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Good info. Thx for that. I always find free filtered water dispensers in BKK (in fact, in every airport I've transited in Asia). I buy a 10 baht water upstream of security and either guzzle it down or pour it out to get through security. The dispensers are kind of hidden as you say, but generally near just about every rest room, with signs pointing to them. Some have old timey drinking fountains, but most just have a dispenser to fill a container. BYO empty. And I'm not a big fan of old timey drinking fountains since the pandemic... One of the things I like about Swampy, and Asian airports in general. Free water. Last time I flew out of the USA, I paid $4 for a water.

That's a shame, because I enjoyed a monthly (or so) change of pace from KFC. I miss cole slaw... KFC's cole slaw isn't the best in the USA, but it was the best I found in LOS. I wonder if the franchise agreement specifies that they must use ingredients sold to them by KFC, or stay true to the Colonel's recipe? Fried chicken is my most common street food meal. I buy a small jar of the Thai dipping sauce when I check into my hotel, and I always have something to munch on if I get the hangries. I've experienced good then bad street fried chicken, even from the same nice lady. I always chalked it up to how old the oil was (and whether they fried fish or old socks between chicken batches).

That was my first thought, but I think it's more likely they'll migrate to another Euro country or the USA. Who will eventually offer them money to leave. Unless they tend to vote Blue.

And yet, strangely his poll numbers went up every time they leveled more bogus lawfare charges against him.

I think you're confusing which one is the tired trope.

President Joe Biden is frustrated that Barack Obama wouldn’t tell him to his face that he should leave the race. He’s angry with Nancy Pelosi and views her as ruthless for ushering him out the door. And he’s still miffed at the role Chuck Schumer played, too. There's 3 of the 6 or 7 names. And an admission that he "volunteered" to step aside under duress. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/14/biden-frustration-obama-pelosi-00173883

And you're not concerned at all that 6 or 7 people decided in some backroom meeting who was going to be their candidate? Doesn't sound like democracy to me.

Gosh. Here's a novel thought. Why don't Repubs let the voters decide? Unlike the Dems. Remind me, how many primary votes did Harris get? You can add in 2020 primary votes if you'd like.

That's $34,000 a head. It's being reported now as a done deal. Anyone know if that's true? https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/government-migrants-should-be-able-to-get-sek-350-000-for-leaving-sweden

Yeah. Because the safest thing you can do is step out and calmly talk to an angry mob. I don't blame her for refusing to get out of the car until enough cops showed up to keep the crowd in check.

It's not just Americans. I get blasted every time I post this, but I've never encountered a group that's so proud to be ignorant. I freely admit that I am ignorant about more than 99% of the world. (With ignorance being a description denoting lack of knowledge, and not an insult or pejorative) I don't possess more than a fraction of a percent of the world's knowledge. But I don't hold my nose and refuse to dig into information I don't agree with. How else can I understand the other guy's arguments, no matter how stupid I may think they are?

From his editorial I linked: And an irate former President Donald Trump confirmed that he was too touchy and easily triggered. Does that sound like a Trump fan?

Victor Davis Hanson is a famous (Stanford) historian, and not a fan of Trump. Your credentials?

I'll let Victor Davis Hanson describe the debacle... The Sept. 10th presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The swarmy and evasive Vice President Kamala Harris preened, posed and proffered empty platitudes. The ABC moderators proved they were predictably and shamelessly biased. And an irate former President Donald Trump confirmed that he was too touchy and easily triggered. https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/12/victor-davis-hanson-forgettable-warped-debate-donald-trump-kamala-harris-abc/

Another example of goalpost moving. Yesterday, "it was impartial". Today, "it wasn't impartial, but that was Trump's own fault".

She didn't kick his ass. They did. It was a tag team effort.

Just to be fair, have Fox moderate. Or Joe Rogan.

Nothing is free in the lounges. It's included in the price you've paid to get into the lounges.

Good God, man. That proves it's even more widespread and been going on longer than we've been told? That's what the "fact checkers" would conclude if it was Trump letting in all the Haitians.

Might be a Texas, or even just an oilfield expression. It went along with "Mungo only pawn in game of life" when we were talking about where we'd move for our next assignment. We usually had no say, except whether to accept the next assignment or walk on down the road kicking rocks.

"where they mailed my paycheck" is slang for "where my office was" Or "where the company wanted me to live". If the OP needs a traditional (good paying) job, that severely limits the places he can choose from. Tough to find an office job, for example, on Koh Chang.

In all the kerfuffle about geese and cats, nobody's discussing how 15-20,000 Haitian migrants ended up in a town of 60,000 people. According to the mayor and the gub'ner, with no advance warning. As if any town could survive a 25-33% unplanned increase in population without devastating effects to the infrastructure, traffic, healthcare, and general quality of life. Masterful diversion by the MSM...

If that's true (and I have no reason to doubt you on it), that would scare me even more. They'd probably find more scofflaws on the days further away from payday.

I always lived where they mailed my paycheck. I don't see where the OP is planning to get a job, work from his laptop, or retire.

There is a legal limit. Over the years, there have been some threads on it. Also some anecdotal stories of people being pulled over in LOS because their window tint was too dark.