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Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

So if you scrape off the political correctness, the root cause is globalism?

On the spectrum of disgusting things I've seen in Asian markets, stores, and restaurants, dogs don't even make it into the top half. If K-Village is any indicator, they may increase foot traffic, even quite a bit. Of course, anyone who doesn't like dogs may want to do a hard pass.

+1 Been there dozens of times. Never once had a problems with the pooches. It was nice to talk to the owners and some of them let us pet the dogs. Quite a contrast and a very welcome change from soi dogs.

So, which is it? You can't have it both ways. Unless you suffer from TDS... Common affliction on the Left. Hard to keep politics out of it when factions on one side are trying to pass laws to take kids away from their parents if they don't fall in line. Not to mention the ones insisting that the gub'ment should pay for gender affirming care, and the lifetime of medical follow-up that could end up costing $millions over a lifetime.

Sadly for your side, Pelosi screwed that pooch when she did exactly the same to Trump.

Yeah, it's kind of a mirror image of MSNBC. You did catch that she was testifying under oath when she said what she did? And that she's the former head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division? If you have any disagreements, I'd suggest you tell her how wrong she is. Good luck with that.

If you listen to the lefties, simply electing the bad orange man would mean the end of democracy (small d). (That's pretty much a direct quote from old Joe, BTW). Yet they won't allow the same literary license to the other side... See how that works?

Someone who knows, please catch me up. Is the Foxtrot Network home grown, or mostly recent arrivals?

+1 20.7% of sex workers in Bangkok have HIV. Not very good odds even with doxy-pep. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23512512/ Funny how the same guys who wouldn't think of going unmasked, or miss their vaccine, would take a 1 in 5 shot of getting HIV for lack of a condom. Their right, I guess. But then they pass it on.

New word for the day... Constructive receipt. From former head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Eileen J. O’Connor: https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/28/former-doj-official-explains-how-hunters-cash-transfers-could-land-joe-biden-in-legal-hot-water/ https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/28/my-jaw-dropped-former-doj-official-reacts-to-malfeasance-in-hunter-biden-probe/

Doesn't seem so unreasonable to me, as long as they're not free to wander and pee up and down the aisles. In my hometown, people can bring their support animals into stores. Stores aren't allowed to challenge whether that's actually a trained support animal, or if the person is even entitled to a support animal (by some medical criteria), without fear of a lawsuit. There's some pretty mangy "support animals" traipsing in the stores, with no way they'd fit in a trolley.

Whenever I'm entering a fraught situation, I say a little prayer, "God, don't let me be the butthole here". Sometimes, he lets me down.

Good point. I kinda assumed they flew in, they can fly out. But... Still, sad to see 747's and A380s parked up like that.

How can we tell how qualified they are if their faces are pixelated?

Pretty sure they were blues, because I don't remember ever seeing a green. But I'll admit I'm not sure. I just bought what was available because choices were slim after the flood. Had 2 of them in each of 2 Dell servers and lost 3 of the 4 within a year or so. Fortunately, the HDD's that came from Dell are still working 10+ years later. If yours were from 2009, they were pre-flood. Edit: I'd already had my run of bad luck with Seagates, so I am sure they were all WD's. Still have them in storage on the outside chance I'll figure out there's some data there that I'm missing so badly that I'd pay to have them recovered.

You must have lucked out, because I had a real bad run of 3-1/2" WD's of about that vintage. Especially after the floods that shut down HD production for awhile.

Assuming this isn't just a windup, I suspect the pump will have a dedicated circuit breaker. When you don't need water, turn it off. If he gets real angry, you'll have your answer.

Please somebody tell me this is a windup.

You're confusing hatred with tough love. There's a reason we don't allow kids to smoke or drink, to get tattoos, drive cars, have sex with adults, or sign legally enforceable contracts. And it's not because we hate them. We do it to keep adults from taking advantage of their forming minds.

Actual uptick in flight bookings, or just wishful thinking? As I've said in other threads, I'd expect an October increase due to 2 overlapping holidays in China next month. But whether it will last or not probably depends on how they report back to their friends and interweb followers back home.

I witnessed a few myself. Even stopping taxis at red lights and pulling the foreigners out for ID checks. But that was all pre-Covid. Maybe they've started it up again now that the pickings are getting richer. More short time tourists who wouldn't know to ask for a ride to the cop shop to straighten it out.

Had one that clocked 350,000 miles before the odometer cable broke (probably rusted from driving it in high water). Then continued to drive it for a few more years, probably over 600,000 km. That was a US Ford Ranger, not one of the Thai models. Great little trucks, all of them. But if you're claiming that driving through floods isn't deleterious to auto longevity, you're wrong. Edit: And I don't talk about reliability until it's 10 years old and has at least 150,000km on the clock. Until then, it's still a new car.

I've no reason to doubt the veracity or accuracy of the OP's warning. These threads crop up occasionally, though usually it was the cops around Asoke. I actually witnessed some shake downs around Asoke years ago where people were stopped on the sidewalk and others were pulled out of taxis at red lights for ID checks. Got so prevalent one time that one top cop came out and stated that carrying a copy of your passport was acceptable, followed by another who said it had to be the original. Given the stories about cracking down on foreign workers and increasing security in light of the new visa free policy, it wouldn't surprise me if some local cops were either being over-zealous or downright crooked at the end of the month when rent is due. And that's assuming they were real cops. Also had a recent story about fake cops holding a lady for ransom...

Rust never sleeps. It's more reliable in the long haul if you don't drive in floods.