Lacessit

Given the amount of moral turpitude DT has displayed, and even boasted about, it is astonishing anyone would vote for him. It's a measure of the ignorance of many Americans, when in any other country he would run second to the neighborhood dog catcher.

Red meat has nothing to do with weight gain, otherwise all keto diets would be tossed out the window. Alcohol, sugar and high carbohydrates all cause weight gain. Where do you think the expression "beer belly" came from? Fat accumulates in the liver and other organs when one's metabolism is busy trying to deal with a flood of sugar and carbohydrate. It gets burned as an energy source by the liver if one eats a low carbohydrate, no sugar diet. My proof of this is going from 93 kg to 78 kg on said diet while eating plenty of cheese, which is 35-40% fat. Admittedly I don't eat much red meat in Thailand, due to its' poor quality. I am eating plenty of red meat in Australia, and have not had any measurable weight gain. Eating even more cheese, cheap and good here. Your post is unsupported by fact. Mine is.

Yes and no. Many Thai women are cast out by their husbands and left destitute when said husband decides his wife is no longer attractive, usually in the 30 - 40 age bracket. They do not have any skills apart from sex work to sell in a jobs market where 7/11's are asking for a university education. The smart ones accumulate a nest egg from their work, or nail themselves a farang. The dumb ones party, then wonder what went wrong when there is nothing left to sell.

STD's are only passed on when sex occurs without condoms. Anyone that stupid should be disqualified from adding to the gene pool.

Philips blenders are reliable, IIRC about 700 baht when I bought mine about 8 years ago. Still going strong.

My father thought Hitler had the right idea about Jews. A comparison of the number of Nobel prizes Jewish people have won in the hard sciences, against those won by Muslims, is revealing. Jewish world population, 44 million, Nobel prizes over 200. Muslim world population 1.4 billion, Nobel prizes 2. Religion has a lot to answer for in this world. I don't exclude Christians from that assessment. 50% of Americans still believe in angels. I agree, the media has dumbed down news in pursuit of the bottom line. Rupert Murdoch has been meddling in Australian, British and American politics for decades. He should be in jail. Bigotry, racism and ignorance can only be countered with a decent education, the supply of which seems to be diminishing.

I would not say it is charming; however, the warren-like market at Mae Sai just short of the crossing into Tatchilek is very interesting, and has items which are really not all that legal.

The list left out travelers who come to Thailand for inexpensive sex. I would be confident that's a fairly large cohort.

Baan Rak Thai, about 20 km from Mae Hong Son, way off the beaten track. A lake surrounded by shops whose main stock in trade seems to be lollies. The only place I have ever seen an albino Thai. Nan, Phetchabun and Loei are nice, also Sukhothai, although that is more like a city. For anyone who likes wood carvings, IMO Phrae is the place to go.

I don't consider anyone is able to dissuade an orang-utan, they are extremely strong. I was reminded of Edgar Alla Poe's short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".

Not my experience. Are you British? I am convinced there is a secret agency in the UK which goes around removing the taste buds of every new-born.

Virtually no-one wears masks in Australia anymore, the only exceptions being hospitals and medical practices.

IMO it would be interesting to know if the incidence of cancer in Thais is increasing, due to obesity. Before WWII, breast cancer among Japanese women was almost unknown. As Japan adopted a more Western diet, breast cancer rates took off, and now approach those found in Western countries. Cancer loves sugar. One of the diagnostic tools for detecting tumors is infusing a patient with a sugar made radioactive with a carbon isotope, then observing where the sugar goes in a PET scan. The rate of sugar uptake is much faster with cancer cells than normal cells. It's perhaps no accident the largest Thai sugar company has acquired virtually all of Austalia's sugar cane industry.

It would be quite a dull world if everyone thought the same way. Although possibly more peaceful.

It's an intermediate state between molten glass and an amorphous solid. Ephemeral. I guess I had better chuck my chemistry degree and years of experience in the glass industry in the bin, and bow to your superior knowledge,

Not even going there, you are obviously a troll. Goodbye.

Obviously you were asleep in statistics class, and missed the bit regarding outliers.

Potatoes, rice, carrots etc. can be dealt with by younger people due to higher metabolic rates and more exercise. For older people like me, it's best to avoid them.

BS. False sweeping generalizations appear to be a specialty of yours.

Yes. I tick all the boxes.

I am not omniscient, I can't help you with grinding glass. It would be bad optics if I attempted to do so. Glass does not drip with gravity, that's a furphy.

Salt is OK when just added to taste. AFAIK there is no research which shows normal levels of salt in food are harmful. I don't eat much pure fat, but I do love my cheese and yoghurt. Sugar is the enemy when it comes to obesity and inflammation. It's ironic people consume skim milk thinking it will help them lose weight, when in fact that portion of milk is enriched with lactose.

I would not say I am skinny, just normal BMI. Definitely healthier to be skinny or normal weight. 15 kg overweight is 15 kg more the body organs - heart, lungs etc. have to carry around. Healthier is happier IME.

Nothing wrong with salty fatty stuff. I lost 15 kg eating lashings of cheese, which is 35 - 40% fat. OTOH, I avoided sugar, processed food, and high carbohydrate vegetables and grains, which all hydrolyze in the stomach to sugars. When I did that, my liver commenced burning fat instead of sugar, hence the weight loss.

It's a common misconception glass is a super-cooled liquid, it's actually an amorphous solid, meaning it is not ordered like crystals. The erroneous conclusion arose from the observation medieval glass panes were thicker at the bottom than the top.