Donnie Brasco
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US may not need Cuba but they want it
Cuba has shown for many decades it does not need the US
They should sit pat & be satisfied to have a country & not be another
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You haven't been to Cuba. The people are impoverished. Those who can afford a car are driving cars made in the 1950's. That includes taxis. It would be hard to equate it with most 3rd world countries. The dictatorship has really kept the people isolated and in the dumps.
If Castro would open up Cuba to first world investment and allow a tourist economy to flourish - but people don't trust him because the Castro regime stole the private properties when they took over the first time.
Yeah, that's it.
Bring back the mob-run casinos and the brothels.
And please, can we NOT get into a silly exchange about how "gaming industry management companies" have taken this stuff over from organized crime.
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Maybe the US will give them something to think about by re-calling the Charge to the State Dept for ' urgent discussions on the situation '.Didn't Mr Russel was just telling the truth and called for a return to normality? Their reactions is a clear indicator that they are very well aware that the coup was unlawful and that the momentary situation in Thailand is against all democratic standards. But it is the Thai way. Never listen and threaten the ones who dare to tell the truth.
The funny thing is, they could actually have agreed with him and said ,"yes, we know its not perfect, but we are working through the issues".
But no. They throw a tizzy. Its time for a few of these children to be put in the corner to wear the dunces cap.
Honestly, the embassies should keep on at them, they obviously have them all up tight. Tease them mercilessly. How do you post "democracy for dummies" to the NLA.
Forget a reduced presence at Cobra Gold, try not appropriate to take part in the current climate.
The problem is will anything get through to the circus ?
You mean a "rook move" to just suspend Cobra Gold ?
Really ?
Have you even thought this through ?
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StickmanIf you need a private investigator you already have your answer,
I know you don't want to hear that but you feel something is not good or vibes
Good luck mate if u do really need a investigator look on the Internet or as a law firm they usually know also
Thanks mate, I know that the things I think I've picked up on etc.. make me think things are not good .....but I have a baby with this girl so just keep thinking I really need to be 100% sure, to see just how bad things really are.
Is he still going? He used to specialize in these background checks
There are loads of guys that do this.
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More like George Wallace or David Duke. Ignore those delusions of grandeur.
George Wallace rhymes with David Duke ?
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Let me guess. Russia Today. Press TV. Appropriately controlled.People in glass houses...
In your VERY WEAKly formulated "reductio ad absurdem" you are not entitled to "guess" .
My reading research and as a consequence, my FREE THINKING on these matters goes WAY BEYOND these media.
But you guys routinely quote from sources that you have already trashed for disagreeing with you.
In our movie, Ulysses G, I am Winston Smith. Bet when you first read THAT ONE you thought they were talking about your pet bad guys.
History doesn't really repeat itself.
It rhymes.
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People in glass houses...Access appropriate media, at least before revealing your astounding ignorance.
By "appropriate media" I specifically avoid the oppressor's propaganda.
People in glass houses usually have great views, good vantage points and excellent perspective lots of light to see what's really going on.
Those living in the past, relying on the ignorance of others and kneeling before the go nailed boot are somewhat handicapped.
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RIP Dooley.
Looks like a top dog.
To avoid this very thing, some people never get dogs.
Never done an RIP before.
RIP Dooley
BTW, if you see a Chocolate-spot Dalmation up there (the canine equivalent of a male cardigan-sweater model in an upscale knitting magazine) his name is Beau.
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They are fishing to see if you're single, you hansum, hansum ma'.
The vast majority of Thais showing any interest at all in your personal circumstances are looking for "an end."
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If you need a private investigator you already have your answer,
I know you don't want to hear that but you feel something is not good or vibes
Good luck mate if u do really need a investigator look on the Internet or as a law firm they usually know also
Thanks mate, I know that the things I think I've picked up on etc.. make me think things are not good .....but I have a baby with this girl so just keep thinking I really need to be 100% sure, to see just how bad things really are.
Stickman
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Agree........all types of humour will make them laugh, if they understand it....sarcasm they don't get like Woody allen humour for exampleBenny Hill.
Many Thai people I have met appreciate that type of humour.
Sarcasm seems not to be very well understood.
Actually depending on their level of worldliness, they do.
This old Woody Allen joke regarding sex gets them at all levels:
"Hey Siriporn (Krap) Does sex always have to be dirty ?"
