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For the folks who like docos I came across a hidden gem in the BBC iPlayer library called, "How the Wild West was Won" by Ray Mears and thought it was great.......the true story of the migration west, the cattle trails, the Donner Party and the demise of the Buffalo and the cowboy. Also mentioned were the native Indians and the intro of the railways..............and much more.

Fascinating, but hurry if you want to watch it as it is only available for 24 days. I can highly recommend it.

11 minutes ago, superal said:

Can anyone recommend an electric shaver that I could buy online . I do not want an unknown cheap shaver . Years since I used one . The last one was a Philips with 3 cutters but I never got a close shave or anything like a wet razor shave . Is that possible now ? 

I'm sorry to say that in my opinion, no electric shaver will give you a shave close to a wet razor!

I have tried two models of the Philips rotary-head shavers and even the most expensive one brought me out in a rash, so I've converted back to my Braun electric shaver which is altogether the best one for me at the moment.

As an aside, you may wish to consider applying a pre-electric talc before you use an electric shaver.

14 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

All news relating to your dear leader are lies and conjectures. You peddle Fox lies. 

Well that poster can't help it because all he watches is Fox News, so he repeats the nonsense that they spout........another thought sprung to mind, because surely no one could be that dumb, so perhaps he is a shill who is on this thread, and possibly others, to act as click bait?

38 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’m almost inclined (I said almost) to start watching FOX News in order to cut out the idiot middle man.

Better than that, I'm going to put this far right trumpie on ignore, mainly because I feel sorry, so sorry for someone who believes Fox News, when they've already acknowledged that what they print/state amounts to lies. Life's too short to think that someone believes this nonsense.

Reminds me of the pigeon analogy.

20 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

If you "love" Sean Young, Have you watched No Way Out? Well worth a watch. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093640/

 

Thanks for the tip but cannot find it available on any of the usual sites??........any clues please?

21 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Forgetfulness is sign of aging. Careful could be dementia. 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/dominions-defamation-case-against-fox-poised-trial-after-delay-2023-04-18/

 

https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/jeanine-pirro-appears-drunk-and-intoxicated-on-fox-news.html

Mentioning ageing and dementia brings up something which may be affecting Donny boy, especially as quite a few of his gaffes have been in the press just recently........

Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness — his own father’s dementia.

Trump avoids mention of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease as he lashes Biden for being ‘cognitively impaired’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-trump-dementia-father-fred-alzheimers-biden

What are the chances of getting Alzheimer's if a parent has it?

Studies of family history say that if you have a close relative who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia in older adults—your risk increases by about 30%. This is a relative risk increase, meaning a 30% hike in your existing risk.Jan 28, 2562 BE
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/alzheimers-in-the-family#:~:text=Studies of family history say,hike in your existing risk.  

Maybe warning signs for Donny and his cult followers????

1 hour ago, john donson said:

RED yeast rice ?  the natural statin...

Yes, I thought about recommending that because I take it, however it does contain lovastatin, often in varying amounts, so you don't always know the exact amount you are taking.

On 3/22/2024 at 7:07 AM, Mike Lister said:

Get a big red sign made up telling people its for sale and showing your phone number and stick it on the side of the house and wait, a more effective method than using agents.

That's what I did when I sold a house here in Patong and because the neighbours talk amongst themselves, it wasn't long before I had a buyer.

My first house here, I sold through advertisements in the local Phuket newspaper and producing flyers which I distributed around the place.

Now I only rent and was lucky enough to have a good Thai woman and lawyer who helped me through the sale process.

Good luck, and don't give up, and certainly don't engage a real estate agent unless you can get a promised 3% commission charge, because nowadays it is certainly up in the 5% range plus.

17 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I do find the Trump fanboy fantasies entertaining, such as the proposition Trump is somehow more popular.

 

He's not popular with 30% of Republican voters. They are saying they will vote for Biden.

