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23 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Israel the greatest source of instability in the Middle East - always has been since its inception and always waving it's US tail bought and paid for. This is not MAGA its Make Israel Greater Again with a begging bowl filled with US gold.

Quote, "Israel, the greatest source of instability in the Middle East – always has been since its inception....... ".

The more I think about it, the more I believe that Israel is the greatest source of instability in the Middle East and its insatiable desire to stay a state that follows its own strange brand of religion (braids for men who don't work but walk around chanting all day long, kippahs, the wailing wall, large brimmed hats and the belief that they are the chosen ones and more......) and wants to negate/wipe out any other state that doesn't follow its own peculiar path, should sound alarm bells.

Israel is the problem and all the while it wants to broaden its impact and state lines, the worse it will become for other nations in that area.

This is only a joke, but in reality, however the term "the chosen ones" came into being, it has created a "monster".

7 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

Where and when did you meet Bday Prang's girlfriend?

And was it yours who told you that she had only ever been with you?

When did they last have snow here?

I think you have taken the post by @blaze master out of context, much the same as I did when I first saw it, because if I'm not mistaken, he was being sarcastic and sort of parodying part of the post by Bday Prang.......extracting the urine, in fact!

I saw a live performance of his in Manchester in the 70s and although I wasn't that keen on going to see him, my girlfriend and her family persuaded me to go along, so I did, and I was delighted because he was so good.

A true rock star and legend with a great voice, who was an amazing piano player. RIP Neil.

14 minutes ago, candide said:

Did they also ask him about Pizzagate and UFOs, as they did with Hillary? 😂

Or how much baby blood he drank!!

OOPS @blaze master ......I missed your "sarcasm" and then confused your posts with those of Bday Prang!! My apologies for this and I have taken you off "ignore". Hopefully I am forgiven for my mistake(s).

21 hours ago, blaze master said:

You are what he says you are and thats that. No matter how many times you tell them ....you are wrong and they know better.

My gf is way hotter and smarter than yours. She is the best sex ever and only ever been with me.....pure as snow.

13 hours ago, mikebell said:

If you are sick of 'effin' and jeffin' in every sentence of dialogue; if you are tired of raunchy sex scenes where the protagonists seek to devour each other, then 'Train Dreams' is for you, a gentle, beautifully crafted movie.

Thanks and agree with your sentiments....really enjoyed it and Joel Edgerton was superb.

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

And you have validated my comment. Even after the poster stated they are not you continue to say he is.

Literally npc.

Over your head you poor man.........recall what type of people trump called his "favourites" and you just may get the clue!!

22 minutes ago, blaze master said:

My gf is way hotter and smarter than yours. She is the best sex ever and only ever been with me.....pure as snow.

Sad, so sad as you know nothing about that which you posted........just slurs and misguided assumptions from you and the trump supporters. Par for course, of course!!! Keep drinking the Kool Aid.

15 minutes ago, blaze master said:

You are what he says you are and thats that. No matter how many times you tell them ....you are wrong and they know better.

My gf is way hotter and smarter than yours. She is the best sex ever and only ever been with me.....pure as snow.

Sad response from a sad man!

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

If Trump is not lying and Iran is a week away from achieving industrial grade bomb making material according to Steve Witkoff, it must be a truly miraculous recovery for Iran 8 months after Trump declared Iran's nuclear program have been obliterated.

If trump speaks then expect a lie....a simple premise based on experience!

2 hours ago, gargamon said:

At the beginning I thought I had mistakenly played the Gerard Butler 2018 film The Vanishing.

On that note, I did enjoy "The Vanishing" movie which starred Jeff Bridges!!

I managed to download the movie "Shelter" and although it started very slowly, it did build up momentum until the final quarter in which Jason Statham became a one-man killing machine, which became quite preposterous, and even though it was just a movie I was tempted to turn it off, but I watched it through till the end and the best I could say was that it did have quite a bit of action in it, but some realism would have been nice!

Not having been out much at all over the past few months, mainly because my back injury has played havoc with my muscles and I find it easier to sit in front of the computer or TV after enjoying some nice red wine. Having said that I'm hoping to go out this Friday evening to Blue Beach Restaurant and Café to catch up with a couple of other friends, but things being what they are, I will see how it goes.

Thinking about it recently, I think this thread should be called "Patong – – Paradise Lost" because Patong is nowhere near like the fun/party place of old and the more I look around, the more I see older farangs sitting in bars nursing their beers, looking miserable, and although Bangla is still lively, there is still a lot of foot traffic passing through, rather than making use of the bars. Not surprising given the cost of a lady drink these days.

