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Judd Fairs in Hauy Kwang is a great place for a date!

I used to occasionally watch RT English, it showed stuff happening in Europe that wasn't in the mainstream news, however, it was only shown in order to be a "negative" slant to the west. Interestingly, in my recent one month's travels around Thailand, RT was blocked on all hotel channels - Except the Waldorf Hotel in Bangkok. That did surprise me. Having said that, breakfast was certainly aimed at the Chinese.

I ended up chatting to a young Russian and his GF about a month ago on a beach nr Sarasin bridge. He said Johnson and Truss Crazy, Putin good and Ukraine used to be Russian anyway. I quickly realised trying to have a sensible conversation would be a waste of time with this guy. Apparently, many Russian believe what Putin is doing is right (presumable, so long as they don't have to fight)

I recently did all the Hiltons (3) in Phuket, travelling around. First night or 2 I booked with Expedia, but Hilton Honors was always cheaper and claimed to refund double the difference if cheaper elsewhere. Other hotels, sometimes it was cheaper on Expedia, other times cheaper telephoning them. Don't think there is a hard and fast rule.

Couldn't tell you where it was in Phuket town, opposite a school I believe on the way to a outside car park, there was a sign advertising a blind masseur. I'd been suffering from neck and shoulder pains, and he certainly helped on that occasion. He seemed to know his stuff, not the same as your average massage. Not too far from "The Charm" restaurant if that helps.

Easy to work out who the upper class are, are they always refer to mum as mummy.

Winter might not be too bad - Good excuse to drink (lots) of Vodka to keep warm

I'm from the UK and would be delighted to know which cards do not have (outside of Europe) fees. Care to tell?

Try Loei for beautiful women - Also has a gogo type bar, both women and men ???? At least, it used to.

But this was a gamble at the time, so in fairness, hardly planning. Please it has worked out for you - this is somewhat different to owning a property (not exactly passive income), but there will always be somethings there bringing in an income.

I thought Cash is Trash in an inflationary environment.

I arrived in a 4 star hotel in Brussels with my girlfriend. Just got into room and there was a power cut. It really was pitch black. I felt the walls to get back to the room door, reassuring the girlfriend that there would be emergency lighting in the hallway and stairs. But that was pitch black too. After 10 minutes carefully feeling the walls, found the emergency stairway, then lights all came back on. Couldn't believe this could happen in Brussels, home of the EU rules and laws

I saw an AlJazeera?? program about this. There are a number of warlords in Myanmar who control areas and this requires money for guns etc. Each warlord has his own Meth lab and traffiking routes.

I was on Soi Boakhow at an ATM. Just got my cash out, and a farang politely asked me for money, stating why he was in this unfortunate position and he needed to buy breakfast. I smiled at him and told him that I too was about to eat breakfast and he was welcome to join me. The dismay on his face was priceless.

What a top guy

Hang on - I saw an Al-Jazeera program on this, and whilst the Thais worked long hours and were exploited, some were still looking forward to returning the following year despite the difficult work. I don't think the BBC has created a balanced program in at least 25 years sadly.

I got interested in computers when I was about 13, learning BASIC, then machine code to make my games faster. Different computing era back in the early 80s. Always wanted to be a programmer since then, but I was rubbish at college, whilst I got pretty much 100% scores in the programming subjects, the maths, statistics, business studies etc bored he hell out of me so I failed the course. Eventually "fell" into a programming job at the age of 28 (working with the company in a systems support role), with absolutely no experience of the language used (SAS) which I found somewhat uninteresting and very different to what I was used to. But it was my only chance. Ended up at consultancy level, made a fair bit of money as a contractor using this software. After nearly 20 years, I couldn't wait to get out of IT. Back to your original question about learning how computers work, I really think assembly code is not the way to start. If you wanted a slightly higher level language, then maybe C would work(I used this as a language at college to control motors etc), but not sure how much that is used nowadays. I would go for SQL. Always seems popular in the business world and would be a good start.

I think it was endemic in the UK years ago. My mum and all her 7 sisters were raped by their stepfather at a youngish age. Obviously, no councilling etc back then, not even reported to police. Mum seemed fairly unaffected by it, just got on with life, she grew up poor. I do wonder if all the councilling for victims or "survivors!" these days just makes them feel worse?

Its mostly about Oil now. Loads of oil and gas off the coast. Of course Thailand won't give that up. The province used to be part of Malaysia, but was handed to Thailand after the 2nd World war.

I sincerely hope this is not your last post. I for one, enjoy reading your long and well thought out pieces and generally agree with much of what you state. I do sense that you are often trolled somewhat, and are way too polite to call them out!

Anyone for an acid bath as an alternative? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/dissolving_the_dead

I was bought up in working class household (I think!). Although my parent were buying the house in a reasonable area, my dad was a mechanic and mum a solderer in a factory. I particularly remember using newspaper for the toilet, toilet rolls were considered an unnecessary luxury. Not by any visitors to the house mind!! My mum worshipped money, but splashed out very occasionally on something expensive that she would cherish (I remember G-Plan Furniture being her brand of choice) and she constantly rememinded the household to look after it. I was pretty much the dunce at school, not particulary stupid, but not particularly bright either. Possibly ADSD. Got into computers (none at my poor standard school) and eventually made it as a high paying IT specialist. Purchased lots of property to rent out, and that's now my job. Still consider myself working class, most people I meet, I end up looking up to them intellectually, even though I have probably outdone them in "wealth". And they think I must be really clever to have bought all this property, which to be honest, almost anyone could have done, but just chose not to.

There are idiots all over the world. At least the bomb squad didn't have to be called, unlike this chap at my local hospital recently? https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/05/bomb-squad-called-after-doctors-find-wwii-shell-stuck-up-mans-bum-15710207/

The Royal Marines ("Frozen Chosen" division) often partake in a "naked bar" drinking sessions up in Scotland. Don't think many of them end up dying the next day.

I remember seeing a list of ancient Chinese lists of food which they grouped into 2 categories: Warming foods and cooling foods. A quick scan revealed that many vegetables were in the "cooling" list. I guess its all down to calories - the more calories in what you eat, will produce more body heat.