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The photo above shows an instrument similar to one type of Sth American pan flute.

Would be interesting to know what the criteria were (1) for selecting the billionaires to-be-asked, and (2) for their selections.

Be wery carepul, Bro. One slop o da tung and LM.

It's lovely at the moment so let's destroy it by improving it ...

We get all our water from 40metres down. Not sure what happens when/if it ever runs out. Hasn't run out so far in 7 years. With his usual 'sunny' (Thai) disposition - living in the moment - my b/f just laughs whenever I raise the question. Lotta wata.

I can smell nothing since my late covid (April last year). And my taste buds are now recovered to about 40% of what they were.

Yes. My description works equally well for AI. But the AI people know that already (yawn).

Very beautiful. Huge ears (or am I just imagining that?) Would love to have them but we're too far away (Surin province).

Huge hotel? Well, the name should have been enough for AN habitués to mention. "Lek lek' means 'Very small' in Thai.

I'm actually surprised. 87M฿ is not a huge amount. Roughly AUD3.6M. There would be many Westerners living here who are worth more than that. Would like to see Prayut's numbers too.

B/sht

I think of it as the cognitive machinery which converts an input of questions/problems/issues into an output of answers/solutions/actions. The quality of the machinery is measured by the success of the outputs. One of the characteristics of the process is its abstraction ie the capacity to think of practical problems in abstract ways. This allows you to manipulate the problem, approaching it from different angles and trying out different possible solutions - all done inside your head. How that turns into proclamations like 'The average IQ of Americans is 102.3' is beyond my machinery's capacity to understand.

However designated, it is a common disease in Thailand as in many other tropical countries.

Exactly my experience.

Of course, but this is about the decision to 'come out'.

Quelle surprise!

We had a house burglary once 2 or 3 years ago (no cameras - since installed). Police were pleasant and helpful, particularly after my b/f made a donation to the social club. They had a fair idea who it was - doing the rounds, yet again - and they turned up with him at our house 3 or 4 days later for a reenactment. Salutes all round at the end, and the English-speaking one gave me his phone no. to call if any problems in future. Can't complain.

Thai culture loves complexity and ambiguity ie lots of wriggle room. So why clarify things?

Falang Superiority Syndrome.

Not many gay Palestinians in Gaza or West Bank. Mostly in Haifa.

I gather there are more firearms per capita in Thailand than in Usofa ...

Lots of middle-aged and elderly couples might have a different view, I think. Sexual activity tends to diminish in most - but not all - people with age, so sexless marriages are quite common. But they're still more than friends, a couple who sleep together and enjoy a cuddle on a cold winter's night ...

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Well at least here they don't need the government to broadcast (as I gather they do in the UK in hot weather) messages for old people reminding them to turn off the heater.

I didn't 'come out' to the world - as opposed to my closest friends (all 'straight') - until I was 62 and had just fallen in love with my Thai Khmer boy to whom I have now been officially 'partnered' for 10 years. Everyone to whom (in Canberra) I announced the glad tidings behaved as though (yawn) they had 'known' since forever. All fine. But they didn't feel the need to talk about it. When I finally took my boy to Canberra for a few months to meet everyone and to live (we thought permanently), he was overwhelmed by how warm everyone was. And everyone wanted to meet him. Middle-aged beautifully dressed dowagers at evening gatherings would kiss him on both cheeks. If you could have seen through his darkish skin he would have been blushing as well as giggling ...