Baht Simpson

There are people here who seem to think that judges should be concerned with the feelings of people and opine appropriately. That is not the job of the judiciary. Their job is to judge whether the law has been broken or not and if it has provide relevant censures. The concerns of the people are in the domain of the MP's who represent them. If you think that judges should rule by emotions rather than the law you are a dangerous person indeed. No amount of putting justice in inverted commas will change this.

Yeah, I saw Yagoda's post and I burst out laughing. I must read it someday. 😀

Yes, let's not forget that Davie is a conservative who once stood for election as a Tory MP. He was appointed to the BBC as it was seen to be too left leaning in editorial content.

With respect, you haven't really got peace of mind if you're posting on an expat forum worrying about other people. And your peace of mind is contingent on external factors as well as internal and may only be temporary. As Joni Mitchell said so eloquently ""Sometimes change comes at you like a broadside accident, there is chaos to the order, random things you can't prevent." As you get older it's the beginning of survival.

I wonder why you've decided to mention the LGBT+ community in this. In any case you do realise that NYC is not in Iran don't you? Sadiq Khan, a muslim has been mayor of London for nine years now and is very supportive of the gay community. "Sadiq Khan is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights who has consistently participated in London's Pride events since 2016 and champions the city as a beacon for inclusion and freedom. He has publicly supported same-sex marriage and works to ensure London is a safe and welcoming city for all members of the LGBTQ+ community. He is known for his public statements and presence at events, emphasizing London's openness and his commitment to protecting LGBTQ+ rights. " Source: AI summary Mamdami seems to be similar. We shall see.

It certainly sounds like your wrist is getting a good workout. 🙂

And your God. I'm fact it's even worse because although we don't know how matter came into being we know it exists. With your God we don't know how it came into being and we don't know whether it exists or not. It's just exists as a thought with no tangible evidence. If God is just nature, the Pantheistic view then we know what created matter but not how. With God we know neither.

Then surely believing a creator just happened to exist is also foolish. A better hypothesis is that matter has always existed and the universe is infinite, both internally and externally. Maybe creation doesn't exist. Everything we see in the known world comes from something else. It just transforms, it's not created anew. Man just seems to want to have something higher than himself for whatever reason, but the only thing that we can prove fits that bill is nature. And certainly not an assumed creator god.

So that's your answer, rob peoples pensions. If you're looking for blame you might start with governments that promote self-ownership to the detriment of affordable social housing. Developers and agents who push up house prices so they can sell luxury properties at a premium. Landlords with massive portfolios who inflate the price of properties for selfish gain. Buy to let jockeys who soak up much needed housing. Investors in housing stocks who demand ever increasing dividends. Foreign speculators and now large conglomerates investing in huge property folios for tax advantages. But no, the fault is a boomer who has paid off a mortgage over 25-30 years and contributed to a pension similarly. If you don't address the real causes and just blame a whole generation nothing will ever improve. Even if you robbed pensioners it's only a temporary fix anyway. We'll all be gone soon leaving all our bloodied (sic) assets to your generation.

Lol. I've not heard the avocado toast thing. I think you'd find that less than 0.001% of boomers think that. Obviously something you've seen online. Every generation votes for economic policies that favour the country at that time. Today's generation will vote for policies that favour themselves too. To think otherwise is naive in the extreme. I had this conversation with a lad on Reddit. He seemed to think that boomers were deliberately trying to sabotage future generations. This just wasn't the case. People were just trying to get on the housing ladder, like people are today. It was expected that house prices would increase to give investment value and that there would be commensurate increases in salaries. Prices increased but salaries stalled for whatever reasons. With AI/automation looming there will be fewer jobs which will compound the situation. It's not looking bright. Blaming the boomers will get you nowhere. It's too easy and just lazy.

This ridiculous Boomer thing; attacking a whole generation of people for economic decisions that were made by people born in generations before them i.e. Thatcher, Howe etc. Things are undoubtedly worse for the current generation but that's because of stagnant wage rises that haven't kept up with the housing price increases and the lack of new affordable properties. But it's much easier to blame pensioners who had no choice but live in the economic circumstances of the time, which everyone has to. This is serious stuff and important decisions have to be made, but just throwing your arms up and blaming one generation gets us nowhere. By the way, there's this misnomer that final-salary pensions were free money given away by companies. I worked for an international bank and I can assure you that banks do not give away any money for free. The pensions were part of your annual remuneration and were offset against your salary. In any case these were mostly abandoned in the eighties in favour of cheaper matched pensions.

If prayer worked I wouldn't be losing my hair.

Exactly. So it's not about religious belief but about one person's interpretation of the bible which should never trump the law.

So they've been here a month? Good luck to them but they really need to be here a year or so to experience the joys and the frustrations of Thailand before they pass judgement.

Lol. She didn't even last long enough to become the worst PM.

What a girl he is. Im sure they'll try to hide their disappointment.

And solvent retirees. Not all of us are eating out of garbage cans.

Groke is the new woke. 😀

Financial Times is refreshingly fair most of the time.

Wikipedia lists references of sources so users can see where the information comes for themselves and judge the veracity of the data. Musk's own page has 523 such references. Pages can be verified, contested and altered if better or more up to date info appears. It can never be 100% accurate, no source can, but it's relatively independent and largely dependable. I doubt Grokipedia will be.

MI6 must have a dossier on him.

There's only one King of America.

I'd say some of the innocent charm has disappeared but it's still good. Much busier in the village now but that's to be expected with the increased population.

One of those Royal watchers on TikTok says that he's not relinquished the titles but has just agreed to stop using them.

Back home to mum? 😀