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I always wear the seatbelt. I recall getting funny looks from the fellow travellers in Emirates business class when I visited the bar and strapped myself in to the couch. Moments later we hit a sudden bit of turbulence and they were all lurching around the bar spilling their drinks and looking for somewhere to grab on to. My smug "look" makes people want to kill me.

I've done it twice. First time the driver was nodding off every 30 seconds. Second time I was convinced the driver was legally blind and driving so slowly that trucks were over taking him. Both drivers had a kip in the back seat.

Thailand can't boast of having a Katoey 4-star Admiral, but if it did, I suspect they would look a little more convincing.

I'm Old Skool - I look out the window.

I doubt that Obama will win a fourth term.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." Orwell, 1984.

I think they add "in style of P.G Wodehouse" to the script.

Covidians and climate anarchists don't understand cognitive dissonance. When presented with mountains of empirical evidence that disproves their ideology, they ignore it and call you a conspiracy theorist. And that's how S*** happens.

The best part of covid was the sign-in register at the malls. I routinely signed in as George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair, Winstin Smith, Ray Bradbury, or Aldous Huxley. I always took the time to look at the list of those preceding me into the mall. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Winston Churchill, and Adolf Hitler were frequent attendees. Once I even saw a Donald Trump on the list. Edit: Just remembered - my phone number was 451 1984 1984

I suddenly feel suicidal.

I was gonna ask how small the gate maker had to be, but after reading the thread I decided to recommend these guys to you. I used them to repair a gate years ago, they were good to deal with. albardoorsthailand.com

The internet is forever, or at least until we all get nuked (some time before Christmas). Every picture and every word posted on the WWW has the potential to come back and haunt you. "Hearsay" has been virtually eliminated, and denial in the absence of pictorial and textual evidence is pointless. No wonder Gen Z is so angst.

I don't think preventing pornography being presented to 8 year olds can be considered a "book ban".

The Soviet era Marxists have done a great job in getting a good proportion of nearly three generations of Americans to hate their country. Yuri Besmenov outlined the plan succinctly in (ironically) 1984. But nobody listened.

Is there a bigger gap at the bottom of that edge cap? It may have ridden upwards over time. If so, give it a nudge downwards. Otherwise, grinding off a few millimeters is the obvious solution.

"If I was 20 years old and just beginning my adult working life, I would forget pensions exist and plan my own future by saving." I did just that. Saw the writing on the wall in 1980's interest rate debacle. Backed myself in a host of ventures and came out on top. I'll never receive a pension, but I won't miss it as a government pension wouldn't even cover my monthly booze bill. Thankfully my sons are following me. They had no choice - I was able to largely undo the damage done to them via state education indoctrination.

I recall visiting a Moo Bahn under construction. The wife had a friend that worked in the office. I had the pleasure of meeting two senior army officers who were managing the show, and viewed multiple vehicles and construction equipment that were painted green. Most of the numpties working on the site were wearing camo pants as de rigueur. Didn't see any tanks, but I suppose all the green trucks with the bench seats under canvas ferried the draftees from barracks to work. Got offered a good cash discount, but I got the impression the nice army officer was actually trying to do a side deal on his business partners. TIT

At least, now when they turn off the headlights, they really will be saving juice.

I'll just put the kettle on.

To many of us, the multitude of trials and tribulations such as rabid soi dogs, equally rabid Thai women, ineptly planned and poorly executed road repairs, dogmatic multi-level bureaucracy and ad infinitum are what makes Jomtien and Pattaya what they are? A place where those who abandoned Dorothy's Kansas are happy to roll like the proverbial porcus in theirs, and everybody else's excrement, while smiling. The more mayhem and disorganisation I see about me, the happier I am.

6. Thai women don't understand timeliness. This can be solved in the Pavlovian manner by leaving them stranded with no phone, no money, and no luggage for 18 hours in a place where they don't know anybody, because they didn't arrive at the car at the arranged time (plus 45 minutes). Suddenly timeliness becomes important, and now she's always early. Go figure.

It's 90 days from your last report, or your latest arrival in Thailand, whichever occurred last.

All "news" is propaganda. Always has been since the beginning of time, regardless of the ideology of those espousing the "news". I often go down deep rabbit holes in a quest for the "truth". It never fails to surprise me how evil those in charge of the world (and that means every elected politician, every unelected bureaucrat, and media and corporate bosses) really are, and always have been. Because if there were a few honest ones with humanity's interests really at heart, we wouldn't be living in the current dystopia, with worse to come. Maybe that's why I've become a lapsed atheist.

Confiscation (theft) of Russian USD assets, about to be passed by the US Senate, will be the final straw for the greenback. Many BRICS countries (being a bit less than 50% of world population and GDP) are already gun shy of the dollar after US weaponized it two years ago by sanctioning the Russkies. Probably the biggest foreign policy blunder ever made by the US, and given their track record, that's saying something! This has only accelerated the development of BRICS and member states have been bailing from the dollar into gold ever since. The USD's days as the reserve currency are numbered. One day very soon there will be a T-Bill auction and buyers either won't front up, or bang on a huge tail premium that will drastically increase the debt servicing of 34T+ debt. Printing USD and exporting inflation (as well as producing munitions that get destroyed and then building more munitions to boost the economy) since Bretton Woods is fine when there is foreign demand for the currency. Different story when supply outstrips demand because 50% of the world's economies gave the middle finger to the greenback. We may see the US become the new Venezuela, or worse, the new Un-united Kingdom.

Pickpocketing requires a pocket to be picked, and skill and finesse are required. Slashing a backpack with a box cutter does not. The Pickpocketers Guild should be rightly offended.