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It's going to be karma for the guy who is trying to scam me. Tell me, O omniscient one. You have never dictated your card details over the phone to make a purchase?

I've never used a dating site, not interested. I prefer to assess women in the flesh, so to speak. They get to check me out too.

So why aren't you posting the appeal legal claims, if you know so much about them? BTW, Trump may have done it in his diaper yet again. Legal experts are saying his latest campaign speech repeats the defamation which has so far resulted in a $91 million judgment.

Sez U? I can see you are a poster of subtle retorts. So tell me what new arguments his lawyers can come up with, the courts are not entertaining the political witchhunt BS. It's going to turn out badly for Trump, IMO that's a safe prediction. His best hope is to get the punitive damages amount reduced.

If my auntie had balls, she would be my uncle. Appeals courts do not overturn lower court verdicts unless there are quite extraordinary miscarriages of justice. Trump lost on trial by jury. Twice. Appeals court judges are highly experienced jurists, and Trump's lawyers have no new arguments to present.

I did have an eidetic memory in my teens. I have definitely lost some of it with age. If I play a round of golf, I can still recall my score on each hole, and each club I used, for several days afterwards. The round gets erased by the following game. I guess we remember what is important to us, and forget what is not. I don't think it is possible to erase my memory of the OP.

If someone tells you they never forget anything, the obvious question is how would you know?

When did I say I was smarter than everyone else? Please quote a post where i have said that. I am not worried about a couple of hundred dollars. It's more the principle of not allowing someone to cheat me without retribution. Given the political statements you have made on other threads, it's obvious you and principles are complete strangers.

IIRC, Trump said only mobsters take the Fifth, then proceeded to invoke it 400 times.

Deflection. AFAIK Biden is not pretending to be a golf champion.

I'd call it tragic when you buy a derelict golf course, re-open it, then play a couple of rounds, and claim you are the inaugural club champion. People who are the real deal consider that pathetic, everyone in the golfing world is laughing at his pretensions. Have you ever looked at his golf swing? It reminds me of someone digging for gophers.

Agreed, I don't suffer fools gladly.

Any other masterful pearls of hindsight you want to share?

From my contact with the manager, he was in complete denial he could have had his security penetrated in any way. Telstra and Medicare are big companies in Australia that have been hacked. His security is better than theirs? Yeah right. I am in contact with the bank's fraud department, and they are in the process of disputing the fraudulent charges, and reversing the charge of the car company. They say Uber is not co-operating in providing details of where the food orders were delivered to. It will probably take a couple of weeks for everything to shake out.

As I understand it, Trump's pattern is to pick up failing businesses, then persuade investors and contractors to put in their money, time and materials. While he takes on huge debt to finance improvements to the businesses, very little of it is his own money. He then extracts large salaries and management fees while the going is good. When the business starts failing because it cannot service the debt, he walks away, having made money by swindling investors, bondholders and contractors. The New Jersey Generals was a really special case. Not only did he bankrupt his own team, he also sent the entire league broke. I should imagine most serious investors would be wise to him now. As you say, he is radioactive in most quarters. It's actually quite tragic he is reduced to selling cards and gold sneakers, probably to people who can least afford it. You reap what you sow.

I was smiling when I posted.

Motherhood is genetically programmed into most women. There are even some who will voluntarily be single mothers.

I can see this thread will be a rich prospect for the comedians.

Nothing. I am simply demonstrating there is more than one person on ASEAN, apart from you, who skipped science classes and digs themself into a hole with their posts.

I found a cheaper place to book another car AFTER I cancelled the booking with the first company. Maybe it does not make sense to you to cancel business with a company that has compromised your cybersecurity. It certainly makes sense to me. I have since confirmed, by scanning Google reviews of the business, that the manager and presumably his employees operate their phones within the sight and hearing of customers - and anyone else. The manager seems to be a Jekyll and Hyde character, getting some favorable reviews, and some scathing ones. If the mobile phone was compromised at the Thai end, it does not explain why the fraudulent food orders were placed with an Australian business, and paid for in Australian dollars. Any Thai involvement would identify the location of the charge in Thailand. You may be right, there may be more to this than meets the eye. However, not in the way you are attempting to imply.

I can recall a very senior policeman in Australia saying " We can't arrest our way out of the drug problem". IIRC he was referring to methamphetamine, which is a scourge in rural Australia. How many billions has America spent fighting drugs? How far has it got the authorities there? The evidence from places such as Portugal and Sweden indicates the crime statistics improve significantly when drugs are made legal. There's no money in it for the criminal element anymore. I am in favor of legalizng all drugs, with one caveat. Commit a crime under the influence of any of them, get tried as if you were stone cold sober. No BS about mental impairment.

Carbohydrate is the correct term. The closest I can get to carbon hydrate as a scientific term is a clathrate, which is a compound of methane and ice found in permafrost. Be that as it may, obesity and weight loss can be viewed as a combination of genetics and diet. If both one's parents were obese, the odds are pretty good their offspring will be obese too. There may be a range of other diets which achieve weight loss. All I can say is that from my extensive reading, calorie restriction ( carbohydrates and sugars ) seem to be the most common path to success in achieving weight loss. When I was a child, sweet things were a special treat, restricted because they were known to cause tooth decay. This was in the days before fluoridation improved dental health for millions. I think it is fair to say one can't walk into any supermarket nowadays, without being surrounded by sugar. It's in damn near everything. Not hard to connect the dots from there.

That's all Trump has too. Let's see, there's Crooked Hillary, Ron DeSanctimonious, Lying Ted Cruz. Crazy Nancy, Wacky Omarosa, and Governor Newscum. Sleepy Joe Biden morphed into Crooked Joe Biden after Trump got trounced in 2020. It's called ad hominem argument, attacking the person instead of the issue. Dishonest as it comes, which probably goes for most of your posts as well.

Never seen you post well either.

However good a friend the OP thinks he has in the local bank manager, rule one in business is never trust anyone. As a lawyer once told me, money brings out the worst in people.