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Why? The Egyptians built a wall to keep them out that Donald Trump would be proud of. Why the support? Murdering those poor kids at a music concert. Sending missiles into Israel on a daily basis. Chanting from the river to the sea, meaning no more Israel. And doing this in protests in the west. By the LGBTQ whatever as well, who wouldn't last long in any Islamic country Why? I really can't understand it.

I think a lot of what you are saying about the parents is no longer true in 2025. Maybe in 1975. Or if you listen to the NGO's who generally have no clue. I think the trafficking is far worse into western Europe from eastern European nations. No shortage of eastern European hookers in Thailand.

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Thanks for the info

Correct. A good tv show about that. Curious how they have ravens in the Tower when outside they are called crows. Edit just looked it up. Same family of birds but different. Same same but different as the wife would say.

Not sure if you will survive as the nation you are now in a thousand years. Good chance you will be a nuclear armed Islamic state in 50 years and cease to exist shortly afterwards.

Likely that they will be sold off as the others were. Did you see the crown where all of the previous gemstone are missing? Sold off to pay debts. Can't remember the Kings name who had to do that. Might have been one of the Charles's.

From Mountbatten or in the original Germanic Battenburg.

You were a republic at one point. Oliver Cromwell made that happen. As another King Charles found out.

Don't get me wrong I enjoyed traveling around Pennsylvania, New Jersey , Delaware, Maryland etc. But it is just not the same as Australia or Canada, as I understand it, for wide open spaces which is what this thread is about. As I said before city people just don't get it. Suburbia included. Not a condemnation of city people but until you experience a really big place, with very few people, it will be hard to comprehend what the OP is going through. To get some perspective, where I grew up land size was measured in 100's or 1000's of square miles not acres. My idea of fun was riding motorbikes on a salt lake with friends The lake was 19 miles wide and 29 miles long. Not big by local standards. It was a tiny part of the bigger sheep station that encompassed the mining town I grew up in. I saw a world record motorbike speed attempt on a salt lake just south of this one. Treble the size. To be honest 90% of Australians wouldn't know about what the OP is talking about as most live in the 5 major cities.

Totally agree, with one caveat. Automation took out the labour on the shop floor. AI will take out management on the top floor. Many think AI will remove the need for engineers and accountants, and this is true. It will also remove the need for upper manager and the board of directors. It will lead to one person who is in control of the AI until AI decides that person is no longer needed or is seen as a threat to the very AI they thought they controlled. The only 'safe' jobs will be carpenters and bricklayers and the like until robotics catch up with AI.

No, I'm not joking. As I said , city people would not understand. 9000 acres might sound like a lot to you, but it really isn't. I'm more accustomed to seeing a petrol ( gas) station, and nothing else every 2-300 kilometres with nothing in between.

Thought they dumped you and took you for a lot of money.

Like any other run of the mill monger. Nothing special.

The extended family.

I hear ya. I'm from country Australia and get that claustrophobic feeling in Thailand. Lucky in one respect in that the wife's house in on a few rai so I can get a reprieve. Having said that I get the same closed in feeling when visiting Bangkok, Philadelphia and London . Need some clear open spaces. Must be the way I've lived or have been programmed for it. Where I grew up it was normal to drive on the highway for two hours and not come across another town. Seems like it's every 15 minutes or less in Thailand. The people posting about parks just don't understand and probably never will. Probably come from the city in a previous life. Probably only Canadians and Ozzie's will understand.

I spent quite a while in Kuala Lumpur talking to a Malaysian Christian. He gets absolutely nothing from anyone. If a Muslim is hungry he can go to the mosque and get food. Not the Christians. It may look like a semi western country but at the basic level it is fundamentally Islamic. I won't be going back.

The cold water myth is something my wife swears by. I think it is a Thai thing. I don't and always have plenty of cold water in the fridge.

I regard the service charge as a compulsory tip so pay nothing on top.

I can see similarities with both the GG's.

400 times more Muslims in Malaysia as well.

Gotta toss breakfast chain in Bangkok. Is that where you can get a full English with a happy ending?

And Chum will give you a nice shiny coat too. There's a good boy.

Quite a few do. Oldest profession in Earth.

You keep files on what people have posted? Get a life.