A couple of Thai women I've known for quite a few years, own two massage establishments and they tell me that business is VERY slow at the moment and the "high season" as such didn't really materialise for them, so although they employed a few extra staff for the supposed farang onslaught, the girls really aren't making any money, sad to say.

Certainly Patong isn't the place it used to be and the traffic is absolutely horrendous, made a lot worse by the crazy drivers from Arabic countries, those of French African descent with a few crazy Russian and other farangs thrown in, making it very dangerous heading out on a motorbike/scooter, so I'm really pleased when I can venture out in my car. On top of that there is the state of the roads here, which to put it bluntly, is pathetic and although from time to time somebody seems to go out at night time to fill up the holes with tarmac, a few days after that being done, because it is done so poorly, the holes reappear.

Big C has been fairly busy of late with the Chinese onslaught where families have been buying the suitcases in Big C and filling them up with all sorts of dried fruits, and anything else that is dried, to take back to China/wherever.

I was waiting at a checkout in Big C and a guy started talking to me and asked how long I'd been here, and I told him, and his reply was, "well you sure must have sampled a lot of weed in your time here"! My reply was that I don't touch the stuff and I don't think I have since the early 80s when I was in the USA, this along with some wonderful cocaine, which I could quite easily get hooked on if I wanted to!

He asked what I was doing here and I told him – – retired, and I asked him what he was doing and he said he was going to open a weed shop specialising in a special sort of marijuana which had beneficial effects to people suffering from diabetes (something I'd never heard of) and I felt like telling him that the weed situation here at the moment was a bit precarious because nobody quite knew what was happening on that front.

He then asked me if I knew anyone with a Thai passport that he could contact with regards to opening up this business and I told him I didn't (a bit of a porky) and I told him I had to be somewhere else and bade him farewell as I didn't want to get involved in where I thought the conversation was going.

Finally, I went to La Capaninna a couple of weeks back and had two setbacks – – one was where I took wine along to accompany the meal, only to be told that because the elections were on, alcohol was forbidden! I found it strange because I wasn't going to vote and wasn't going to walk around sharing the wine willy-nilly, so I shouldn't have been a threat!

On top of that, the menu has changed quite substantially and whereas before one could get a quite hefty antipasto to start, followed by a good sized pizza, now the antipasto consists of mozzarella and ham and nowhere near the size of the previous offering, followed by very thin pizza which was totally the opposite to what was previously served – – such a shame as I used to like their food.

Thought I would have a look at a movie on iPlayer called, "Bones and All" because I knew absolutely nothing about it and it did star Mark Rylance and Timothee Chalamet, and Mark Rylance is a favourite actor of mine, but I wasn't prepared for what was to come soon after the start!

I watched it past the first gruesome scenes, then thought I would be better off spending my time on another movie, so off it went!

Certainly a very different movie in many respects and if you don't believe me, have a look at it yourself........

6 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

These ships aren't 100% manned and ready to go. Even if they weren't undergoing repairs it would take a month at least to get manned up and ready.

"The US Navy operates two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy. Neither appears ready to deploy any time soon, and both were at a maintenance facility, Alabama Shipyard in Mobile, according to ship-tracking data".

Then the “back-up” clown gets in on the act………Denmark’s Navy officials and officials with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team referred questions to the White House, which did not immediately respond!!

On 2/19/2026 at 11:34 PM, Keeps said:

I have experienced the same problem myself but at the time, some of my turds resembled one of Mike Tyson's arms.

Geez, I would give anything to be able to produce one of those because I am almost permanently constipated, despite taking just about all of the tablets/pills/potions that supposedly will produce a well formed turd, but don't.

No psyllium husk, Senna, Dulcolax tablets, fibre this, fibre that, help and the only relief I can get is by using a tip from another poster on here, who recommended Magnesium Citrate, which when taken in the right dose won't produce anything like that which is being discussed here, but certainly does initiate a "clear out" and some.

I thought I'd share this with other posters!

4 hours ago, Thailand J said:

Can we stop calling each other liars? if you don't agree with the facts shown, just show us your findings.

And associated with the above is.........."In January, the New York Times reported that nearly every major crop in the United States was selling for less than what it costs to produce".

So trump and his clown circus really aren't doing anything good for the farmer/producer; sort of a "shot themselves in the foot" scenario!