Jonathan Swift

Nonetheless, legal casinos will be like money trees. Historically they became major tourist attractions. My opinion? It will attract a significant number of the total gambling population INCLUDING tourists, who might prefer not to get arrested, and will likely bring in a lot of newbies, many of whom will then proceed to gambling addiction and become lifetime customers who squander every cent they have. This is what happened on the American Indian reservations. On top of that, it's likely that organized crime will try to latch on in one way or another, such as loan sharking to the gambling addicts. It's all the same playbook, but, just my opinion again, the pros usually out weigh the cons. I heard they were going to bring in Bobby Deniro and Joe Pesce as consultants

"to sort the snafu swiftly." WWII era military slang. Who knows what snafu actually means? Hands? (no fair looking it up) Bzzzzzt time's up. Situation normal, all f________d up

nature abhors a vacuum, something will fill in the gaps. I do my own cooking except when I travel, and get food delivered from Tops. They're pretty good but they don't keep a very big inventory in their online location, many items are out of stock and still listed. For 99 baht/month you get free express delivery within an hour. I'm also fortunate in that there is a cheap Thail/Burmese restaurant on the 1st floor of my building along with a mini mart

I have a good "recipe for intestinal issues" passed down from my great grandma. Oh, wait, that was chitlins.

Based on my 68 years on this planet such statistics are of little real use. Except to start arguments between mόrόns (in the case of this forum)

And that means what exactly? Do you actually know the difference between a sitting president literally anyone else? "far behind every other 21st-century president at a similar point. Trump’s approval rating is 44% at almost 100 days in office, compared with 54% for Joe Biden, 62% for Barack Obama and 63% for George W. Bush at the same point." Maybe you should go back to reading the funny papers until you can get into your big boy pants and grasp adult topics.

My scout troop wasn't NAZI, the scoutmaster was a racist redneck ɑsshole, used to talk about n****r camps, which in fact were the temporary housing for the migrant workers who came up from the south to work in the tobacco fields.

Thanks for mentioning it

jeez, get an education

I'm sure that if an American is in Thailand the last thing he'd be thinking about would be the US. That's why I came here 12 years ago, amongst many reasons, and as far as I'm concerned the US doesn't exist. And if he's a stupid drunk American he's likely not aware of much outside of the drink in his hand.

Nice topic to read about over my morning (Thai) coffee

In the case of 7-11, the parent company is, I believe in Japan, the Thai business is a subsidiary owned and run independently. I imagine this is a common model.

I don't know how wide a variation there is, but all of the Thai coffee I've ever drunk has been fabulous. I'm drinking my triple latte as I sit here.

You can still eat their candy bars as well, and drink their cocoa

You gotta love that dime store novel dramatization style!