Off Topic What grinds your gears

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I just got a message from America checking where all my gear is made ahead of placing an order.

He'd just bought two shirts and a pair of trousers from one of my customers (not my gear) for $250, but found out when they arrived, that the two shirts had been made in China and customs slapped him a duty/tax/clearance charge of $199, almost doubling the price.

The tariff-faced ****s them.
Thank goodness all your clobber is stitched in North Korea then. Phew!
 
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I just got a message from America checking where all my gear is made ahead of placing an order.

He'd just bought two shirts and a pair of trousers from one of my customers (not my gear) for $250, but found out when they arrived, that the two shirts had been made in China and customs slapped him a duty/tax/clearance charge of $199, almost doubling the price.

The tariff-faced ****s them.

Just place any duty/tax/clearance charge into an Epstein file and they'll immediately cease to exist.



Simples.
 
People who think you can just go and do stuff like this

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As long as they killed the Canadian goose humanely, I don't see the difference between that and eating any wild meat - it's a non-indigenous animal that's become a pest in Europe due to lack of predators. I wouldn't eat one that's lived in urban areas though - it will be full of toxic ****e. No different from anyone catching a fish and eating it.
 
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They need educating on our laws and customs. A house near me is used as a temporary asylum dwelling, they come they go. The last residents there had their washing draped all over the front fence, and several clothes horses in the front garden. Not a good look, but that said as far as I know they never bothered anyone, and if passing I always said hello. :emoticon-0138-think


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They need educating on our laws and customs. A house near me is used as a temporary asylum dwelling, they come they go. The last residents there had their washing draped all over the front fence, and several clothes horses in the front garden. Not a good look, but that said as far as I know they never bothered anyone, and if passing I always said hello. :emoticon-0138-think
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Probably following your lead TwoWrights. :)
 
Probably following your lead TwoWrights. :)
You should take the one off from around your neck. As an aside, I'm fairly sure someone once told me they'd read Stanley Gene's autobiography, and he wrote about killing a duck in East Park, taking it home and cooking it. Apparently he didn't do it again as it was as tough as Alf Tupper. :emoticon-0138-think


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As long as they killed the Canadian goose humanely, I don't see the difference between that and eating any wild meat - it's a non-indigenous animal that's become a pest in Europe due to lack of predators. I wouldn't eat one that's lived in urban areas though - it will be full of toxic ****e. No different from anyone catching a fish and eating it.
Without a license,and outside of specific dates, it's illegal in the UK to kill wild birds. :emoticon-0138-think


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Watching children being killed, maimed, orphaned and treated with international contempt.
We see Palestine every day on the news, and it is massively hypocritical to abhore the Holocaust, yet tolerate the treatment of the people of Palestine. This is not a political argument, it is a gut-wrenching expression of horror at how diplomacy and political tomfoolery can have such a disgusting and abhorrent human consequence. Are we not better than this?