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[JonnyBoy]

14 hours ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

On this topic we need to all boycott the US. Don’t buy from any company that is owned by them. 
If you’re due a phone renewal avoid apple, 

avoid American food , beverage, and alcohol brands, even clothes (Nike etc). 
These twats don’t deserve a penny of our money where we can help it. 

 

I drive a Tesla and i am embarrassed, will be switching to Polestar next year i think 

[Trav Le Bleu]

14 hours ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

On this topic we need to all boycott the US. Don’t buy from any company that is owned by them. 
If you’re due a phone renewal avoid apple, 

avoid American food , beverage, and alcohol brands, even clothes (Nike etc). 
These twats don’t deserve a penny of our money where we can help it. 

Their cars are crap.

Their android phones are crap.

Their beers are crap 

Their food is crap.

 

No problem!

 

[nnfox]

1 hour ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

Keep current one until it’s dead then switch to nothing phone + adidas. 

And keep using Google and Meta.  There's really no alternative.

[Alf Bentley]

33 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Think the French are still just about aware enough to stick by "Votez pour l'escroc, pas pour le facho".

 

All gets a bit confusing when the facho pretends not to be a facho and gets banned for being an escroc.... 

 

Mind you, fulfilling both criteria seems to constitute a popular combination these days.

[Jattdogg]

3 hours ago, JonnyBoy said:

 

I drive a Tesla and i am embarrassed, will be switching to Pornstar next year i think 

[leicsmac]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

 

A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister.

“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde.

 

How on Earth did it come to this? The nation with the biggest scientific resources in the world becoming hostile to scientists and the scientific method itself.

[Dunge]

14 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

 

A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister.

“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde.

 

How on Earth did it come to this? The nation with the biggest scientific resources in the world becoming hostile to scientists and the scientific method itself.

I mean…

At least it doesn’t say incarcerated?

[leicsmac]

14 minutes ago, Dunge said:

I mean…

At least it doesn’t say incarcerated?

I guess that's true.

 

However, I wonder:

 

- what would have happened if this scientist was from, say Honduras rather than France

- where we'll be in, say, a year if a similar incident occurs

[Jattdogg]

4 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I guess that's true.

 

However, I wonder:

 

- what would have happened if this scientist was from, say Honduras rather than France

- where we'll be in, say, a year if a similar incident occurs

I think you brits should be more concerned about being deported from USA to Australia.  The bloody spiders are massive out there.  You all sound the same anyways. Lol.

[Sly]

So erm if we want to boycott, we’ve got to cut off.

 

Netflix

Amazon

YouTube

Facebook

Whatspp

Instagram

Mcdonalds

Starbucks

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Intel

nVidia

Cisco

Oracle

PepsiCo

Johnson and Johnson

Coca Cola

Jack Daniels

Heinz

Tesla

Harley Davidsons

Kelloggs

Mars

Levis

Nike

Adidas

Disney

Disney+
Marvel

Xbox 

Paypal

VISA

American Express

American Airlines

Master Card

 

 

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, Sly said:

So erm if we want to boycott, we’ve got to cut off.

 

Netflix

Amazon

YouTube

Facebook

Whatspp

Instagram

Mcdonalds

Starbucks

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Intel

nVidia

Cisco

Oracle

PepsiCo

Johnson and Johnson

Coca Cola

Jack Daniels

Heinz

Tesla

Harley Davidsons

Kelloggs

Mars

Levis

Nike

Adidas

Disney

Disney+
Marvel

Xbox 

Paypal

VISA

American Express

American Airlines

Master Card

 

 

...or you can go for whatever you can and try not to make the perfect the enemy of the good.

[jgtuk]

9 minutes ago, Sly said:

So erm if we want to boycott, we’ve got to cut off.

 

Netflix

Amazon

YouTube

Facebook

Whatspp

Instagram

Mcdonalds

Starbucks

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Intel

nVidia

Cisco

Oracle

PepsiCo

Johnson and Johnson

Coca Cola

Jack Daniels

Heinz

Tesla

Harley Davidsons

Kelloggs

Mars

Levis

Nike

Adidas

Disney

Disney+
Marvel

Xbox 

Paypal

VISA

American Express

American Airlines

Master Card

 

 

Easy for the me personally, out of that list I only use Amazon, PayPal and WhatsApp on anything like a regular basis. 
I suspect that list is the tip of the iceberg though. 

