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That's more of a long term life goal. "Piano player in a whorehouse" adjacent.

Let's revisit my original statement: There's a lot of old 60, 70 and 80 year old expat geezers praying that this guy won't get his wish. A lot of them would have to move out of Thailand if he did. Was I wrong?

From the OP: With no money or mobile phone, the boy was provided with cash for food and personal items by police. Shoots that theory right in the ass.

On EBay 3 ply, for those who can afford the best.

Her Live version is on my VLC Player favorites list. I always turn the volume up when it comes on. You can tell her backup people and the audience are having a blast. Spoiler alert. They seem to be mostly gay. I still love that song and that version, decades later. Same deal with the Weather Girls, It's Raining Men- Live version. They put me in a good mood. That's profound enough for me.

Why should American taxpayers fund protection of Greek owned, Liberian flagged ships carrying goods that aren't from or to the USA?

More likely they're escorting them, making sure of a safe passage. Hate to lose any of them to leaky inflatables.

Jimmy Buffet. Why don't we get drunk and screw. Jerry Jeff, Up against the wall redneck mothers.

Have you ever seen a <22 year Thai girl old boinking a 60-70-80 year old foreign guy for free? I haven't. Never. And being jealous of a guy with a hooker is like being jealous of a guy with an ice cream cone. It's stoopid when I can easily afford all the ice cream cones I want, never mind that I don't participate in P4P.

Between transferring a bunch of money to someone's account and stealing IPhones that can be traced and tracked, it shouldn't take long to solve this one. If the victim can afford the fee.

That's not hypochondria. It would well and truly suck to walk around feeling like crap for years, blaming old age, only to find out that I have a treatable condition. Like when my Thai cardiologist tried to send me home with a clean bill of health after a stress test, only to find out that I had 100% cardiac blockage when I insisted on the next level of tests (for which I blamed Thai doctors until my brother had the same happen to him in one of the most famous heart hospitals in the US). Turns out, doctors miss a lot if you don't press them.

When the American President is discussing an agreement to not attack American ships, in the context of an America First agenda, the "American" is implied. Let the Greeks or the Liberians defend their revenue stream. I'd bet the insurance company isn't even American... Maybe Lloyd's should get the Royal Navy on the case...

And how many years did you spend doing import/export?

Yet you felt compelled to reply...

Sadly, YouTube is blocked here in China. (And I've been warned by my ISP by phone against using a VPN). I have to download Mentour Pilot on my monthly trips to Bangkok and watch them over the next 3 weeks. I'll catch up next week when I fly back to BKK.

Were they American ships? Or were they some else's responsibility?

I've contended for years (as if that matters to anyone) that they need to install cockpit video recorders now that the tech is so easily available. That would put any mystery to bed, even if it did occasionally catch pilots picking their noses.

As I understand it, Air India didn't act on the 2018 safety bulletin because it was put out as discretionary. An SAIB vs an AD. On an aside, has anyone found another source for the Preliminary Report? The Indian Gub'ment website is blocked here in China. I can't tell on which side it's blocked. I just can't access the report.

They agreed not to attack American ships and they haven't. Greek operated, Liberian flagged ships are someone else's problem. Let the Greeks or the Liberians defend them. The rest of the world are getting their wish. America is no longer the World Police under Trump. They should have thought about what they were wishing for.

A few posts above explain that there was an issue with defective (for lack of a more technical word) switches that were installed without the safety features. I wonder if the inspection they (Air India) did on their other 787s immediately after the crash was to look for defective switches? But that's just me wondering. They cleared them to fly within a day so it couldn't have been a very deep dive inspection.

Or maybe get tested instead of taking the myriad pills the doctors tend to issue to patients reporting the symptoms. I'd gladly pay, even a few thousand USD, if any hospital offered a suite of tests for tropical diseases. But they just send me home with a wad of pills.

Do you know that from statistical test results? The post you're responding to indicates 236 reported case and 34 deaths. That means there's 7 reported cases for every death. But how many people are walking around not knowing they even have it? All they know is that they're suffering life altering symptoms. How many afflicted expats in Thailand just think they're getting old? It would be interesting to see a study of test results in the general population and (perhaps) in the patients reporting symptoms on the list. Then (and only then) could we reasonably make the statement you did.

He'd have done it for 200.

Like I said. It's still early. They have months of work to do. Good info, BTW.

Team Biden would have leaked that part long ago if implicated Trump.