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What are the issues the booze is addressing? I have been off booze for about 18 months now. The half hour buzz I was getting was not worth waking up 4-5 times in the night to pee. I use a judicious mix of Losartan ( blood pressure ) amitryptiline, codiphen ( sleep ) and tramadol ( back pain ). They are not taken daily, but on a staggered basis for quality of life. Serious question: When anyone drinks, they are imbibing 100 - 200 mL of a Class 1 carcinogen. Which do you think is more harmful, that or 5-50 mg of a medication? Apologies for going off topic.

I am wondering why the alleged winners of the US election are so bitter and twisted. Any alien from outer space would think they had lost.

Too deep for me.

Another SOS for my ignore list. Bye bye.

It was your second post, not the first, when you said you liked my fictional story. I don't do fiction.

IIRC you started this with a smart@rse comment. You think I care if you don't believe me?

IMO there's a difference between old money and new money. Old money has good manners. New money tends to treat anyone they consider below them like dirt. I saw that at the college, and also at a high-end golf club where I was a member.

My father taught me to stay out of debt. A valuable lesson which has served me well for all my life. My childhood was happy, until I won a scholarship to a prestigious college, at secondary level. There, I learned kids from privileged backgrounds could be total @rseholes. It was a poisoned chalice, although I did have some very good teachers. The combination of being a "brain" and socially inept made me a target. I only started to gain self-confidence when I left home to work in a remote part of Australia, and had to fend for myself.

5 pars and 5 bogeys. Greens were heavy with dew, very slow. A bit like you.

Is Patricia Routledge a relation of yours?

Certainly has. The Liberal Party in Australia is about as conservative as it can get, although short of America's Republicans.

Finishing my breakfast, preparatory to heading off to golf. You do have me wondering what time zone you are in, given it is 7 am.

Bullsh!t. It was orchestrated by Stalin, to quash Ukrainian nationalists. Watch out, comrade. Ukrainian drones are everywhere nowadays.

My post before was not relevant? Your opinion, we all know what they say about opinions. I am not interested in how many posts I make, it just happens. Perhaps I should cut down on my responses to snipers from the peanut gallery.

I am merely basing my predictions on what happened last time under Trump. Perhaps you have forgotten how his trade war with China screwed American farmers, so badly they needed massive subsidies to placate them. IMO it will be even worse this time around, because the people Trump appoints to various positions will need only one qualification - absolute loyalty. Competence and nous are not even on the radar. As far as Harris is concerned, Americans will probably never be adult enough to elect a female leader. The Democrats failed to learn that lesson with Clinton.

I usually get attacked on the basis my post count is too high, implying I have nothing better to do with my time.

Ukraine has its own language, and alphabet. This is what the average Ukrainian thinks of Russia:

I have no experience with ladyboys. No desire to get any either.

I get it. News media are held to a standard of accuracy in reporting. Social media such as X or Truth Social have no such obligation. Madness.

Strange how many losers support him.

I don't know why anyone should be surprised, government by oligarchs is coming to America. It's going to get messy when the trump sheeple at the bottom of the pyramid realize how completely they have been conned. Maybe the Second Amendment will become useful, according to the Law of Unintended Consequences.

The housing crisis in Australia is the direct result of government policy, which gave investors lucrative tax breaks. The last leftist government that tried to reverse said tax breaks was resoundingly defeated, after a scare campaign. Rents are through the roof. What bugs me is the fact our politicians can retire on fat pensions, after screwing things up for average people. They should be at the back of a dole queue. I can buy a condo here, or rent one, at a fraction of the cost in Australia. The current leftist government in Australia is planning to tax social platforms that don't pay for news. Musk and Zuckerberg are squealing like stuck pigs. https://www.ndtv.com/video/australia-to-tax-digital-platforms-that-don-t-pay-for-news-meta-releases-ai-model-872973

If he is pushing a mop on minimum wage, he's probably not paying much.

I really don't know. IMO America has gone too far down the path of greed is good. Any suggestion there of more equitable distribution of wealth, is automatically met with the leftist label. I have seen Tiger Woods play, accompanied by a phalanx of bodyguards. I suspect, like Putin, high net worth individuals will increasingly have to employ large contingents of security staff, for protection from the Luigis of the world. It's not relevant to me in Thailand, as I will be gone in the next few years anyway.

IIRC you were calling anyone who did not agree with your views on X halfwits. Perhaps you should consider lifting your own game.