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Just a question? This is like being interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition, or the KGB. How young were you when you first read Jane Eyre? About 11 or 12. Did you, like me, become sexually excited by the more prurient parts? No, I had not reached puberty. Why do you think that all three sisters were exceptional writers? Their creation of atmosphere. Why was the Bach family so gifted? Absolutely no idea. Why were Hitler and Stalin so evil? Do you love baroque music more than golf? No, but I do enjoy music as well. Why, after so many years, have we not seen another comparable to JS Bach? Bach wrote music that is suffused with joy, I hear it in all his works. I suppose keeping busy fathering 20 children and having over 200 musical compositions to one's credit implies an enjoyment of life in general. The music of today seems to be mostly lamentations over a lost love, a dog, a horse, or a truck. Depressing. After your many years as an engineer, do you believe that it is practicable to remove and sequester 35 gigatons of CO2, annually, beginning next year? Carbon capture and storage ( CCS ) is one of the great scientific hoaxes. Any scientist worth their salt knows it is thermodynamic BS, yet governments continue to shovel billions of dollars at the concept. There is not one CCS operation on the planet that is functioning to design parameters. Our best shot is to fund renewables and nuclear energy, and stop politicians from pandering to fossil fuel lobbyists. Can you please explain why golf balls are dimpled, and not perfectly smooth like ping-pong balls? Golf balls are dimpled to create spin, which gets them flying further than smooth balls. Physics. Have you ever hit a ping-pong ball with a driver? No. Have you ever seen a golpher hit in the head by a high-flying golf ball? What happened next? I know one golfer who was hit in the head, it took him about 18 months to regain control of all functions. Apparently the doctors said half an inch lower would have killed him. Have you ever fudged your golf score? No. Golf cheats get ostracized. What do you do when you run into a foursome, up ahead, all women, who are spending too much time gabbing on the green? IME women usually play faster than men, they do their talking on the move. I understand it is called multi-tasking. Do you just hit away? Anyway? Hitting up on someone is extremely bad golf etiquette. What is the most beautiful snake you have ever seen on the links? Python? I avoid getting close enough to snakes to form an opinion on their beauty. Do you feel that most golphers here understand golfing etiquette? About as well as I understand quantum computing. What is your favorite peeve about playing golf here? Allowing 6 and 8 players in a group, 4-balls are slow enough as it is. Does the clubhouse provide you with fresh towels after your shower? Are they cheap towels of synthetic weave? Or are they 100% Egyptian cotton? Yes, and they appear to be cotton. How much do you tip your caddy? A caddy is a container tea is stored in. I tip my caddies more than the standard, because I was a caddie myself once. Do you think that you have a good reputation among the caddies? Yes. I tip extra for birdies. They also have an easy day, because they don't have to go searching for balls in the rough or trees. Do you play golf for money? Not now. I would play for modest sums in Australia, or lunch in the clubhouse. Do you know why playing golf is advantageous for discussion of business, and for resolution of business-related cinflicts? This is the real question. I know that you know.. But why? Golf was useful to discuss business outside an office environment. I don't think it happens anymore, directional microphones have breached the security a golf course previously afforded. My turn. What was your former profession? Were you a jack of all trades? What are you sublimating when you make long posts going off at multiple tangents? What is your favorite sport? Despite your vow of celibacy, do you still wake up at 4 am with a stiffy? Is it orgasmic for you to start another thread? What regrets do you have about women who you could have bonked, but did not?

Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. I admired their writing, not their bodies which were no doubt hidden by the voluminous bustles of their era. I thought George C Scott and Susannah York made a pretty good fist of bringing Jane Eyre to the screen. Thornfield was the great house that burned down. Never really took to D H Lawrence as an author, IMO nowadays he would be writing scripts for porn films. My golf shoes are Adidas and Ecco, my other daily foot apparel are Crocs and Rivers. Please. Golfing attire has nothing to do with golfing ability. IME the better dressed a golfer is, the higher their handicap. OTOH, when someone turns up on the first tee looking like a skid row bum, they are often scratch markers. The NSA is interested in everything on planet Earth, do try to keep up.