(Give Siriporn a few seconds to ponder that before you suggest . . . . . )
"Well, yes, of course it does. . . . . . . If you're doing it properly ;-)"
If it "goes through" they get it and they'll giggle BUT then they'll realize what they've effectively revealed.
The joke will then reverberate and if they're sharing it and If it reverberates appreciably they'll get into uncontollable giggles.
(I've seen tears streaming down their faces and some even leave the room laughing.
If she gets it and laughs (no Thai girl wants to carry her reaction to this *by herself* among a group of, say, office workers) she'll either translate it and share it so everyone except the office virgin can have a laugh. . . . OR
she'll feign malcomprehension" (um, that's your cue NOT to parse the joke and explain it, n-n-n-nkaaaay;- ?)
But she won't forget it.
Or the guy who told it.
Kinda like the first time back in the late nineties when the girls all got together and porn-surfed.
But that's a story for another day ;-)))))
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Our "pot" and our BBQ are constant sources of wonder to me.
have pretty much seen it all and my wife enjoys playing with these new cooking surfaces that don't demand she "get down" or as in one hilarious pic "hop up" to prepare dinner.
Wife (Isaan) dislikes Thai food (too sweet, too oily)
We can go out for Thai, Korean or japanese, I guess but the wife ("employable" here in BKK only in the most exploitive, degrading circumstances chooses to run our home menu instead of being used) Early morning wet market five minutes from our condo.
We have arrived at quite a mixed menu. Italian, Isaan, French, Japanese North American with occasional forays into Thai stuff.
Lots of Tom yams and , occasionally, some other Upcountry larp
She blends pumpkin, veg and herbs into soups and the occasional smoothie.
We grill or roast chicken, fish, eggplant, zucchini and (occasionally) a steak, Italian sausage, sometimes mixed.
Or a lamb or beef binge after unpacking the frozen cut from our luggage along with Yukon Gold spuds and local fiddleheads.
The most incredible olive-oil-fried pommes frites (not from the Yukon Golds, though) with cider vinegar and Isaan salt.
Tempura's veg sometimes if we need to use it and the oil's going.
SALADS include Caesar, Cobb, the "mixed green mystery salad, potato salad and (of course ;-) som tam ("tham Thammasat" with fresh roasted Cashews (not peanuts) real lime juice (not that bottled stuff) and of course she sneaks in a little Isaan "anchovy paste" or the real thing when we are out of Pla ra.
We only eat rice (both kao khrong and Kao home Mali) or bread as fillers. . . . . as with a curry (Indian or local) or use pita or corn chips with humus, and other veg dips and pate. Very little kao nieaw lately. She says she gets enough of that when she takes an Isaan vaycay to work on her house.
PASTA prima Vera style or Homemade pesto (pine nuts, heaps of fresh basil and olive oil from home and cashews, spicy red sauce with seafood or lasagna (BBQ baked)
PIZZA (on a stone in the BBQ, indirect heat . . . . Commercial crusts.)
We have "steamed" Isaan food weeks usually after a binge on local Food like gaeng pet phet yang, or Mussaman or after returning from the old country. Steamed river prawns, swimming crab, mussels etc.
No CHEEZE, little bread some cold Sauvignon Blanc or Beer Lao on occasion.
Brownies (Betty Crocker) are BBQ-baked. Puffed rice ;-).
Fresh-Isaan salted pecans, pumpkin seeds, almonds and cashews.
Soda water w/ lime juice and "It" replaced beer feeds years ago.
Scotch-rocks and San Pell.
She cooks "exotic" for the folks at home sometimes.
No complaints there either.
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This particular discussion between you two is just SOOO funny, so ironic and uber-narcissistic that I just had to comment.
Are we to take from your criticism of this taxi guy that either of you two wouldn't ever be guilty of the exact same brand of discrimination ?
I guess you'll trial balloon that one to see what you can get us.
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The (cough, cough) lobby just can't resist another chance to play for (cough's) toadies.
It'll be impossible for him to resist.
And that's a good thing.
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Have a look at Pat Buchanan's take on Chamberlain, Czechoslovakia and Poland.The Chamberlain analogy is correct. Appeasing an aggressive violent bully who has their own agenda doesn't work.
Some politicians and regimes simply lie.
More than HALF of the U.S. population saw it that way as well . . . . . And then, "my goodness gracious, are those Japanese warplanes in the sky over Pearl Harbour ?...
