theblether

What do you mean it was arguable? It was by a million country miles the most important. Interesting thing was the technology was offered to the Chinese Emperor, and he arrogantly demanded that King George III bend his knee in subservience to the Middle Kingdom. Look how that worked out for the Chinese, eh? I think you need to read some real history, not the self-loathing Dalrympe bs. And certainly not Hollywood movie versions. You can start with reading the longest Imperial suicide note in history - Emperor Qianlong: Letter to George III, 1793 https://china.usc.edu/emperor-qianlong-letter-george-iii-1793#:~:text=You%2C O King%2C live beyond,the anniversary of my birthday.

What do you mean it was arguable? It was by a million country miles the most important. Interesting thing was the technology was offered to the Chinese Emperor, and he arrogantly demanded that King George III bend his knee in subservience to the Middle Kingdom. Look how that worked out for the Chinese, eh? I think you need to read some real history, not the self-loathing Dalrympe bs. And certainly not Hollywood movie versions. You can start with reading the longest Imperial suicide note in history - Emperor Qianlong: Letter to George III, 1793 https://china.usc.edu/emperor-qianlong-letter-george-iii-1793#:~:text=You%2C O King%2C live beyond,the anniversary of my birthday.

Dear me.

You need to quit with this Black Hawk Down analogy. The defensive ratio far exceeded 4:1. If the US military had moved with the required manpower to eradicate the defensive position it would have been an annihilation of the Somalis, and that would have been without using wipe-out weaponry.

Part 1 - Magna Carta, Register of Oxford, Declaration of Arbroath, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights. Part 2 - Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox et al - the Reformation which lifted the peasant classes out of ignorance. Part 3 - The Italian Renaissance, the celebration of beauty, artistry, engineering, perspective. Part 4 - The Age of Enlightenment. Part 5 - the Industrial Revolution. It took European culture around 500 years to explode into the dominant force that shaped the world. The world is a better place for this. Clowns such as William Dalrymple, himself a scion of Scottish aristocracy and privilege, make up wee stories about countries such as India, with their abhorrent human rights abuses such as Thugee cults and bride burning being excused. No one reading this needs convincing of the barbarity of the First Nation tribes, the Aztecs, Mayans etc Borneo Headhunters? Benin human sacrifices so vile that the air was rancid with rotting corpses? Human were and still are vicious creatures capable of unspeakable depravity - we've seen it this past year, never mind in the books of history. However, without the five developments I mentioned above - fundamental to White Culture - the world would be in a permanent state of repulsive savagery.

Most people here have read my urbane and witty posts for over a decade, they are familiar with the Scottish lexicon. Then again, we often get the village idiots that decide to google the word "blether" and think it's a revelation. It never occurs to them I picked the name for a reason. Nowt so queer as folk, eh?.

I already said there was a language issue. What was the point of your post? Prime example of an online expert in everything not reading what is posted. ps - there are Thai medics fluent in English, I know two that work in UK private hospitals. I also know one that works in............Germany!! Amazing to think that educated Thais can speak foreign languages, eh? Who would have thought.

You appear to be irritated that we foreigners have an opinion on the next "leader of the free world" and their VP. We'll continue to have an opinion as long as Our Boys are lying in the graves marked "yet another American war."

Pegged - I see what you did there. Very good.

There'd be no politicians left. And you'd need to be deluded to believe that wouldn't include Democrat politicians.

I'm not playing this worthless game. I'm utterly sick of people excusing the unacceptable due to political bias. This was not a single "mispeak." We've all done that - but the man continued the lie for decades to the point where he was fact-checked by his local media and found to be a liar. Shocking.

Not a rant, a factually accurate post. And you are trying to defend this guy.

I'll say it once again but clearer now for the dim of thinking. No sane man lies about: Witnessing the murder of 10,000 students. Witnessing the rape of hundreds of women. Witnessing thousands of bodies reduced to mulch by tanks. Witnessing the remains being soaked in gasoline and set alight. Witnessing the remains being power-washed into the sewers. This is a filthy lie repeated for decades. An utterly horrendous lie. Just give it a rest;

Never complain, never explain. Work it out for yourself.

A minimum of 10,000 dead at Tianamen Square and you are excusing this clown for a "gaffe". Shameful.

Drivel. It's been a continuous lie by Walz. And as I said, Hong Kong was not China in 1989, he wasn't at Tianamen, no one who knows what happened at Tianamen would dare claim to have been there as what really happened was appalling beyond belief. Would you like an example? From a Chinese politburo source. "A brigade of semi-literate soldiers jumped a fence, and went on a mass orgy of rape. Female students were beaten to death and left with legs lying akimbo. Tanks were then called to run them over and pulverise them to mush. Gasoline was poured over the liquidised bodies and they were set alight. The soldiers then took great glee in power washing the remains into the sewers." This information is contained within British and AMERICAN official archives. And Walz lied about being there. Appalling. https://www.france24.com/en/20171223-10000-killed-chinas-1989-tiananmen-crackdown-british-archive

Look who just showed up. As I was saying about............

If I were a Democrat I'd just take the L and move on. Tim Walz was an utter embarrassment. As Frank Luntz said : "His line about making friends with school shooters is the worst line ever heard in a VP debate." My personal favourite - "why did you lie about being in Tianamen Square." "Well, I was a cyclist when I was a kid blah bah ( a few moments later )." "uhuhu, but the question was - why did you lie about being in Tianamen Square?" "Aye, eh - I mispoke." Idiot - and that goes for anyone trying to defend him. ps - for the less bright among you, in 1989 Hong Kong was British colony. It wasn't part of China or under Chinese communist party rule. #justsayin'

Aye, very good. 27% of British pensioners are millionaires. At least the same again are worth £500K plus. And this forum is full of people moaning they didn't get an extra tenner a week increase this year. Ya'll had fifty years to invest in property and private pensions and managed to contrive a situation you entered your later years skint. Just be quiet, Just give it a rest.

The best I can work out is it's a language proficiency issue. Former commonwealth countries and American language locations, such as P.I. are preferred. I think it's a bad mistake.

Once again - and let me be brutal about this. I've said for more than a decade that the best lifestyle is to live in the UK half the year and access all rights and services as a Brit. Do this, and your pension will be protected forever. No one says you need to do 180 days straight - 90 days on, 90 days off. But here's the true bottom line. Far too many of you chose to entrap yourselves in Thailand. Trapped, and skint, you didn't have the wits to know that exchange rates and inflation would wipe you out. Just make your way to the airport and come home.

Are you new here? You're taking a hell of a risk calling me "deranged and lacking in knowledge." Let me tell you something - I know precisely ZERO economically inactive illegal immigrants. You can't move for food delivery/barber/vaping shop types. McDonalds are literally remodelling their shops to accommodate DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THEIR RESTAURANTS TO SERVE THESE PEOPLE. They are using ID's of landed immigrants, and sharing revenue bases. I see it every single day in life. So do me a favour, the next time you decide to address me remember one thing. I'm an experienced British businessman who deals with the immigrant community every single day in life. I will not take lessons from online halfwits, the Daily Mail pant-p*ssing brigade.

I've continuously pointed out to the NHS that there is a large well of nurses and doctors available in Thailand. It's not one of their preferred hiring locations and that's a mistake.