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Your opinion might change if you were a station owner or environmentalist trying to control introduced vermin such as rabbits, feral cats, pigs, and foxes. Or an excess population of kangaroos eating pasture his stock needed. I always ate edible game I shot, or fed it to the station dogs. They enjoyed fresh meat a lot more than their staple diet of dry dog food. Rule #1 on all the stations I hunted on was no shooting of birds, except ducks for eating, and crows. The crows were almost always too smart to get hit anyway.

Australia has had 18 mass shootings this century, an average of less than one a year. In America, the average is more than one per day. It is a NRA myth Australians are not allowed to have guns. Post Port Arthur, I legally owned four firearms for hunting purposes. I remember traveling in a car with an American from Philadelphia to Consohocken. He had 19 firearms in his household. When I asked him why, he said it was in case the Commies invaded. On balance of probability, logic, and history, America is the nation least likely to be invaded by any other country. It has an ocean on each side of it. Jim Jeffries points out the absurdity of the American Second Amendment obsession.

You're probably right. My guy does not chat, he's serious. I know, because I have watched his workout. Puts me to shame.

I like facts to back up opinions. When someone says their EV has a running cost of 0.3 baht/km against an ICE cost of 4 baht/km, that's a fact, easily checked. When someone says an ICE is 60 times more likely to catch fire than an EV, another fact. When someone says an EV fire burns at 2700 C, compared to an ICE fire at 900 C, it's an unpopular fact to EV owners. I get irritated when people make vague statements such as recharging is a cup of coffee, or most EV owners are recharging from the solar panels of their house. That puts my BS antennae on full extension. Post data, don't waste my time. Science does not care what you believe.

I am not anti-EV. Like all technologies, there are advantages and disadvantages, which have been debated ad nauseam. I am anti EV owners who do BS virtue signalling, or respond with personal abuse when I am seeking facts. If I was flush with funds, I would seriously consider an EV. At my stage of life, sticking with a reliable older car which is dead easy to service makes better financial sense. An EV would probably be wasted on me, as I drive defensively.

My 18 yo Vios has next to no depreciation, has never let me down, and takes me a couple of minutes to fill up. You danced around my question like Nureyev.

According to Google, the minimum time it takes to recharge an EV is 20 minutes. Or up to 8 hours. I guess the 20 minutes is where the cup of coffee comes from. This assumes the two charging stations which seem to be the norm on most highway fuel stations are not already occupied, otherwise an EV owner is SOOL. As I have never run out of fuel for any vehicle in over 60 years of driving, your suspicion would be wrong. I'm familiar with disinformation, non-information is a new one.

Any fisticuffs ended in my late twenties, when I trained with a jiu-jutsu champion. Never graded, but he said I had reached brown belt standard. That gave me the confidence to walk away, never got into a fight again.

Complete failure to answer the question, and I fixed the km variable. OK, give me a range of recharge times with a commercial dispenser. Battery depleted by 400km of travel.. Everybody knows how far an ICE will go on a full tank. The fuel economy of the vehicle , and the tank capacity - it's simple math. Quoting jargon acronyms such as WLTP and NEDC does nothing to explain recharge times, your answer is as clear as mud. Saying a vehicle is recharged while having a cup of coffee is not an answer either.

Really. I guess Trump doesn't insult anyone either.

It seems to be a cultural thing among both Brits and Aussies to only insult their friends. It's known as sledging. When either nationality is is freezingly polite, time to watch out.

Could you explain the difference between reading a book in paperback form, and reading the same book on a smartphone?

I would like some factual information posted on how long it takes to recharge an EV that has done 400 km from a commercial dispenser, at normal temperatures. I am not sure how this would vary with the battery capacity of the different EV models.

I didn't take your comment as aimed at me. I do find it somewhat ironic when foreigners have lived here for years, and still have not learned to communicate in Thai. Then call Thais stupid,

I have never thought of Thais as stupid, except when they get behind the wheel of a car. But that's more down to poor driver training. My GF has very little in the way of formal education. In that respect, I am way above her. She walked 2 km to school in bare feet because her village family could not afford shoes. Having said that, in terms of street smarts she is far superior, with an ability for making friends I can only envy.

This is the kind of retort I like.

Quite correct. I feel I have won when I can retort in a way that stays within the rules, and has originality and/or subtlety.

Go to any secondhand clothing store. Go to the racks which have your size. Read the labels which specify the cloth composition.

Safer to be on the other side of the road.

I only insult people who have insulted me first, or have posted a comment so egregiously stupid it needs to be called out. Which happens quite a lot on ASEAN. I try to ensure my insults possess originality.

Why bother? I have a Kindle I hardly ever use. Nowadays, I read books on my OPPO A73 smartphone instead. Amazon gives the option of downloading books to android devices

No institution in Thailand available to foreigners gives a decent return on investment. There is more risk to boot. Best option is to leave money in the home country, where it is also more secure. I split my money in Australia between two credit unions, and two peer-to-peer lenders.

I have a friend in Chiang Mai who goes to a gym every day for 2 hours, then has a swim. He is 93 yo.

Marked 500 lambs in 40 C heat, and one of the sheepdogs peed all over the only large water container we had. Useless bloody animal. You have an evil mind.

Magnesium is recommended for night cramps. I take one tablet a week, 600 mg. Quinine works by dampening the flood of nerve messages to muscle, which is the cause of cramping. I used to have to resort to it quite a lot, thanks to getting badly dehydrated when I was holidaying on a sheep station. I have not needed quinine for 5 or 6 years. I found having a 1-hour Thai massage ( the legit kind ) 3 times a week eliminated any requirement for pharmaceutical intervention.