Jonathan Swift

Yourself?

"This edifice". Very impressive and creative use of the English language

Why does it even matter? The poor guy is gone and his family and fans are grieving. But that's the media for you - if it bleeds it leads.

It's very sad. People forget how dangerous these sports are. American football as well. You're lucky to get away with mere brain damage at times. Any blow to the head or vital organs can kill you.

And they don't have boxing where you're from? Is regular boxing not "primitive"? As far as the "boring"part, did you never come to understand that your not liking something doesn't dictate what others should feel about it? This goes back to the gladiators - people like the drama of watching people battle it out. It gets their own aggression out by proxy. All contact sports are primitive. So I imagine that actual war also bores you?

For those of you not paying attention, the building was under construction and the crane and everything else came down. No other buildings had any reported damage as of this story. I live in a high rise and a few things were knocked off shelves

The building wasn't finished, it was still under construction you tωit. There has been no other damage reported.

And you're a structural engineer plus you're psychic, right? So do tell us what you can see in this footage that shows exactly what was defective upon which you base your mighty insight. . There hasn't even been an investigation yet.

Killing your customers is bad for business. But you're right - there are no ethics about what they put into it, just like the booze with methanol which poisons a lot of Thai people.

Besides letting people die who can't afford their prescriptions. Price fixing. Nothing too serious.

If you were an American you would not be thinking like this, unless you were a member of the Trump cult. As such, your ignorance is forgivable. The Thai people knew what Trump was as far back as 2015, when I was sitting around a sidewalk bar and Trump was on TV and they all started chanting "<deleted> Trump", I have it on video. Lastly, the disruption of world economies is no laughing matter, it affects everyone, not just your own personal scapegoats. This may be outside your pay grade though. If I had a dollar for every UK person who thought they knew all about the US without ever having been there and actually there fore knew nothing I'd be rich.

Why do I think that most merchants will not miss the Israelis? Nature abhors a vacuum. Seems obvious that without a group of troublemakers ruining things for others you will get an influx of more of the better quality tourists in their place. Relatively speaking, but better a bunch of deadbeat begpacker barefoot hippies who at least know how to behave.

Let me 'splain something. Get your dictionary out. Anti Israeli sentiments based on their behavior have nothing to do with anti semitism, and it's an insult to Jewish people everywhere for you and every other ignorant person to throw such a hateful term around willy nilly when it doesn't apply. Israeli is a nationality. Has nothing to do with whether someone practices Judaism, or is ethnically Jewish. Israeli is a nationality, not a race, not a religion, not an ethnic group. Anyone can become an Israeli citizen. Suppose you and your friends got drunk and made trouble all the time in some bar somewhere, so people from your country got banned. The only thing you could call that is prejudice, and it's prejudice based on behavior, with the only solution to controlling your bad behavior is to ban the lot of you. It's like punishing the whole classroom because one kid won't own up to his behavior. It's not anti catholic, anti Christian, anti Muslim, anti Buddhist, or anything of the sort. It is not based on hate or bigotry. It is based on bad behavior. I know this will be hard for you to wrap your mind around, being that this is no doubt one of your favorite imaginary causes (meaning your own complaining, I don't mean that anti semitism isn't a real problem) to bellow about, so feel free to take a few days off and maybe take a crash course in world history and the history of racism. I should mention that I come from a country where the ugliest forms of racism and religious persecution are common, and I know exactly what it is and what it isn't. But education is hard work, innit? Easier just to bellow nonsensically at the top of your lungs. But don't kid yourself, your nonsense is not seen as anything BUT nonsense. Enjoy your bellowing.

This all being based on a highly addictive substance, with lots of profits involved, two reasons why nothing will change. Same reason cigarettes are still around. It's why you will never stop illegal drugs, ever. Never have, never will. Me and my silly common sense once thought that vapes would help cut down the far worse problem of cigarette smoke (including the problem of secondhand smoke). But what I see is that smokers are not motivated to switch. At least here. They don't care. Sometimes I almost think that cigarette smokers come here just because they can get away with smoking everywhere that they can't in their home countries. Tobacco companies are evil. Cigarette smokers who disregard others are pigs. When I was a kid and a teenager both my parents and most of their friends smoked and there were no anti smoking laws, but it was simple common courtesy for someone to ask someone nearby if they minded if they smoked. And nobody ever smoked around people who were eating, except maybe stinky local bars. Common courtesy. Nobody ever does that here.

But men do? In case anyone wants to actually educate themselves on the topic, studies show: (From "Sex difference in alcoholism: Who is at a greater risk for development of alcoholic complication?") "Epidemiological evidence suggests that nearly 20% of adult males have alcohol abuse or suffer from alcoholism-related complications. On the other hand, only about 5–6% of adult females are alcoholic or abuse alcohol on the regular basis (Devaud et al., 1999). In general, women tend to consume less alcohol than men and appear to be less likely to manifest certain risk factors for alcohol use and health problems. Nonetheless, women receive greater social and health sanctions for drinking while alcohol and alcoholism may counter desirable feminine traits (e.g., nurturing). Moreover, women are less likely to display characteristics associated with excessive drinking including aggressiveness, drinking to alleviate distress, behavioral undercontrol, sensation-seeking and antisociality", In other words, men have been found to behave much more badly when drunk than women overall. Duh. Source below: (Reading level first year college) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024320510002432?via%3Dihub