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Too gay-looking, you think?

3 May was a Friday. 6 May was a bank holiday in Thailand.

The map shown above is interesting. Path (1) - ship to rail to ship ie loading & unloading & reloading - makes little sense. But Paths (2) & (3) could work: Either rail to ship & on, or ship to rail & on. But you probably don't need a land bridge for that, just a decent port on the Andaman Sea with good rail connection to the north.

Another safe way for fugitive Russians to enter Thailand.

Every day now here in south Surin huge storms come charging towards us across the plains and hills of the weather map, only to part a few kilometers from us and move elegantly around us without more than 5 drops of rain actually touching the ground.

Anything to do with diet?

Or are afraid for their own life!

And what an astonishingly complex process the whole farce is! We Thais do love complexity.

Goodness me. I have 2 eggs every day. What am I going to do?

In a country where the defamation law does not allow 'truth' as a defence? Are you that ignorant?

Endless entertainment all round.

Well, if you believe all the bla bla bla above, you'll believe anything.

Yes, 47700 riff-raff. That will never do. We'll have to get the CC to reinterpret the rules appropriately ...

Fun for all the people. Let's face it, he's a damn' sight more entertaining than the dinosaurs of the last decade. Prayut anyone? Prawit?

Entertaining as ever. Thaksin running rings around and the haters hating.

Real loyalty to a leader who actually - for the first time just about ever in Thailand - did some good things for poor people. Funny that.

More like 10 a day or equivalent Yes, it's the equivalent that counts. If people pour nothing but rubbish down their throat, they get every sickness known to man.

An apple a day ...

As in all the Moslem countries - where women aren't available - men are. If that's of interest. Then there's the (fading) relics of the city's Greek past, including Cavafy. And there's always archaeology to keep you fit.

Have the Hamas terrorists released all their hostages (dead or alive as they may already be) as directed by the ICJ on 26 January & 28 March? No, didn't think so.

Mmmmm, good question.

Long live the day! 😀

But coming down, I think, the black African countries and the Muslim countries. Still some way to go till they're below reproduction rate (which for poor countries in Africa is 2.3, not 2.2 as in rich countries). The important point is that the turn downwards has already taken place and can only strengthen from now on. As the Chinese have discovered, once the turn is made, it's almost impossible to reverse it. Which doesn't mean that the total world population won't reach 9 billion in the meantime ... before it too starts downward late in the century.

Yes, the obsession with 'economic growth' continues worldwide, despite the apparent concern about environmental devastation and despite the well-known fact that the whole world is entering a century or more of population decline which makes ever-larger economic goals both stupid and unachievable.

Europeans taking a LONG time to start adjusting to current nasty realities ... The good times are over, at least for the time being.