BritManToo

Actually, been in bars with Spanish ladies many times in CM and Hanoi, not to mention I've encountered lots of elderly Filipinos that spoke Spanish. And in Saigon my local bar owner was a French speaking Vietnamese. German has never been much use though, and I've forgotten most of it now.

Not if I'm in a bar with hot Spanish or French girls.

I don't know, I'm not there, and when I was I was teaching French, Spanish and German in high school.

I'm actually relying on my well fed, clean drinking water and healthy lifestyle as protection for me and my family against trivial disease. You're probably one of those people that thinks the world is overpopulated, so I'm surprised you want more to live!

I've never had the urge to speak the local language when on holiday. Not to mention, nobody I know speaks central Thai as their first language and most speak English. My misses speaks Lanna/Lao/village as her first 3 languages (her mom only speaks village). Last week out in a bar the first lady I sat with spoke Tai Yai, and the second was Lisu as their 1st language. It's not as if the Central Thai language is much use outside of Thailand, unlike Spanish and French.

Because a lot of foreigners are white racists. And they'll only say it once to me, as I avoid racists once identified. But it's fun to watch them wai the hookers and serving staff.

150w charger so the cheapest extension lead will be fine.

Odd, as I can see clearly who has a lack of clear honesty ....... Being a sock puppet for a relative = lack Having a criminal conviction = lack Hiding your net worth = lack Ever being a member of the police or armed forces = lack

If you apply from within the UK it's paid on time. It's only the international applications that are delayed.

3 dogs, 1 (guard dog?) dead in the closet, 2 wandering around the house and grounds (front door open).

Suicide is normally done together, dog in closet, women in bathroom, man in another room = not suicide.

Most tourists don't know they aren't supposed to be there. If I was taken on a paid tour, I'd expect the tour guide to make sure everything was legal.

A Thai tour was paid to take them snorkeling, and then they're told not to! I'd probably be a bit annoyed if that happened to me. Sai should have been fining the tour company, not the tourists.

BBC says suspicious ........ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o "Authorities reported no signs of injury but deemed the deaths "suspicious enough" to investigate and have not ruled out foul play. No cause of death was given." Front door was also found open.

All the western governments of all major parties want this, it's not as if voters are given any choice in the matter.

More like people don't want stabby uneducated foreign barbarians living next to them.

In 1963-6 I had measles along with the other 2000 kids in my school. There were zero fatalities or complications. So are you telling up us kids a much weaker than Brit kids?

Starving and thirsty kids living in the 3rd world can die from anything. That's why they deliberately use 'worldwide' stats.

I always thought it was a deritive of 'arse' from cockney rhyming slang. Arse = bottle and glass = bottle = Aristotle = Aris

Most modern health benefits come from having plentiful food and clean (poop free) drinking water.

Person with high IQ (me) says all polls only show what the polling organisation was paid for them to show, and are therefore worthless.

Living in the house is the best guarantee of future ownership.

There is no free world, except in some peoples imagination! In a free world I'd be able to move from country to country without a passport or VISA and still keep my pension, healthcare and bank accounts with no risk of losing them. In a free world, my government wouldn't take money from me to give to wealthier countries as foreign aid.

I was at school before Measles vaccine was invented, in my school with 2000 pupils, nearly all caught it, nobody had any serious problems (beyond an itchy rash for a week).

If you had bothered to read the quote, the conclusion stated there were 3 main causes of death 1. immunocompromised individuals 2. severe thrombocytopenia 3. death from anaphylaxis But what you really fail to consider is deaths from measles Vs cost of vaccinations which would be 1-2 deaths vs $500M, so it's hardly cost effective and maybe the money would be better spent trying to reduce deaths from causes with much higher death rates.