Lacessit

In preparation for a return to Australia, I went looking in the main drag of Chiang Rai for a money exchanger. I like to have cash as well as a debit card, belt and braces. The first shop I came to, the employee/proprietor was just locking up, presumably for lunch. What time do you come back? 1 pm ( at 11.30 am ). Do you have Australian dollars? Mai mee. This despite a big sign in the window, listing AUD, among other currencies. I then drove my scooter no more than 50 metres to another exchanger who happily gave me $450 for my Thai baht. How the hell do some of these guys make a living?

If Thais were actually taught financial security etc. there would be unemployment among some of the people higher up the food chain.

How can one forget first place in village idiots? All that moonshine causing fetal alcohol syndrome. Quite weird, they all seem to wear red baseball caps.

The number after Walker may be pure coincidence with your observation, but don't let that get in the way of your apocryphal logic. It probably makes just as much sense as yours, which is like a really big guy having the nickname of Tiny.

America is 7th in literacy, 22nd in science, 27th in math. Some of those illegals are probably better educated than many Trumpers.

I wish you guys would make up your minds (sic), either Biden has lied or he has dementia, you can't have both. Trump killed a couple of hundred thousand Americans during COVID, by lying about it from the get go. Then holding rallies which helped spread it, without masks. You can't figure out how to turn off bold, or resize your font? Try looking at the field above the text panel. Highlight your text, then change on each symbol.

Keep repeating that to yourself, you may eventually believe it. Pity his SOTU address shot the dementia BS down in flames.

Yeah right, it's all a conspiracy against Trump, a beacon of love, kindness and compassion in these troubled times.

I would rather listen to myself than you, IMO you're as mad as a cut snake.

I'd like to understand what you are saying. I cannot. What has putting my life on the line got to do with anything on this thread? Is it sensible to disrespect the military who have protected you? Or your security detail? I'll wager some of the people sworn to protect Trump would cheerfully shoot him, given any excuse to do so. I suppose you think Trump stiffing contractors for cents on the dollar is sensible too. IMO if Trump loses, there will be a bloodbath when the National Guard puts down any attempted sedition by Trump's more deranged supporters. They got off lightly last time.

I buy goods from Smokey Mountain Foods in Bangkok. Sausages, a wide range of pies and hamburgers. Their 1 kg hams are quite good. I am about to give Sausage King in Chiang Mai a try, Cumberland sausage. There's also Makro for Mainland Cheese. As another poster has said, some expat businesses come and go.

I follow what the inside of the fuel flap says. That's what it is there for.

Try reading "An Innocent Man" by John Grisham. It's the true story of Ron Williamson, who was jailed for 11 years until DNA evidence exonerated him. He died a broken man. The prosecutors and police who railroaded him with false evidence kept their jobs.

It's a funny thing about modern cars, they seem to have more and more things to go wrong. I drive an elderly Vios, it does not have ABS, let alone an airbag.

Earth has a rich complement of organisms which would slowly assimilate the feast of food they are presented with. If it is buried near any aquifer, it would present a health risk.

Guys like Dave Allen, Ronnie Barker and Victor Borge could get laughs with nary a swear word. Nowadays, it seems comedians have to swear to make any headway.

Golf, elderly health, kitchen tips. I don't go around filming people. I actually think that's quite rude.

Final post on this thread. The details of my experience have been reported to ScamWatch Australia. UBER EATS may have some questions to answer, coming from a government authority.

I make my own videos for YouTube, as a hobby. I'm not going to post them here, though. Too many haters.

Being a senior executive does not guarantee a car will be driven sensibly. I knew a plant manager who cooked the engine of his luxury car when he ignored a temperature gauge.

I've never been on Facebook, so I cannot feel the pain of the OP. He may find the insults here sometimes rise to the level of sez you, or oh yeah.

More like a damp squid.

You think female voters who have not reached menopause are going to vote for Trump, after he boasted of overturning Roe vs Wade? Dream on. It would be the supreme hypocrisy if a skeleton came out of Trump's cupboard, which alleged he had made one of his mistresses have an abortion.

There's a quote from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series which applies to Trump's rhetoric. " Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". As a card-carrying coward ( bone spurs ) Trump would never use it himself, he'd be quite happy for ignorant people to carry his water for him. IMO if Trump was elected, the promised pardons for the January 6 rioters would only be given to those who could pay.

Pathetic attempt at deflection. IIRC, you broadened the topic by rabbiting on about versions of facts and reality.