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A picture speaks a thousand words.............

Don't ask me why, but I had an urge to download and watch the move, "Mamma Mia (2003)". Always liked the music of ABBA and this movie was fantastic and brightened up my whole evening. So glad I watched it.

This sounds like the old "Rabbit hole" nonsense that the conspiracy theory nuts were putting around a while back, and there are some dumb people out there who believe it. Pizza with a baby topping anyone? Never ceases to amaze me how easily led/gullible some people can be. You should be a writer for "Masters of the Universe" or something similar because this stuff is surely space cadet material. I feel so sorry for you.

With so many dumb posts on here, I think the following would apply to that particular poster............."I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you". Rubes, rabbit hole, MAGA nonsense.

Nice post but you are wasting your time replying to the rubes as they are not "the sharpest knives in the drawer" as can be seen from the replies from the thread's foremost trump supporter:- -What for? He didnt do anything (about trump). -I don't anything real here. All fake trumped up charges. He didn't cause the riots. All he did was question the election results (yeah right). -Just facts. Millions of people tell lies. Why arent they in jail? 99.9% of people lie. (this one is a doozy). -The whole thing is political. They waited 3 years. ????

Not so much the Russians, but certainly the Chinese and Indian folk.........just to put you right!

In that case we think alike, but my main beef is with the Chinese who not only walk in the middle-of-the-road, but walk on the road when there is a pavement, and I have mentioned as much in the thread, "Patong – The Wake", and detailed how I clipped one with my wing mirror because they wouldn't move out of the way despite my sounding the horn – – I can only assume they are plain stupid.

Pointless wasting time trying to converse with trumpies like this because, quite simply:- Rational arguments don't usually work on trump/MAGA supporters. If they did there would be no trump/MAGA supporters.

You have nothing better to do than troll? Now you can see what level the trumpies operate on.........unbelievable.

It appears that the House Republicans' own much-hyped witness today testified that he never heard of President Biden discussing business with his son or his son's associates, or doing anything wrong," he said. "House Republicans keep promising bombshell evidence to support their ridiculous attacks against the President, but time after time, they keep failing to produce any." Hunter Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell said Archer's testimony confirms that he "did not involve his father in, nor did his father assist him in, his business" and that any interaction between Hunter Biden's father and business associates "was simply to exchange small talk."

I noticed a couple of women milling about in the "very small massage shop, in a row of similar size shops" that was up for sale for 400,000 baht, and was told that these two women had bought the place for 250,000 baht, and at this time of writing they were cleaning the place up a little, taking posters off the wall and so on. They obviously thought they got a bargain, but I predict it will go the same way as the last one........ and "poof" their dreams will disappear in a puff of smoke (or similar). It seems like the old saying which goes something along the lines of, there's always a bigger fool waiting in the wings, will come pass..........and I just hope they can find another fool when that time comes!

Watched a BBC iPlayer doco called, "Shadow of Truth" and although it drags on a bit through 5 episodes, it really is astounding and shocking in equal measure. Would you trust the police and legal system after watching this?

You are taking my words out of context, and when I say the best Aussie tenderloin, it's the one which I buy in Tops, the best they have, so I buy it. The other alternative I have used is Villa Market. As for the Wagyu, I know that it is purposely marbled, but it doesn't appeal to me one iota. Having said that the second pic of the Australian Wagyu tenderloin with a lot less marbling, does appeal to me, but as I said, I don't eat a lot of meat these days, and if I do, mainly it is a slow cooked beef (or in some cases pork tenderloin), done with lardons, onions, carrots, plenty of garlic and red wine, some herbs and beef stock along with some tomato purée. A hearty meal and befitting a gutsy Australian red wine. Your comment about "being happy with cheap beef" is very far wide of the mark.

On the rare occasion when I do buy and cook a good steak, I go for the best Aussie tenderloin, but as I said, in the main I go to a restaurant to have a good Aussie tenderloin steak and also take along a nice bottle of red wine to complement it. Slow cooked traditional dishes are best with cheap beef, but, the one in the pic, I wouldn't touch it. Everyone to their own I suppose.

Jeez........that must be over 30% fat and then some with the marbling!! Not my kind of steak!!

