MisterTee

1 hour ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

For anybody old enough to remember, the Beatles personified the Mods, the Stones did a good imitation of the Rockers.

The Mods rode scooters, the Rockers rode Triumphs, BSAs, and Harleys.

Different strokes for different folks.

Spot on.

That's the way it was when they first got started.

The idea that one group was "better" than the other is, as you say, childish.

They were different to begin with and continued to have their own distinctive style.

2 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

There must be lotsa fatties in NYC. Much better education & healthcare/more affluent, maybe?

Been to the US recently, Andrew?

Obesity has become synonymous with poverty in many areas of the country.

2 hours ago, NE1 said:

Your electric bill is 10,000 baht a month.....

2 hours ago, eeworldwide said:

Im heartened by the fact you passed elementary maths.
Yes - I live in a large house because I have a very large family.

2 hours ago, NE1 said:

I am not doubting you or anything like that , I was just a little shocked by the size of your bill.

Mine is around the 3,000 baht a month , I thought that was high.

A civil reply to a snarky taunt.

Disgusted by fellow farangs behaving badly?

Welcome to the club.

8 hours ago, DeaconJohn said:

The last time a socialist was elected president it resulted in an unnecessary war followed by the whole of Eastern Europe being swallowed up by the Soviet Union.

Communism is always with us in one form or another.  The latest iteration is this old Marxist knucklehead who never outgrew his boyhood in Brooklyn.

It looks like history repeating itself as farce.

 

That's an exceptionally good post.

Perceptive and concise.

Thanks.

1 hour ago, talahtnut said:

The US brought democracy to Iraq as

promised, but now they don't want to

respect it.

How ironic.

It would be hard to imagine a more ridiculous comment than that.

America and Europe are on a slide right now.

The highest immigration rates in the world are to places like Sweden, Canada, Germany, and California.  It's the freebies they go for.

After going too far down the Socialist path, these states begin to run like ponzi-schemes where the only thing propping them up is a rapid expansion of population.  They need the population increases so badly that they will accept almost anyone and will also offer lavish incentives to encourage third worlders  to make the journey [free healthcare, free education, free housing, etc.]. 

We are witnessing the death-throes of these societies, the last ditch effort to keep the party going a few more years.

It will fail, and it will fail spectacularly, as Socialism always does.  If America as a whole goes down that path, by electing any one of the current crop of goo-goo Liberals, it will be a rapid acceleration of the fall.

3 hours ago, Saint Nick said:

First of all: get your terminology right!

Marxist, Kommunist...what else?

Second: he is on line with the majority of US voters on many important issues: universal health care, gun control, taxing the super- rich, free education...you name it!

I guess, the majority of US- voters are Marxist, too?!

Third: he is the ONLY ONE of the lot, who Trump has nothing on!

All other candidates are majorly flawed or downright evil.

 

Bernie is consistent in his policies and has been for a long time.

And he is on the right side of history with most of his proposals.

He doesn't have to lie about his voting record and he gives Trump very little to work with!

 

So ...yes...he is the best choice and he is absolutely able to defeat the orange Monster! 

My terminology is right on target.

I grew up in and around New York City and I know one when I see one.

They start taking Socialism in with their mother's milk and the only thing that changes is the name of their movement - Liberal, Progressive, Woke, or whatever is the flavor of the month.

7 minutes ago, Saint Nick said:

Good!

Bernie is the only hope, Democrats have to beat the moron, who is currently president, IMHO.

 

If Bernie is the Democrats only hope then they are in deep trouble come November.

Can't they do better than that?

He's an old Marxist knucklehead who never outgrew his boyhood in Brooklyn.

On ‎11‎/‎21‎/‎2019 at 9:58 AM, CMHomeboy78 said:

Thanks for the song.

Keep working at English as a medium to express your intelligent and perceptive take on Farang/Thai relations.  You do it in a very interesting and personal way.

The complaining, hypercritical malcontent who is so prominent nowadays is - in such large numbers - a fairly recent development among farangs in Thailand.

Certainly, there have always been misfits in the expat communities, but what you see and hear so often now is much worse than it has ever been since I first came here in the late 1970s.

Age means a lot.  Most of them come here too late in life.

Too late to master the language and achieve functional literacy.

Too late to attract anything better than a mercenary woman out for all she can get, and then go on to become a cash cow for her greedy relatives.

Why don't these dupes just do everybody a favor and go away?

I think in many cases lack of money - after being repeatedly scammed by Thais - is one reason, and not wanting to return to home countries that have become essentially failed states is another.

Cultural isolation produces much of the hatred you see so often expressed on this forum where they are rewarded with hundreds of "likes" and supporting posts that make them feel justified in their twisted views.

Your feisty observations on these "guests that would be gone" are always worth reading.

Keep posting and good luck Yinn.

That's a bit of a rant, but it would be hard to gainsay the points you make.

When a music topic like this brings the Thai-bashers out of the woodwork you know the situation has gone from tragedy into the realm of farce.

There was recently a Chiang Mai news topic on Thai Visa about a country airshow that elicited an unbelievable amount of verbal abuse directed against Thais and Thailand.  The show had been advertized but had not yet taken place.  The posts were all conjecture of the nastiest kind.  It seems that anything is now fair game for these pitiful losers.

Legitimate grievances like air pollution and the government's conspicuous failure to deal with it is where they should aim their vitriol... not at the chao bahn with their tolerant and welcoming culture.

We don't even qualify as guests here.

I wasn't invited... were you?

We're more like party-crashers who have blundered in too late and found a banquet-hall deserted, whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, and all but he departed.

44 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

Surely if you willing wish to disfigure your body it does not matter which country you choose ?

Spot on.

Before getting any kind of a tattoo it's always a good idea to get a check-up from the neck up.

There might be a screw loose somewhere.

Welcome to the forum, Vikas.

Your education is just beginning.

If you have a sense-of-humour try not to lose it.