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Australia, Norway, Denmark. I sure as hell would not want to live with America's health system. Clusterf##K is too kind a description.

Are you for real? How soon Hitler is forgotten.

Fair enough. It's so transparent it gives out its plans for war with Iran.

Red Wings, Pistons, Iggy Pop - you may as well post in Sanskrit. Investing in houses is for people looking at 10-20 years return, I don't have that much time left. Best fishing I have ever seen is from a pier in Broome, Western Australia. 30 pound kingfish jumping on to a hook in a tide race.

Fact: Russian bank interest rate is 21%. That means 25% at best to any borrower. Fact: Food inflation is 11%. Fact: Gazprom is almost bankrupt. Russia' s biggest company. Fact: There are 87 Russian men to 100 Russian women. Fact: No Western business will be putting manpower, capital or technology into Russia, at least until Putin is dead. Fact. No buyer of Russian goods will pay in rubles. Fact: Russian GDP is $2 trillion. The EU GDP is $20 trillion. How long have your head and your rectum been intimately involved?

IIRC Hitler, Mussolini and Franco - all right wing fascists - were behaving like criminals and terrorists. Ascribing some kind of virtue to right wingers is like saying fox hunting serves a useful purpose. Australia has had leftist governments on and off since Federation. They are the governments introducing policies that benefit ordinary people.

Massage seems to suit some people and not others. A massage that is too strong is unpleasant for me. Having seen what a chiropractor did to my father by way of nearly crippling him, i would not let that profession anywhere near me.

Too many switches. A Gold Coast gigolo once told me he could guarantee a woman would orgasm with two simple precursors - getting her to laugh, and 5 minutes of cunnilingus.

IME letting the woman take control results in a more enjoyable romp for both parties. Women can delay male ejaculation. Dopamine, oxytocin, endorphins , prolactin and serotonin are flooding the brain during sex. I prefer not to think too much.

I have 2-3 massages a week. Without them, I would probably freeze solid.

The sign "nuad" in Thai script is outside just about every massage shop, Sometimes the sign "Thai massage" in English goes along with it. IME a massage shop with only young and good-looking women is a pretty good indicator special services are on offer. As you say, they are usually terrible practitioners. OTOH, it's safe to say shops with old and homely women are legitimate, and they do know what they are doing. My 61 yo massage lady has a certificate on her wall, saying she did 3 months of training. She does anywhere between one and six massages a day.

Trump thinks the rest of the world is cheating America. Nobody forced the US to establish 750 military bases in the rest of the world. America did that to ring-fence the Soviet Union. No one twisted America's arm to export their industries overseas. Their own bean counters did that. Where were Trump's gold sneakers made? Or Elon's Tesla's? Trump assuming the high moral ground in geopolitics is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

Mineral spirits would be least likely to damage clear coat. Or mild soap and water. Acetone definitely NOT recommended.

If you are saying it's a good thing for multi-billionaires to be paying less tax than a janitor, then you have rocks in your head.

And benefited from tax cuts brought in by right wing parties. You weren't even around, sonny. How would you know? Of course I voted left. Trickle-down economics never worked with Reagan, and it certainly is not now. Simple greed has seen to that. You are probably too dumb to understand reforms such as Medicare and the PBS in Australia were all brought in by what you call leftists. Right wing fascists never would, they are too busy creating wealth inequality.

There's a big difference between a root canal, and being sodomized by the rough end of a pineapple.

IMO the wealth inequality which exists now never existed during my childhood. Sure, executives were well paid, but never the ridiculous amounts they are paid now. No one is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In the early 70's I was a small cog in a mining company. I paid off my house mortgage in 18 months. That is impossible for the average worker now. I agree with the OP, we lived in a golden age where honesty, integrity and hard work were rewarded. It does make me wonder what went wrong.

Unless my meter is out of whack, yes. I did have it up to 500 about 3 years ago. My 40 reading was from yesterday. It's now 116, time to crank up the air purifiers.

The Arab would probably still be scrubbing his backside with sand if it was not for oil. Buying a million pound watch does not make him smart or educated, quite the opposite.

Treatment by authorities only removes those dissolved anions and cations which are amenable to treatment. E.g phosphate, iron and zinc. Sodium chloride is not removed by flocculation. Only RO or distillation does that.

IMO the inequality that exists, when 3 multi-billionaires in America have more wealth than 150 million of its citizens, is more troubling. And it will get worse. I don't have a great deal of wealth, and I live simply. I am only wealthy compared to many Thais. Thais do have the advantage of strong social and family networks. They are much better at taking care of their elderly and incapacitated. I do tip more generously than most Thais would. I see no reason to feel uncomfortable about money I have. I earned it with hard work.

Chiang Rai is OK. It got up to 75 in my condo, a rain storm two nights ago pushed it back down to 40.

That tells me Americans are among the chief contributors to climate change. A few more hurricanes and wild fires are needed to get the message across. Or a bigger sea level rise on the eastern seaboard. The bigger the GDP gap gets, the more probable the BRICS will set up a rival reserve currency. That status is the only reason the US can keep printing money, without going into hyperinflation.

China has 48,000 km of high speed rail. The USA has 80 km. What does that tell you? The combined GDP of the G7 countries is now less than the BRICS countries.

In 1947 America produced over 50% of the world's steel. Now, its production is one-tenth of China's. The traditional provider : home maker combination hierarchy has shrunk considerably.