Airalee

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

21 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Here she is ........... blond on the left.

 

She has a certain look about her*

*apologies for the potential misgendering 

1 hour ago, WorriedNoodle said:

It's more of a common sense post, that most anti vaxxers somehow lost from birth? Maybe they should have got a common sense jab from their parents? Vaccines are rigorously tested, safe, and effective in preventing serious diseases that do exist and can harm newborns. Decades of research show vaccines protect infants from illnesses like measles, polio, and whooping cough, which can be deadly. The "toxic filth" claim ignores that vaccine ingredients are carefully studied, used in safe doses, and monitored for adverse effects. Denying the existence of these diseases contradicts well-documented medical evidence. Scientists have spent years confirming vaccines save millions of lives annually.

The lady doth protest too much methinks.

They should ban cameras in the bar.

4 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

So easy to figure out.

 

You were part of the problem.

 

Did you support drag queens in children’s classrooms?

 

Men masquerading as women in women’s sports?

 

Of course you did.

Notice how she doesn’t say what city she taught in?

Funny how some of the cities that spend the most per capita have the worst test scores.  Baltimore?  New York City?

“Across all grades, 26 percent of students in Baltimore City are proficient in English and Language Arts (ELA), while only 8 percent are proficient in math. Even Baltimore City’s “gifted and talented” learners lag behind. More than half of its advanced learners fail to score as proficient in math, and 29 percent score below grade-level in ELA. If the best and the brightest are performing so poorly, how about everyone else?

As students advance through Baltimore schools, they appear to do progressively worse at math. While 17 percent of Baltimore City schools’ third-graders score at grade-level in math, only 3 percent of students are proficient by eighth grade—and among those 132 pupils, only one scored in the top category as a “distinguished leader,” having exceeded the state’s minimum proficiency requirements. At the same time, the share of all students scoring in the test’s lowest category (“beginning learner”) in math rose from 49 percent in third grade to 68 percent by eighth, with the share of exceptional learners sliding further.

A full 40 percent of Baltimore’s 32 public and charter high schools saw not a single student achieve math proficiency on the 2022–23 exam. But it is not a matter of a few failing schools dragging down the totals. Just 14 schools managed to get half their students to grade-level proficiency in English, and not one reached that milestone in mathematics.”

https://www.city-journal.org/article/are-baltimore-students-better-off-staying-home
 

Teachers should be paid for performance.  If their students can’t perform, why should they get fat pensions that enable them to retire overseas?  They shouldn’t.

5 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

As an old chef and owner of multiple restaurants and a night club in Sweden and Norway, I have been teaching my wife to run the shop and restaurant. Why would I be the one who runs everything, when there are teachable and competent Thai people who can manage very well? Of course, I am supervising, as it sometimes can go awry. 😉 

I would say it generates a profit of about 55-70k baht for my wife each month after costs and salaries have been paid. Something that means she is self sufficient today, and do not have to depend on me and my money. The split in profit between the shop and restaurant is today about 45/55 in percentage. However, the restaurant is only 4-5 month in, so I expect that to grow as well. I give it about 1 year, and then I expect her profit to be 100k baht per month.

It’s not often that someone so successful and well off divulges so much of their financial situation.

That’s because it”s rather gauche.

At least you can afford some anger management therapy.

1 hour ago, Peterphuket said:

You would expect a bit more knowledge from a Swiss, wouldn't you?

From the very few Swiss I have met here in Thailand…absolutely.  They are also quite reserved so even  commenting on gold threads like this (and the one previously posted) seems out of character.

13 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Well, those kind of stats are likely something that UNFPA's (ultra nationalist fake patriot Americans) are not going to want to hear, as they have to show fealty to their master by showing a dislike of Canada, despite the fact that Canada has been a loyal and faithful friend and ally to the US for at least a century now. 

And who owns the rights to that gold?  Large gold miners that are publicly traded.

Who owns the largest stakes in those miners?

Institutional owners.

And which country holds the majority of that institutional ownership?

Not Canada.
 

Remember when the left universally decried dynasties such as the Bush family?

Now, as shown in this thread, they champion them.

5 hours ago, jas007 said:

Almost 90% of the world's currency transactions are performed with the US dollar as a "delivery vehicle,"  Foreign currency gos in, is converted to US dollars for the transaction, and the transaction is completed. So like it or not, when you're buying fold in a home currency that's not the US dollar, then, like it or not, you're supporting the dollar.  

