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Bada-Bing! said:
Loads of mainland Chinese tourists in Japan. Close to them and they have a lot of money to spend. Alot of them still lack manners IMO, especially when it comes to queuing.
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It must be very difficult for the Japanese, one of the politest societies in the world being visited by one of the rudest.
 
Ragey Erasmus said:
A system issue and a cultural issue. Trump massively lucked out, he actually got to appoint 3 justices. 1/3 of the supreme court has been nominated by him. That was on top of it already being a right leaning court before he did that, and Republicans in Congress being completely unwilling to hold him to account. Funny enough, the most corrupt and worst culprits were nominated by Bush Snr and Bush Jnr. Republicans have been exceptionally lucky to have had the chance to nominate justices in their presidencies, whilst the one liberal judge that could have been replaced with another decided to cling on until she died, allowing Trump to fill her seat rather than Obama.

He can pick fight with justices and judges all he wants, they are never going to do anything about it.
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I missed the bit about RBG. She couldn't afford to retire at that point. Obama was already being blocked on the appointment of Garland by the GOP. If the nomination and appointment had been successful then the court would have been majority left until RBG retired or died. If it had been successful then RBG could have retired and another judge appointed.

Scalia died in Feb 2016, Obama nominated Garland in mar 2016. The republicans through McConnell blocked the appointment for 10 months arguing it was too near the next election (strumpet)

There's a good timeline on wiki here:

en.m.wikipedia.org

Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination - Wikipedia

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That of course led to Gorsuch being installed by trump as his first of three.

As usual all the reasons for delaying the appointment of Garland went out the window when RBG died and the republicans rushed through Barrett in 5 weeks, she was nominated even before RBG was buried, claiming there was nothing improper in doing so.
 
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Bada-Bing! said:
Loads of mainland Chinese tourists in Japan. Close to them and they have a lot of money to spend. Alot of them still lack manners IMO, especially when it comes to queuing.
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AlRums said:
The odd thing is though, that they are very patient queuing in some situations ie: banks, as I observed
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Think of it like the Germans and the beach towels in Spain On the sunbathing lounges on holiday. It’s a numbers/territorial thing. Now their middle class has exploded and branching out to visit new places.

Yes, Japan is very polite society in general - they don’t like loud peeps on the subways/eating on trains. I remember even getting told off for not standing behind the line for one train.

In HK, since they took over all the high end shops, cater to the rich Mainland Chinese first and foremost. They will serve them first before any other tourists/locals. I remember getting off on the bus to the hotel and a number of mainland Chinese with huge suitcases buying up local produce to then take back and sell when they return home. Ironic given a lot of the stuff would probably have been made on the mainland.
 
Ddanno said:
Ehh it's irrelevant until the Israeli government can be trusted in any way, shape or form. And I'm not one for being lenient on the USA
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So the agreement is so close...
Hamas just requires tiny little changes, like Isreals total withdrawal from Gaza, releasing border restrictions so Hamas can import export whatever they want, and the extension of 60 days to forever.

Seems reasonable, should be a done deal
 

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