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Evil that knows no bounds...... https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/04/09/russian-missile-attack-train-station/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday News - 20220409

As a very occasional tourist to other countries before COVID, I have no intention of jumping over all the hurdles governments have erected during COVID. I'm staying put, until those hurdles have gone. You want tourists back to pre-COVID levels, Thailand? With all the BS regulations, I doubt you do.

Perhaps one of the less obvious war crimes is inflicted on Russian children, when they are taught in school the attack on Ukraine is justified.

Nobody is going to convince anti-vaxxers to get vaccinated, or mask scofflaws to wear masks. The best any of us can do is take sensible precautions to stay safe, without going overboard. I don't wear a mask on a golf course, not when there are 150 acres of free space surrounding me. Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers will always be there. I just ignore them, Darwin will do the sorting.

Abstention is not the same as expressing support for Russia. Having said that, it is consistent with Thailand's record of sitting on the fence. It would be more meaningful if Russia was voted off the UN entirely, and designated a rogue state.

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I was told by an Augusta member how the greens become faster every day. Scores on the Wednesday warmup round mean nothing, the greens are standard stimp before the Masters. Every night during the tournament itself, the ground staff spread dry sand on every green. The sand is then vacuumed up after drying out the grass, I forget how long he said they leave the sand there. The greens are then cut every morning before play starts. By the time they get to Sunday, they are like greased lightning. It's why one almost never sees anyone fix a pitch mark at Augusta, the greens are too hard. OTOH, they are true because they don't get bumpy like a soft green would. IME it's the guy who has the hottest putter who usually dons the green jacket. I still remember Mike Weir's win in 2003, he had nerves of steel on the final day with a succession of 6 foot putts.

The countries that realize dependence on Chinese supply chains is setting them up for trade blackmail, and develop their own manufacturing capabilities again, will be better off economically. The countries that say business as usual will get swallowed up. While the Chinese proclaim the virtues of free trade to all and sundry, they do not hesitate to apply tariffs and other protection mechanisms to imported goods and services when it suits them.

I don't know about you, but a female waving a sword at me is hardly likely to get me into the mood for some humpy-rumpy. My sword would probably be trying to burrow into my groin.

Manipulation of the machinery of democracy is done in most of them. Check out Australia's use of taxpayer money to fund a Liberal advertising campaign, or the pork-barrelling of electorates in marginal seats. If you have other versions, I'm listening.

Maybe for you, for others not so much. A statistical sample of one proves nothing.

Nine years from now, will you be able to remember it?

You've been given a wake-up call. No alcohol under any circumstances. 50% of patients with cardiomyopathy die within five years. In Thailand, more than my home country, I have found I am responsible for the state of my health. There as a limit to what doctors and pharmaceuticals can do. You may want to examine your diet and exercise situation to determine if there are things there that will help. I don't have cardiomyopathy. I have several other conditions I won't bore readers with. I have found when it comes to controlling those conditions, self-discipline is a lot better than medication, and a hell of a lot cheaper. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

They got on very well until Hitler wanted Lebensraum. Perhaps you have forgotten the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Indian men are dark-skinned, which gives them low social status in Thai eyes, irrespective of how wealthy they are. I can remember an Indian guy in CM complaining to me about the attitude of the girls he met, for that very reason.

Can you prove that? Seems to me there are statements, but no concrete evidence of how much they are making. How would anyone know if they were inflating their income online to make themselves look more desirable?

IIRC, Trump was enriching himself and his buddies, and doing SFA for poor people, except conning them into believing his MAGA BS. When the Dems got a majority in Congress, Trump was doing all he could to obstruct their social welfare bills. I suppose you also think Margaret Thatcher has nothing to do with current UK conditions.

IMO you can't blame all that on Biden and the Dems.

She has a choice, some people don't.

LOL, you really think BB is going to give back its profits to its customers, and ignore the shareholders? Olympic gold medal post for naivety.

Kyiv surrendered to the Germans without firing a shot, they were greeted as liberators. it didn't take long for the Ukrainians to realize they had simply swapped jackboots. Based on that, the Russians found the Nazi label very convenient, even though, as usual, it was a few football fields away from the truth.

Not according to Pornhub.

You obviously have not got out much in rural Thailand, quite a few don't have tents. They sleep on pallets under trees.

Point taken, although one woman in my life is enough for me. It depends on the size of the family, my GF's is quite extensive, and they all pitch in to help relatives. Re the temples, fair enough. It's not warm everywhere in Thailand, Chiang Rai and up in the mountains this year in winter were bloody cold.

Granted, and how much income support are they getting? Food stamps? Now show me what the Thai government provides, apart from the very occasional lump sum that would last me about 4 days.