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I topped up my Elder Card last week, but I didn't look to see if I'm still getting the discount. It's peanuts, so I really don't care. In fact, I felt guilty when I was getting the discounted rate, knowing what a lot of the Thai people make. To whom even small money makes a big difference.

No names Bob. I'm just yelling at a cloud going by, from inside my glass house. Though, if I did operate a buffet, I'd appreciate a heads up from the diners before they just quit coming in.

It's like going to a restaurant where I enjoy the buffet. But I sure wish some of the nimrods would keep their fingers out of the food and use the tongs.

Nope. We're the product, not the customers. 2 day old gas station sushi comes to mind.

On a higher plane, I wonder when the NAWJ is going to invite Trump to speak?

If they're telling us that's thigh meat in that photo, they have lost all credibility. Thigh meat doesn't come in a sack. And it seems like such a petty issue to give up so much credibility on.

My heart goes out to the guys who paid good money for this "community". I remember when it wasn't like this.

How many kickbacks and bribes can you get in most private jobs?

Thailand influencer? 50:50 odds.

I'm not convinced it's a zero sum situation. It's quite possible for Asia to rise without the West swirling down the commode. But it's not possible to avoid the swirlies if the western gub'ments don't quit doing stupid stuff like unvetted immigration and promotion by quota instead of performance. Both of them, Asian countries are smart enough to put the kibosh on.

Picking a few numbers off the OP: 973 deaths in 150 years is 6.5 per year. With about 60,000 students, that's about 1 death each year per 9,200 students. Compare that to my high school of 1500 students in the '70s, when we lost a few students every year to car wrecks, cancer, other accidents, and Darwin contests. Making those Native schools over 5x safer than my high school. And most of that 150 years preceded antibiotics. There's a lot of despicable aspects to those schools, but death rate isn't one of them. At least, not according to the sensationalized "study". Dollars to donuts, the next step is monetary reparations...

No. You're missing the point. Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama, and under Biden. Crickets under Trump. Hamas struck on Biden's watch. Not on Trump's I prefer peace and mean tweets to war and the specter of nuclear annihilation.

Still cheaper than "back home", if I add up all the dinners and foolishness that constituted the chase, then risk weight the odds I'm going to end up in the friend zone forever. I've had free sex that cost me thousands of dollars a throw. And some strikeouts that cost just as much for nothing.

Leaving aside any moralizing, the production had the quality of an impromptu high school skit. Or, at best, something out of SNL.

Read along some more threads. Thai bashing, Indian bashing, and Chinese bashing are predominant themes.

A lot of expats who moved a while ago have fond memories of an American left and a Democratic Party that no longer exist. And all they watch is the MSM, which is intent on normalizing behaviors that were taboo just a few years ago.

Gosh, if doing a deal with Putin was enough to keep him from invading Ukraine, maybe Obama should have sent Big Mike in to do a deal, or Biden could have sent Hunter. Could have saved a million lives and hundreds of billions of $$, largely US taxpayer money debt...

You call that credible? I call it gaslighting. Those are balls. Thigh skin doesn't come in a pouch. They need to deduct credibility points for that one.

I guess you're not enjoying the hypocrisy of banning TikTok on gub'ment devices, as a national security threat, then embracing it for her election campaign. It'll be interesting to see how that works out...

I'd bet $50 that Kamala doesn't even know how to set up a TikTok account, and that every post is carefully curated by her handlers.

Burdened by all those 5 course meals that happened in her past?

Yet another answer to the question, "is it a good idea to drink the tap water?" Years ago, the concensus among posters who knew water systems was that the water coming from the municipal sources left the waterworks fine, but old pipes and poorly maintained storage along the way made it unwise to count on safe drinking water. Even if the condo management does what they should, I'd still get a filter system, and I'd be prepared to spend some coin on the hardware, and expert installation. And I'd still only use tap water to bathe, and MAYBE to cook boiled food. But why risk it? Bottled water is cheap. BTW, there's a zillion hawkers of water filters in Khlong Thom market in Chinatown. Obviously, there are plenty of other choices, but it's a great place to compare a bunch of choices in one spot.

Dang, man. They could have at least pixelated the guy on the left with his nutsack hanging out.

Did you consider that maybe the crime rate is down because more bad guys and gals are locked up?

Last week in Thailand I watched some YouTube montages of MSM pundits praising Harris for being Border Czar, then flash forward to election year, and the same pundits are claiming she was never Border Czar. I hope I downloaded one or two since I'm back where YouTube is blocked. I'm in the subway, where links are hard to come by. No wonder fewer and fewer people believe the MSM.