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Thais warned! You can't use your phone while driving even when stopped in traffic or at the lights This headline should read: RTPF gets a pay increase

This album was recorded at several performances over several days, Thanksgiving weekend 1969. I was at one of them. The band members made several disparaging comments about their record company (RCA) that night. Anyway, I like this one track much more now than I did 50 years ago.

Let's not rush to judgement now. Any mention of what music the farang were playing? It could have been The Eagles, which would turn this into a case of justifiable homicide.

There are cheap Android tablets sold around SEA (dunno if the "chip shortage" is affecting this) in the $US90-125 range. Don't expect much. If you made the rounds of the tech malls you might be able find them and get hands-on before you buy. If the seller says you cannot try the one in the box you would be purchasing keep walking. Don't expect much in the way of an included keyboard, but if you want you might be able to buy one that connects via Bluetooth or USB. I bought a 7 inch at Panthip about 10 years ago for 4k baht. Still works, Android 4.0.3, slow as hell, but I just use it as a portable ebook reader. A few years in it wouldn't take the plug-in charge any more, but I could charged via the USB port, go figure. I am now looking for a 10 inch, again mostly for ebooks.

Ever consider going into the monkey-exporting business? ???? The shipment of monkeys was en route to a CDC-approved quarantine facility after arriving Friday morning at New York’s Kennedy Airport from Mauritius https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2022/01/22/lab-monkey-pennsylvania-crash-troopers-danville-montour-county/stories/202201220035

Hey, this one has gone international, picked up by Reuters. 'Local media said the suspect had a history of mental health issues' they said.

Supposedly it's a wig. It was reported during the sit-in at Ratchadamri that one time he appeared on the jumbotron (or whatever they call it) to address the faithful without the rug on, and wasn't aware of it at first. Bald head. When he realized it he explained it away as from "just a little chemotherapy." I never heard this statement elaborated on. Perhaps it was he that initiated the frozen pork reserves, which is why he knows so much about it.

Yes, that their votes can be had for 300b per family.

Good idea to arrange it so that when you shut down your browser it cleans up cookies, active logins, and cache. Depending on what you're working on at the moment, delete history every so often.

I don't know if things have changed as of late, but Samsung phones have been notorious for bloatware -- pre-installed apps that are impossible to remove, you'll probably find useless, and eat up a large portion of memory. You should have no problem finding tales of frustration on the net regarding this.

At the next ASEAN meeting expect them to follow in the steps of a certain former PM now in exile: if this decree is mentioned I am walking out.

So is Andrew going to become a modern-day remittance man? Cabin in the Canadian wilderness?

Two pages of comments and no mention of California? If you use your horn you can expect some form of road rage. And then there's pickup trucks: the bigger the truck, the more aggressive driving.

"I ain't building no chapel!" I had a friend, his sister was a nun, and they managed to convince him to paint the inside of their school one long, hot NYC summer. I used to tease him with that line, calling him Homer Jones. For many of us who were around in the 1960s the "Mr Tibbs" quote was his signature line; that movie came out in the midst of the Civil Rights era. He also did a movie with Michael Caine about South Africa during the apartheid era called The Wilby Conspiracy -- not a great movie but pretty interesting.

Many multinational food places already accommodate Halal and Kosher: McD's, KFC, for instance. As a consumer I'm for as many levels of inspection as possible (assuming a non-corrupt system), less chance of an overlooked detail. If I was involved with the supply end I wouldn't appreciate it at all ????

His buddy said "I bet you a thousand baht you don't have the guts to drive your car into the lake." Somchai steers toward the shore, steps on the gas and says "ha-ha, you lose!"

Yes. Digital monochrome, love it.

Hey, we overlapped! I think it's Peter Green or Sid Barret (Pink Floyd, I think it was originally his band). The story I heard, from a US promoter, was that Green fell in with some cult and they turned him into a vegetable. Said promoter (a gruff, aggressive sort) wanted to "talk" to him (meaning try to twist his arm into making a comeback), and when he tracked him down he found him sweeping the floor at the ashram -- not too different from the scene in "Still Crazy." I didn't know Mick Jones flipped. I saw a documentary recently and I got the impression it was Strummer that was going over the edge, thanks to that manager they had. There was a US guy named Roy Buchanan, another outstanding guitar player who flipped, I think he was killed by some redneck cop down in Dixie. Both he and Green wrote songs about visions and voices of the demons, The Green Manalishi is not a poetic reference.

The Captain Started watching this last night (a 2 hour movie). Tense. Still got more than an hour to go.

Once upon a time @SpaceKadet said: Boba is not one of my most favorite characters in the Star Wars universe, don't really understand why they make the series on him, but I'll watch it and see how it develops. Yeah, maybe a single movie, like they did with young Han Solo, which I thought was pretty good. I'll keep watching also, my guess is there will not be a second season of it. In the 1950s-60s cowboy TV shows were big in the US (Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood emerged from them) and The Mandalorian was a lot like one. I think it was Baby Yoda that made the show a hit. Well, there aren't that many organic, and sympathetic, characters in SW to elaborate on. They are working on a young Obi-Wan thing (with McGregor). Maybe they can salvage pieces of broken droids, like the AI from General Grievous, and create new characters. In showbiz these days the big producers are salivating over the success of the Marvel superhero movies, and they're responding with buffed guys and gals beating each other up every chance they get. A beefy bald-headed guy running around a desert planet where everyone else needs to keep all skin unexposed... Well, I guess it could be acceptable to an audience that snorts detergent pods as a dare.

Caught that on MNET back when we were getting it in Thailand, I liked it. Strangely, I've never come across this movie mentioned anywhere. Good companion for Almost Famous, which came out a few years later. Any theories about who the "Brian" character is based on? I have 2.

I've only used it in a browser, don't know much more about it.

If using Windows the only all-around capture software I know of is Internet Download Manager. It would be nice to have one that runs on native Linux. VLC has the capability, you may want to look into it.

The line that still gets me laughing is when he shows Woody the cow, and Woody points out it is obviously a bull. "He identifies as a cow" David explains. Woody finds that acceptable. In the Vindman episode LD's scene on the phone quasi-impersonating you-know-who is one for the National Archives! I know what you're saying, there are acclaimed comedians who I just don't get. A few nights ago I came across Louis CK's comeback performance. If ten minutes goes by and I haven't laughed it's time to move on. The only time I got a laugh out of him was after he got cancelled he said "what can they do to me now, revoke my birth certificate?" I have a gift when it comes to comedians: if I don't like them they usually go on to fame and fortune. Andy Kaufman, Chelsea Handler, Trevor Noah (years ago I found a CD of a performance of his at a street stall, and when I tried watching it I felt cheated of the 30b I paid for it), Michael Keaton... Usually with LD you have to understand where he's coming from, and if you don't there goes the joke. E.g. in the "No Starch, No Crease" clip above when he goes off on the Klansman saying "tradition" there is a whole level of reference involved, and that the Klansman approves of it is the icing on the cake.

Another season of Curb Your Enthusiasm just finished. The episode with the Klansman was probably the funniest one ever.