sharksy

Maybe you haven't been to Asia. It's the equivilent of Hilton etc. I presume you've heard of Hilton....?

Now we are onto premium fuel too? Yup, can feel Premium Unleaded on my Aprilia Tuono 1100cc 190BHP motorbike AND in my Mercedes AMG

Depends on quality of equipment

My father is half deaf. He came with me to pick up my system I had demo's about 100 miles away. When I got to the HiFi shop, the system was setup in the downstairs main hall. It sounded terrible. Even my dad said so. I had to query why am I spending nearly £20,000 on this with the shop, as the system I demo's before was night and day different. Turned out, they were using the DAC inside a £10,000 CD player (which was not part of my system), and had replaced this with a Linn Magic, entry level streamer. The DAC in this streamer was causing these problems. I told them, I'm not spending all that money on that sound. After a bit of headscratching, they came up with a Linn Klimax streamer, top of the range at around £16,000, but an older iteration in a plane box, know as a "renew". Absolute bargain at £2,500. The system lit up instantly, my dad could sort of understand why I was buying it now. And I have to speak to him 3 times usually for him to understand me. It's not all about the highs and lows. It's about dynamic impact, slam. Don't need great hearing for this. Unless you've heard a really good system, hard to describe. But source material is the most important.

I see it should now be referred as Mpox to remove the stigmatization

Google: Among U.S. monkeypox cases with available data, 99% occurred in men, 94% of whom reported recent male-to-male sexual or close intimate contact; racial and ethnic minority groups appear to be disproportionately affected. Truth hurts?

I have a hi end HiFi system, probably spent over £50,000 on it. Not sure I am an audiophile as such, maybe it's a long time hobby, but at this level, improvements get expensive. Anyway, Tidal or Qobuz is good, I switched to Qobuz from Tidal as it had more HiRes files, although a smaller catalog. Didn't know Qobuz is available in Thailand, didn't work for me a year ago on my subscription from the UK. I would suggest trialling something like an all-in-one system, like Kef LS60, Devialet Phantom(gold is good), possibly even a Devialet soundbar - my mate is using this for all TV and music - its very good, but not audiophile. I have a Phantom Gold in my garage, it rocks! Other things you can do to improve the sound, again trial it first, is an audiophile hub. This made a huge difference to my system, but, the better the system, the more noticable these upgrades are. There are other upgrades beyond this, but that's out of scope here

Damn, more monkeypox

A 17 yr old in a Mercedes AMG with a couple of mates in it. Wonder what could go wrong?

Does no one care that I feel offended when I walk across this rainbow crossing? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5908wd00wo What is the purpose of this other than wasting money. At least with pride events, usually one makes a conscious decision to go there.

Although I'm in England, not France, I was brought up to respect the police. Yes, I was a bit of a naughty boy as a kid, but I also realised that by running from the police, I have upped the anty, and the outcome would only be worse for me if I didn't get away cleanly. I rolled the dice.

Was there any indication that the police officer actually intended to kill the driver?

Before he runs over other innocent people? Yes - That's the chance you take if you don't stop for police

I got a free ticket to go with friends to Edgbaston to watch one of the matches. I'm not a cricket fan, but people told me it would be exciting. It was truely one of the most boring days out I have ever had. I just don't understand how people can get excited about this stuff.

Mostly political instability cause for baht drop, markets hate instability

I was sweating this as I overlanded from Vietnam via the Ha Tien border, didn't have any $US. Needn't have worried, they just converted the $US into Vietnam Dong which I had plent of, any paid in that. It was easy apart from all the queues / stamping rigmarole, both in and out of Cambodia as was only there for a few days.

Most likely running in Sihanoukville, people are not allowed to leave these huge building and are forced to scam. One TukTuk driver pointed to one building and said, Vietnamese all in that building.

Just another typical day then

With respect, I've never fancied another man, I am not bisexual to any degree, but I do recognise there is a scale - I'm just at the far (straight) extreme of it.

To be honest, everyone gets bullied or singled out just for being out of the "ordinary". Pretty girls at school get bullied for being pretty, I got bullied for being small and very thin. I recently got bullied by a huge 6ft6 gay guy, just because he didn't agree with a point I made in conversation regarding politics. Sure he wouldn't have if I was a similar size. We have all got to be accepted that most of us are outside of the "normal" range somewhere in life, and accept that we will be bullied or laughed at.

Go to a Gay venue then. That would be my idea of hell

If only the politicians can identify males with a prostate and females as without. The prostate is too dangerous to remove, so all trans ladies can be identified as men from this fact alone

Do it Singapore style

Reminds me of a Thai girl I knew who was a solicitor in UK. Came from a Hi-So family in Bangkok. She was interested in world event and kept up with the news. She got quite angry at Thais in general with their lack of desire to know anything outside of Thailand and embarressed by this too.

Reminds me of the Thail girlfriend in England whom I bought a car for. She was working in a restaurant, living away when I visited her. Car brakes were metal against metal and barely stopped, yet she was determined to go down the motorway to work each day as car still "worked". I had to take the keys and carefully drive it 50 meters to a brake place, I was very embarressed presenting the car in that state.