have a very open mind so I would be keen to know your impressions. I don't own an EV but I did use one for three days and it converted me, no way would I buy another petrol car so when the time comes to change I will be going EV. My friend has always been pretty negative on them and he drives a diesel (ugh!) Everest. To be fair it's nice inside and has lots of space for him and his family but to me it's filthy (and I have driven it on numerous occasions). We talk cars a lot but he never really believed me about how good EVs are to drive and to live with. He recently drove a friend's Aion Y which is pretty basic but it converted him immediately to the extent he went straight to a BYD dealership to check out the Sealion 7, then got home and listed his Everest for sale. As has been said many many times on here EVs aren't for everyone, ie. if you do long trips every week or you can't charge at home. Anyway, let us know what you decide when the time comes.

Which one for butt hurt people?

Can you share a link to this news report please? I mean you just read it yesterday so it should be handy somewhere.

Woo Hooo!

Very good!

Excellent news, and good on him for following up personally. But ridiculous that something so small and trivial could cause so much drama and stress. So stupid. But all's well that ends well.

You don't have to go and dine in restaurants to survive though do you. Basic food items: raw meat, fresh vegetables, uncooked rice, plain water etc are VAT exempt. That's what you need to survive. If you go to a restaurant an experienced chef has cooked, added flavourings, created dishes - ie. added value to the basic untaxed raw ingredients - it is normal and fair to pay VAT (value added tax).

And yet they are continually in and around the top of the happiness index each year. https://data.worldhappiness.report/table?_gl=1*fsrbpz*_gcl_au*MjEyMTQ5ODA1NS4xNzUwMDY0MjAx

Yes, fake. There were pictures/videos of what people were saying were Indian tourists sleeping and camping all over the beach. "The Indian invasion" etc etc. Fake, because they were migrant workers who camped on the beach for one night while waiting for transport to work sites elsewhere in the country. One night only. Not tourists. And not Indian. Just fake news posted by people with an agenda, or - best case - people who are just ignorant and can't be bothered doing any research at all. And yes, the migrant workers did leave the beach filthy.

The Indians sleeping on the beach and using it as a toilet was a fake story. But everything else about Pattaya is nasty.

So Labour announce a national enquiry and it is a joke. In 2022 the Jay enquiry recommended a national enquiry. The Tories ignored it. It also made 19 other recommendations which the Tories also ignored, implementing precisely none of them. But yeah, it's Labour who are the joke. I think the real joke is the one who is so blind by political loyalty that he can't see what a massive hypocrite he is being.

They now have a shiny new website to go with their shiny new cars. Much better than their old site. I see their cars almost daily; lots of EVs including Merc EQS, Aion Y, Deepal L07. Having used https://www.asiacarservice.com/ whilst AOT was offline - and they were good - I'll probably revert to AOT next time I need it based on the newness and EV-ness of their cars.

Well, erm.....

I was running a VPN. Turn the VPN off and it works. To the OP, are you running a VPN?

I get the same error as the OP

It won't be missed if it is permanent. Sad shadow of it's former self.

You could say the opposite is more the US/Boeing wanting it to be pilot error rather than reality. Both equally speculative. But because of the RAT deployment (if true but the evidence looks compelling as it is at the moment) then definitely looking more like a mechanical / engineering issue.

But neither of those would explain the RAT being deployed as it seems like it was. All speculation though but that is pretty well thought out and presented in the video above. If the RAT really was deployed then it's looking more like an aircraft problem than human error.

Never had you down as a leftist, but you do seem to be very familiar with what the homosexual community is up to. It's OK in this day and age so just be yourself and enjoy whatever you enjoy.

It's an opinion, not a fact. And a very biased opinion at that,

Where do you come up with this rubbish?