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I know guys significantly older that are sharp as a tack. I also know people in their 60's that are losing it. Age isn't the problem. Cognitive decline is.

Rules out Biden, too. https://edition.cnn.com/polling/approval-rating-polls

What if a 300 pounder buys the middle seat? And has the taco surprise for lunch before boarding?

Pragmatic question here... Do you believe the residents in the Donbass or Crimea will suffer under Russia any more than they suffered under Ukraine? Will their quality of life go up or go down based on the GDP per capita?

How much has it cut back on beer and Hong Thong sales? 'Cause you don't want to fall afoul of those families.

And Portugal is on the boards. Closely following the Italian guy.

As long as they're not hurting anyone, I'd rather have them in Thailand than shooting at Ukrainians. My sympathy for their plight extends to victimless crimes like overstay and WP violations. But if they're actually victimizing anyone, send them to the front.

Both your buddy's photo and hers show caves that are barely high enough to crawl into. The photo in the OP shows a cave with a guy standing upright in the front, with plenty of headroom. Without exact location data, there's no way of knowing if they're the same cave. Based strictly on the photos, I'd say they're not. In fact, based on the slope at the entrances, I'd say those are 3 photos of 3 different caves. And I'd bet there are dozens (maybe hundreds) more all along the rail line. I've spent a lot of weekends at a temple in Sangkla Buri, near the 3 Pagodas, and it has a lot of wild area that may have dozens right there. And probably, the locals know all about them, but not that they'd be of historical importance. Maybe this article will jog some local memories and they'll find even more. On a side note, I really wanted to go exploring the gorgeous mountains and hills around 3 Pagodas, but thought the better of it when I realized what a hardship I'd be putting on the locals if I fell or got bit by a snake and they had to mount a rescue.

You're going to have to provide a link to that. Because I suspect it's Team Biden in an election year when they finally snapped to the fact that the polls are so heavily against him on immigration. Looking to blame someone else, when it was his 90+ executive actions that caused the spike. The invasion, if you will. If I had access to YouTube, I could post a quite a few videos of Team Biden DHS Chief Mayorkis and Team Biden Border Czar Harris, insisting that the border is secure. Maybe someone else can help me out there... Meantime, here's some tidbits: https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/mayorkas-congress-border/ https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/09/17/kamala-harris-border-secure-cuelar-smerc-vpx.cnn

The photo in the other OP shows a guy standing upright at the mouth of their cave, with quite a bit of clearance overhead. It's not hard to imagine there's hundreds of such caves all over Thailand, especially along the railway where they'd expect to be bombed and had prisoner labor to dig them. It would be helpful for all the claimants to post GPS coordinates of their finds, just to eliminate questions.

The photo in the OP shows a guy standing upright at the mouth of their cave, with quite a bit of clearance. It's not hard to imagine there's hundreds of such caves all over Thailand, especially along the railway where they'd expect to be bombed and had prisoner labor to dig them.

If you do settle into Thailand, I'd suggest checking out multiple hospitals in your area. Some are better than others, and that's good info to have before you find yourself in need. Also, check out different doctors (who may take shifts in several hospitals) to find one you like that speaks English. And get a business card... A good place to start is the local expat breakfast hangout. Find out where they go. Then burn some shoe leather.

I don't disagree at all. (Nor do I agree.) But goll dang, that's 3 defamation lawsuits... Maybe more if you include the RTP. In Thailand... Edit: Out of curiosity, under Thai law, is AseanNow shielded from defamation suits for stuff they allow on the forum?

Just to clarify, is your road bike of the pedal variety, or the powered type?

I'd cut him some slack. Not all peaceniks are independently wealthy. Some of them have to work to afford living overseas, away from the meat grinder.

Come to think of it, it was not mentioned. Probably because Biden didn't mention that in his speeches where he said (paraphrasing, with credit to The Temptations) "Vote for me and I'll set you free". Yet another Biden campaign fib, by omission.

Did that synopsis come from the same people who have been telling us for almost 4 years that the border is secure?

It would be interesting to see what happened to beer and Hong Thong sales while weed was legalized. Maybe that's what he meant by "bad results"?

You mean the bill that codified and normalized 5,000 illegals entering per day before it even allowed CBP to call a halt? Assuming, of course, that they were allowed to. Which history proves, Biden won't let them enforce existing law. Did you even read the 370 page bill?

That's probably the only accurate statement in your post. But I think the correlation is the amount left on your student loan. Watched some YouTubes last week when I was in Thailand, interviewing "young adults" about what they thought of Biden. The most oft repeated complaint was that he hasn't cancelled their student loan yet.

I can't believe anyone went swimming in that water after dark, when any crafty resort owner would secretly dump their raw sewage hoping it would float away or be dissipated before anyone sees it the next morning. Besides, it's hard to dodge the turd you can't see.

I'm more inclined to hope that the corruption remains relatively benign toward foreigners. For every corrupt official that's rooted out, there's probably 3 or 4 wannabes lurking in the wings that may be less friendly toward us, and casting greedier eyes at what we collectively own and earn.

Just a small subset of them. But the most vocal subset, by far.

Context is important. Gotta have something to compare it to. Edit: Also doesn't hurt the forum to discuss shared experiences that make us more alike than a lot of posters would think, based on the catfights we see so often.

I don't know if it will help the OP, but if I needed anything in the audio genre in Bangkok, I'd start at the Ban Mo electronics market near the Sam Yot MRT. Walk out the east side of Old Siam Plaza, cross the street at the red painted, signal controlled crosswalk, walk 50 yards down the market alley, then hook a left into the bowels of the multi-floor market for all things electronic. I can spend hours just scrounging in the hundreds (thousands?) of electronic and maker kiosks. In fact, I did last week. I was afraid Covid may have decimated the place, but it's still great. Found exactly what I was looking for by brand and model (though it wasn't a remote control). Bring your old one...