I am 79, not 85. Please do not attempt to burden me with more years, I have enough already. Yes, I am a fossil. If I ever become celibate like you, I will have attained the apogee of fossilization. It just happens I am currently reading "Micah Clarke" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Spooky. Most of my reading in my younger days was centered around Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters, although Steinbeck, Hemingway and O. Henry did feature as well. The secondary college I attended was very heavily into Dickens for the English Literature part of the curriculum, I had a considerable advantage because I had read all his works before then. Recently, Cameron Smith purportedly was remunerated $125 million for signing up with the LIV golf tour, and then proceeded to win another $6 million in only his second tournament. That much moolah deserves some respect. There is evidence golf is beneficial to longevity. Many years ago, some august American think tank conducted a study which compared the lives of captains of industry with that of professional golfers. Many top-level businessmen became bankrupt, went insane, died in poverty or committed suicide. In contrast, the vast majority of professional golfers lived on into a hale, happy and extended old age. You do get more exercise on a golf course than behind a desk. The color of the shoes is oxblood. They have an inscription on the inside sole which says Florsheim Royal Imperial ( Florsheim Shop ) in the same flowery script Ford uses. Obviously, the makers liked tautologies. On the inside upper in plainer script, is the legend 10 1/2 3E 319215 17, under that 97158 A C. As an American citizen, perhaps your NSA will be kind enough to assist you in decoding this information. I have already left my shoes and much more to my Thai GF, unless you are willing to stump up 6000 baht to change my will in your favor I can't assist you. Each to his own, I like to see women as nature made them, without the encumbrances of clothing.

Walton Goggins is superb in this cameo...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBAzn1QmCo

Because still staying friendly to Putin would make them pariahs as well. Without trade, China would go down the toilet. The same sanctions that are devastating the Russian economy, if applied to China, is where the CCP does not want to go.

Wait him/her out, a crackhead has a limited life expectancy.

Keep a low profile, avoid confrontation, walk away. I don't carry more than one thousand baht at any time. It is highly unlikely anyone will attack in broad daylight, I avoid going out at night unless absolutely necessary. As a last resort against someone who was determined to attack me, I was taught by my jiu-jitsu instructor to ignore everything else, and attack the balls. AFAIK it's also the training given to staff in asylums to subdue male mental patients.

If Putin uses even a tactical nuke, China and India would drop him like a hot potato. Russia is a country highly dependent on energy exports. Putin has already lost every oil and gas market in the West, losing what he might still be selling to China and India would mean no income, with a war costing Russia more than 1 billion dollars a day. Given the strains that are already evident between Putin and his military, there is no certainty if Putin gives the order, it would be obeyed.

Er - your avatar says "Gender-not telling" and you were thinking of a PSA test? Thanks for the chuckle.

I have significant BPH, my last PSA was 0.7 ng/mL. Admittedly the finasteride I am taking tends to lower PSA readings. My highest reading prior to finasteride was 1.7 ng/mL According to the pathology report, normal range is 0-4 ng/mL. A reading of 11 IMO is suspicious with or without a UTI, as the OP said his previous level was 6.

If they are sentenced the same as Thais, there's a fair chance they might walk out of court scot-free. I must say it's nice to see an arrest without Aussies in the mix, for a change.

"In international news the war in Ukraine rumbled on - it’s the yawn of the year" Sorry Rooster, the fate of Ukraine is the fate of us all if tyrants are given a free pass. When you wended your way back to Bangkok Bouillon in a van, perhaps you did not notice the price of gasoline.

1/ The war will not be over until Putin is gone. The mobilization is already a shambles, how desperate does one have to be to offer criminals amnesty to enlist? 2/ Russia's supply of ballistic missiles is getting very thin, cannibalizing dishwashers and refrigerators for computer chips is enough evidence of that. 3/ Zelensky and his generals are of one mind, Putin and his are not. The turnover of generals being fired or killed off by Ukrainian strikes is getting to be embarrassing. 4/ Europe will no longer be dependent on Russian oil and gas the following winter for their heating. Whatever you are smoking must be quite a powerful hallucinogen.

I guess those pictures of vehicles and men of military age queued up for kilometres at every remaining border have been photoshopped. Of course the Russians here are cavorting, you think they are going back to Russia any time soon? If anyone is gaslighting, it's you, and you're making a hash of it.

I've read reports dead Russian soldiers are being cremated to conceal the true extent of casualties on the battlefront. There is no end to the moral turpitude of the Russian government. If I was press-ganged into a war where I knew I was simply going to be used as cannon fodder, I would be far more inclined to take out as many of my own commanding officers as I could. Apparently that is happening already.

There are so many variables in the use of nukes, and the potential response. IMO there's no point in worrying about something which may never happen, or if it does, won't affect Thailand because it is too far away. The West does not need to use nukes in response, MOAB's over the battle field or the Kremlin are enough. Putin is at loggerheads with his military, if he gives the order there is no guarantee it will be carried out. I can't see any advantages to using a tactical nuke. It would only make Russia more of a pariah. China and India could not stay friendly without becoming on the nose too. It would also possibly get NATO troops involved, and the Russians have more than enough problems with the Ukrainians as it is. If Russia does not win this winter, it will be a bankrupt failed state. By the next winter, Europe will have switched to alternative oil and gas supplies, and pipelines to India and China will take years to build. Russia does not have the time, money or expertise anymore. It's quite possible Russia will become a vassal state of China. I don't know how many others on this forum have read the "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov. In it, military force, religion and trade contend for dominance of a galactic empire. Eventually, trade wins in the first of the series. Of course, this is using logic, Putin's logic is a different kind.