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You could try the one recommended by Marty Feldman, "Anthony the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying"............ On a serious note, several times I have started, "Sapiens, a brief history of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari and never got to finish it, but will get round to it one day! Not into fiction at all, and not really into reading books, other than articles on the Internet.

Or maybe he is just too dumb/stupid to understand the potential ramifications if he is found guilty! That seems to fit the bill.

I stayed at the Royal Stuart many times with a bunch of drunken Scots guys, when we were on our way to the rigs offshore Norway...................but wouldn't consider myself lucky!!

Judging by the responses I've seen on here I will go with the, "maybe not" part of your post. There are none so blind as those who will not see, is an old saying which seems to fit the bill here.

Let me correct you.........he is a lying crook. Now that is a better description.

It absolutely astounds me that with all of the information about this probe and indictment that has been posted on this thread, as well as in the MSM, that there are some poor deluded people out there who believe that trump can do no wrong, is an honourable person and that he "wants to make the US better" – – I fear for the future of the US if there are too many of these people who have drunk the Kool-Aid and gone down the rabbit hole. Absolutely unbelievable......and the sad thing is that they believe what they post; or perhaps they do it just to antagonise the straight thinking intelligent folk amongst us?

You cannot seriously believe this..........or can you???? LOL.

You bring it on yourself with your one-eyed view of the situation.....then admitting you haven't been up to speed with the news on this. Unbelievable.

Dug an old movie up from 1970, starring Patrick McGoohan, Alan Alda and Richard Widmark, called "The Moonshine War" and it was pretty good. Always liked Patrick McGoohan and wasn't disappointed.

You have to be joking or seriously deficient in the grey matter department to post this, especially after all of the pro trump nonsense you have been posting...........get real and try to understand what is going on, but then again maybe too difficult for you. Get a life.

That's about the best post on here, whereas some others mention the word "greed" as the driver for going to work in another country, however I look at it differently: – if a supposedly genuine Thai woman offers a job overseas with good money and conditions, why wouldn't they consider it? After all wanting a better income rather than the paltry sum they are probably getting at the moment, can in my opinion, never be construed as "greed", just looking for a better situation in life, however many of them are gullible and believe what they are told and I feel for those poor girls. In fact I worry about a lady friend of mine whose daughter was recruited to go to Myanmar to work near the casino, and I wonder if she is amongst the poor girls who are caught in this trap. A sad situation indeed.

That has to be the understatement of the year for that particular poster, because he is an out and out trump supporter and in his eyes, trump can do no wrong. I would like to be able to classify his response as "confirmation bias" but it doesn't fit into that category, just plain brainwashed or stupidity, take your pick.

Yep, sure does, so time to round up more buffoons to believe in Humpty Trumpty and his pleas of innocence – – yeah right! Time to nail the grifter!!

An update on my penultimate post, inasmuch as what was once "Canada house", then a "Gentleman's Club" has been sold (re-leased) to Thai folk, however I've no idea what it is going to become, but one would hope that they would remove the ridiculous façade and turn it back into a cheap guesthouse, which it was originally, with of course the obligatory small bar at the entrance. Time will tell. I also noticed that much farther south on Nanai, a long-standing bar called, "Ting Tong Bar" has almost ceased to exist whilst undergoing some pretty radical restructuring, and I've no idea what it is going to be, but it was supposedly famous for its fish and chips, as well as being a bar. Unfortunately it adjoins another bar, the resurrected "Island Bar" so I'm sure that hasn't done much for its business! Nothing is happening as regards the "555" café/restaurant which has been closed for some while now even though there is a sign outside indicating that it is an Italian restaurant, but nothing has happened on that score for more than a year or two? And to add to the woes of Nanai Road, a couple of small guesthouses/hotels which are located a few metres south of the entrance to Soi Banzaan and were closed for a while and then opened again, have now closed again. One can only assume lack of business? Unfortunately I can foresee the same thing happening to a bar and café/restaurant at the very south end of Nanai, which adjoins a massage shop, neither of which do much in the way of business. There are other empty shops around the place, so perhaps the joys surrounding the resurrection of Patong have been short lived??

I watched the movie "Gold" last night as I had never seen it before although it was released about seven years ago, and was amazed at how much weight Matthew McConaughey had put on for the role in the film. It was a very enjoyable and centred around a mining scandal which occurred in the 1990s and which I remember reading about at the time. Some of the characters in the film were actually an amalgam of two or three actual folk in the scandal, and the ending is doctored to make it a little more enjoyable, but the film is loosely based on the mining scandal and is worth a watch IMO.

No he didn't although he did try to claim that he had a hand in it. This from Reuters: As for Geller leading the US to the whereabouts of Saddam: “At the time of his capture, U.S. commanders said a source close to the fugitive had given him up under interrogation”.

A good ol song from Kiwi Shona Laing!

Talking of bloated politicians..................

Thanks for understanding my point of view, but "cos I can't see it it don't exist" isn't what I was saying, because I can't see electricity but I know it exists. Another poster was saying about how many billions of people in the world today believe in the afterlife/reincarnation, so if you take that over the many centuries we have been here, there would be trillions upon trillions of people who believe in this stuff, going back to the ancient Egyptians and beyond, yet not one of these trillions of people have been able to give us any proof.

I don't see many posts talking about a "universal fear that something may happen after our bodies go kaput" – – that's just your take on what you would like to believe. A bit like trying to have a discussion about how many fairies can fit on a pinhead....

Possible Doctor, now where's Mr Anderson?

That "sixth sense" is obviously that of a conman.

My birth was something which was seen and witnessed and actually took place, hence here I am, so not a fairytale, just an actual event. If the same could be said for "reincarnation" then I might just become a believer, as "The Monkees" sang. And as for our origins, well I'll leave that up to others to discuss on another thread perhaps?

Well I'll grant you that atheism is also a belief system, and one of course that I believe in. Whilst I can't help the fact that there are a lot of people out there (4 billion you say) who believe in reincarnation, much as the ancient Egyptians did, which is why they buried various artefacts with their dead, in order to help them in their "Afterlife", I'm a great believer in facts and when someone can prove that there is an afterlife, or come back from the dead, then maybe I'll change my stance. Despite what you think I'm not closed minded and I'm always open to discussion on subjects which can be proven, one way or another, not "fairytales" which have no basis in reality, just in someone's mind. Thank you for your advice about "try to look at what it is in fact that you are scared of when looking at afterlife", but I will forego that advice, because I'm not scared of dying (or the supposed afterlife) and I certainly know that I won't be back after that, or in fact living high and wide in my afterlife! Your responses remind me very much of the few times that I have been accosted by Mormons over the years, and I remember saying to a couple of them after they had said, "have you found Jesus"?, To which I replied, "I didn't know he was missing". Which didn't go down too well.

I don't really see that it will make any difference, but I don't really have a belief system, inasmuch as I am an atheist to all intents and purposes, and don't believe in an afterlife or any other such claptrap – – when you die, you decompose and no longer exist, simple as that. Although, religions, charlatans, hustlers and cults have made a lot of money out of getting people to believe otherwise. There you go........