I have noticed that the price of meat has gone up quite considerably, however as I am not a big meat eater, it really doesn't bother me, and if I do want a good steak or similar, then I will go to a restaurant! Whenever I do buy meat, it is usually something like cheek, hock or similar that is particularly good for slow cooking in the beef bourguignon I make, and that's not expensive. Very occasionally I buy some ground beef to make a chilli con carne, and because I slow cook that, it can be local Thai beef, and the end result is just the same as if using ground Aussie beef. In actual fact, I have noticed the prices of food in general here, especially in the likes of Big C and Tops have gone up quite markedly, and that's just a sign of the times. Someone mentioned cheese, and I am quite partial to Stilton, and occasionally bought it, however went off it a while back, and when I looked yesterday in Big C, the smallest almost thumb -sized slice of Stilton was 270 baht, and I would buy it if I wanted to, but am not bothered these days. I imagine it could be hard for farangs here living purely on a pension, however there are plenty of Thai options and quite delicious Thai dishes which are very cheap and easy to cook, which I occasionally do, so switching meals and tastes is a good option in Thailand.

The last "watchable" Nicholas Cage movie, for me anyway, was "Lord of War".....not great, but not bad!

Agree LiK, as the sunken drain covers are a hazard to m/c riders, with some of them being many cms/inches deep. Whoever planned this resurfacing didn't think it through...........but then we all know it is not a strength of so-called planners here.

Guinea pig posting!!!!! I watched this Nicholas Cage movie and expected good things because it had a 7.4 IMDb rating (must have from his family and friends). BUT it was a poor movie and I almost switched it off halfway through because Nicholas Cage was boring and the movie premise was one I had seen before on a couple of other movies....but I stayed with it and wasted 90 mins of my life. Much of the movie "action" takes place in a car with Cage overacting badly. But if you want to see a good movie which takes place in a car, then watch "Locke" starring Tom Hardy, because it is great!

SHOCK, HORROR..............trump reads from a prepated script in the latest GOP gathering. According to the trumpies on here, that is akin to a cardinal sin when JB does it, but then again trump has committed so many "cardinal sins" in the past, that this is no surprise LOL............

Ah yes, the evidence of the Biden crimes............and if you would be so kind as to share that evidence, or indeed pass it on to the Republicans who want to put Biden's head on the block, then I'm sure all of the posters here and especially the pro-Trump brigade, would be delighted. Looking forward to seeing it.......or maybe what you have read is pure "scuttlebutt"??

Should have read, "into the air".............having some problems with my voice recognition software, esp now that my sinuses are playing up!! Sorry about that. Perhaps dropping the H Bombs on them was necessary in order to stop these atrocities.

Thank you to whoever recommended a movie called, "The Great Raid" because I watched it last night and thought it was very good, but one thing really does stick in my mind is the Japanese cruelty to others. It has been said that because soldiers who surrendered were considered cowards and not worthy of living, they were treated like animals because they didn't deserve to live. It's not an explanation I can accept, but I have another question to ask regarding the Japanese treatment of others: – – a Filipino lady responded to the questions on this movie stating how great it was to see due recognition given to the Filipino fighters and the Filipino people, because they were treated most cruelly by the Japanese. She described how her grandfather was tied to a post, doused in petrol and set alight! She also mentioned how babies were thrown into the year and impaled on bayonets, and this mirrors the same treatment that the Japanese gave to babies and children in Nanking; graphically described and with photographs, in a book called, "The Rape of Nanking". Why oh why was such behaviour undertaken by Japanese soldiers – – what was it/is it in their psyche which enables them to do this?

Last night I decided to watch one of my favourite movies, "Live by Night", even though it only got IMDb score of 6.4!! Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Brendan Gleeson star in this movie about gangsters in the prohibition time in the US, and I have always found it entertaining, hence watching it again last night! Quite why it didn't get a higher score on IMDb is puzzling, however some critics have said that it lacks the, "oomph and raw edge" to be able to take it to the next level. All the same, still one of my favourite movies!

Your comments regarding walking in the middle-of-the-road are somewhat valid, however walking three or four abreast on one half of a narrow road is plain madness/stupidity. And I could forgive them if they were really from a small village somewhere in China, but their whole attitude and actions point to something else? When you look at the experiences here of a Chinese man cutting his toenails on the table of Starbucks, and a woman allowing her child to take a dump on the main thoroughfare outside of the same coffee shop, plus the absolutely annoying habit they have of crowding shopping aisles and not considering any other people, then it leads me to believe they are – – ignorant, stupid, inbred, bad mannered and simply have no idea how the real world works. Take your pick.