On 1/6/2024 at 11:25 PM, Bday Prang said:

This is the first time i have ever watched a video from andrew tate to be honest, and he seems to talk a lot of sense. I can assure you I am not a snowflake or woke etc,  I am apparently an extreme right wing racist nazi according to the more progressive  liberal posters on here. Just letting you know

Not a snowflake, cries because some people call me some names... sure, dude. 

On 1/5/2024 at 5:05 PM, impulse said:

 

I'm sensing some negative energy there.  And some denial. 

 

Problem with harboring negative energy toward someone is that the knot is in my stomach and they're blissfully unaffected.  Often referred to as "rent free space in my brain".

 

I am sensing that the only one triggered is you :) 

18 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

"Cancel culture" the lefties call it,  the aim of which is to completely erase people who's views don't align with theirs, You said he should be mocked and laughed at. why not just ignore him , after all he hasn't insulted you personally.  

Is the cancel culture in the room with you now? Fancy thinking a dude who abuses women is just being "cancelled" - again, get a grip, snowflake 

5 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Agreed, but that goes both ways.  It's just as harmful to expend energy hating on the guy as it would be to take his advice seriously.

 

I find his stuff amusing, with an occasional kernel to ponder.

 

Who said I was hating him? Dude, is an utter clown who should be mocked and laughed at. 

4 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

And anybody who seeks to have him destroyed / cancelled should just go straight to the treatment room, no need to be checked

"destroyed / cancelled" get a grip you drama queen

10 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Just remember that they only include those who die at the scene of the crash in these figures.

The real number of deaths could be double that if they included those who succumb to their injuries in hospital.

Which is what they do every year, right? So, if they are counting them the same each year, then there could have been a drop.  And I see this claim been said on here, anyone got any evidence for it? 

7 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

About the only time I hear the term "woke" is on this forum, and almost 100% of the time the discussion has been raised by right-wing nut jobs who have been worked into a tizzy by right-wing nut job media. What an earlier poster wrote about this being a wedge issue designed to distract people from more serious social inequality issues and to pit the underclass against one another is spot on.

Don't forget the nut-job anti-vaccine and science angle as well, the OG poster is always posting easily debunked bs about vaccines on here. He all about feels over facts. 

2 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

I came across this great opinion piece written by James Gorrie on "Wokeness" and how to get rid of it.

In the article he makes some hard-hitting points, e.g. about the distortion of language, where Wokish words now almost mean the opposite of what they used to. 

"A big part of the woke movement’s success lies in its Orwellian distortion of language so that commonly understood meanings of words are inverted to mean the opposite. For example, words such as “tolerance” really mean intolerance of competing ideas and values, and “inclusion” found in the common woke phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, really means excluding traditional ideas, values, and beliefs." 

This post is a good opening shot to trigger the discussion about the Woke phenomenon, that you currently see all around you.  And fortunately more and more people are waking up to that dystopian world-view and don't want to have anything to do with it.  The Bud Light story and the latest Disney movie-bummers being some examples of 'Enough is Enough'...

 

= = =

2024: The Year to Cancel ‘Wokeness’ in America

Stop doing business with people who hate you and your traditional values.

 

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/2024-the-year-to-cancel-wokeness-in-america-5554997

 

Commentary

When it comes to spending their money and supporting their values, many Americans are now wide awake, and most don’t like what they see. “Peak Wokeness,” a term that may or may not be new (it is to me), is now pervasive in our lives and dominates our culture.

Undoubtedly, it would like to do the same with our private thoughts and our closely held traditional values and beliefs.

It just about does.

Wokeness Is Orwellian – and Everywhere

The woke crowd in America is loud, proud, and ... Stalinesque. It’s literally forcing communism down our collective throats.

Worse, these greatly misguided and extremely intolerant people are seemingly everywhere—from your coffee shop and your bank and your 401k investments to the shows you pay to watch on your smart television. They’re in the boardrooms of corporate America; they run our schools, colleges, and universities that celebrate transgenderism and make indentured servants of their graduates­, and are in Human Resources departments to ensure that no independent thought or idea is expressed in the workplace.

A big part of the woke movement’s success lies in its Orwellian distortion of language so that commonly understood meanings of words are inverted to mean the opposite. For example, words such as “tolerance” really mean intolerance of competing ideas and values, and “inclusion” found in the common woke phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, really means excluding traditional ideas, values, and beliefs.

