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7 hours ago, owl sees all said:
I've got a big following at the farm now.
I was hoping that you would have had more rain.....
Nevertheless the plantations are certainly thriving and looking splendid-keep up the good work.Best of luck with the goats and turkeys!
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2 hours ago, nikmar said:slightly bizarre question. but, if you would like to know, I live in a permanent state on existential crisis. ????
Damn, know it well..!
Just off Soi Kiekegaard..near Nietzches's Bar.....
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1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:
In other words, your sources are within the Denier Lie Factory. Good to know.
Well..even the good governor of Alabama is grappling with the salient issue of "have some common sense.."but the Denier Lie Factory is certainly in hyperdrive.
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Arrested and fined?
Good.
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17 hours ago, i84teen said:Almost nothing he says is true.
Unlike 4 years of the supreme pumpkin and his ditzy followers.
As the good governor of Alabama says "folks are supposed to have common sense.."
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4 minutes ago, owl sees all said:
TBH it's a real mess.
Owl..sometimes I am not very physically well and overlook the minutiae of the logs..sometimes I sleep 14 hours a day-but then stay up half the night-which is often when you will see me posting.I joke to my doctor.."My leg get's amputated every night and grows back again every day.."
I do the best I can.
Pray forgive me-I thought that "rat" might be a humourous euphemism for "hat" and your wife had taken her revenge..
Yes,it seems like a bit of a mess.I went thru a similar thing recently.The shock was quite profound.
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3 hours ago, owl sees all said:
What with the DinL nonsense
I am not particularly au fait with what's going on with the DinL-has it got something to do with borrowing money for a business and then it going belly up?
As you know I have been caught out recently...borrowed money..business..asset stripped..profits creamed off-all without a single discussion with me.
I had kinda hoped that the Thai had got beyond that sort of nonsense but one is never too old to learn...
Presumably your "rat" survived its mistreatment..????
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42 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:Thailand on Thursday made it into the world's top 50 countries (ranking 50th) based on total numbers of COVID cases since the start of the pandemic at 453,132. Thailand also has one of the highest per capita rates of current new COVID cases among ASEAN countries, trailing only Malaysia and Indonesia.
This is brilliant reporting.
Thank you.
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37 minutes ago, owl sees all said:
Not just yet. But it's very dark.
Just looked at the time; nearly midnight.
Best of luck with the rain, Owl.
I've got my fingers crossed for you (tho'-to be frank-that doesn't seemed to have worked very well so far...)
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An historical curiosity from the Napoleonic Wars..
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3 hours ago, chickenslegs said:If you haven't already done so,
I thought that the photos would demonstrate Owl's desire to "capture the fleeting moment" and to "archive his memories"-it's just that I stepped us back a little more in time thru the provenance of Captain Ken's photos-photos which over the passage of time would be lost or the medium irretrievably damaged by age and time.
In fact I believe many were lost before he digitalized them and sent them to family and friends.
I like this thread as it has consistently demonstrated intellectual integrity over the many posts..
Thank you for the link.
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27 minutes ago, HighPriority said:but my 20 something kids couldn’t give a rats ????????♂️
I should say that the digital age certainly doesn't-in most cases- give a "ratz"...
However I was commenting on Owl's very laudable desire to create an archive for his daughter and,perhaps,other member's of his family.
..and gave some examples of an Air force officer who had done the same in 1967-photographing a Thailand which is/was rapidly disappearing into the mists of time...
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9 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:Great photos Ody. They are just crying out to be "recreated"
Example ...
They were taken by my old friend who was an ex-USAF officer at Udon Thani in 1967 and who refurbished them and sent them to me as part of preserving his memories-as Owl intends to do ...I suspect that most of our stored electronic memories will be lost.
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5 hours ago, owl sees all said:I store the pics away for the future.
Ah....
1967.
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8 hours ago, DJ54 said:Hello Owl... love reading the posts very interesting and informative... any tips on growing avocados from
seeds.. ?
The cars you posted are awesome.. Thanks
I too am still enjoying the posts especially the photos-a good honest attempt to describe the minutiae of life in rural Isaan with a romantic side interest thrown in as well.????
However,as others have pointed out-I do find other elements of the forum quite constricting and not as enjoyable as they used to be.
My wife and I have nearly finished renovating the Isaan house (under my step daughter's supervision) tho' I will never see it in it's re-incarnated form...
Meanwhile I continue to encourage my Thai family to receive any available vaccine as soon as they become available-my aged MiL especially. (hopefully Astra Zeneca)
We will see what the future brings.
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A relatively old statistic but I doubt that much has changed..
From Wiki,
" A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide[2] and 79% of the victims (see the chart below). The homicide rate is per year per 100,000 inhabitants.
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44 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:Men commit more violence
Far,far more violence.
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22 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:I haven't seen Bluesofa around lately any inside goss on the man?
I certainly hope that he is okay and is fully recovered from the bicycle accident and that life is treating him well.
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According to my wife these images are Lakhorn "blackface" characters which seem (i'm guessing) to portray colourful, larger than life and rather "lucky" personalities.
Possibly derived from American "blackface" but co-opted by the Thai-who are nothing if not eclectic and synthetic in their approach to life.✌️
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Songkran-Ubon, (Warin Chamrap)
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It's a start-well done the Thais.
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1 hour ago, kimcancer said:I imagined a feral cat being circled by rats, torn to shreds, the same way a hornet is swarmed and annihilated in a bee’s nest
What you need here my friend is a crash course in Haruki Murakami....
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6 minutes ago, owl sees all said:
See jokes
Well....ever since Admiral Tom Phillips took HM Ships 'Prince of Wales' and 'Repulse' to sea in December,1941 we have tended to ignore sea jokes.
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6 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:
Sorry again Ody I really made a flustercuck out of that.And the Eh went right over my head and was wondering what Sandgroper's had to do with it!They say Eh a lot in WA as well eh!
Now look what you have done...opened the Pandora's box on Owl's sense of humour.
You could be forgiven for many things...many things...(sigh)
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Heartbroken daughter desperate to fly bedridden dad home from Thailand
in Thailand News
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My goodness..all the very best!
In 2017 I was deemed to be not fit to fly-malignant melanoma-but finally made it home under my own steam.A very dicey business,indeed.
Obviously still alive but as The 'Iron Duke' once said "A very near run thing"
Life without insurance/overpriced/constricted by pre-existing conditions/age can be very worrisome.
Take care.