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Is that Mel? Looks a little thin, Ozempic? Regardless, she'll make a great looking widow.

I'm pretty sure my Anus laptop is the real thing.

This used to be called sabre rattling.

I stumbled across some stuff from The Beatles' Abbey Road sessions that are alternate versions that didn't make in onto the album back when. These 2 have been getting played pretty often the past few weeks: - I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix) - Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

The people in the US who have been drawn to the MAGA thing are essentially ex-Tea Party (those who are old enough to have been part of it), and are opposed to globalism, are supportive of the military (and the veterans), "America First," and so on. DT with all his boasting about how well he gets along with the likes of these authoritarian thugs will eventually blow up and blast the paint off his face, and his base will be hiding their own faces with embarrassment of having been taken in to such a degree. He is torn between his own vanity ("please everybody, love me!") and his love for those who are most eager to destroy the country he is president of. Oh, and then there is taxes, the hatred of which is what defined the GOP/Tea Party (well, it was really an anti-Obama initiative created by some rich guys). Where is Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge now? If his approval sinks below 30% there may be no coming back for him.

Saw something on Al Jazeera a few years ago about rural lads in the south of Thailand smoking weed mixed with the powder from fluorescent tubes, definitely an unhealthy thing. 80%? I wonder how the supply and distribution of all that contraband is dealt with.

You'll get hawkers all over SEA, but in VN they will follow you around. When walking you may at some point turn around and find you are leading a parade. The only other places where I had that happen to me were India and Pakistan. I visited the country around 20 years ago, came away with more negatives than positives. I saw an ugly incident in a provincial city between police and an old woman running a street eatery, and that was the last straw, was off to HCMC the next day to book my flight out. Maybe Thailand shouldn't have cut back on the all-the-prawns-you-can-eat buffets. Or did the ocean call and tell LOS that it was running out of shrimp?

When I signed up in the 1990s they took American Express card, which they gave me. If cash was an option I wasn't aware of it.

Sounds like just another night in Chicago. Another fine American export. hip-hop culture. Hong Kong action movies too.

Andor. Season 2 premiered this week, 3 episodes dropped. Overall it's pretty creative and keeps the interest, but the stuff with the upper classes bores me to sleep: I ff'd through the wedding stuff. The thing with the fascist "couple" (see last episode of season 1) doesn't do much for me either but I think that will take an unpredictable turn before the season is over. The little bit of humor they inject is usually welcomed without being corny, IMO.

There are shops in the US where, at the end of the transaction, the cashier asks if you want a receipt. If you say 'yes' the thing pops out of the register at the push of a button.

It's not about law or government, it's about headlines and good television. NY Post is the print edition of the stuff Fox broadcasts. The thing with the Sikh has got to be part of a quid pro quo with Modi. DT made a public statement about violence in Kashmir a few days ago, not like him at all, sounds like he has taken to buttering Modi's buns. We'll probably never know the payoff. The Indians still begrudge the Sikhs for killing Indira Gandhi. I wonder if this stuff about them taking refuge in Pakistan is legit. And of course those numbers are ridiculous.

The US White House, under the MAGA administration, is there to serve the Kremlin. No amount of name calling, ad hominem attacks, empty promises, and frothing-at-the-mouth MAGA loyalists is going to change that. How is this making the US great again? https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/politics/us-cyber-operations-russia-suspend/index.html We've known for years EM was funneling US intel to The Kremlin and was siding against Ukraine. Now with the help of his nerd platoon the US government is guaranteed to be compromised. I never thought the US would have a treasonous president. The 20th Century was called The American Century. -- welcome to the 21st. A few weeks ago EM used the word treason when criticizing his critics. Interesting choice of word there, boyo.

A few years ago they were horse meat. There is a warehouse store in US called Costco. They are cashless, and have been for decades, and they also charge a membership fee. At this time they only take Visa cards.

They should make all the straight guys wear chaps with NO underpants, this way they can show they are not getting erections by looking at all those other guys' junk and butts.

My initial question as well. The US runs on plastic cards. Perhaps she ordered a little something to keep the nose happy. Is there a MAGA tariff on Colombian contraband?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74zv04xkkgo IMO this is probably more of a practical joke than thievery, but let's see. The joker will get a rough time, regardless.

Looked this up on google earth, it really is the back of beyond. Probably mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds. But you have to wonder what this Brit guy was doing there.

If he starts getting press, he of great ego will respond with something like "a phony DEI hire, what a joke." I hope he keeps going, though I have absolutely no idea of what elections will be like in the US in the near future.

And possibly with his/her own weenie.

A few years ago they came up with a drug in the US called Ozempic for diabetes. Someone noticed that it works as a weight-loss drug, The reaction was phenomenal, the shops were running out of it quickly and the company couldn't make it fast enough. It has since been realized that it leaves certain telltale evidence on the face, and the term "Ozempic face" is part of the new show biz gossip jargon. When I saw that pic of Clooney my guess was he had O-face; well, he is over 60 and married to a 40-something. I don't think any celeb has admitted it outright, not even that painfully honest anti-lib poster girl. I wasn't paying attention to this stuff, but then I saw actress Elizabeth Marvel on teevee and she was downright scary! She went from this to https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/very-thin-and-wobbly-on-her-feet-law-order-star-elizabeth-marvels-weight-loss-rumors-explored/

Man, that is going to make it real tough on the people who keep track of dead voters.

Sounds like Clooney thinks he's the pope of of the libs.

If the people gave him the two-finger salute he may misinterpret it as V for victory, "they love me here!" Which he always says.

Locals as well. An American-Vietnamese fellow I know told me Thai girls wouldn't "go with" him, even at Nana Plaza. A fellow of Mexican descent in the US was approached by some Japanese tourists. "Excuse me please, are you Japanese or Chinese?" The fellow put on sort of a cowboy drawl and said "shucks, I ain't no Chinee!" This kid needs to loosen up like this guy did. Is this kind of sensitivity something to do with being a millennial?