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If backpacking, you'll learn that many of them tend to follow each other around, go to the same places, etc. I started off-the-beaten-path in the 1970s, and the goal (for many) was to find a places away from the tourist stuff, but that seems passe. For many in the under-35 (app.) set it's like an international pub crawl. My advice to is go wherever you find interesting, don't worry you'll always find a food and a place to stay.

I realized long ago that in LOS getting away from the tourist areas is a completely different experience, even within Bkk just a ten minute walk from a heavily touristy area. I usually am alone, and sometimes get these puzzled looks "what is that farang doing here?" This is much more common than getting the stink eye for invading their neighborhood, but it does happen. Out in the smaller towns you can be an outright oddity; once I was a standing watching a procession then a realized a lot of the people were looking at me instead of the parade, like it was the first time they've seen an Occidental. Or maybe they thought I was Brad Pitt . On the other hand not being anywhere near fluent with the language has probably saved me from saying the wrong thing and getting myself in trouble. IMO for a foreigner in LOS the worst places to be are the areas developed for tourism. But I would say that for nearly every place I've been.

Same with comedy: do they come to laugh or to attend a lecture? And with ticket prices being what they are. . .

Maybe they were booing because of his dopey outfit.

The ex worked 2 jobs, and wouldn't give a dime to a blind beggar. Occasionally she would send a check to the Doris Day Home for Wayward Animals (this was in the 1980s). Go figure.

Network security anyone?

Correction: this is him and his brother

I didn't follow the OJ trial, but I recall it being mentioned that two of the prosecutors were keeping company. They managed to hush that right quick.

Did anyone figure out exactly how Epstein came to have so much money? Last I heard it was still a mystery. Perhaps doing things like sending a $100,000 per week bill to a monarch for a son's accommodation (and confidentiality)? He stopped hanging out with Epstein after Hillary cut his American Express card in half.

Unfortunately another of his kind will take his place, maybe already has. All those podcasters queuing up. What this guy put those people through is absolutely heinous. Nothing they do to him would be too cruel.

His name doesn't appear in this article, but Bannon has been pushing this tactic since 2016. https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981

This one is truly a few cards short of a deck. Somewhere between a dictatorship ego and some kind of New Age call of destiny. I've met a few of these.

Jesus became an extraterrestrial, so did his mum. Didn't need space ships. Maybe they will return, sandals and virginity will come back into style.

Pic in the OP shows BiB pointing. Do they charge by the point?

What country is this lady of love from? Don't say Tibet because she is not a yeti.

And don't forget fake boobs for the missus. Maybe as part of one of his felony sentences he will be forced to sing The Who's "Substitute" every morning for the next 20 years.

Whatever became of that little Jewish boy who defeated a big Palestinian guy using only a slingshot? That's how long this has been going on.

Thanks for the post, I did not know Hughes coined that term. Well, its a deduction: according to web searches the poem was written in 1951, the play was published in 1959.

Does that mean everybody has to wear those goofy shoes?

They shot it full of steroids. https://ballotpedia.org/Super_PAC It is useful for all political polarities.

The traffic cop who takes a few bucks for not writing a speeding ticket will be publicly crucified if caught: disgrace to the uniform, betrayal of public trust, etc. Corrupt big-money deals involving public officials etc, even if reported in the media, most likely will evaporate or be overshadowed, such that the rascals can keep running for public office. Paying off gov't officials used to be called graft, and was a crime. A certain Republican saint in the 1980s got rid of graft by legalizing and calling it political action committees (PACs). IMO the shining moment was in the first decade of this century when a career politician turned armaments executive turned back into a politician and became vice president to a not-very-bright president who preferred clearing brush on his Texas ranch to "presidentin'" The best politicians money can buy, long may it wave! And now with a politicized Supreme Court featuring a few hard-core conservative justices collecting millions in gifts in a bold-faced, obvious way, well, . . .

Says it all.

Do you mean this guy Harlan Crow ? Yep, it's his, all bought and paid for. Pretty obvious, too.

So is this an example of the deep state and the swamp that a certain presidential candidate can't bring up often enough? Republicans/conservatives do not have to own up or recuse, with a "and what you gonna do about it, b_tch?" I recall seeing Bush Sr on a talk show while the 2000 election results were in contention, and the host said he understood that GW had to recuse himself. "Oh yeah, recusal" said Bush, in a tone that implied he was laughing up his sleeve. Fortunately at this time there is the Lincoln Project that knows how to confront the arrogant ______s.

Someone explained to me that there are certain rich people who put effort into trying to look like they actually work for a living. E.g. he may look like he sleeps in his clothes (and maybe he does) but those cargo pants he wears could cost US$1,500 at some tony outfitters. That thing about wearing several shirts at a time is probably something he learned from reading about hobos. A lesson that some of them should have learned in the 2018 midterm elections is that MAGA doesn't sell without DT. https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-right-wing-gladiator-school-booted-from-italian-monastery-2021-9?op=1