Bday Prang

Thank god for that I'll sleep easier tonight, as long as you're sure

then I'll take the fact that you bothered with such a comprehensive reply as a compliment

Bit like a buffet lol

hmm wokeness , wokery or whatever we are calling it It's not exactly an invention, it's a more of a development, a journey as they like to say, leading to some sort of "enlightenment" albeit delusional The journey I think traditionally started in the bowels of the sociology departments of those relatively new universities, were graduation was guaranteed and whose sole purpose was to keep the less academically gifted undergraduate students off the benefits system until they were considered fit for mcdonalds or become full time whingers/ activists. or sociology lecturers themselves (sometimes both) It also ensured that the less gifted (but unsackable) left leaning existing lecturers were never short of work I'm not sure when this began, probably towards the end of the Blair years, but it was pretty much almost a secret underground exclusive club, bit like swingers clubs until social media made it available to all wasters, and enabled it to spread like a cancer throughout the more "vulnerable " members of society To suggest the rightwing were responsible for it , is a serious piece of lateral thinking, but you may well be correct, nothing surprises me anymore. however I don't think any of the "right" posses the intelectual clout to conceive such a brilliant scam. maybe Dominic Cummings could have managed it but it was a bit before his time Just out of interest do you agree with various classic works of literature being "re written" to avoid causing offence to the oversensitive? bearing in mind that very very few if any are actually genuinely offended it's all about getting "likes" on social media and trying to fit in with their permanently offended peers What if somebody actually is offended, who really gives a <deleted>.

That looks to me like just one example, and one insinuation

There are three very good reasons why a white actor could never play the role of Ali 1) It would just look wrong 2) It would detract from realism 3) How could a white actor mimic the body language and posturing not to mention the speech ! of a flamboyant black man like Ali without offending just about every other black person on the planet and every white snowflake on social media ? As far as black actress Anne Boleyn is concerned reasons one and two apply as above, however reason three no longer applies, as regardless of Anne's personality nobody would be offended at a black persons attempt to mimic a white person, But it must take a certain kind of personality for a black actress to apply specifically to play the role of a white historical British woman , and a certain kind of mindset for a film director or whoever is responsible for that side of things to "genuinely believe" that the black actress they select really can play the role of a white woman better than any of the other white women who attended the casting auditions Neither being concerned that due to the genre of film in question that anyone would see her merely as a "token black" Must be a hell of a story line

Oh dear more experts have we not had our fill of them over the last 3 years? Jesus I would have topped myself years ago if the above was true, I'm pretty certain that any alleged increase in suicide is not unique to cannabis users, and the reason for it, is the constant streams of bad news that we are bombarded with on a daily basis, courtesy of mainstream media and their paymasters, The human ears and brain are not meant to receive the constant scaremongering, end of the world rhetoric day in day out, that we are now plagued with. When was the last time any news was reported in a positive way, other than the occasional taxi driver returning a lost wallet to its rightful owner. or a sad cat getting rescued when stuck in a tree? Its even worse in the west with the Ukraine conflict and the associated threat of nuclear war battling for position with the apocalyptic climate change predictions, and the constant predictions of international financial collapse, to name just three media favorites Despite this I have never personally known any cannabis user suffer any suicidal tendencies, and I know a lot of smokers, then again I don't really know any suicidal type nutters. I'm not saying it does not happen, but it is obviously very very rare, akin perhaps to a peanut allergy, and probably not worthy of all this so called research that is allegedly taking place. Who funds and commissions the research anyway? likely its mostly the reefer madness brigade attempting to up their game, and it would be naive to think that those who pay, do not receive the answers they want. As they say "he who pays the piper calls the tune"

More like taking the piss if you ask me

Well said, wish I could vote. A few short years ago all these people now moaning about %THC and organics and exotics etc. would have been delighted to just be able to find a regular supply of OK weed without getting ripped off or busted , Now listen to them , jesus some people are never happy, just chill out and enjoy would be my advice to them.

She may well be a bit narcissistic but what other sort of person would take on the naysayers at a political level. Agree on the prices, never paid more than 8bt a gram throughout the last 12 months, even on a brief trip to the UK I was only paying the equivalent of 300bt / gram Home growing is the way forward .

Girls were always cynical, many just don't bother hiding it anymore

Depending on how long they have been at sea for It could bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "short time"

That's the last place one would want it

It took a while, though at least they Weren't "premature"

Don't forget the legendary "umbrella" ouch !

Indeed, Fair play to her as we say , she would get my vote

Nothing wrong with her English abilities, There are few, if any, on here who could translate her OP into Thai, although if her canadian husband actually proofread it , I can only assume he's a french speaker. Thailand is by nature a pretty inward looking country, and I kind of get that, they do need some protection from foreign "big business" moving in and controlling things, The more "liberal minded" amongst us, are , in my opinion, a little too quick to hurl words like "Xenophobic" and "Racist" into discussions of this nature' when perhaps "Patriotic" or "Protectionist" or even just "selfish" if you must, would suffice. I'm generally quite happy with the "Thailand is for the Thais" line of thought, and to be honest I'm also more than a little bit jealous of the sense of national Identity that they all share! Something that my home country (the UK) and many western countries, lost a long time ago, To the extent that many of our population and many politicians seem to actually hate our culture, and seek to destroy it ! The end result ? Well, open displays of patriotism are generally frowned upon, Aspects of Christianity are "problematic" The destruction of historical statues goes virtually unpunished, Even talk of changing the words of the National anthem, for fear of "offending" foreigners , to quote just a few examples .and bizarrely all instigated by UK nationals ! Is it any wonder that many choose to live here She is at least on the right side of the fence when it comes to keeping weed off the narcotics list, and if she is seeking a bit of a name for herself then why not ? It's no different than Chuwit looking for a bit of fame by ostensibly joining the opposing camp very recently

And Kenneth Williams too??? I just thought he was a (very) good actor, I'm speechless

I did not say wokery started in 2007. I said 2007 was pre woke, which it was . I don't know when wokery started

Agreed that is always a possibility, but I genuinely doubt if it will ever go full circle , I'm not one for smoking it openly in public, to be honest I prefer to grow most of my own and consume discreetly at home or at like minded friends houses. To be honest that is probably a knock on effect of the prohibition years. and I think that applies to most people, except for the over enthusiastic newbies / tourists and of course the die hard prohibitionists. Most, if not all, of the prohibitionists, bizarrely refuse to accept that their personal aversion is the result of long term government propaganda, prefering to cite their (fictional) years of extensive (but very selective) internet research as the reason for their irrational objections.

Well it doesn't at the moment, Presently that only applies to Working here , Owning land and Voting. None of which are on my bucket list

It is not being forced on anybody ! You are perfectly at liberty to refrain, if that is what you think. But you have to accept that millions of people disagree

That was just to keep the reefer madness types quiet, and other than a few narrow minded die hards it seems to have worked,

Its "legal" enough for most people

Its pretty obvious the other side can never win, whatever happens