Chomper Higgot

Trump’s hysterical innuendo sounds an awful lot like that accusation confession thing of his.

You need to be a bit more precise on who it is you are referring to.

He’ll get overruled at appeal.

I can think of a number of laws to get all outraged and affronted over, this isn’t one of them. Not by a very long way is this a law I have any problem with.

I confess, I gave a sigh of relief when my kids ignored being pointed at the Ivy League and chose instead to opt for Russel Group and LERU. Ivy League might give a young person a great head start, but it far too often comes at a ridiculously exorbitant cost to their parents.

The specific US Federal law: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexual-exploitation-children

While I still have an apartment near Pattaya, I no longer live in the city full time. My visits of late are a couple of months around April and May. It wasn’t always so, for the better part of thirty years starting in the late 80s Pattaya was my home. Those amongst us who remember the late 80s / early 90s will recall there was at that time nowhere near the number and choice of restaurants as there is now. Some places that come to mind are Prom Par Song 1 and 2 at the Sukhumvit end of North Road and South Road respectively. Street Kitchen on Soi 6/1, Fern Farm on Narklua Road, Wandee at Wongamat and Ruam Thai on 2nd Road. Oh and the burger stall alongside the ‘Buddha tree’ on walking street. Some old names still remain, Leng Khee, The Green Tree (used to be in Soi 4), Pan Pan, Nang Nuan. I called at the Green Tree earlier this week for a ‘sundowner’, something that for years was my Friday evening habit, straight from work to the Green Tree for a couple of G&Ts before starting the weekend fun. I’m pleased to say it remains a place where a guy can get a relaxing drink without being bothered by girls looking for other business. In the 80’s and early 90s such places were rare finds. Having finished my ‘sundowners’ at the Green Tree I walked up Soi 1 to discover a piece of the history of Pattaya’s restaurants was no longer in business. Somsak’s is closed. Somsak opened his first restaurant in the early 70s at the entrance to walking street together with a man who became his life long friend ‘Dolf Ryks’. Together they had spotted the market for a ‘real restaurant’ to serve US military on R&R. As Somsak would say, ‘we opened Pattaya’s first restaurant that had table cloths, real crockery and knives and forks that weren’t bent out of shape’. His restaurants were all decorated with pale yellow walls and artwork, paintings by Dolf Ryks. He set the ambience with classical European music, itself unusual anywhere in Thailand at the time. I once asked him about the music, why classical? Somsak replied ‘Over the years he’s tried lots of music, he learned if he plays rock music he gets fights in his restaurant, if he plays classical everything is chilled’. Well Somsak(dee)’s is gone, another chapter of Pattaya history gone too.