Is the "wokeness" in the room with us now?

2 hours ago, Gaccha said:

In modern times, you can rip up the rulebook if you want, but this possibly creates tension in the relationship. Since it means that every single issue becomes a point of contention. Who should do this who should do that...

 

She is not disputing with her husband in this, she is disputing with the wisdom of her mother-in-law. Could it be that her mother-in-law grasps the bigger issues... 

 

Modern society which lacks the firm rules of past generations, uses a mechanism of fake choice. It pretends to offer up the choice, but then you must accept only the socially successful option. The most famous example is paying for the woman on a date; on paper; this is a choice for the man to make. In practise, he must pay. His failure to pay is a signal of his failure to understand the rules of the game. His date then decides if this is acceptable.

 

The importance of this can be seen in the story of the child and the naked King. The lesson from that story is not that the crowd is foolish in not noticing the King is naked, but rather the child is foolish for not understanding the importance of not pointing out that the emperor is naked. They are, fortunately, just a child. The woman who refuses to iron is an adult.

 

Similarly, parents tell their middle class children that they can choose to go or not to go to university. In practise, the children are obliged to go to university. Those who don't pick up on these social signals, such as the woman here, suffer. These are related to what are known as "luxury beliefs".

 

The ultimate example is marriage. Society says women have a choice. But it is clearly a false choice. Elite women marry at very high levels even today. Only the women who don't grasp that the choice is false, choose not to marry. In other words it is a luxury belief perpetuated by the elite, but which damages the lives of women in the lower classes.

 

Society nowadays instead of telling you what to do, invites you to make the right decision. Your ability to flourish in that specific society with those specific rules will depend on that. 

Now that's copy pasta right there

He would have gotten away with it if he had been driving a Mercedes. 

3 hours ago, swm59nj said:

That’s what happens when some tourists or expats can barely afford anything.  They will steal

Designer glasses?

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

That would depend on the complex and rules of.   Some may allow shorter term rentals within the law, and condo rules.

 

Other's strictly against the rules.  Live with your choices.

 

A tourist or few, may be better neighbors than the owner being there year round.

Prefer to deal in facts and not "live with your choices"

"Analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan American think tank, found that the economic costs of Airbnb likely outweigh the benefits:

‘While the introduction and expansion of Airbnb into cities around the world carries large potential economic benefits and costs, the costs to renters and local jurisdictions likely exceed the benefits to travellers and property owners.

The ‘Airbnb effect’ slowly increases the value of an area to the detriment of the indigenous residents, many of whom are pushed out due to financial constraints."

"Airbnb listings presented by a host owning multiple units in a given city can cause substantially greater disturbances in terms of rent increase, increase in housing value, and displacement of lower-income households. There are also the added issues of disturbances to the local community in terms of noise, erosion of the sense of community and other factors"  

Seems like a load of xenophobic nonsense to get idiots frothed up, I see it has worked on some of the posters here. 

20 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

It was all in Thai, but I will get in touch with the Consumer  Protection Board.

There is a button to change languages at the top of the page

The fragility of the British middle-aged gammon 

21 hours ago, connda said:

Can I marry my dog?  Cat?  How about my bird.  Oh come on.  Let's really loosen the laws regarding marriage in Thailand. Why worry about sexes.  Lets indulge in different species too.  Why not? I wish to have a polygamous marriage. I want to marry my wife, my missuses, my pets, and anyone else that the current leaders wish me to marry when we rip all of the institutions apart and make society a fooooking free-for-all.

If we are going to rip down the institution of marriage?  Let's rip it down completely 'eh.  Let's not **** around about it.

How long will it take before the Thai government concedes to marrying off 10 year olds?  5 year olds?  12 year olds?

Once you breech morality?  There is nothing left.  So why not open up marriage to the most obtuse and evil mofos whom exist on this planet. 

Open the gate and watch the results................................

What a snowflake 

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

She risks her life to save her bag. Is that smart? IMHO the best resistance in such cases is no resistance. 

How do you know what she had in her bag? And what is it with the clowns on this forum? Every time there is a story about a woman being attacked, they come and post a bit of victim blaming.