Stocky

Anomalies they probably wish they could get out of. The fact is there is a overweight of wrinklies and a shortage of tax paying workers, that and the pension age was set when life expectancy post retirement was about 5 years, the maths no longer work and governments are struggling to pay their pension commitments. There is a snowball's chance in hell this will ever be rectified in favour of the pensioner, if anything those anomalous countries where increases are paid are more likely to be brought inline with the majority.

Exactly, so in my book that makes him a moron, harsh but fair Though given he's seemingly reliant on a state pension only, 'Banker' might be an exaggeration, former bank employee might be more accurate.

Moron should have done his homework

Laughable, just shows how apposite the Trump light bulb joke is. Q. How many MAGAs does it take to change a light bulb? A. None, Trump says the light the bulb has been changed and the MAGA faithful, sitting in the dark, applaud.

Private Eye's Easter cover was accurate too

The cover of this week's Economist says it all

I know it's in Thailand but Songkhla is a pleasant town to do nothing much of anything

Nelly the elephant ?

Glad you enjoyed your trip to the deep south.

No.

I'm guessing this is money sent from the USA - as I said in a second post, most Wise problems seem to be with transactions from the USA.

Chinese companies are no different than western ones, there are good and bad - conmen, tricksters and shady dealers are an international issue.

That's unfortunate, but likely due to your particular circumstances; the money's country of origin and the currency pair. Transfers from the USA seem especially prone to complications/delay

Struth but you need help.

There was nothing left to ruin

Can't be serious, April 1st ??

It's also end of the month, which is also a busy time. Money I sent today from Singapore with Wise took 30 minutes.

Hard to know these days

I couple of delayed transactions and you're thinking "time to look for another company" ! Are always so quick to throw your toys out the pram?

Who said anything about a magical safety radius? My point was you posted a list of earthquakes of magnitude 9.4 down to 7.7 as if there were simply comparable, which they aren't. Then the factor of the distance from the epicentre determines, to a large extent, the chance of damage, the further away the lesser the likelihood of damage or casualties. But the underlying geology is a significant factor, in the case of Bangkok this is unconsolidated coastal marine and lagoon sediments, unconsolidated sediments serve to amplify the ground motion. Which is the reason an earthquake over 1000km away was still damaging.

No fixing stupid.

Your comparison is largely nonsensical, beyond the fact Bangkok was over 1,000km from the epicentre, the Richter scale is logarithmic, so a magnitude 9 earthquake is a 1000 times more powerful than a magnitude 7.

Community? I thought it was just a mish-mash of odds and sods, most of whom I would never wish to encounter in real life.

12 different vaccines, really. If there is indeed any truth in this then surely the issue is with the hospital administering that many shots at the same time.

They're cowed into submission for fear of having the social media StormTrumpers set on them and their family. For the most part they're spineless cowards, fearful of losing their place at the trough.