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mfd101

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  1. He sounds like a sane & sensible doctor. All too hard to find amidst the pharmaceutical industry employees.
  2. In sum, Thai 'history' books are full of b/s, humbug & hypocrisy. Much as 'Western' history books used to be - and still partly are - full of humbug & hypocrisy relating to European colonization of the Americas and Africa ...
  3. At least the Kennedy weirdo will now vanish never (I hope) to be heard from again. Unless Trump wins in which case he'll be Secretary of State.
  4. A fairly damning condemnation of Trump, I should think, for anyone who's open-minded and rational.
  5. With 'recorded history' beginning in 1982, no wonder we're bewildered! Seriously though, I was under the impression that reliable weather records (and perhaps also climate records) date back to the C19th. Not to mention multiple historical and archaeological records of floods and desertification for at least the last 2000 years ... All up, our continuing bewilderment is itself bewildering. Ideology vs Evidence is never a nice scenario.
  6. I'm looking forward to Thaksin funding the assault case against Prawit.
  7. OK, so all of Thailand's little oligarchs and would-be oligarchs are discovering what it is to deal with a giant oligarch. If Thais were to discover the meaning of concepts like 'productivity' and 'efficiency' and 'quality', they might find themselves easily able to compete with the Chinese.
  8. It has long been the case that the miserable trendy bits of Christendom - desperate to survive in a changing world - have given up on actually really 'believing in God' (as opposed to a metaphorical understanding), or in Jesus as Son of God (just a nice story), or the Resurrection (what a funny but wise tale) or anything else that Christians believed for the previous 1900 years.
  9. So the hotels, restaurants & shops which the Chinese 'tourists' are funneled thru are staffed by Chinese from China? and the food the tourists eat is imported specially from China? and served only by Chinese from China? and not a single Thai person benefits from the whole deal?
  10. A revenge reference to the NACC etc would be sweet.
  11. That's mostly my experience. Not a problem. Give me more.
  12. Um, so the 'zero-dollar' tourists don't stay in hotels in Thailand? And they don't eat any food while in Thailand? To me it just sounds like competition, the basis of capitalist enterprise. I should have thought the Thai oligarchs would be familiar with the concept.
  13. Sugar (in all its forms) is your enemy.
  14. Vietnam is still ruled by old men living in the past. But the day-to-day reality for most of its citizens is one of get-rich-quick thru enterprise & hard work. Much like China, but more flexible strategically because it sees - on a daily basis in the Sth China Sea - that its only military threat is China. So being friends both with The West and with China's not-very-friendly-ally Russia makes sense.
  15. Oh dear, we do want their money pouring in, it makes us all rich. But we don't want them actually DOING anything with their money (other than just giving it to us).
  16. Yes, he seems to be a sensible human being. A rare example given his background and life-experience.
  17. Sounds like real progress! Just need all the fumes-bellowers everywhere removed & replaced by clean & punctual EVs.
  18. She's on the left of centre in Usofa. I'm merely pointing out that, by the standards of the rest of the 'Western world', ALL Usofan politics is way way over to the right. As I've had occasion to comment in the past, In Oz I rate as right-of-centre (voting for the Liberal Party), but if I lived in Usofa I would probably vote for Bernie Sanders.
  19. The thing about Trump-type voters is their astonishing ignorance of anything outside Usofa, If Kamala is 'leftwing', then every Western democracy in the whole world is extreme left and indeed Communist. Don't know how we've managed all these years.
  20. So, we've got you now. Just be careful, behave yourself, no rocking the boat, or you'll really really be for the high jump next July.
  21. So when does Prawit appear in court on the assault charge?
  22. Which, if it all did come to fruition via the EC and the CC, would rather put paid to the anti-Thaksin conspiracy theorists who think that every time a rat farts it's part of a Thaksin plot.
  23. So what's the problem? They're offering a reward for early renewal.
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