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What reason is that ? Baby needs a new pair of shoes. I used to get pulled over occasionally for whatever. Usually a non-existent infraction. 500 baht seemed to be the right amount. Never a receipt, of course. I'm not recommending it. Bribery's illegal. Just relating my experience.

I thought this thread was going to be about the End of the Month song. From when Jimmy Kimmel was funny. And they could offend people on cable TV without fear of cancellation or worse. Google John Valby lyrics if you missed it back when you were in college.

Lackanoogie.

Maybe, maybe not. Especially given the suspect's claim of self defense. Admittedly, it doesn't look good for the suspect. But it's a confusing story.

I just can't see myself paying $50-100 an hour extra for a slightly better meal and wider seat. Not after a childhood of scooping up the neighbors' dog poop for less than $1 an hour. But if I'm on the company dime, sure.

Same here. I didn't move right. The goalposts moved left. Crazy left. Tampon dispensers in the men's room left.

Never let facts get in the way of a good Commie bashing.

By definition, the CDC does not have long term data. Because it hasn't been a long term yet. And may I remind you that's the same CDC that presided over 4% of the world's population that had 16% of the world's Covid deaths in spite of spending (by far) the most per capita of any nation on Covid care? They either sucked at healthcare, or they sucked at counting. Or both. You'll have to pardon me if I don't believe them. But you go right on ahead.

So you have long term data? Spill.

For kids? How do you know what the long term risks are for the vaccines before a long term has passed and we have data? The short answer is that you don't. End of story, indeed.

I miss the good ol' days when Mom would haul us down to the airport on Friday night and we'd greet Dad as he stepped out of the jetway. If we got there early, we'd head up to watch the planes landing from the outdoor observation deck on the roof of the airport. That was O'Hare. Simpler times.

I do use my brain. So I realize that hopping on a scooter is 20-40x as dangerous per km as sitting in my pickup was. Helmet or no. So I don't accept being lectured by idiots who think a helmet makes them just as safe as me in my pickup with 2 tons of steel and seatbelts. Or the ones that think their superior riding skills (or a helmet) will protect them from a truck coming at them in the wrong lane. Or the ones who think a 99 baht BigC plastic POS that the scooter taxis offer me is better than nothing. So take your condescending attitude elsewhere.

Please tell me she's not a dude.

I think the flaw in that plan is being worth less to the locals alive than dead.

Sounds like at least one of your parents didn't like you and your brother?

Those expats. It's always glass half empty with them.

I'm pretty sure the Brits and the Yanks were doing it long before they announced doing it.

I think they refer to that as a clue. I've been watching way too much Forensic Files. Puts me right to sleep at night...

They used to set up a table in front of the actual gate and do rechecks. But I haven't seen that Post Covid. I don't know whether they focused on certain routes, or if they were randomly selected. Also don't know if they still do them, but I haven't been rechecked in the past 2 years flying once a month. I used to get rechecked on occasion before the shutdowns.

Most of the airports I've used in China do a cursory security check to get into the airport then a more thorough check to get into the departure gates. The cursory check to even enter the airport varies by the airports. Some just swab for explosives. Others x-ray bags and do a pat down, just to enter the airport.

It's not 1939 and Putin isn't waging a war to annihilate subhumans to make room for the Master Race. In fact, one could look at GDP data and argue that the Ukes will actually do better under Russia. The ones in Crimea did.

True. But that's hardly an endorsement of their safety benefits. Especially the BigC 99 baht plastic jobbers.

They kinda look like eazy bake solar powered ovens.

It's okay when the good guys do it.

Dang, man. Don't jinx it. Or you may get caught up in one tomorrow. And it'll be on the one day you don't have your helmet.