[davieG]

35 minutes ago, Sly said:

So erm if we want to boycott, we’ve got to cut off.

 

Netflix

Amazon

YouTube

Facebook

Whatspp

Instagram

Mcdonalds

Starbucks

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Intel

nVidia

Cisco

Oracle

PepsiCo

Johnson and Johnson

Coca Cola

Jack Daniels

Heinz

Tesla

Harley Davidsons

Kelloggs

Mars

Levis

Nike

Adidas

Disney

Disney+
Marvel

Xbox 

Paypal

VISA

American Express

American Airlines

Master Card

 

 

What about Walkers Crisp a part of PepsiCo

[Zear0]

42 minutes ago, Sly said:

So erm if we want to boycott, we’ve got to cut off.

 

Netflix

Amazon

YouTube

Facebook

Whatspp

Instagram

Mcdonalds

Starbucks

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Intel

nVidia

Cisco

Oracle

PepsiCo

Johnson and Johnson

Coca Cola

Jack Daniels

Heinz

Tesla

Harley Davidsons

Kelloggs

Mars

Levis

Nike

Adidas

Disney

Disney+
Marvel

Xbox 

Paypal

VISA

American Express

American Airlines

Master Card

 

 

...hub

[Sampson]

17 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

...hub

Think that’s Canadian

[when_you're_smiling]

20 hours ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

On this topic we need to all boycott the US. Don’t buy from any company that is owned by them. 
If you’re due a phone renewal avoid apple, 

avoid American food , beverage, and alcohol brands, even clothes (Nike etc). 
These twats don’t deserve a penny of our money where we can help it. 

What if you’d already booked a holiday to America…..

 

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

 

A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister.

“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde.

 

How on Earth did it come to this? The nation with the biggest scientific resources in the world becoming hostile to scientists and the scientific method itself.

 

[boots60]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

So erm if we want to boycott, we’ve got to cut off.

 

Netflix

Amazon

YouTube

Facebook

Whatspp

Instagram

Mcdonalds

Starbucks

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Intel

nVidia

Cisco

Oracle

PepsiCo

Johnson and Johnson

Coca Cola

Jack Daniels

Heinz

Tesla

Harley Davidsons

Kelloggs

Mars

Levis

Nike

Adidas

Disney

Disney+
Marvel

Xbox 

Paypal

VISA

American Express

American Airlines

Master Card

 

 

I've boycotted Budweiser for decades

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

...or you can go for whatever you can and try not to make the perfect the enemy of the good.

This. 

 

Also, Tesla.

[urban.spaceman]

[LCFCCHRIS]

2 hours ago, when_you're_smiling said:

What if you’d already booked a holiday to America…..

 

 

Tough one if already booked. If it’s not possible to change to Canada or get a refund, maybe just go and don’t spend much 😬

[Md9]

Predicted his own future fair play 

[Md9]

Reckon if you put trump in some sort of secret room and just let him talk to pretend reporters and let him outside to play golf once a week he wouldn’t have a clue what was going on and none of us would have to

listen to his shite 

[ClaphamFox]

Slightly odd story. Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre says she has been in a serious car crash and has just days to live:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo.amp

 

But the BBC story also says this:

 

“It remains unclear where and when the crash occurred.

 

“Both the Western Australia police and ambulance services told the BBC they had no records of such an accident happening in recent weeks.

 

“The police later specified that they had located records of a "minor crash" between a bus and a car on 24 March, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.”

Edited 1 April by ClaphamFox

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

Slightly odd story. Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre says she has been in a serious car crash and has just days to live:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo.amp

 

But the BBC story also says this:

 

“It remains unclear where and when the crash occurred.

 

“Both the Western Australia police and ambulance services told the BBC they had no records of such an accident happening in recent weeks.

 

“The police later specified that they had located records of a "minor crash" between a bus and a car on 24 March, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.”

Nothing to see here

 

school bus driver apparently named as Henri Paul Jnr ………..

 

JK

[Danizen]

2 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

“It remains unclear where and when the crash occurred."

My money's on next Thursday.