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100% agree. I will say from my own experience here, and observation of others, that Thai women mostly stick to their side of the bargain, when support is provided. No doubt that will change if Western family law gets a foothold in Thailand. Domestic violence is now epidemic in Australia, and I am pretty sure said laws are a major contributor.

Asbestos would show up on a chest X'ray, it's unmistakable. The OP has said he does not have shortness of breath, the principal symptom of asbestosis and mesothelioma.

Sulphite can easily be dealt with by adding one drop of hydrogen peroxide to the wine, which then oxidizes the sulphite to harmless sulphate. Enjoy. X'rays do not reveal everything in soft tissue, have you thought of having a PET scan?

There are quite a few occupations where ailments associated with that work are statistically much higher than the average for the general population. Black lung in coal miners, silicosis in stone cutters, mesothelioma in brake mechanics. While it is true more ailments surface with age, they can be dealt with either by medical means, or lifestyle changes. Back on topic, IMO it is a mistake to force kids into higher education if they don't have the desire. Better to let them find their own path. Some kids know what they want to do as soon as they learn to read and write. I was lucky that way. Others may be successful, but have a life-long aimlessness. They sometimes work in jobs they despise, even though it pays well.

IMO you would care about money quite a lot if you had none.

Sure, one make great money as a plumber or a shearer. Later in life, their fate is usually crippling rheumatism/arthritis for the former, and chronic back pain for the latter.

Same reason you are talking about tradies, I suppose.

My solution was to impart my values, provide food and shelter pay for a good education. Anything else my son wanted, he had to earn and pay for himself. That's the way my father taught me.

A cherry-picked link, it is blatantly obvious Australia and NZ are distorted building industry markets, due to demand generated by immigration and tax rorts. I thought the topic was about having kids?

I did 4. Surgeons do get paid during said training, just not as much. Interns and registrars. I am not knocking tradies, just your proposition. Tradies have to train too, as apprentices.

Plenty of nastier things to catch in SE Asia. Practical advice: crabs are easily removed from one's genitals by using plain white vinegar.

Kids can be toilet trained, dogs have to be taken outside to avoid fouling the house. They are a responsibility, just as kids are. Admittedly they are cheaper, and don't have the potential to become drug addicts.

It depends on what the degrees are. No tradie earns as much as any specialist or surgeon in the medical profession. My degree in chemistry got me to earning AUD 130K per year, when most tradies were only earning 70K. I wasn't up to my armpits in sewage like the plumbers are either, I was working in comfortable laboratories with aircon because that's a given in the profession.

I am not a US citizen; however, I was under the impression from previous threads the US loans the cost of the airfare ( coach, obviously ) to get stranded travellers back home.

I am not sure that price would hold from 8 years ago. It was a post and screw implant, after a bone graft done immediately after the extraction. The bone graft material was a Swiss product, the dentist said it was better quality than Chinese graft material. The dentist was practising at Elite Smile, on the corner of Pantip Plaza in Chiang Mai. They may have moved now.

I turned 80 two days ago, and I daresay I still have a lot more of my marbles than someone who posts breeding is a mug's game, thereby indicating his parents were idiots. It has me wondering what genes they passed down to you. BTW, you forgot the apostrophe in Mug's. Early signs?

I would be up at night every 30 minutes to take a leak with that much on board.

I guess corrosion is not rocket science either, even it is governed by coolant composition and water chemistry. Very little point to installing a reco engine if it gets stuffed up by an incompatible radiator or coolant. Next, you'll be advising the OP to run the engine on palm oil, lubrication is not rocket science either. News flash - there are about 36,000 NACE members in 130 countries who would disagree with you.

Many more people dropped out of Uni or school and ended up stacking shelves or scrubbing toilets for a living, if you can call it that.

I have a 49 yo son who is very supportive when I go back to Australia. A formidable human being. I have a 18 yo Thai quasi-grand-daughter whom I am assisting through university. She's a smart kid, so she deserves a chance. It's a lottery, no one can predict how kids will turn out. Having said that, IMO you get out of kids what you are prepared to put into them by example, like most other things in life.

Depends on her visa. I am on a retirement visa, I never have a return flight to Australia booked until I am in Thailand.

If she can show evidence of the $10,000 transfer, her plight could be genuine. Otherwise, it could be a scam. I would have thought her most obvious get-out card would be to contact the US embassy.

I like to think I contribute to the forum on other threads with my scientific knowledge. IMO I contribute to this thread by calling out BS, and use of dishonest arguments.

Your post is misleading, organic acids in coolants are buffered by stronger alkali such as Na+ and K+. Putting organic acids alone into a mixed alloy system ( e.g copper, brass, steel, aluminium ) would be a fast path to corrosion disaster. I assume your reference to ethanol is in relation to fuel, putting ethanol into coolant would create an azeotrope with a boiling point of 78 C. Coolants are usually designed to raise the fluid boiling point to above 130 C.

I don't see it as a personal attack, more as a statement of your preferences. I think I have made no secret of my preference for older women, and the reasons for so doing........ You have a very steep hill to climb if you want to argue most 20 yo women are not airheads. My upbringing included the tenets rape, sexual assault and/or molestation of any woman was unthinkable. As was persisting if my interest was unwelcome. I was brought up to regard any man who did so as a moral coward. Back to Trump, who ticks all the boxes of amoral, coward, bully, and sexual predator. The jury did not find against him on the rape complaint, they found against him on the sexual assault and defamation complaints. Stop whinging about a complaint which the jury did not uphold. IMO Trump's chickens are coming home to roost, this is only the first stanza.