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Great idea! Very “fight club”-esque. I’m also thinking about setting up some kind of cashless system on my phone and then going to the market during peak rush hour to buy a single soda, and subsequently fumble with my phone for 10 minutes at checkout just for fun.

B B But somewhere, some random baby died.

The deals for groceries/supermarkets is/was awesome. Call me lazy, but it’s nice not having to drive on Sukhumvit to get large/heavy orders and also utilize constant discount codes that give 20-30% off (capped at 160-180 baht usually). It was cheaper to have grocery items delivered (always free delivery) than buy it in the store. Prices were the same on Foodpanda as in Lotus, Big C, Tops and Gourmet Market. Same selection too.

Foodpanda is far more than just restaurant food. I could choose from multiple Lotus, Big C, Tops, Gourmet Market etc. Stand alone florists, butchers, fruit markets, pharmacies… Foodpanda definitely did incur losses. Impossible not to with the deals offered. All my grocery shopping for years was done using 20-30% off coupons (plus free delivery) and the prices are the same as in the market, including the in store discount/sale price. “happyfresh” delivery service was the same but they went out of business much faster. It was similar with many restaurants too. Cheaper to get food delivered than go to the restaurant…and living on Sukhumvit…it would still arrive hot. Special deals also just for foodpanda that could also use discount codes on top of too. I’m thankful that foodpanda was willing to incur those losses. It was good while it lasted. I didn’t ever think it would last this long.

All by design

Many have just plain disappeared. Even a couple of the forums most prolific long time posters in the last couple months. Won’t name names of course. Coincidence?

Still a lazy excuse.

More domestic violence and killings between LGBT couples than Straight. Previous research indicates that the killing method used in homicides may reflect the motivation of the offender and qualities of the victim-offender relationship. The effect of gender and sexual orientation of intimate partner homicide offenders (N = 51,007) was examined with respect to the brutality of killing methods. Guided by previous research and theory, it was hypothesized that homicide brutality will vary with the offender's sexual orientation and gender, such that the percentage of killings coded as brutal will be higher for (a) gay and lesbian relative to heterosexual relations, (b) men relative to women, (c) gay relative to heterosexual men, and (d) lesbian relative to heterosexual women. The rates of intimate partner homicide were also hypothesized to vary with the gender of the partners, such that (a) homicide rates will be higher in gay relative to heterosexual and lesbian couples and (b) homicide rates will be lowest in lesbian couples. The results support all but one prediction derived from the two hypotheses. We predicted that men would kill their partners more brutally than would women, but the results indicate that the opposite is true. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18396584/ Abusive relationships are characterized by consecutive acts of degradation, physical and verbal abuse, intimidation, and excessive control. While abusers will attempt to normalize such behaviors to maintain power in the relationship, these acts are and should always be recognized as domestic violence. What many do not recognize is that aggressive behavioral patterns and violence are even more common in non-heterosexual couples and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Williams Institute of Law: https://dcvlp.org/domestic-violence-peaks-more-than-ever-for-the-lgbtqia-community/

Higher incomes than straight people. Maybe a gay tax would be appropriate in the name of equality. https://www.vice.com/en/article/gay-people-make-more-money-than-their-straight-peers/#:~:text=Specifically%2C the average annual earnings,to %2457%2C032 for straight men.

Last flight into the US was October 2015

Should we mention that there have been positive studies done for “horse dewormer” in cancer treatment? Nah.

What did the replaced factory workers do? Learn to code?

I understand what you are saying but here….on this forum…there are probably very few people who were forced to get jabbed. Fat retirees who got jabbed so they could travel, go to the bars, whatever. I have yet to come across someone who even now…not taking the boosters (isn’t that going against the science?)….who still doesn’t parrot the worn out lines such as… “You can’t deny the vaccines saved millions of lives” and countless others. I never once told someone to not get vaccinated. Not once. Their bodily autonomy is sacrosanct as far as ai am concerned. And when one poster here tried to corner me by asking me my opinion if an elderly person with comorbidities should get jabbed (I can’t remember the exact manipulative question), my response was “that is between them and their doctor”. But when I stated that I was advised by my doctors not to rush out and get jabbed, both here and in real life I was told “you need to find a different doctor”. Hell….my own siblings wanted me either jailed or denied all healthcare. Oh….my doctors science isn’t good enough? You think that the jab pushers aren’t now taking every over the counter “detox” that they read about? I think that they will never admit to it even if they are. My belief is that the majority of people….even those who might not want to admit that they basically sold their souls (as Dr Bhakdi stated…literally…but he’s just a quack conspiracy theorist, right?)…they will do the exact same thing next time. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they double down. It’s an ego thing. A power trip. Covid exposed people for who they really are. They aren’t going to change. I do respect the poster here who has vocally regretted taking the shots and have in fact sent him a pm availing myself and the things I have experimented with with regards to the detox protocols. But putting it out here…for the people who don’t even have an ounce of sympathy for those who the vaccines injured and now smugly say “nothing is 100% safe”….pearls before swine.

it’s not an attack. It’s a celebration! Who doesn’t love a parade? Of course, I can see where the gay community isn’t interested in people marching with their ass cheeks covered. Bunch of normal-phobes

You repeat this lie all the time and you wonder why people just. don’t. care. about what you have to say anymore. Now stop being such a normal-phobe.

Hate to say it….but I will no longer share any protocol information. Actually, I feel pretty good about keeping the information to myself while I peruse the health forums (and peoples Covid vaccine related posting history) seeing all the jab pushers dealing with cancer, shingles, constant sickness, etc. They wanted us dead. This is their Karma.

How about the recent thread about “conspiracy theorists” and “what we need to do with them”? Before Covid, nobody cared about what anybody thought about moon landings, flat earth theories, etc. They only care about the jabs. BTW….have you noticed the absence of a few of the more prolific posters as of late? I wonder if they had a “coincidence”

Actually, I’d probably say something along the line of “check out that dude….I wonder where he’s from”

Nope. Portugal has France beat by over a century. Using the “history of the word Farang” is a lazy excuse. If it was acceptable, the N word would be fair game.

Of course one has to “live with the situation at hand” and my 14 years here have been quite pleasant. An uneducated bumpkin using the word Farang doesn’t bother me because I understand that the educational system here is just about as bad as it gets and with an average IQ 10 points lower than western countries, I feel that it’s ok to cut them some slack. Perhaps Thais could learn to do the same….or not. Up to them. Personally, I don’t tell Thais that I speak Thai. And when I call them out in Thai if they speak disrespectfully (assuming I am none the wiser), their loss of face is quite humorous.

Learning to read was essential for me because it is not uncommon for Thais to mispronounce their own language to the point where I have to ask them to write it down for clarification.

“Farang”, as I was taught by my educated Thai friends, is generally used by Thais with lower education levels. Educated Thais (having a degree that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on does not necessarily mean educated) will use the proper word for foreigner. One shouldn’t need to learn every nuance about Thai culture and speak the language fluently to “gain respect”. Farang is no different than “jek” or “kek”…..and those certainly aren’t terms of endearment. In the USA, if an immigrant isn’t familiar with all our social mores and language, we don’t call them “chinks”, “slopes”, “gooks” or any other derogatory word until we deign them worthy of our respect.

In other words…. You can’t speak Thai, but you like to denigrate those who might (or might not be) at a lower level than yourself.

If you brag (as you did in the other thread) about knowing how to say “rent” and “apartment”….you don’t speak Thai.

She has a certain look about her* *apologies for the potential misgendering