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That's no yolk, I can tell you, and it cracked me up all white, and lucky she wasn't beaten to a pulp and whisked away. No doubt she can hatch another story in order to feather her nest.

As in the past, with things like this, none of that matters as long as somebody along the chain gets part of the "skimming" which always goes on, after all TIT.

The other posters here give a fairly good indication of how Patong is faring right now, and I also post quite regularly on a thread here called: Patong – the Wake, so you might want to look at that and see if you can pick up some info.

Thanks for the tips, however I was being facetious in the first instance, but I suppose knowing what part of the world we are in, stirfried squirrel could be on a menu somewhere here!!!! Good luck.

I was meaning, the sqirrels!!

There you go.................What is another word for plonker? (Also slang for the male appendage between the legs). fool simpleton idiot dope dunce moron berk chump dummy bonehead

Absolutely absurd, what a plonker!

I managed to buy a Nokia flip phone on eBay a couple of years back and I think they are still sold, so you might want to try the Nokia 3710 or the Nokia 2720 to see if there are any out there. Lovely little phone and I still manage to buy batteries for it.

Nice play on words @ballpoint or perhaps a "double entendre"!!

Two of his goals were absolutely magnificent, with a skill level rarely seen these days, and I've always admired him as a player, but these two goals I am referring to, really set him apart IMO.

Or, "maybe money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you things that make you happy". In my early 20s I was working overseas for oil companies and the job was very well paid, so when I came back to my hometown all my mates (and even new ones!) Got to share in the money I was splashing around the place in pubs and restaurants etc, and it didn't worry me because two weeks later I was going back overseas to earn more. I guess I wasted a lot of what should have been saved for my future, however I had a great time in doing so and have never regretted any of it. (The George Best saying springs to mind). Now, some 50 years later I'm living in Phuket with money enough to fund my lifestyle, even buying nice red wine on a daily basis, and supporting a daughter at university, but something I have often pondered is, "do I need more money and if I had it, what would I do with it", because I seriously don't know, other than to put a few million baht into my daughter's account for her future, but she will have that anyway. So what would I do? Probably seek out more expensive wines, and dine out more, and of course help out a few people whom I know are struggling at the moment, but not those folk whose problems are "self-inflicted". As it seems unlikely that I will "have more money" then I'll just settle for the status quo which at the moment suits me fine.

Open later in the day, but just a few "free standing" stalls at the moment........more to come!!??

Not 100% related to the thread, but close.........I remember a wiser older guy some years ago who said that there was a difference between wisdom and knowledge and he quoted thus: – "knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit: wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad", or words to that effect. I don't think it was his original saying, but it does help sort out the wisdom/knowledge conundrum for some people.

Many thanks to @LosLobo, @Bkk Brian and @placeholder for the links and information, and I particularly liked the one from @Bkk Brian as the layout/timeline makes it easy to read and understand. Now I'm up to speed, so thank you gentlemen. And from what I can see, the trump supporters here don't have a leg to stand on, because it's there in plain black-and-white and includes and involves trump and his entourage at every step of the way.

I am trying to follow this fiasco, but there seems to be some conflicting information around the place, and from what I have just ascertained from your post is the fact that 15 boxes, some containing classified documents, were turned over by trump to the National Archives, in January. So did trump still have more boxes at MAL, about which he lied (or his lawyer lied) and which are considered "classified documents"?

(Shortened your post!!). I have to agree with what you have said @Patong2 as not only was I also out on Saturday evening and Bangla was crowded, and as you said not so many Europeans as before, but I will add that there were more Indian folk than I've ever seen, but I also drove around Patong yesterday and was surprised at the number of shops which were reopening, and others which were newly opened. If one wanted to view how cosmopolitan Patong has become, then taking a walk down Soi Sansabai would be an eye-opener because there are small restaurants of just about every cuisine, with the relative "hustlers" trying to shepherd people into them, as well as massage shops, spas and bars – – many more than I have seen for years. Certainly more activity around the place yesterday, and more people, and this at 4 PM yesterday afternoon!! Getting back to Saturday evening's outing, there were also more people at the Blue Beach Café and Restaurant, where for a change I enjoyed a nice Thai meal, and Soi Sea Dragon was crowded, although there were not as many people at Red Hot, but still reasonable, and whilst at that bar I met folks from South Africa, India, Russia and the US, oh and Italy........ the Awakening is in place!

I was walking down Bangla Road last Saturday evening and in front of me were a couple of black guys, and as they walked past the front of a particular bar, one of the staff stepped in front of them and gestured that he had some "nose candy" for sale!!! I had never seen that before, but a few years back a bar owner friend of mine was quite a regular user and there were plenty of shady characters selling it, so nothing new, but nothing as open as this.

How do you cook them??

The truth hurts, and is an anathema to trump supporters, and everything I posted cannot be disputed because just about all of it is out in the public domain for all to see, except the trumpies of course! Back on to ignore you go.

These look better than those shown in the first post........not even sure those were bona fide women!!

Quote Thaibeachlovers: While Trump may not be your cup of tea, no one gets to be POTUS if they don't have any intelligence. Well trump did, and he's as dumb as a bag of rocks with the intellectual capacity of a pickled squid. That he managed to hoodwink and con so many millions of people says more about the intelligence level of his supporters, which by the way is glaringly obvious in a couple of the stills taken at the Capitol Hill riot/break-in, and the QAnon followers who still believe in the nonsense posted on their site. As for "may not be your cup of tea", I don't like liars, cheats, conmen and thieves, so he fails the "cup of tea test" on every front!

I downloaded and watched a movie I'd ever seen before, called "Passchendaele" and what interested me about the write up regarding it was that the film was dedicated to the Canadian soldiers who fought in the First World War, especially at Passchendaele, as I have Canadian relatives. The first half of the movie is very slow and mainly consists of events back in Canada, however later on in the movie the action begins and it conveys the stupidity and brutality of this particular battle. Not only that, the closing credits show real life movie footage of that particular battle and some details about it. What particularly made me sad was the stupidity of it all, and the carnage that followed, and at the end to see that the film was dedicated to a particular soldier, who was portrayed in the movie. IMO it is well worth the time to watch this movie, so see it through the slow portion until the very end, and if that doesn't have an effect on you, well, nothing will.

A sad, but expected retort.

Poor reading skills or a bad memory?? Or of course it could be the well-known, and often experienced phenomenon on this thread, of, "trumpie's disease", whereby they live in an alternate universe, where trump is godlike, never lies, never cheats or steals and is a fine upstanding character – – yeah right!

Have to agree with your points, and decades ago, things were discussed around the dinner table and so on, and young ones absorbed the information and knowledge therein, however now I have yet to see a family in a restaurant actually talking to one another, all of them being on their mobile phones or the like, and it makes me wonder what the forthcoming generation will actually be like. As for your question about "when you couldn't school exams", well I remember it well and even in the 60s when I was taking my electrical engineering exams, we were only allowed to use slide rules, not that I would know how to use one these days!!! However just as an aside, it's not just the younger generation, because I have friends around my age (in their 70s) who are gullible enough to believe and repeat rubbish that they read on various sites, and the Covid/vaccination/masks information they have forwarded makes me wonder if they were just stupid in the first place, or if they learned how to be that way over the years??