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And when they came to collect he'd say "I can't pay right now, I'm a bit short today."

What's with that top pic? Is she receiving communion? Was there a poolside mass?

The plain! The plane! oops . . . .

A million baht per month. Is that a purchase or a rental? “I’m searching for someone who ‘understands my value’ Hmmm, there is just a little much irony in this use of words, so I'm going to call bs on this.

And when families stroll down the streets sometimes their little daughter might say "mommy, that's what I want to do for work when I grow up, sit in a bar."

President Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric against Elon Musk, at one point suggesting that he could be interested in attempting to deport him. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-musk-policy-bill-feud.html Ooooo, will there be asset seizure? Just another reminder of one of the primary rules of life on Earth: you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. (Well, not publicly.) Here is the moment it all fell apart.

Real Housewives of DC! This could turn into yet another semen-stained dress scandal. American phenomenon.

Kind of reminiscent of the character of the eldest grandson in Visconti's "The Damned."

Dried out stale bread can be dipped in coffee, used for breadcrumbs, bread pudding etc.

Thai white bread turns into cardboard in a few days. Even a toaster might not help. Good bread remains bread, and edible.

Actually it's the television shows. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was definitely an outlet for satanic messages. It almost outdid The Beverly Hillbillies. Sometimes it slips out. E.g. Bill Cosby had a big hit of a family man show in the 1980s, and look at what was revealed decades later!

I agree with all this. Never had Aldi bread, but in general the US store-brand sliced breads are terrible, in my experience Safeway is the worst. One of the things I like about Bkk is there is decent French bread if you look hard enough. As for the crap they put in it, well . . .

I have knocked around southern SA a bit, but I've never been to Bolivia. Travelers' stories nearly all mention how unwelcome they felt there. I recall a Dutch gal who had tears in her eyes recounting her experiences: "why do they treat me like that, I did nothing to them!" Ecuador is another one I've given a pass on, but I did want to see the Galapagos. I researched it about 15 years ago and unfortunately that country's crime had spread to the islands, or so it was being reported. Oh well. I like this topic because it counters the typical travel articles about the best, like "which countries have the best salt shakers" etc.

Something familiar here, didn't something like this happen recently, coercion by publicly threatening to release scandalous info?

A cool, poser type would say "Why would I want to?" It's right up there with being too cool to go above 14th Street. Just about everyone I've met who says they've been to Amsterdam tells of getting sick there. It even comes up in a few songs. Getting mugged in Ecuador? Not at all surprising, unless you don't read up on where you are going or refuse to believe bad news. Never been to Riga, but I have seen some beautiful Latvian women. Someone mentioned Sao Paolo: lived in Brazil for a while, hated SP. People up the coast say that Paolistas (sp?) are not really Brazilians. Only had to deal with staying there once. There is an airport there that has a gas station right in front of the entrance. Fascinating. On the other hand I would avoid places that overdo the welcoming. Like Pattaya.

The US revolution had the Minutemen. They were given that name because when called to orders they'd say "wait a minute." The above is not true, but LOS should be given their own version of this with their 5-minute reaction time.

Moon phase

There are people who have 2-way conversations with their god. That's scary, These US Christians are awaiting some sort of apocalypse, as are certain Jewish sects: there will be a cleansing (think Noah's Ark) and afterward a blissful world. Unfortunately some of them think it is their duty to help facilitate it. The situation is explained quite well in The End of Days, Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount by Gershom Gorenberg Hey, there are a lot of books out there titled "end of days" so if you are going to check it out make sure you got the right one.

So, if DT knowingly lies about this "obliteration" while Iran still has its uranium stash, wouldn't that make him guilty of siding with the enemy? Then there is the permission to bomb the US base on the gulf. That God speech he gave is suspicious, IMO. https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-speech-transcript-text-ff4b286992309ec1337e04260247bb1e

If it were a real movie set the cops would be able see that when they first entered. Multiple levels of lies and confusion is the give-away. Did anyone ask "and were you planning a honeymoon?"

Ah, so someone else noticed!.

Might have to face off with a Norwegian with a crossbow. Betcha her hubby is a farang.

My imaginary beings are better than yours! One of them even brings us imaginary gifts on Xmas.

The guy got rich at an early age. He could have gone on from there and lived ANY DAMNED WAY he wanted to without the care of having enough $$$. Now he is caught in this political mess and has to watch his back etc. Schmuck. Nearly everyone who gets close to DT, even those who pledge fealty, suffers for it in the end. If the Harry Potter series was being written today rather than 20 years ago I would strongly suspect the Valdemort character was based on DT. Double schmuck for the Facebook kid. Check out the Neil Stephenson sci-fi novel Snow Crash from the 1990s. Anything familiar there? It even has the same name.

It's not the doctrine that's getting in the way, it's about getting in people's way and being a public nuisance. Reminds me of the Hare Krishna public displays a few decades back.