soalbundy

His fleece is white as snow.

What happens to the avatar of 'me' is of no consequence but knowing that you are the immortal screen on which the avatar acts out its life and not the avatar itself brings about the peace that is our essential being. No doubt he will live to be 90 if he can give up his extreme fitness regime, I think it's his way of pushing away the boundary of his mortality but then we all have our methods of coping.

Yes but I don't think these two experiences, which should have been a spiritual wake up call, will initiate any fundamental change in him, he has, on a material level no need or desire to change. He is a millionaire, happy, successful in his business and private life, likable and courageous. This shock will fade, his humour will plaster over his existential fear, he said to his surgeon, "If I can't take it with me, I'm not going" but who knows where he really goes when he sleeps.

Just a harmless bit of spit roasting on the beach, they possibly got confused with the term, they brought their own meat and didn't need a fire.

There's something missing here, so did they just beat the $hit out of him, nick all his stuff and then set him free with the words, "don't tell the cops"?

Calm down Ali, pigs (if you'll excuse the metaphor) can be found everywhere.

who was the victim, Ali Baba? I have a different understanding of socializing but perhaps it's a Muslim thing.

one of life's great questions.

Never had any and still don't, everybody has an agenda and feet of clay. One person that I admire and still do is David Attenborough but that isn't the same as a role model.

One would have to be a crying dick to find me scary. I merely wrote what millions were thinking but wrote 'woke' instead. Violence never solves anything in life but sometimes when a disruptive player leaves the game it becomes enjoyable again. Assassination is dangerous because it sets precedents for the whole spectrum and doesn't change anything, but who doesn't enjoy a film where the villein gets his just punishment.

I agree but it appears that Trumps violent rhetoric is having unforeseen consequences, I must admit that I too was disappointed that this dangerous man got away with nothing more than a scratched ear.

You can't know that. I have a 70 year old brother in Australia who looks like a 45 year old with a 6 pack that a 20 year old weight lifter would envy, he does a 40 km bike ride before breakfast. Recently he broke his neck doing extreme mountain bike riding. They saved his life after an airlift to hospital and for the next 6 months wore an iron cage around shoulders and head. He was given a complete spinal scan as a last check up and two cancerous tumours were discovered in his intestines. Thankfully he had a successful OP. For the first time in his life he questioned his active carefree life style, never one for introspection his recent emails hint at a change, he had never before considered his life as transient.

As far as I'm concerned yes, the question of stability at that age is superfluous.

Intensive studies done in America have shown that dogs genuinely unconditionally love their owners. They have a brain anomaly, present, in a few rare cases, in humans which makes them extremely empathetic and loving. Dogs have no sense of self, hence no ego. Withholding food would obviously cause a dog to look elsewhere for nutrient, it's a matter of survival, instinctive in all sentient beings but that doesn't affect their sense of deep affection for their owner. For the owner a dog is only part of their long lives, for a dog you are its entire life. When I was away from home for two days and returned by car my dog tried to barge its way through the glass door, peeing with excitement when it heard the cars engine, I didn't get that reaction from my wife.

When I was young, a long time ago, the F word was frowned upon if used in public, now it is part of everyday conversation. when my hero Bill Burr uses it in his stand up comedy it adds to the humour, it's expressive and adds to the drama, it all depends on the tone and the forcefulness used whether it is aggressive, expressive or just plain rude. So yes making a video and posting it online was petty.

All relationships are transactional except perhaps that between a person and his dog.

So, not just negligent but criminal as well.

Learning a new language is an intellectual pursuit that not only keeps your mind sharp but also earns you the respect of the locals, it also gives one an insight into the psyche of the locals. I speak 3 languages and that enriches my life. People who don't speak German for instance say that Germans have no sense of humour, having lived there for over 35 years and speak German fluently I can say that this just isn't true, it's just nuanced differently from British humour. Listening to Thai girls speak in relation to their falang escort is also amusing. I remember seeing a loved up falang with his Thai girl who was making arrangements with 3 other Thai girls to go out eating, " Later", she said, "I've got to give this", indicating the star struck falang, "A service first, it won't take long." I felt sorry for him but couldn't help laughing, which drew shocked glances from the girls.

One can see that the world is heading for disaster when McDonalds sells salads and Starbucks sells tea, are there no anchors we can hold onto? the floodgates are open to woke and healthy.....it will end in tears and the gnashing of gums.

A Thai official refusing 1 million Baht bribe is newsworthy. If I was presented with such a bribe my integrity would be sorely challenged and would probably come off second best.

Maybe mummy would be too drunk to respond

A father and grandfather, also someone with empathy for an abused, murdered child. One can't rehabilitate someone like this. The woke brigade would give him counseling and after he had served his sentence set him free to endanger other children. In the West that wouldn't be possible because other prisoners would make sure he wouldn't live long enough to serve out his sentence, something I can only applaud.

650K tax that is huge, don't you have any deductions to make?

and why is the perp still alive? surely an officers gun could go off accidentally.

He'll probably be extradited to the US since it concerns US passports, super-max for this Ivan. No doubt the heavy lifting in this investigation was done by the CIA.