 

He's not popular with Nikki Haley, who refused to endorse him.

 

He's not popular with the unions or the military. The Drake event was amateurish.

 

He's not popular with women, after crowing about overturning Roe vs Wade.

 

Presumably he is not popular with campaign managers who have no money to campaign with, after he looted contributions to pay his legal bills.

 

He obviously was not popular with the multiple grand juries who indicted him.

 

He's been boasting about his wealth for years. Genuine billionaires keep their wealth under wraps. Trump's "wealth" is a house of cards, waiting for the first puff of wind. The fact he can't raise $450 million for the appeal bond speaks volumes.

 

My guess is when Letitia James starts seizing properties, she will find quite a few with so much debt they will be a drop in a bucket.

 

 

Add.....he is not popular with Mike Pence, his previous VP, and that speaks volumes about trump!!

Former US vice-president Mike Pence says he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

The decision makes Pence the latest in a series of senior Trump administration officials who have declined to endorse their former boss’ bid to return to the Oval Office.

“During my presidential campaign I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues, and not just our difference on my Constitutional duties that I exercised on January the 6th.”

“I mean, as I have watched his candidacy unfold, I’ve seen him walking away from our commitment to confronting the national debt. I’ve seen him starting to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life,” he went on, also referencing what he called Trump’s “reversal on getting tough on China and supporting our administration’s effort to force” the sale of the popular TikTok app.

45 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Another genius has spoken 

Yee Haw, break out the moonshine Marylou, that's the first intelligent thing you've ever posted – – good boy, keep it up!

Many folks will tell you that you don't need a multivitamin or similar if you eat a balanced/healthy diet. And therein lies the conundrum, because what exactly is balanced/healthy diet........ 

In most cases we don't know what pesticides/insecticides our fruit and vegetables have been sprayed with, and which we could well go on to eat (remember that a study done in Thailand on "organic" produce showed it to be a complete misnomer, because traces of pesticides and insecticides were found on a majority of them). 

Then of course you have artificial sugars in many products, some of which have garnered a bad reputation, along with the artificial flavourings and colourings, some of which have proven to be cancerous, not to mention the canned tuna which contains high levels of mercury, or indeed many different kinds of meat (including chicken) that have been fed antibiotics and antimicrobials, and the amount used by the farming industry in America is absolutely mind-boggling.

Just to add that extra virgin olive oil is considered the "go to" oil, but even some of that has found to be adulterated with other oils and not altogether healthy ones either. I did have an article on the effects of heating many of the readily available cooking oils, and it is not good reading.

So it would seem it is very difficult to eat a "balanced/healthy" diet, unless you grow everything yourself, and as for multivitamins, then the article below is interesting.......

Multivitamin supplementation slowed cognitive decline in older adults, the COSMOS study showed.

Compared with placebo, participants who took a daily multivitamin/multimineral supplement had significantly better immediate recall at 1 year (P=0.025) and across 4 years of follow-up on average (P=0.011), reported Adam Brickman, PhD, of Columbia University in New York City, and co-authors in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Multivitamins improved memory performance above placebo by the equivalent of 3.1 years of age-related memory change, the researchers estimated. The effect was more pronounced in people with underlying cardiovascular disease.

PS. One other thing which is nearest and dearest to my heart is, red wine, collecting it and drinking it are both hobbies of mine, however now the latest research shows that irrespective of the origin of the alcohol, it is a poison in one way or another.

When I need a break from a long series, such as "The Gentlemen", I flick on to the BBC iPlayer and watch some of the old Morecambe and Wise shows, some of which still make me laugh – – they were simply brilliant in my opinion.

With all of the talk about the new "Dune" movie, I decided to watch the original 1984 version again and I found it enjoyable although the "special effects" were far from it, however the imagination of the producer and set designers when portraying life and settings in certain planets and other aspects of the movie, was intriguingly brilliant!

PS. I also fell in love, all over again, with Sean Young.