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mfd101

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  1. Caucasian? Gosh, it'll be hard to find anyone here with a common language.
  2. Unfortunately, Pistorius's boss Scholz is a pussy.
  3. The Chinese government is expert in crowd control & use of AI ...
  4. Yes, a certain irony in that: It takes an effective Communist government to build a successful capitalist economy. I guess the essence of the matter lies in the phrase 'effective government' ...
  5. Thanks. I've made a note & will try it out. (I'm trying teaching myself Spanish - reading only - by having both the Eng & the Sp versions of Spanish novels to read together eg Pérez-Reverte)
  6. Yes, I have noticed that over the last 2 or 3 years.
  7. I mostly just buy Kindles these days (unless in Bangers).
  8. In sum, less celebration, more cerebration required.
  9. I always visit one or other of the Kinokuniyas when I'm in BKK and there are always Thais browsing there. But that's scarcely representative of the broader Thai population.
  10. And then there are millions of mostly older Thais who have never read (or written) a single word in their lives (I live amongst them). And there are those - like one of my SILs - who can read fluently and has 'been to university' but there's not a single book in her little house. But of course her 2 children have mobile phones to which they are glued 24/7.
  11. Yes, I agree with you. Not the fault of the individual soldier at the front. But the main point is that NZ, like Thailand & the Philippines, has no military capability to offer for a C21st stoush with bullyboy China. And Oz doesn't have much at this stage either, with little sign of anything real happening to lift its capabilities (as opposed to hot air).
  12. Pot stirrer. I wonder what the (real) point is.
  13. Yes, you have confirmed by view of NZ as seen from Oz and elsewhere: A taker not a giver. The beg, borrow or steal bit is notorious in the Oz military.
  14. Thailand, Philippines & Singapore have no military capability worth recruiting. And neither does NZ: It has been a taker not a giver since the 1960s (as any Oz soldier alongside them in V'nam can vouch). As to Japan it's currently being worked in to the AUKUS arrangement, which is much more relevant than NATO could be in the Indo-Pacific region.
  15. Ground-to-air missiles? They may have some, likely stolen from the Myanmar regime. But making them work might be a different matter
  16. The contrast between Thailand & Japan - on just about anything you can think of - is laughably huge.
  17. So what will happen when a Mig strays across in to Thai airspace? F16s gonna shoot it down? force it down? I doubt it. But good exercise for the boys in any case.
  18. Sadly, there's only one person who can stop all this nonsense ...
  19. I wonder what the term 'partner' means here. If 'gays' were included - and with casual 3-minute or 5-minute or 10-minute contacts at gay baths - the numbers certainly in Western countries would be 50 or 100 times greater or more. I have 'gay' friends in Oz similar age to me (70s) or 30s/40s with numbers of 'sexual contacts' in the multiple hundreds and over 1000 ...
  20. Conclusion: Some people in Thailand are corrupt, but not necessarily all. And some of the most corrupt may not be Thai.
  21. Can't see anything in the photo, not even British humanoids.
  22. Phew! I feel so much better! Phew! I feel so much better!
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