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My teacher many years ago, an intelligent bloke, was a member of the Flat Earth Society. He said there are two kinds of people in the world: those that believe that Flat Earthers are serious (can include members) and those that realise that it's an intellectual joke. No matter what argument I brought up, he managed to find a counter argument. Took him a day or two sometimes. 

After years of applying Ivermectin and the like every three months as per instructions, I followed "village wisdom" and gave them doses 10 days apart. Gone. Some days I was literally taking off a hundred ticks, I hardly bother to look now.

On 7/2/2022 at 9:17 PM, Iamfalang said:

Friendships don't matter?  Social skills underrated?  Fun in a classroom bad?  Eating lunch with friends?  Playing games?   Meeting a boy or girl......

 

Online learning as a supplement, maybe.   I'm not sold on this concept, yet.   No friends might spell childhood trauma, and that doesn't go away in a lifetime.   

 

 

Yes I have seen these arguments before. Plenty of opportunities for friendships out of school, meaning that social skills would be learnt socialising with people of all ages and walks of life.... etc. Statistics have shown that home schooled kids are better adjusted. I went to University (OMG, 55 years ago) a totally introverted, shy and brow beaten idiot. Three years of engineering study changed that. I ended up leading a semi professional dance troop!

On 7/28/2022 at 2:22 PM, exfatriate said:

"I mucked about on the UK pensions website until I found the form for changing bank account. Printed it and sent it off by registered mail. Worked seamlessly."

 

- Can you give me a clue where you found it? I've mucked about with no luck.

Sorry, that was a few years ago. 

I mucked about on the UK pensions website until I found the form for changing bank account. Printed it and sent it off by registered mail. Worked seamlessly.

On 7/7/2022 at 3:09 PM, jvs said:

We have tried that,absolutely no effect.

See the post by Sametboy.

It is not possible to get any effect by what you are saying.

Of course not. Legal cannabis is limited as to its THC content. I have been offered seeds with potentially high THC but that would require a leap of faith.

Try Kratom instead.

We use a tea making sieve thingy, whole leaves. I like to squeeze a lemon into the result. I sleep like a baby.

20 hours ago, Jingthing said:

No you don't get it.

The radical Christian theocrats are now working to make fetuses legally persons which would instantly ban abortion nationally and make all abortion murder.

You don't have to be a radical Christian theocrat to have a sense of moral values. Calling babies just about to be born a foetus doesn't help your argument at all. 

On 6/26/2022 at 6:15 PM, Jingthing said:

OMG!

PAY ATTENTION.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/3535880-pence-calls-for-all-states-to-ban-abortion-after-supreme-court-ruling/

 

Pence calls for all states to ban abortion after Supreme Court ruling

 

As far as fetal personhood all that would take is the republicans taking congress and the white house or as few as one more right wing radical on the supreme court.

 

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/fetal-personhood-explainer/

 

The leaked Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion is bad on its face, given the fact that Justice Samuel Alito’s writing would gleefully destroy the constitutional right to abortion. But Alito doesn’t stop there, and anti-choice activists have no intention of letting him stop there, either. Instead, these activists are already teeing up their next big legal fight: for the constitutional recognition of fetal personhood. 

I don't really care what Pence called for. After this decision, such bans would be illegal. Don't you get that?

On 6/26/2022 at 7:43 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Many freedoms and rights that Americans enjoy are not expressly mentioned in the Constitution. The Constitution was intentionally written and has been consistently interpreted to provide a greater degree of liberty than that.

 

The original Roe v Wade ruling is not an outlier in that it established the right to abortion as being provided by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment which establishes the right to privacy. Many other rights have been established in a similar manner under the 14th and other clauses. 

 

What is an outlier is the current Supreme Court's disregard for precedent and its personal religious and partisan political motivation for striking down Roe.

 

If the current Supreme Court can strike down Roe in this manner, there are many other rights that Americans potentially stand to lose as a result. It seems that the sole determinants in deciding whether to scrap those rights are the personal religious beliefs and partisan political motivation of some of the justices.

 

With the wife of one of the justices allegedly deeply involved in the January 6th coup attempt and others having either lied, misled or dissembled in their confirmation hearings, this court has no credibility left.

OK so abortion on demand and even "abortion" (murder) after birth as recently proposed, should be made legal across the USA by federal law. The Roe v. Wade decision contained recommendations that strictly limited such barbarous demands. Never mind. The Roe v. Wade decision was supposedly based on the constitution, 14th amendment, and I don't think that "right to privacy" has much to do with right to have an abortion. 

People object to abortion clinics that pressure women into becoming clients and also make big money selling body parts. Maybe teaching kids about birth control and making it accessible to them would help?

In any civilised society women do not have the "right" to have an abortion.

The dems had plenty of opportunity to codify Roe v. Wade, preferred to let it go and then start screaming when all this happened. I assume that morning after pills will still be available. Fentanyl certainly is.

15 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

According to your logic blacks would still be 3/5 of a person and women would have no constitutional rights.

 

Also these radicals are.working on criminalizing abortion nationally or short of that criminalizing traveling for abortion or helping such a woman in any way including driving her there.

