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This is a daily occurrence in Thailand. Perhaps it is that the student made a fuss about it that people took notice. Standing up to authority is what makes this a story.

My kids have come home with purposely bad hair cuts at least three times. It is not the end of the world. They force the kids to have the world's worst haircuts in the first place. It takes effort to make them worse.

8 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

What you see (and hear) depends on perspective ie how close up or far off you stand.

 

My b/f is a Khmer peasant, softened by years in BKK. His huge family here in Surin are Khmer peasants unsoftened - semi-literate or illiterate, mostly ignorant of anything outside the village. My b/f speaks Thai with a rural accent, fluent northern (Thai) Khmer, and understands Lao, as do the rest of the family. Is he 'Thai'? Are they 'Thai'?

 

In The West we have (now) mostly been trained out of overt racism, well, in the more progressive parts of The West at any rate. But when we look at someone with a dark or darker skin who lives amongst us and may be our friend, are we totally oblivious to their skin colour every time we look at them? I think not. External appearances are part of how we judge people - often we have nothing else to go on.

Just so you know, Northern Thai is not Khmer, it's Khmueng. You must mean North Eastern Thai.

3 minutes ago, WineOh said:

Funnily enough I do that daily.

But once i've had a few drinks I forget all that and let my emotions get the better of me.

 

Most of the time (95%) I don't let other people bother me.

it's just times like last night, maybe I heard the word one too many times this month already and it was the straw that broke the camels back.

My camel's back breaks from time to time. It's understandable.

Both systems are hacked from above and serve as an illusion of democracy.

Just now, Surelynot said:

True, but it 'informs' millions supporting the ludicrous narrative Trump and his supporters try to propagate.

All the mainstream sources are ludicrous.

20 minutes ago, ShindenGo said:

A waste of time? Our democracy was nearly obliterated by domestic terrorists. Never before in American history has a former president wielded his supporters into domestic terrorists to lay siege to beacon of humanity and democracy. 
 

WE. WERE. ATTACKED. Plain and simple. We now have Osama Bin Laden-esque president that needs to be charged and arrested for plotting to overthrow the US government. 
 

 

Your democracy was already obliterated by the biased press and big tech. 

19 minutes ago, ShindenGo said:

This is what an insurrection looks like. 
This is what a coup looks like. 
This is what domestic terrorism looks like. 
 

Don’t let Trump and his band of domestic terrorist cohorts say otherwise. Our democracy was nearly destroyed and replaced with a dictatorship a month ago. In the words of a famous philosopher: A democracy...if you can keep it. 
 

You can call anything an insurrection; they happen all the time depending on your definition.

Name a coup that has any resemblance to recent events in America.

For domestic terrorism I would have a good look at Portland

I put a new battery in, it worked for a while and then it was back to kick starting it. Like before the change. I don't want to take it to the city because that is an hour drive. I just want to know what to fix so I can go get the part. How do these little bikes generate a charge? is it a magneto, alternator, generator? I should know, but I never had a bike that wouldn't charge the battery if the battery was good. 

I took it a local, he doesn't understand, he said he would charge the battery. I told him that was pointless because I can kickstart it and drive it to charge the battery if I wanted, but the battery won't charge as I already said. He knows better than me, of course, so he is charging it for me, lol.

10 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well I always take your posts with a large pinch of salt.

It's mutual.

On 12/10/2020 at 5:01 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

Thankfully her character had died when they made the sequel to Mama Mia, so I was spared cringing throughout.

They still managed to put her in at the end, in a scene that was rather creepy, IMO.

 

 

There was a sequel...? That is the most shocking thing I have heard in a while

I don't think the writer understands what the word underrated means. I am sure that there many actors out there that are way more underrated. We don't know who they are because they are underrated, and Hollywood just uses the same stable year after year.

Streep can hardly be called underrated, as she has received numerous rewards and tons of acclaim. She is a solid actor but her movies generally suck, and she had a part in Mama Mia, which really says a lot about her taste.

13 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

 

I've not come across any evidence that energy can be created from nothing, whether by God or any other process. Perhaps you can enlighten me. ????

I am curious to see what the limitations of God were determined to be, from your evidence.

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

He had political motives for lying in the past. Information was hidden from the public and or falsified and distorted. Why would he lie now? What does he know that scientists don't? Or is he part of a conspiracy of said scientists? Or are you claiming that he is a compulsive liar and lies for no rational motive? 

Why would he lie now? That post made my day. ROFL

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

You are making the assumption that top level politicians are dangerous and dishonest 24/7. Which is probably true of Trump, not so the others.

If I recall correctly, Bush, Obama and Clinton all released their tax returns, so your logic is looking somewhat tatty.

Oh, so now Bush is a man of honor in the eyes of the Liberals. How easily your reality shifts for convenience.