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Yeah. One is campaigning on love of country and the other is campaigning on locking up their opponent and re-education camps for his supporters. Reminds me of when I was a kid and the mantra was "Peace, love, and kill a commie for Christ"

Just curious, as a Yank looking in. Was there a plan in place for housing and employing the newly released? Or were they on their own?

How many buses did they have to use to get them all there?

Undo Citizens United, bring the top marginal tax rate for zillionaires back up to pre-Reagan levels, accelerate adjudicating asylum cases with a 6 month deadline, and avoid foreign entanglements. Bob's your uncle. In fact, I don't know what we'd do with all the extra money.

Interesting to see the variation in the English language. In the USA, we're nearsighted. Short sighted means something else, and it's usually a pejorative.

It would be interesting to see how many of them finish, and how many drop out for overheating, mechanical issues, etc. I'm not a fan of Top Gear, but I do find it amusing when they drive a $zillion supercar and it craps out in the middle of the show. Sadly, I'm going to be 2 days late to catch the Thailand leg. It would be fun to watch. Edit: BTW, kudos to webfact for publicizing the event before it happens. We usually hear about what we just missed.

You really think she was sleeping? Regarding the OP, I'm with Thomas Sowell. There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs. It could be bad. Or it could be catastrophic. I'd vote for Trump, and just bad.

They may just take the money and move to the UK or France or the USA via Mexico. $34K would pay the cartels to get them across the southern US border with $25K or $30K to spare.

Kind of off the topic, but I wonder how many expats would leave Thailand if they just waived the 20,000 baht fine for overstay, never mind a $34,000 incentive. Edit: Maybe sweeten the deal with a free $75 ticket to KL... The AN Mods have posted a concurrent thread on Sweden, so I'm taking the risk of derailing this (my own) thread.

The AN search function is working much better since the forum upgrade, so I did a search on "window tint" and came up with a dozen or so threads, with probably 100 posts. Several stories from guys who blamed their accidents on dark tinted windshields, and other guys whose GFs blamed their accidents on dark windows. I believe them, since I actually removed the film from my windshield because I didn't feel safe driving at night. I may have been able to replace it with a lighter tint, but no added tint didn't bother me at all. The windshield and windows themselves had some tint to them, even without a film. I didn't stick with the search diligently enough to find any posts about any popo crackdowns, but I recall some from the past. I got to Thailand in 2011 so my personal memory only goes back that far... And my brain leaks when I sleep so I may have forgotten even more.

But it's only the women who listen to what she says. The guys just fantasize about being #44 on the list of her exes. Aren't most of her songs about her poor judgment in men?

+1 on Decathlon. I'm looking at bikes in China and the lower priced Rockriders look to be an excellent value. I just can't get over the hurdle that I have a serviceable bike from years ago... Though I bought it when my biking needs were different, and I don't ride as much as I'd like because it's not so comfortable any more. But I'm a cheap bustard. Back in the states, I have a cheap Specialized of the same basic genre. I put a comfier seat on it and I love it.

Is the law against feeding pigeons just a Bangkok thing? I see signs all over warning of a 20,000 baht fine for feeding pigeons.

Is that a legal taxi stand? I've always gotten a ticket from the machine and walked over to a numbered taxi so there has never been an argument over who got there first.

I suspect that ad spend is the deciding factor.

I'm a Yank, and I'd actually carve out 2 hours or so to watch a historically accurate documentary about how the Royal Family got into the situation they are over the past 80 years (maybe 120 years to include WW1). But I'm going to watch the reviews before deciding whether to watch a docu-drama on Amazon. I have Prime already, but my time and patience are worth something. I've already wasted half an hour each of a bunch of crappy movies before deciding I couldn't stomach the next hour and a half.

It's not that ratio that counts. It's the right swipe ratio. Google hypergamy. When I was a kid, before the interwebs, average guys stood a chance at finding luv locally. Today, not so much.

Eventually, but probably only after the election, some reporter is going to drill down and find out how 20,000 Haitians arrived in the same small Ohio town, to the relative exclusion of newcomers from 100+ other countries who need jobs. And I'd bet dollars to donuts it's not organic as claimed. Somebody was steering it. But you'll never see that in the NY Times. Maybe the NY Post will cover it and we'll learn the truth, with bus or plane receipts.

Funny that you didn't question the credibility of NY AG Leticia James when she actually ran on a platform of "Get Trump". Levrentiy Beria would be proud of both of you.

Nothing is free. It's included. Those credit cards charge fees. If they didn't, they couldn't pay the airlines to offer benefits. Last time I checked, the airlines make more money selling points than they do selling tickets and flying people around. I'm making a pedantic argument, for sure. But for the majority tuned in here, free water from the lounges isn't an option. And pointing out getting water from the lounges is bragging about access to the lounges. Everyone knows there's goodies in the lounges. That's not useful information for anyone.

Here's a Stanford historian that disagrees with you, point by point. And then some. So I'll let you take it up with him, using your well reasoned logic. https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/12/victor-davis-hanson-forgettable-warped-debate-donald-trump-kamala-harris-abc/ pitiful, vengeful wreck pathetic man-child wild fantasies shriveled brain Raving and ranting wild accusations twisted and bitter mind utterly stupid and weak

That works well for those who have access to the lounges. Not so well for the rest of us peons.

Good info. Thx for that. I always find free filtered water dispensers in BKK (in fact, in every airport I've transited in Asia). I buy a 10 baht water upstream of security and either guzzle it down or pour it out to get through security. The dispensers are kind of hidden as you say, but generally near just about every rest room, with signs pointing to them. Some have old timey drinking fountains, but most just have a dispenser to fill a container. BYO empty. And I'm not a big fan of old timey drinking fountains since the pandemic... One of the things I like about Swampy, and Asian airports in general. Free water. Last time I flew out of the USA, I paid $4 for a water.

That's a shame, because I enjoyed a monthly (or so) change of pace from KFC. I miss cole slaw... KFC's cole slaw isn't the best in the USA, but it was the best I found in LOS. I wonder if the franchise agreement specifies that they must use ingredients sold to them by KFC, or stay true to the Colonel's recipe? Fried chicken is my most common street food meal. I buy a small jar of the Thai dipping sauce when I check into my hotel, and I always have something to munch on if I get the hangries. I've experienced good then bad street fried chicken, even from the same nice lady. I always chalked it up to how old the oil was (and whether they fried fish or old socks between chicken batches).

That was my first thought, but I think it's more likely they'll migrate to another Euro country or the USA. Who will eventually offer them money to leave. Unless they tend to vote Blue.