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The guy's an idiot, but it would be interesting to see the rest of the wall. Looks like he's far from the first to tag it. Some locales have tagging walls just for the purpose. A $100 coat of paint once a year and they can start all over. And they draw tourists like flies if they get good social media coverage. If it was Banksy as proposed on an earlier post, they can probably cut out that section of wall and sell it to fund temple operations for a year or more.

Especially those of us who come from the nanny states where we probably never encountered uneven steps.

There's still people posting that here on AN.

Be careful what you wish for. You could be the one getting locked up if you make a mistake on the highway. Or your wife. Or your kids. I'd rather see custodial sentences reserved for people who have intent to harm others. Or severe negligence, as in the case of a DUI.

So, similar odds to getting creamed on a scooter. But a lot of the same guys ragging on the helmetless don't object to going into a short-timer unprotected.

I haven't had a drink in over 35 years and I could have easily fallen down those steps without a railing. Especially if they had odd step spacing like so many projects in Thailand. There doesn't seem to be much thought of building codes that could have easily prevented this tragedy.

I'm not a Greta fan, but I still hope they don't pull a USS Liberty on her boat.

What did they ever do with all those tiny phone booths when cellphones took over? Seriously, I don't smoke but I do support nice, well ventilated smoking areas for those who do. I've occasionally spent some time in them when my traveling companions fed their demon. Happy travelers come back... Edit: But I do admit to being cheezed off when they put enough comfy seats in the smoking areas and not nearly enough in the non-smoking areas. That's my main beef about Swampy. Not nearly enough seats in departure, upstream or downstream of security.

The guys who run those cars in international rallies have a lot of what you call "discretionary money". It seems to me that the smarter thing for officials to do would be to bend over backwards to get them to park up and spend some of that sweaty discretionary money in their town. And make them feel welcome so they come back next year. And the year after. Or you can nickel and dime a few hundred baht out of them and they'll either bypass the town next time or they'll just bypass Thailand altogether.

Damn that beer. Never should have legalized it.

Trump was just trolling. He's good at it.

Awareness wasn't a strong point in that administration. That included self awareness. And the Dems will suffer from it for several election cycles.

How do you know things are getting bad? Jean-Pierre announced her new book “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” set to publish in October 2025 on Wednesday. The book, according to her publisher Legacy Lit, encourages Americans to “vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines.” “Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly. She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden,” the book description from Legacy Lit reads. Edit: Widely reported, but here's where I got it: Karine Jean-Pierre Leaving Democratic Party | The Daily Caller

How do we know for each individual who was pardoned? Are you sure none of his aides snuck in a ringer?

Hogwash I didn't die, but I would give just about anything to go back and undo my 2nd Pfizer. My health and quality of life took a nosedive the next day and I still haven't recovered. Probably never will. And that was 4 years ago. Edit: You can look up the batch number of my 2nd Pfizer. It was apparently a pretty hot lot based on VAERS data:

They can be if the president was unaware of them. Either because his staff was misbehaving or he was cognitively incapable of knowing. That's what the investigation is about. Did Biden even know what was being signed in his absence? At the very least, I hope they require a presidential thumbprint on every auto-signed document in the future.

It's about time.

It seems that Australia quietly changed their vaccine recommendation: COVID-19 vaccine is not recommended for healthy infants, children or adolescents who do not have medical conditions that increase their risk of severe illness. This is because the risk of severe illness was extremely low in this cohort over the course of the pandemic, and benefits of vaccination are not considered to outweigh the potential harms.1,2 Another wingnut conspiracy theory coming true. COVID-19 | The Australian Immunisation Handbook https://immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/ "Not Recommended": Government Admits Covid Vaccines Pose More Risk Than Benefit for Healthy Kids · Caldron Pool

If ever there was a legitimate case to pixelate a face, this is it. Why out her?

69 and a threesome, or just lottery numbers?

I'm not that talented linguistically. I used this definition of "fountain" (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. The keyword being continuously. He kept us in stiches. (Our GFs didn't really care for him, though. Go figure.) And I've never gotten any sage life advice from Helvetica or Times New Roman.

With her looks, she could have convinced some pasty British guy to mule for her. Her lips looked better before whatever happened to them.

Wherever you go, there you are. That applies to Thailand, too.

were caught with nearly 9 kilogrammes of potent marijuana among them. with an estimated value of 85 million rupees (32.4 million baht). 9000 grams is almost million bucks? Dang.

Should'a bought condoms and KY. Reminds me of my old boss Bill from 50 years ago. His advice on a date is to pull up to the Walgreens and tell her you're going inside for condoms and KY. If she's still in the car when you get back, you're in. If she's not, you just saved the cost of a nice dinner. Bill was a virtual fountain of excellent advice like that.