This is probably why the American Top Gear never worked.

The British hosts never review any car objectively. They don't even pretend. That's half the fucking point.

You seriously underestimate the creative input from the presenters, and the other two happily acknowledge that Clarkson makes a massive contribution.

..although it's worth watching the show just for this, yes.

See, if you'd said "not the cock" it would've stayed in canon, we'd have been fine.

You hit someone in the office, you get sacked. Gross misconduct. Gone.

You hit someone while working in a highly unionised organisation, while on a final warning, you really expect to not get sacked?

Provocation may be a defence against a legal assault charge, but not against gross misconduct. "Here's a perfectly edible meal freshly prepared and ready for you" is not fucking provocation.

I loved Top Gear, I had no issues with Jeremy Clarkson's lack of PC but don't go pretending that he didn't fuck up massively on this occasion, or that the BBC had no real choice but to reduce their income by around £50m/year and get rid of him.

And if they don't?

Suspension of business. All business. Until the line is connected.

Crikey. You made the points I was about to respond with, except you managed to be constructive and polite and not swear. Thank you.

Nah. I'd guess maybe 4 were innocent, if that.

But seriously: What the fuck does living with his parents have to do with shit?

It's an expensive world, people live with their parents.

Which is why companies provide tax engines, that take on the complex calculations and that can be updated by the company providing the engine rather than the many thousands of retailers that use it.

It's not a single central database, it's one per vendor, and the tax jurisdictions don't update them, the vendors do, but otherwise it's the solution you're suggesting.

The downside of course is that those vendors want paying for this service...

Ok, could you list the tax rates and rules across a range of goods in each country within the European Economic Area please?

Oh, and provide an update ahead of any changes, so that I can assure I stay current?

Incidentally, while you're at it, could you build the business logic and rules into my website so that it correctly calculates that tax, and reports it in a compliant fashion to each relevant jurisdiction?

Would it be too much to ask that you make this a robust repeatable process, that it's invisible to customers, that it doesn't cost me anything to operate, that it's secure against fraud or tampering, and that it doesn't rely on external services that might be unavailable?

Is it so hard to implement the different tax rates for different countries?

Yes, it fucking is.

Baking a cake does not endorse homosexuality. It does not support homosexuality. It endorses the tastiness of cakes and supports giving people sweet yummy food.

Anyway, the religion is full of shit anyway and people should be fucking ashamed of believing in that crap.

I'm fairly sure the courts would support the photographer declining to photograph that event.

That's very different to the photographer refusing to take a family portrait of someone because they happen to be white and not a Jew.

Thanks for confirming that you're a prejudiced idiot.

Most people I know that have been diagnosed with Aspergers are married, usually with kids.
Nobody I know lives in a basement.
Nobody I know has hygiene problems.

You're just a blinkered fuckwit. Now go take your bigoted views elsewhere.

So.. what's a woman? And what's a man?

Gender isn't binary, you ignorant bigoted twat.

If I'm in a foreign country and can't make myself understood in a shop or restaurant, I'm not going to get upset when the proprietor suggests through non-violent physical cues that perhaps another establishment may better suit my needs.

Why would I expect the US to have a different approach?

Your entire post is predicated on false assumptions and idiocy. Forgive us if we think you're a bigoted twat.