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Report Phi Phi Outrage: Tour Boss Fined for Ocean Booze & Smoke Stunt
Drinks like Hegseth too. -
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What psychosocial factors lead to bickering, etc. in online forums among older men?
You are putting on overly negative spin on things. For one thing, they can be labeled debates, not necessarily bickering, which has a more derogatory slant on it. And the debates are about rather complex issues. It's not like people are bickering constantly over nonsense, apart from ocassionally. When it comes to politics, it's complex. So it's normal that arguments will occur. -
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America has emerged....as an international laughingstock
Master negotiator? What more leverage has Trump achieved by applying wholesale tariffs rather than by simply contacting his counterparts in the more traditional fashion? The current tariffs applied by the US on China (and vica versa) will cause a massive decline in trade between the two nations but whether China cannot afford it is debatable. The US accounts for 15% of China's exports which is a significant number. However, the negative effects on China of losing the US market will be mitigated by the fact that the rest of the world will also be seeking new suppliers as a result of the tariff war. Moreover, don't forget that the obvious fact that a tariff war works both ways, and that US exporters to China will be greatly affected by Chinese tariffs on US goods (as will the wider US economy as the attached links indicate). https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kxe1m1y26o.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/28/trade-war-tariffs-full-blown-crisis-us-farm-exporters-say.html Indeed. And if the recent pronouncements from various countries are anything to go by that will mean a move away from the US market with countries seeking closer ties with more reliable partners. For example, Rachel Reeves has recently stated that the EU market is (arguably) more important to the UK than the US. Her's is not a lone voice. No doubt there are US produced goods which cannot easily be substituted but equally the reverse applies i.e. that US companies are dependent on goods produced overseas. Michel Barnier's comment that, 'There are no winners with Brexit' can be paraphrased and reused here: 'There are no winners in a trade war', which is why Trump's policy is in no one's interest. -
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Transport Driving Licence Renewals Go Digital: No More Tests Needed
Are you OK? You just keep popping up with these weird rants in response to nothing. I think you have some issues, seek help. -
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Thai Tax on UK pensions
The absence of specific articles in the UK/Thailand DTA covering the State Pension and company pensions has really only become a problematical issue in practice as a result of the TRD's decision to make all assessable income earned and remitted to Thailand since 1/1/24 liable to local taxation. I doubt whether there were that many expat pensioners needing to file tax returns with them before that date.
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