Lacessit

Not too bad in Chiang Rai, PM 2.5 in my condo is 48.

Our resident mop-pushing psychiatrist is here, dispensing free advice to other posters. I would normally put him on ignore. However, I am fascinated by what level of banality he can attain with his posts.

IMO when a dog of this type kills or injures someone, the owner should be sentenced as if they did the act themself.

Jobs for the boys, or a girl in this case. No surprise there.

The age pension is both entitlement and welfare. Any Australian who meets the age and financial criteria is entitled to it. The current situation is a self-inflicted wound. Before, during and after the GFC, hundreds of thousands of Australians lost their life savings to thieves, mainly due to the abject incompetence of ASIC. They were then forced to apply for part or full pensions to make up the shortfall. I guess victim blaming is popular among people who don't like the concept of welfare for those less fortunate. When Joe Hockey said the age of entitlement is over, he certainly was not talking about the tax breaks he was giving to the wealthy. Or himself, the fat turd. BTW, what's your BMI?

If I Recall Correctly.

IIRC you are not Australian. If you want to troll, do it somewhere else. This thread is for Australians only.

IMO the woke and PC stuff all started when personnel departments renamed themselves Human Resources. Then decreed all managers should be touchy-feely, and authoritarians were frowned upon. Robert Townsend was right when he recommended firing the personnel department in its entirety, calling them babysitters in the corporate kindergarten.

The pension is an entitlement, not a right. There are limitations placed on it by how much other income one earns, or the assets they hold, whichever reduces the pension the most.

It doesn't look like your local Thais are hungry enough.

Drone technology has changed the face of war in Ukraine, coverting $5 million tanks into useless junk. That's where the taxpayer money should be going, not clapped - out nuclear submarines which will be obsolete by the time Australia gets them.

Where are you living, in the jungle?

IMO not a good trade, the USD for making ourselves a nuclear target.

I've only seen 2 snakes in Thailand in 14 years here, and both ended up in a village cooking pot.

What we lack in fresh water fishing we more than compensate for in salt water. Plenty of hunting for water buffalo, feral pigs, deer, foxes, cats, and wild dogs. Rabbits in the colder areas, where calcivirus did not take hold. Even wild camels. Of the 12 most venomous species on the planet, Australia has 11 of them.

Australian, living in Thailand for 14 years now. Life is good. I speak reasonably good Thai, which makes life a lot easier.

I'll take that as an admission your OP was intended to be nasty. I have no problem with someone who claims to be smarter than me, all he/she has to do is prove it.

The ASFA estimates only 30% of Australians will have enough superannuation to retire. It's almost certain casualisation is a contributing factor.

Stop deflecting. I have met Christians before who attend church every Sunday, then lie like pigs in sh!t the rest of the week.

It's not. If that is what you meant, you should have said so. Permit me to doubt that was your intended meaning.

Psychopaths are to be found in every nationality. They discriminate against groups they consider to be weaker and less powerful.

IMO it is not a belief when Putin himself has expressed the sentiment repeatedly and publicly.

A bit nasty from someone professing to be a Christian.

Do you buy pangasius? If so, how do you cook it? It seems to be pumped full of water.

This thread is most useful. It helps me identify people who are morons, idiots and imbeciles.