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  1. As far as I am aware falangs anyone who pitch a tent along any foreshore or on a public beach won't be be there enjoying the 'glamping' bliss for long as plod will appear to either shoo them away, shoo and fine, or fine and arrest them. 

     

    In other words its illegal. Thais run by a whole different set of rules than us falangs on this.

     

    If you can find a private beach owner and get permission then that's a whole different matter.

  2. 6 hours ago, tandor said:

    Israel is a recognised state and Hamas is the militant wing of Palestine

     

    1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

    I grow weary of correcting this idea. It is NOT US money, it was Iranian money that the US froze.

    Correct. But as you and I know Happy a convenient paranoid lie to some is far more palatable than taking the energy and time to find out what is actually the truth and sharing that truth.

     

    I searched for other than US news outlets on the issue and found only these US based ones (as a few examples) .. sop I'd say 'reader beware' and do your research!

     

    Apart from Trumpist nutters, Russian operatives and their dimwit stooge puppets, it seems that some folks say Pres. Biden in order to lower gas prices relaxed (for a 6 months set period) the sanctions of Iranian oil, this was approved by the Senate, with the view to lowering Russian choking of gas and oil, and the already set-in-place sanctions on Iranian oil (set pre Trump and Biden by the way).

    This embargo was set in-concert with the EU, World and Asian Development Bank's, not just by the US alone.

     

    These world events all dovetailed into creating the spiralling gas prices (seen worldwide) after the massive worldwide impact on the entire planetary economic balance was shaken to its foundations by Covid. And for those conspirator addicts don't bother telling me this was part of an evil cabal to make us even more slaves to a dark in-the-shadows Orwellian Big Brother.

     

    We know its very challenging for Americans to think of the world powers (e.g. oil, banks) acting and making decisions that are not entirely made, or controlled by the USA.  Yes I know this is a shock to some Americans but its actually factually correct.

     

    Whichever way you cut it i.e. apolitically, or with a world interactive view of dependence on the middle east for oil we all are under the external control of huge players of world geo-politics, but please God I'm not offering up the bizarre unhinged QAnon option. 

     

    The monopolies of the sheiks and Western oil barons needs to be broken.

    We are in a difficult time because of our dependence on fossil fuels. 

     

    We're dealing with the results of decades of dragging feet, distraction, silence, lie, and ineptitudes by the governments we have elected time and time again because for their cockolding to the world economic giants. We the unwashed masses are merely dependent as an addict is to the needle.

    The Russia issues and the oil and gas supply stricture tipped the post Covid strains on supply of oil into the red-zone.

    The Iranian embargoes, the periodic recent fiddling and squeezing of Arab oils supplies and their absolute supply control leads to leaps in prices of EVERYTHING. 

     

    By the way Biden approved more exploration/drilling leases on US soil to US and other Western drillers than Trump (by a large margin). 

     

    https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/10/biden-israel-hamas-iran-oil-00120924?source=email

     

    https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4252577-why-is-biden-ignoring-irans-influence-in-the-hamas-attacks-its-simple-politics/

     

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/07/biden-has-no-choice-but-to-go-to-saudi-arabia.html

     

    Seems to me we need to globally forge on, as fast as we can, to develop alternative, mass produceable, cheap, alternative energy sources. 

     

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  3. On 10/12/2023 at 3:57 PM, Gknrd said:

    Just a heads up. I came to Thailand as a tourist and decided to get my teeth cleaned and one of my teeth was hurting. I went in and the 3 teeth were loose and he said there was nothing to be done but pull them. I was not thinking and said ok.. 

    He pulled it and then started the implant talk. I got suspicious.. Long story short I quit going and left the country. I went to my dentist and he said the extractions were completely unnecessary .  I had several loose teeth and he did a deep cleaning and went into the root system and stopped the disease. All my teeth tightened up and now I am 100% except now I need an implant where the idiot in Thailand pulled the tooth.

    Do not go to Thailand for Dental work.. period is my advice.

    Just a heads up..

    Sorry you had such a nasty experience here with dental work ... or should I say scam and abuse!

     

    I can transparently say I had (since 2009), and have now a far different experience of the dental system here (private both cash and now with medical insurance).

    My dentist is superb, a Master at her profession, and ethically scrupulous.

     

    Many, many excellent medical technicians practice their professions here. If you need a reputable, safe, referral try:

    Dr Lily Poncheron

    www.bangkokdentalspa.com

     

     

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  4. Perhaps I digress ... but it seems to me the next few words from me are apropo of all the conflicts of mankind.

     

    An awareness came to me, perhaps from the collective conscious Jung spoke of.

     

    I thought of the words of Lennon in that haunting, yet childlike simple song 'Imagine'.

     

    Imagine if we took the resources, the trillions of dollars, the waste of humane life, of nature, of all that could be achieved in our human struggle (journey) if we were to redirect, into a world free of wars, that money and all the human energy and time that goes along with it towards the uplifting of all humanity equally, and thus the planet and the fragile ecosystem we all share. 

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  5. 5 hours ago, impulse said:

    You've just described asymmetric warfare.  But I'd revise your statement to read "the big guys follow the rules, the little guys can't afford to".   History will decide who the good guys are, after all the killing is done.

     

    BTW, that's how Israel won statehood.  Bombing and terrorism, until the Brits gave up and went home.  But I say that not intending to open that line of discussion.  That's history and we're discussing current events.

     

    Thank you impulse.

    Not only historical facts but existential insight from you.

     

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  6. On 10/10/2023 at 10:36 PM, scubascuba3 said:

    We are overdue another ladyboy thread, we never got to the bottom as to why guys like ladyboys with big penis's but still claim to be straight 

    I simply cannot excuse the oh-so obvious 'bottom' pun so effortlessly 'slid' in there lol ???? .

     

    Ladyboys? 'Up to you' as we say around here, but not at all who gets my juices flowing ...

     

    The much-of-late publicised Engfa gets some timber happening for me though????

  7. I'm so lucky, my dad was born in England (became an Aussie citizen in the early sixties),

    I have a British passport as well as Aussie so I can just get of the plane in Ol' Blighty and stay as long as I want ????

    It was awesome before Farage and the evil extreme nationalistic right got to work n the UK left the EU cause it was just as easy entering and moving about in continental Europe.

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