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Another trait we have in common!! You stay well too ????.

I like that, because I am the same as you by the looks of things, and I always remember something that my first and only wife (in the UK) shouted at me as we were getting divorced....... "you will end up being a lonely old man", to which I replied, "alone, maybe, but never lonely", and that's one thing she couldn't understand. I more or less had to bring myself up and fend for myself from a very early age, for reasons I won't go into here, so I became very independent and that has stayed with me, and although I am alone I'm not unhappy, and I still have farang friends whom I speak to on a fairly regular basis, and occasionally like to meet up for something to eat and a wander around the nightspots here. Luckily, one friend and his Thai partner own a very lovely restaurant, so that is a reasonably frequent meeting place. In addition I have made friends with various Thai folk here and especially Thai women who own massage shops, as I do like a bona fide massage (lots of old football injuries to contend with) and I do like to give them some business by frequenting them for a manicure or pedicure or even a foot massage. In addition I will often ask what they are intending to eat that evening, and then give them a few hundred baht to be able to buy what they want. Although they like Thai food, they are not averse to large pizza from across the road, which I will happily pay for. I try to make friends with just about everybody with whom I interact, and that includes some of the lovely ladies who work in the supermarket here, who always call out to me when I am wandering around doing my stuff, and give me a big smile and a wave. The only downside I have found is the fact that one particular farang will ask for money by way of a loan to see him through, and I did do this until I put a stop to it, saying that I was not going to be his fallback banker. I am lucky in as much as when I split up with my Thai girlfriend and her 7 yr old daughter, we stayed friends, and indeed I financed them for quite a few years, and I still do for the daughter, whom I have unofficially adopted, and am putting through university, where hopefully she will become a teacher. We are in almost daily contact and I think the world of this beautiful and bright young lady, and she considers me her "real" father. I think there are people in this world like me and Laccessit, and probably many others, who are quite comfortable being on their own, but for others who don't feel the same, then getting out and making new friends and acquaintances has to be a priority.

I will give you my genuine opinion, formed after many, many years of flying between continents.............I never thought about the weight problem until I boarded a United Airways flight between Los Angeles and Auckland (at least I think it was Los Angeles!). I was sat next to an extraordinarily obese man, and he could hardly fit into his seat; he was that large that he had to put his left arm in the seat next to him, which was mine, in addition to having the fat from his enormous waist and chest overlapping into my seat space, so for the whole journey I was being almost smothered by this obese thing, and it was most uncomfortable, but unfortunately the flight was full and I had to put up with it. Now being older and wiser, were it to happen again I would request a seat change and make damn sure that I got one!

On a separate note, I have never downloaded an H265 setting movie because I thought it wouldn't work on my TV?? However I downloaded the movie I have just posted about through my normal qBitTorrent and then transferred it to a USB which I played through VLC to my TV, and it worked just fine, so I won't be afraid to seek those out in future if I have to. Nice to know!

I have just watched this series and wasn't overly impressed with it, although I could say that it was "okay"! I don't know if it was me or the loose storyline, but I never got to find out what the businessmen in the series actually did, especially one who had ties with a football club? Also, I never did understand what the old guy who was dying in his bed (in hospital) actually did and why there was a great deal of money supposedly involved in a potential payoff. I stuck with it until the end and retired to my bed, not really understanding what I had watched!

I wouldn't be too quick sign up for Muslim membership on account of the "76 virgins" reward in your afterlife, because as one witty poster has previously said, "it has been discovered that there was a typo in the original text, and it should have read, 76 Vegans".????

Is that a derogatory Chinese word??????

Miss out "the hunk" bit and I would believe it! And as for being cantankerous, surely not you......????

Always...........a smile costs nothing and can make someone's day.

Hope so❗???????????? Ah, a post that echoes my sentiments entirely. No civil war if the crooked narcissist isn't around to incite one. If that does happen, I wonder what the trumpy halfwits will do then as regards a leader, because there doesn't appear to be anybody else in the wings that really deserves to be president of the USA and who has half a brain.

Just send me the bill, was the cry from the Chinese!!

Duh.

I just love your reply, it is absolutely marvellous, but have you ever thought that it could prompt members of the GOP to report sightings of Bilbo and Gandalf to the FBI?? That would be about their IQ level.

And if Biden hasn't been arrested yet, ever thought that it could well be that there is no evidence to support what you suggest?? Strange that.

You are pretty much on the mark with this comment, and the reason no clampdown comes is because the authorities and the taxidrivers and their "union" are integrated with regards to money and fees. It is all controlled and the only way to break it would be to clear out the local BIB as well as the tuk tuk and taxidriver consortiums and start again.........but there is money involved so that's not likely to happen. Corruption rules here, we shouldn't forget that.

The old saying, "clutching at straws" seems to fit the bill with your post. – These audio recordings released by a right-wing senator and propagated by a right-wing disgraced news station need to be heard, and of course you haven't heard them. – As has been explained many times here, the bank records are no more than what is required by US law with regards to larger sums of money being transferred, so this can apply to anyone. – Shell companies – – – many people and companies have them for one reason or another and that's not a sign of anything untoward. When you have some concrete proof/evidence, then why not try again to post it rather than what you think you would like to see.

Watched it a short while ago after a post pointing towards iTV, thanks Will27.

Just watched this and thought it was very good, and often wondered what happened to the Blackberry!

I had another thought on that and maybe there is another reason, inasmuch as he thinks because he has been POTUS he can do anything he wants, coupled with the fact that he doesn't believe he's done anything wrong and neither can he because of his position and "perceived standing" (in his tiny mind) in the US. Therefore thinks he is above the rules/laws which govern others and US society.

Unfortunately Tug, the diehard trumpers are not bright enough to understand that something similar could happen to them should they decide to try some sort of insurrection. Very hard to understand what drives these idiots, but then some cults seem to have this hold on people, and the majority of them are average to poorly educated, so that could explain it.

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.