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Title: Something odd
Post by: klondike on December 31, 2021, 04:29:45 PM
As I mentioned in another post I use an app called Google opinion rewards which asks a question or two probably so they can better target ads at you but as my PiHole blocks them all anyway I don't care.

Anyway typlcal questions might be "are you a student" or "do you rent buy or own your home" for which you usually get about 6p. Yesterday I got a raft of 10 question ones all asking a repetitive series of questions about products or services I had never heard of which paid iirc between 47p and 60p. A lot of the things seemed to have Chinese sounding names. Are they preparing to spend a lot of money setting businesses up here? No idea. Here are some of the questions from different surveys.

(https://i.postimg.cc/MT5yFqqt/rewards.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)




Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: Michael Rolls on December 31, 2021, 08:24:01 PM
Weird
Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: Alex on December 31, 2021, 08:29:14 PM
Out of curiousity I Googled  :grin:
CHINESE firms bought nearly £6billion of cut-price British businesses in the pandemic.  They now own £130billion in assets — from power stations to pubs, to schools.  The total number of Chinese-owned companies rose to 15,000 in 2021, from 13,000 last year. 

Chinese businesses in the UK with annual revenue of at least £5million rose to 838 in 2020, up from 795 the year before.  China is everywhere.

Takeovers include a £4.2billion deal for waste resources firm ­Viridor by China Resources Group
Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: Michael Rolls on December 31, 2021, 09:04:42 PM
And I thought that mandarins were a sort of orange
Mike
Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: Alex on December 31, 2021, 09:14:11 PM
I have a good friend who has a house in Nepal, he's only allowed to live there for so long, then has to return to UK for 3 months or so, then goes back over.  Anyway, he was telling me the Chinese are taking over there.  They're neighbours I know but it seems the attitude of the Chinese towards Nepalese has changed over the last few years. If anyone's interested here's an interesting link.

https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/the-chinese-in-nepal20210528215332/
Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: Raven on December 31, 2021, 09:17:01 PM
So it will come down to a takeover between the Chinese and the Asians. I won't say let the best one win, as I really don't want any of them here, taking over this Country and doing away with our way of life. [1090]
Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: Scrumpy on December 31, 2021, 09:26:54 PM
Well I would rather eat a Chinese..
Title: Re: Something odd
Post by: klondike on December 31, 2021, 09:29:23 PM
Not usually stingers...