 

There is no such thing as a woman apparently, just "birthing persons". I'm "not sure" where you get your figures from, There is as far as I know, no projects to criminalise abortions nationally, although I'm sure you read that somewhere. Read again: it is NOT within the powers of the US government, of whatever side, to insist on nationwide caveats, interdictions or obligations of that sort unless there is a change in the constitution. That's what this was all about- rule of law. Very inconvenient of course if you can't get your way.

It is the job of the Supreme Court to decide on constitutional matters. They decided, quite rightly that as abortion is not mentioned in the constitution that the government of the USA does not have the right to impose the right to abortion on demand on the country, it's for the states to decide.

Maybe these women should learn about birth control, grow up in families that have fathers present. Only a very low percentage of abortions happen because of rape or incest, some parents were demanding abortions because they wanted a boy, not a girl. 

Then there's the huge profit to be made from running abortion clinics.

Maybe some will have to travel across state lines to get rid of their inconvenient baggage, I'm sure that funding will be found for that so that the industry doen't die out.

In the UK there exist roundabouts on high speed highways. The only reason they still have so many U-turns as default is one of cost. Cost would include condescending to actually design the bllody things correctly using over 100 tears of experience in other countries. And to educate as to how to use them. 

"Two conflicting COVID viewpoints".

How true. There's the fully informed viewpoint and the naively believing what they're told viewpoint. 

On 6/11/2022 at 4:22 PM, BritManToo said:

Yes, at 250bht a seed I want a 100% germination rate, as I only buy one female seed then clone. Planting in soil is much harder and wastes a lot of seeds. 

 

I was at the Buriram cannabis fair on Sunday and was offered 10 seeds (whisper, 10% THC sir) for ฿100.-. If I do decide to plant I certainly won't be doing it this year, fantasy prices and uncertain police reactions prompt me to wait. 

On 6/12/2022 at 9:13 AM, Caldera said:

Isn't this more about how YOU organize stuff? They probably assume that their college students stay nearby (in a dorm or otherwise), not that they employ their grandfather as a chauffeur on call duty.

They don't care about 14 year olds driving the same distance on motorbikes, so I guess, no, my experience isn't unique.

So, I have been driving my granddaughter 70 kilometres daily right through kindergarten up to government 'technical college' as they call it.  In her previous school we received, at least three times, on a Sunday evening, the SMS "No school tomorrow'... or next week, Covid evidently, so I guess acceptable. 

I had thought that a technical college would have got their act together as far as basic stuff like schedules etc are concerned.

Now, three weeks in, I don't think that a single day of lessons has finished at the scheduled times, meaning I get a come get me call at inconvenient times, like when I am eating, etc. On Friday night on Facebook... Facebook! she saw that she had to go to school on Saturday for a health check, probably take all day. So that was my Saturday plans all effed up. Got her there before 8am, nothing happened before 09.30am, and she was finished at midday. 

At least we know when her Autumn break starts, that's a first, but don't know when the break finishes. 

Is there any point in complaining? Is this generally the case in Thailand? 

4 minutes ago, LaosLover said:

 

 

Me in Switzerland? Less plush, more expensive. My financial situation need not be interpreted as a personal affront to you. It's just so Euro.

 

... Oh, plush.... I missed that part.

 

 

Good luck with that. I faced staunch opposition when I proposed home schooling for our granddaughter. Combined with the work needed when you actually do HS, I gave up, just try to fill in the many gaps, like critical thinking and sport for example. It IS legal in Thailand, there are Facebook groups you can look for.

On 6/4/2022 at 9:40 AM, simon43 said:

For a short time around 2013, I was headmaster of a private ('international') school in Luang Prabang, north Laos.  There was a tuck shop on campus which sold sugary 'sh*te'.  I attempted to get the items sold changed to healthy fruit etc, with sugar-rush items only sold near the end of the school day (so that parents could 'enjoy' the hyperactivity of their offspring at home!).

 

No chance of changing the tuckshop.  It was run by the sister of the school director.  I also tried to add an additional person to supervise the kids at the local swimming pool (too many kids, not enough adults to keep an eye on them etc).  No way said the school director.

 

I resigned soon after....

My granddaughter just started 'college' (secondary school, 15 years+) and it has been a general rule from kindergarten upwards that the school shops sold sugary drinks and candy, with the choice of buying highly processed salted junk. I gave up long ago, but our girl drastically cut back on sugar when she realised that it caused her acne. 

I would be doing very well in my home town in Switzerland on that kind of money. 

VERY silly question, but maybe the OP never went abroad before apart from annual two week holidays?

After being involved in a similar accident (among the things I picked up on the road were mobile telephone and cover), certainly not my fault, I was fined ฿800.- after wasting two and a half days at the police station - it was that or pay tea money. They saw my carcam. Not sure what the insurance agent said but the next two renewals were not more expensive. They had to pay for replacement of my engine hood and side door. I'm still paying first class insurance on my now 10 year old car. I wonder if the OP has first class?

The one time I took second class I hit a rock and the company told me to get first class or pay more for my second class. Seemed like an easy choice. 

Viriya insurance treats us well here in Buriram, but this seems to vary depending on where you live. 

3 minutes ago, bluebanana said:

naww too lazy xD

God helps those that help themselves. So god help you.

Possibly a Euphorbia tithymaloides? -White sap?

Put it in a bigger pot whatever it is!

I don't think that seedlings from avocado will be worth it; trees you buy are usually grafted.