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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??

Sorry AAH, but I am an atheist and just love what Christopher Hitchens says about Christianity/god, and of course all of the other quotes and chuckles made at the expense of what a friend of mine used to call, "god botherers" and Christianity in general. I don't believe in Father Christmas, Batman or Spider-Man, so there's absolutely no chance I would believe in this eternal entity. Nice try though!

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”

Wow, I just love your responses to this poster, and something which Christopher Hitchens said, always rings in my mind, "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof". And the following takes a look at religious stupidity, and the "believers" can't see the joke is on them!! Religion has actually convinced people that there.docx

Yes indeed, they all have stories and I have been told this on a few occasions, and even experienced it, but yesterday, a girl with whom I have become friendly here (not a bar girl) was talking about her friend who works in a massage parlour and is also the manager of it, and has had to move out of it into a secret location because she owes the money Mafia some money! I asked this girl exactly how this manager lady was going to be able to pay back the money Mafia, and her reply was: – "oh this lady have many stories to tell farangs to get money; Mama/Papa sick; have to go to hospital for operation; brother have accident on motorbike" and she rattled off a few more, but I didn't hear the old joke about the "sick buffalo", so I said to her, and maybe they tell farang that the Buffalo die, to which she burst out laughing and couldn't stop!!!!

As I have previously mentioned, I have taken to the BBC iPlayer to search for movies and docos to fill the void left by a dearth of good movies, and last night I watched an old classic, "The Remains of the Day" and I thoroughly enjoyed it although I remember very little about it from the first time I viewed it. Great acting by Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, and something which stood out for me this time was how the stifled emotions and straitlaced "profession" had cocooned Anthony Hopkins into a life in which he saw no other meaning, than to serve his master – – thereby missing out on huge aspects of life in general, and that was sad and really came over well in the movie.

A boy comes running to his dad and says, "dad, there's a man at the door selling funny faces". Dad says, "tell him you've already got one son".

I agree with what you have said Lorry, and quite true I did start reading up on my "disease" when I'd had it for many years (decades) and no amount of antibiotics would cure it, nor many visits to different urologists. And you are quite right inasmuch as I don't fully understand some of what I read, but there are elements which are easily understandable, and much is published on the subject, which can make easy reading. I have also consulted a couple of professors who are doing a lot of research on prostatitis, and both of them have said that because it is so difficult to treat, they often use multi-antibiotic regimes at once, and over a long period of time, and much has been published on the different bacteria which have been found in the prostate and can cause this situation, and it's not just E. coli. I still stand by a lot of what I said and it's best summed up as follows: – 1). My stance was that antibiotics can be given where dental work involves dental surgery or difficult extractions and where it is possible that the bacteria Streptococcus sanguinis can enter the bloodstream and cause problems with heart valves. This is supported in the main by by the dental/medical profession, even though there is still debate over it. 2). My next stance was that the bacteria Streptococcus sanguinis can cause problems in other areas of the body, namely the prostate, where it has been found. This is also supported by knowledgeable professors and urologists, as well as research and tests, and I posted a couple of links on it. So I rest my case and really don't want to get into further debate with this poster, so I will let this post explain my rationale. Over and out..............

Again you are incorrect in your assumption with regards to prostatitis, this especially as two professors with whom I have liaised, one in Harley Street and one in Melbourne, readily agree that prostatitis is extremely difficult to treat and not as simple as just being an E. coli infection which the body can deal with, otherwise there wouldn't be millions of men worldwide suffering from ongoing prostatitis which doesn't respond to various antibiotics, and which has been called "a medical wasteland for treatment" by prominent a urologist in the USA. Furthermore it is not only "diabetics, old people, generally unhealthy, fat, smokers etc" who are continually suffering with prostatitis, despite your assertion that is the case. I am none of the above and other men I know are not either Now back to how this started:- I posted: Unfortunately there are quite a few bacteria that live in the mouth and one which is usually protective of teeth and environs, Streptococcus sanguinus, can be dangerous if it gets into the bloodstream, causing problems with heart valves. (Which is correct). To which you replied: The mind boggles reading these fairytales! (ridiculing my post) I replied: S. sanguinis may gain entrance to the bloodstream when opportunity presents (dental cleanings and surgeries) and colonize the heart valves, particularly the mitral and aortic valves, where it is the most common cause of subacute bacterial endocarditis. For this reason, oral surgeons often prescribe a short course of antibiotics to be taken a few days before to a few days after oral surgery. (Which is correct) You replied: It's strep. viridans found in the mouth, and it can compromise damaged or artificial heart valves only! (Which is not correct because it was Streptococcus Sanguinis I was referring to). You then suggested that I was "like everybody, using quotes from Google without having any in-depth understanding". Thereby disparaging not only my comments but the results of carefully controlled studies in the medical field, and by medical experts in that particular field. I stated that you were mistaken on this particular point and again published peer-reviewed medical research regarding this bacteria, which you also disparaged by saying "so it's unlikely oral bacteria would infect the urinary track", but as other research I quoted has shown you, it does, along with many other bacteria, which I also detailed. I also included links to online medical libraries for your perusal. This after you again refuted my point that this bacteria could infect/colonise the prostate. You see this goes on and on and it results from your ridiculing of my original post and your assertion that Streptococcus sanguinis cannot be found in the urinary track or prostate – – and you are wrong. No point in arguing with you when you will not admit what you actually posted, or even admit that you could have been wrong.