mfd101

What you 'identify' as - whether to others or inside your own mind - and what you do and who you do it with are at least 3 different things. And all combinations are possible. And all may get tried out in different situations and at different stages of a person's life. Nothing surprising in any of that. Been that way for a long long time. The only thing that's a bit new is people talking endlessly about it all.

Conclusion: Greed leads to insolvency.

One f/w less to worry about.

Much the same as me. Dragged here at age 62 by an acquaintance. Met my b/f, aged 22. Now happily ensconced together here 14 years later in a big house full of books. The books are my bubble.

The fundamental reason (if you'll pardon the phrase) is that their customers are men who identify as 'straight'.

So the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement was not negotiated and agreed between two equal parties?

And then there's Oz, up there with China in rare earths of all kinds, just less developed as yet. But the Japs aren't hanging around, busily snuggling up to the dependable Aussies.

60 years later? (No sweat, mate.)

From an historical point of view it's hard to see what Columbus has to do with Usofa. There's any number of European explorers of North America with more obvious links. Probably the Pilgrim Fathers (oh! and the Pilgrim Mothers too) would be the most suitable.

Never mind, soon we'll be complaining of rising prices of anything imported.

Never mind. All will be well. The guvamint has it all in hand.

Fairly cold comfort. As the article notes, the baht could easily rise again once the current disturbance resolves itself one way or the other.

So for once it wasn't the ladyboys who initiated the scuffle.

Ditto here in sth Surin. We were advised - correctly - when we built here on the outskirts of Prasat not to rely on town water supply. Plenty of water 40m down. But I'm always relieved all the same when the rains arrive in April/May. According to my b/f, it used to be June before they arrived. Getting a little earlier each year.

Some beautiful photos here. Very fine. Congratulations! (from Surin next door)