All politicians and all regimes have their agenda.
ALL lie.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a hoax, then?
No more than your remark is a craven appeal to intellectual laziness and ignorance.
How does that sound ?
Pompous?
*Sigh* if you wish.
I prefer well-read, well-researched, well-supported; with an aversion to the sealed up lock-box approach to scholarship and its relationship to the accurate historical record. This usually happens after that inexplicable 50-year security seal we've been conditioned to expect.
It used to be that 50 years was long enough for most of the players to have safely died off.
Really, if the so-called hard sciences like Physics and Chemistry can be revised and re-formulated why not History ?
Nonetheless, there you go again with that famous "appeal" of yours. . . . . a shopworn nostrum to the same old audience.
(Spotty bookings in the Catskills this season ?)
(Now, let's have a little "I don't know what you're talking about" along with all that world-famous chopped liver you dish out so humbly.)
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Have a look at Pat Buchanan's take on Chamberlain, Czechoslovakia and Poland.So what do Boehner and the his crazy Republican congress want to do? Attack Iran? Using a Neville Chamberlain analogy shows how some are not up with history. Stick with your poster name US civil war stories!
The Chamberlain analogy is correct. Appeasing an aggressive violent bully who has their own agenda doesn't work.
Some politicians and regimes simply lie.
More than HALF of the U.S. population saw it that way as well . . . . . And then, "my goodness gracious, are those Japanese warplanes in the sky over Pearl Harbour ?...
All politicians and all regimes have their agenda.
ALL lie.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a hoax, then?
No more than your remark is a craven appeal to intellectual laziness and ignorance.
How does that sound ?
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Clearly baiting again...I don't know how you get away with it all the time.....but I'll respond;
You mean Israel needs to address the issue of Islam?Israel needs to address the core issues that drives these men to violence against them.
No, I don't mean that at all (as you well know).
It should be pretty clear by now, Seastallion.
No need to give in to it, though.
Just put your Thai Visa experience into the hopper whenever you fail to understand how and why (cough, cough) gets away with anything and everything they do.
Think of it as "Truth" on a bier, lying in state under a glass cover.
(There's ALWAYS a glass cover in these analogies.)
There's little mystery here.
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So what do Boehner and the his crazy Republican congress want to do? Attack Iran? Using a Neville Chamberlain analogy shows how some are not up with history. Stick with your poster name US civil war stories!
The Chamberlain analogy is correct. Appeasing an aggressive violent bully who has their own agenda doesn't work.
Some politicians and regimes simply lie.
Have a look at Pat Buchanan's take on Chamberlain, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
More than HALF of the U.S. population saw it that way as well . . . . . And then, "my goodness gracious, are those Japanese warplanes in the sky over Pearl Harbour ?...
All politicians and all regimes have their agenda.
ALL lie.
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I sympathize with the circumcisees.
The benefits of circumcision are evident after a 10 mile jog or a bus trip home with one's favourite cheerleader after a victorious away game unless she has already declared she doesn't mind a little salt with her charcuterie as long as you don't mind a little salt on your seafood.
Sadly, however, many "uncut" guys on this board have already blocked memories of the lessor known medical procedures the majority of us had to endure once we had decided to, um, socialize for any length of time here in Thailand.
I refer to the equally painful (gasp) penis shortening and (shudder) girth reduction procedures for which Thailand remains a medical tourism Mecca (so to sapeak).
These remain in stark contrast to the almost painless but equally devastating tesTACKLE-ectomy which can be done at home as one's partner aquatints oneself to the subtleties and intricacies of Toy Cowchah.
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Do a poll of men who were cut as babies and determine the percentage who feel they were abused. I can assure you very, very few will say that and most will say they are HAPPY the procedure was done.I am curious, which do ladies prefer. Cut or uncut?
Uncut, which of course they are obviously evolved to derive more pleasure from, offers stimulation and lubrication to the female partner.
Then of course for the male, he still has the most sensitive part of his body being stimulated, and also the main head has not been numbed, and offers stimulation as nature intended.
Robbing a man of this, without their consent, should be a human right's abuse.
Ok. How 'bout we do these polls in the operating room.
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I am curious, which do ladies prefer. Cut or uncut?
"A good solid erection is one of your first achievements as a couple.
When the veins and arteries of a strong healthy erect penis are standing out like the ribs of a starved dog I like to feel we've both had some input. . . . .and freshening up? Well its just good manners, isn't it?
