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Here's a giveaway. If they believe and insist that the kerfuffle started in 2022 (or even in 2014), they can't be reasoned with.

And what they conveniently forget is that if it wasn't for whitey (or is it pasty?), the Aborigines would be speaking Japanese. And they were a lot more malevolent to their subjects, as they proved in Nanjing.

Biu needs to buy a better camera.

But they did screw the pooch on Deepwater Horizon. Both the arrogance that caused the disaster and the despicable way they handled it afterward. And that's coming from a guy who spent my first 10 years out of college working for them, with mostly fond memories. But based on my experiences there, I can envision the macho bullcrap that led to the decisions that caused the blowout. I've been in a hundred of those meetings.

He proclaimed a dude to be "woman of the year". What else is there to say?

I struck up a conversation with an Aussie last week in Kanchanaburi. Turned out he's a bigger Trump fan than I am. He told me you guys have elections coming up this year, and he's hoping for a change. What's your bet?

Other than the omnipresent graft and corruption, can anyone explain the reasons for the extended project? In fairness, that G&C isn't specific to Thailand. In the US, it's a common practice for highway contractors to front load the costs into the first phases of the contract so they get paid a lot up front, then they use that money for other things while they slow walk the rest of the work. Like, they'll charge $200 million for early dirt work, then $20 million for the rest of the project. They're still low bid, but they get to use that money for years before they actually earn it. BTW, those links are blocked here. So apologies if the answer is in there.

Yup. Brianna Skinner is the best thing since sliced bread. According to... Brianna Skinner.

How lazy do you have to be to not Google Brianna Skinner and find your own sources? It takes all of 3 seconds.

If a Texas guy won "woman of the year", I'd pull out my best Chicago accent and start talking about da Bears. Good thing is, that ain't gonna happen. Edit: Except maybe in Austin, which is now known as East California.

This week, a transgender “woman” was named Sydney, Australia’s Local Woman of the Year by an Australian state PM earlier this week. Brianna Skinner reportedly won the award despite being a biological male.

The one time I did a round trip to HH to buy a kayak off BahtSold (or was it Craigslist?), it was pretty smooth sailing both ways. I think I left and returned on a Saturday afternoon, not during prime time. Traffic is about the worst disadvantage of having a work schedule in Bangkok, when I couldn't pick my travel times.

In lefty bizzaro world, anal extraction is considered a valid research method. Along with navel gazing.

When did the right wing media call him sleepy Joe?

And in a few months when the killing and dying end and the rebuilding starts, they'll find something else to hate on him for.

I stayed in HH a few times, usually at the behest of other couples I knew from work. I enjoyed it. But, as others have pointed out, the road down was pretty miserable. I suspect that's because we were following the weekend crowd on Friday nights. I recently arrived in BKK on a Friday night and felt sorry for those headed to Pattaya on the taxi ride going the other way. It was gridlocked the entire way. That's the way the road to HH felt.

It would have been nice to see a photo of that tire. I quit taking kamikaze vans after my 2nd trip. The first one was so white knuckle bad I thought it must be a fluke. The second (and last) trip confirmed that it wasn't. I'll still take a van that's been arranged by friends or the company with a driver that they know personally. But never a random driver again.

100% true. I'd have been blocked from giving input had I wanted to go in and testify how my vaccine injury has affected the quality of my life. Now, they're also blocking the paid shills. That seems fair.

The operative word is "won". By the rules as they are. Not the rules that some people wish there were. If they changed the rules, he would have campaigned differently and still beaten Harris.

Interesting that the EU hive mind on X have all posted the same: Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President @ZelenskyyUa. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace. — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) — Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) — António Costa (@eucopresident) — Valdis Dombrovskis (@VDombrovskis) — Manfred Weber (@ManfredWeber) It's as if they all got their talking points and marching orders from the same source. Like the MSM when they called Vance "weird". And their current "constitutional crisis". Not an original thought between them.

And what does it say about the veracity of those charges that he still won the election? That's why Bondi and Patel are cleaning out the DOJ and FBI of partisan hacks. Americans are fed up with a dual justice system being manipulated to interfere with elections.

And if you changed the rules, they'd campaign differently, and the same candidate would still win. You guys also forget to mention Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral college in 2024. Because Harris was so bad.

If AirBNB is deliberately (or negligently) facilitating illegal transactions, it seems they should be paying fines as well.

That, and the high cost of a flight vs a bus or a train is probably why they don't have commuter flights from BKK or DMK to HH. The demand just isn't there. I don't go to HH, but I love Kanchanaburi and showing up minutes before the train departs (100 baht), or the bus station and getting on the next bus which will generally leave in the next half hour (130 baht). You can't even buy a coffee at the airport for that.

It seems like you're confused. The OP is shedding light on the sources of AP's funding. Isn't that a good thing, that readers know where their money is coming from?