VillageIdiot

In this period of British history, most of those who support Johnson actually know very well that Brexit is the Titanic and that his evasive actions will be of no avail. But if the ship is going down anyway, why not have some fun with Boris on the upper deck? 

There is a fatalistic end-of-days pleasure in the idea of Boris doing his Churchill impressions while the iceberg looms ever closer.

When things are too serious to be contemplated in sobriety, send in the clown.

Asked once if he had any convictions, Boris replied, "Only one - for speeding."

Political ignorance is not stupidity... Johnson is genuinely clever and, as his fictional alter ego Barlow shows, quite self aware.

It is the studied carelessness affected by a large part of the English upper class whose manners and attitudes Johnson - in reality the product of a rather bohemian bourgeois background - thoroughly absorbed.

Consequences are for the little people.

26 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Burning starts in earnest from December through to April/may.

 

Huge fines for landowners where fires are burning ,big jail sentences for arsonists. The fires are not difficult to see although many arsonists set them at night so they won't be seen! ????

 

Anyway, it will be same again next year we all know it very well.

Spot on.

Government on every level from national to local has failed to deal effectively with this problem.

That situation will probably continue until the loss of revenue from tourism is greater than the cost of enforcing the seasonal ban on burning.

Could it have been Thaksin?

I wouldn't put it past him.

Not only is he a world-class swindler, he has blood on his hands as well.

He may be even more dangerous now - like a snake backed into a corner.

2 hours ago, allane said:

While I have no objection to new categories for anything, this one seems unnecessary. I think older retired males dominate almost every existing category.

They sure do, with their crotchety and clueless posts.

But don't deprive them of their own sub-forum.

It could be called The Elephant's Burial Ground.

36 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

I agree but a painless way out without a doctor seems difficult, I've seen a euthanasia performed in Holland by a doctor on youtube, nice and easy, just a deep,deep, sleep.

"To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come..."

Well, Saturday night at eight o'clock

I know where I'm gonna go

I'm gonna pick my baby up 

And take her to the picture show

Ev'rybody in the neighborhood

Is dressin' up to be there there too

And we're gonna have a ball

Just like we always do.

Saturday night at the movies

Who cares what picture you see

When you're huggin' with your baby 

In the last row of the balcony?

Well, there's technicolor and cinemascope

The best outta Hollywood

And the popcorn from the candy stand

Makes it all seem twice as good

There's always lots of pretty girls

With figures they don't try to hide

But they never can compare 

To the girl sittin' by my side.

Saturday night at the movies...

Anybody who came of age in the USA during the 1950's and 60's has something that money could never buy.

39 minutes ago, Captain 776 said:

DONT FORGET......NO ONE INVITED YOU HERE~!!

 

We are all guests in this country, if you like it.....enjoy it.

If you dont like it LEAVE~!!

No one is holding you and for sure you wont be missed.

 

Other than this new thing of burning large areas to plant corn for China, Thais have been burning fields since before any of us were born and I am 67.

Like it......or leave it~~!!!

 

I worked Oil n Gas for 47 yrs, cant count all the countries I have lived and worked, some were open sewers, go live in Angola, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi, The Congo for a while, that will stop you from complaining about Chiang Mai.

Steady as she goes, Captain.

We don't even qualify as guests here.

I wasn't invited, were you?

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

The festivities ended long ago.

Bob seemed a likeable sort.

A typical Aussie... forever the lad.

That said, he had a nasty streak in him - as so many of them do.

The Trump Peace Plan has been hidden in plain sight.

It was Bibi's election campaign platform.

Eretz Israel on steroids.

47 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

signs like this all over the US highways in the 50 and 60's.

 

 

For sure.

They were everywhere when I was growing up in those days.

I think they were started by Burma Shave in the 1930s.

If Burma Shave wasn't the first, they were certainly the most creative.

1 hour ago, CLW said:

Today there is a news story on Khaosod news website that the Excise Department prepared a decree to collect taxes from sales of cannabis same tax rate as tobacco.

It seems to me they smelled a rat and that there could be big money to make.

Believe me, it's will be going faster than you think and we'll have licensed dispensaries

Hope you're right about that.

"...they smelled a rat..."  more likely they smelled a roach.

Bring back Netta!

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Funny I love Franken and thought he was presidential timber. He got screwed by unlucky timing. He didn't do anything worthy of losing his career.

 

I don't agree Biden would lose but I see no reason to coronate him into the nomination either. I've read even the democratic front runners now only have a 20 percent chance of winning the nomination.

 

Let them fight it out. What a show it will be but hopefully the end result is unifying.

 

Thai citizenship? Hmm. Would they have you?

 

Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

 

 

 

No, they probably wouldn't have him.

But let him take consolation from Groucho Marx's famous quip... "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."

2 hours ago, tifino said:

but.... RR is foreign owned! whether by the Germans or the Chinese these days... whatever!

 

 

RR, it is as British as an MG ZS

 

 

so what is a foreign company's place? to be criticising the UK in how they operate with/out Brexit?

Hear, hear!

Rest in Peace RR... 

"Some corner of a foreign field will ever be England."

18 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Whoa there. The definition of a ghetto is the part of a city, especially a slum area, where a minority group lives and has restricted freedom of movement.

There are farangs all over Chiang Mai, living in accommodation ranging from rooms to studio apartments to condo penthouses to very comfortable houses out in the suburbs. I'm sure they don't feel they are in a ghetto, except perhaps for the ones living on the edge.

Immigration long lines are readily solved with an agent. Granted the air quality is lousy between mid-February and the end of March; however, I can escape that with a short plane ride.

General high cost? What on earth are you talking about? The rent I pay here for one month would barely stretch to one week in Australia. The tenderloin pork steak, mussuman curry or seafood marinara I dine on here for about 150 baht would cost nearly five times as much, as an item on a pub menu in Australia. Granted, decent beef or wine are problematic. Plenty of inexpensive fruit and vegetables at any of the markets.

I enjoy my swimming at the condo, inexpensive golf ( including lady caddies ), and move freely between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai as the whim takes me. Hardly the life of a ghetto dweller, and there are plenty like me.

I get that you may prefer your own company. I like a bit of space occasionally too. However, your post is bordering on misanthropy.

9 hours ago, smotherb said:

Gee, now you are arguing semantics and giving your opinion. I simply gave mine, pay attention.  A farang ghetto to me is any place numerous farangs gather. Chiang Mai fits that description. I can live cheaper and better--in my opinion, and quite frankly, my opinion is what matters to me--in places where fewer farangs exist.

 

Again, you jump to conclusions. I do not prefer my own company, I enjoy the companionship of others, but they do not have to be Westerners.  In fact, only about half of my friends in Thailand are farang, and only a few of them are from my country. 

You two might not be living in a "farang ghetto" but you are certainly posting in one.