"Except in pictures and biology books, I can't say I've ever really noticed a foreskin.
Not for long anyway, if you know what I mean."
Helen Fox
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx High School
Cheerleader of the Year
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Immigration routinely fast-tracks me.
The whole thing takes about a half hour.
For one thing . . . . try NOT wai-ing them. They're ALL from villages in the provinces.
Nobody wais there unless it's a returned native, a bonafide Butkis or a pisstake.
Don't wai who ya pai.
In 25 years, no taxi has ever tried to overcharge me.
I tell him that I have 4 large bags and ask him if he can do it.
If he says YES, I smile and give him the voucher.
During the ride, I let my partner schmooze him if necessary.
I chime into the conversation just to let him know I understand what he's saying.
If it all goes well without any tip-begging or survey questions regarding the cost of my air ticket I tip him 50 THB per heavy bag plus loose change.
This country is Japan's "Mexico."
It can be your Mexico too.
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Keep it.
Wash it.
Keep it clean.
Same rules of hygiene apply to both men and women.
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The color of your skin (and your nationality) is not important.Just a question, They don't do mortgages for Falang do they ?
I have asked various people and gotten several different answers, I figured I would ask the fourm
Thanks in advance
Farang, Kairk, Jin, Gowlee, Neego, Nippon .........
If you are legally employed in Thailand, then you can get a home loan.
"can get a home loan" but it's still not easy and the regular branch officer will probably just say "cannot" so you'll need to talk to the right person. Also you'll need a bank with branches abroad as the money needs to be transferred in from abroad in order to get you a foreign exchange transaction form. I am not sure but I believe that for example Ayudhya / KrungSri doesn't have this facility but Kasikorn does ... (don't shoot me if not 100% correct, thanks)
The loans officer will likely arrange the loan at x% and you'll leave the office believing that you have your deal.
On closing day he/she or their boss will be waiting for you with a new "updated" loan agreement at a higher rate.
They may justify this with the excuse that "it's different when a foreigner is involved" or that they'd made a mistake" (gouging you at crunch time for a higher interest rate is considered shrewd business practice here)
Belt and suspenders at every step is advise able.
Better yet. Why bother locking yourself into ANY deal in a country as illegitimate as this.
RENT. RENT. RENT.
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I agree that many of these want-to-be terrorists are often entrapped, but if they are willing to push the trigger on - what they think is - a bomb that will kill innocent people, screw them.
When "entrapment" entails the FBI's outright manipulation of some broke basement dwelling kid, its entrapment. In ALL these cases (and then some) the FBI has inserted a "handler". This "handler" befriends this dumb kid and the FBI does all it can to misguide him.
The kid likely fit some profile because he'd converted to Islam.
Like so many twenty-year-olds he was broke.
He was obviously looking for some kind of identity by committing a thought crime.
It was easy for a team of FBI agents to lure and entrap a poor soul like this.
Good old-fashioned police work, actual detecting of crime, has given way to this kind of gaming of the system.
According to the latest SPIN on these travesties, gaming police work to nail thought criminals is OK now.
Once arrested these poor doofuses are at the mercy of ambitious DA's, local judges and a media system HUNGRY for conspiracies involving Islamic people.
They are lynched.
Their lives are ruined.
This is the stuff of show trials and purges.
This is what East Germany's Stasi used to do.
This is witch-hunting.
Let's start thinking about this, shall we ???
We used to have constitutional protection and rights.
If some two-bit FBI pequerwould can lure a dumb kid into this kind of maze, that protection is .gone
What have we become ?
WHAT have we BECOME ?
Now, NLA panel to summon US envoy
in Thailand News
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I agree.
It's quite heartening to read this kind of remark. . . . . . even if we ARE somewhat hampered by this particular format.
Let's not forget China's somewhat asymmetrical response to this hint; its a "hint" that's been in play for at least a decade.
The seminal elements are already firmly in place.
Some set up a coupla decades ago and others were NAILED a few months ago.
On top of that, Thai Unis and Corps are absolutely "truffled" with diligent polite career-minded exchange students and junior intern cadre types from Yunaan who have seen army service. The only thing they have in common with their Peace Corps counterparts is an aversion to cracking fluent Thai.
3-D Chess, anyone ?
Maybe a 4th layer (time ?) laid on for the purposes of discussion.