daveAustin

Her brother getting into the fray won’t help her cause. They want blood but are going after the wrong sibling. I mean, if every politician had to answer monetarily for potential errors (actually that’s not a bad idea), there’d be nobody running countries. Look at the HUGE damage Blair did to the UK, for example! Presidents aside (LBJ), well over and above what any PM past and present has achieved. This will get thumbs downs from the usual subjects (I don’t care! It’s petty)… but Yingluck? Again, a delicate flower paying for her brother’s activities and getting the shaft from the system.

Gawd, I really need to tweak my humour. Right over the head.

It sure is but beg to differ. Dunno about this system specifically, but fuses are incorporated into electronic circuitry routinely in order to protect components against shorts. A fast blow fuse will drop out a lot quicker than an mcb, which is chiefly to protect from overcurrent.

Pillow biting, eh!

Perhaps your mind (or root admin) was surreptitiously telling you to stop posting tat? 😜 Yes, they are mostly garbage, possibly to do with the default mode network in the brain going offline on occasion leading to unusual connections being made (much like when on psychedelics) that can’t normally happen, thus you typically get nonsense.

Fuse will blow faster than breaker?

Poor fella, he only wanted ‘A’ cigarette.

So we’re still permitted to do it face to face then?

😂 Yeah good one. We’ve been down that road. You can do peace on Ukraine’s terms, you reprobates you.

Lanta is very dull, but tolerable in high season. The horrendous roads and unsightly main drag don’t do it any favors. Hua Hin’s alright, and at least looks okay. People say CM is dull (?), but that is typically from Pattaya types so doesn’t count… the latter, while not dull, well into ‘dump’ category. Depends what you’re after I guess, but PLok, Sukothai town, Chiang Rai and Koh Samet are proper boooring.

Unlikely. And how would that work, video evidence etc? Thais are largely apathetic, don’t like snitching (rightly fear of retribution) and the police wouldn’t have the resources or be bothered even. The helmet hullabaloo comes around regularly, as does the license thing, but rarely makes a dent and people go back to norm.

No 'good brits' in your world then? Probably an embittered dodgy froggy to get that dig in. Any group in massive numbers is not a good thing for any place. Regards India or China, they should probably pile into one another's back yard en masse, see how they like it.

They can be angry bitter things. It typically happens to those that have been put on a pedestal. A silverback doesn’t have those kind of problems and their group is generally one of peace and tranquility.

The politician in him—immediate damage limitation. That or perhaps they do humour a bit different in France. You’re not fooling anyone, Emmanuel. You can tell it was in anger. No smiles anywhere, his surprise and jitteriness, and her shutting down after the fact… when annoyed, women struggle to mask it and will hold in that ire for days, weeks, months. Can’t stand the bloke but wouldn’t have liked to have been in his shoes last night, especially knowing there’s all those stunning, YOUNG ladies within earshot. Shades of Camilla. Why do these guys do it to themselves? Is it a mommy thing?

Wondered who that was for a minute, thought he’d taken his mum for a holiday!

Indeed, it’s typically supped by people because they can (and Thais especially love that side of it), but they wouldn’t necessarily know the difference from a 1000 bahter. Can get a decent Barolo off the shelf in the UK for 1000baht equivalent, even cheaper in sales. Probably looking at 2-3k here. Have noticed reductions over time in the supermarkets here but not massively so. Echoing chap above, can’t beat a sip of high end wine, or the best single malts etc, but a semi-decent cab’ every now and then will do me. Still grossly overpriced though. Surprising it harps on about how much they’re potentially losing now duty has apparently been lowered. Umm, no, because hardly any f’ker was buying it before. It’s grape juice! Shelve duty inline with western countries then see the roaring trade in wines!

Put the Tom Clancy down dude. 🥴 Perhaps the typical one sided affair—Vietnam, Afghanistan et al—but not this one, which is no good for anyone and has the potential to go supernova.

Could be done … for tuk-tuks. 😋

^^^ Indeed, as America would never step in when they know they might not win a fight. Trump is so lame, he actually thinks he’s pally with Putin and has any kind of sway over him, where that dude is another level of devious and only understands one kind of retort. But yes, Europe needs to drop with all the liberal prissy nonsense of the last few decades and man-up.

Define your?

If you’re closed off, or of the typical boomer (😜) persuasion with all that rigid thinking, then nowhere. If you go a bit deeper you might pick up that ‘actual’ consciousness could be an intrinsic part of the universe—read; not brain—and it goes back into the ether or soul. The universe has already done what it set out to do, see itself and muse itself, where consciousness comes forward into the receiver (brain) and watches itself think etc. How do you tell the difference between consciousness and thought? The former observes the latter and knows that it is aware. Just thought on thought? You tell me. Guess we’ll all find out one day, but when it happens might be best to smile at it and let it come. Death is natural and if there is a purgatory, getting all stressed and bent out of shade because you’re gonna die possibly might put you there.

Plato has spoken 😀

“Anyway, after dinner, he calls me up and tells me he’s seen my girlfriend standing on the street in Soi Nana at night a few times, talking to guys.” Hmm, hardly think she was discussing superstring theory with her particle physicist colleagues. But you never know. All sounds very casual nevertheless and you’re clearly not bf/gf or whatever. She probably considers you her ‘gik’ (which is great) or playing the long game.

The meaning is to suffer then to not suffer… typically by not suffering (some suffer because they try to not suffer). 🙂 A divine game, one in which mere mortals are not privy to.

Hmm, don’t know about that. There are a lot of upset folk regards T being allowed back, but Thais are still largely apathetic if it did happen. There would be anger and protests for sure, but beyond that don’t reckon you’d see millions on the streets.