Your reply makes no sense.

Some moron said “how have your gold holdings fared in your “home currency””

And I showed her that it has fared quite well in most major currencies.   Are you saying it hasn’t?

Saying that “buying gold supports 5e dollar” is wrong.  In fact, it is more of a vote against the dollar.   But hey….if you enjoy coming to the defense of morons…you do you.  Birds if a feather and all.

4 hours ago, Sierra Tango said:

You know what they say about sarcasm and wit, right?

Unfortunately, you seem to only be focused on the first half of “what they say”

3 hours ago, Pistachio said:

Many Filipinos teach English in Thailand. They have a bachelor’s degree from the Philippines, and nobody minds not the parents, nor the Thai schools. So why should my Filipino degree be a problem? Yes I originally considered doing an online bachelors in the Czech Republic but the Philippines is cheaper

From what I understand, the Filipinos are paid less than the teachers from NES countries.   

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

You write the same crap daily.

For fun….google half of what he writes.   He keeps everything he writes in a file to cut and paste into future posts.

Leftists are weird.

11 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

What Trump has done could precipitate nothing short of a major economic crisis. I think he's gone too far, I think he knows he's gone too far, I think his advisors know he's gone too far, but they're too cowardly to say anything, Fox News is starting to say that he's gone too far, and I think that it may be quite difficult for him to pull back from this brink.

 

He may have set in motion a disaster of historic proportions and he could go down in history as being one of the clumsiest, most idiotic, most reckless, and most dangerous men in the history of America. 

 

I almost feel sorry for the man at this point, and that's a difficult thing for me to say, but I think the junk that's going to fall onto his ugly face is going to be an horrific thing to witness. Or a joyous thing, if you're not heavily invested in the American markets. 

 

 

Deja Vu…🙄

Beef

8 hours ago, BLMFem said:

 

This is tanking together.

 

 

 

 

Ummmm 🤨 

Blueberries with heavy cream are my favorite.   I like jicama too even though it’s not a fruit.

55 minutes ago, short-Timer said:

A complete and utter total abomination. Everything that sweaty old turd touches turns to absolute sh*t. Single-handedly destroying the American economy like a wrecking ball with stage 4 dementia. I’ve never seen anything like it. You’d have to go back to the Great Depression to find anything even remotely on the same level. Even his own constituency turned on him in the Senate yesterday during the vote on Canadian tariffs. Unhinged and as reckless as a bull in a china shop. He just shaved off another 6% of the Nazi carmaker’s wealth today. Nobody minds that, of course, but I wonder if that jittery little spastic jumping goblin has finally done the math and realized that hanging out with the Cheeto-chump convict has done nothing but cost him over $100 billion. At least karma is still alive and well in DC. God save murika. 

B+ for histrionics.   Needs some work to get it up to JT level.

12 minutes ago, hotsun said:

Why do leftists still cite krugman? Hes been wrong about everything his entire career

He was the laughing stock of the housing bubble (great financial crisis) amongst all the economic bloggers.

6 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Ahh ANs very own BLM rioter / economist

Burn, Loot & Murder

1 hour ago, still kicking said:

Not made from beef

Australia’s largest trading partner is China, but the United States has been Australia’s largest market for exported beef for most of the last 25 years. Beef was one of the Australian exports targeted by China in 2020. Rather than applying tariffs, four Australian red meat abattoirs were banned from selling meat in China due to labelling and health certificate requirements.

When the Chinese tariffs and bans on Australian wine, barley, beef, timber, coal, cotton and lobsters took hold, Australia diversified its export markets. USSC modelling shows that Saudi Arabia overtook China to become Australia’s largest importer of barley, Vietnam imported the most cotton and the United Kingdom and the United States imported the most wine.

In 2024, the United States accounted for 30.7% of Australia’s beef exports (up from 17% in 2022). Agricultural issues have been a sticking point in the US-Australia trade relationship for decades. While US tariffs or restrictions may limit imports of Australian beef, Australia’s beef exports globally may increase as they diversify their markets, like they did following China’s restrictions in 2020.

LOL

The US imports approximately 10-12% of its beef.  It exports the same amount.

Only 12% of the imported beef comes from Australia.

So…Australia supplies 1.2%-1.44% of the beef consumed in America.  
 

A big nothingburger.