Captain Monday

Trump trying to turn English into a tonal language. 
Biden mental decline? 😂🤣🥲

9 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Trump's tax cuts were greater for the lowest bracket than the highest, so there's that. 

 

Why should you get to deduct union dues? Does your union not provide value for your dues? And why should non-members have to subsidize you and your union? 

 

Why should truck drivers and mechanics pay off the loans of college graduates? 

 

You support open borders, I don't, that's enough for me. 

 

True. I don’t believe in borders

The rest of what you posted is gibberish and proves you have been completely gaslighted 

Why should middle class workers subsidize billionaires? 

1 hour ago, JOE BAMA said:

Maybe we should pay more attention to logic and logical fallacies.  Attacking De Niro instead of his words entails using a common logical fallacy called "ad hominem" or "attack the man."   The Donald himself uses logical fallacies with wild abandon.  I agree with everything De Niro said about Trump except the view that Trump is "stupid."  He is not stupid.  He obviously understands how to manipulate and persuade tens of millions of Americans.  Americans would do well to heed George Orwell's words and steer clear of Mr. Trump. 

He can’t be “stupid” but I honestly believe he has a learning disability. Nothing wrong with that. But it is  masked by years of privilege. He can barely read AND has ADD . That is clear. The next question is does Trump smoke his own dope? Meaning does he believe his own lies. 

Millions of his supporters are not stupid but believe every word that comes out of his mouth no matter how ridiculous. Trump is also extremely naive. When he went to meet his best buddy  in Singapore Trump

actually believed Kim would just load his nukes onto barges based on their bromance and a handshake. 
Trump got hoodwinked and played there badly. 
 

“He’s a dog. He’s a pig he’s a con. He’s a BS artist. He’s a mook”. 

Bob does not want to call him names anymore🤣But that was classic. 

Thailand is an escape valve or plan B for me now. I never spent near 180 days in Thailand except 2021 anyway. Because of a  “flu”

Captain Monday - “Constant International Travel”

It was mooted

then it was mulled

them it was forgotten, forever

22 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

It can take an hour going through immigration 

Even while flying C class?

Suwannabhumi must really be going downhill

Never had such problems when I used to have access to the elite line

8 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Americans, as you and I know, being Americans, have been...

Boors from the Beginning, and...
Always will be boorish.

 

This is part of our heritage given to us by ancestors raised on the frontiers of places like The Klondike in Alaska, and the Oil Fields of Oklahoma.

 

We are....OAKIES, all of us, when you scratch off a bit of veneer of semi-civilization which coats most of us.

 

 

Interesting is how American English branched off 

and became so distonct from the British and commonwealth accents and spelling

1 minute ago, HampiK said:

When you live in your condo/house and have a yellow book, you not need to pay!

I have a Yello book

So then what is the definition of “live” 180 days per year ?

Captain Monday- “constant international travel”

2 minutes ago, Henryford said:

 

Because soon it will be increased to 13,500

For foreigners only

In Chiang Mai also

135 baht or so

why do they bother

Last time I sent  a wire from US it was registered at middle of the night, maybe around 03:00 AM Thai time.
 

The monies showed up in my Thai account by noon 

Schwab to BKK bank. Late last

month. 

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Really?

Because, there are so many of them, that it is difficult to decide on the worst, or even the worst of the worst.

 

What disturbs me is this strange phrase:  worst of the worst.

 

This never sounds logical.

 

If one is the worst, then there is only one. And that one is the worst.

 

However, it might seem more logical to have "the worst of the worse", simply because you might have many of something that was worse than something else.  You might think of having 10 balls. Ball A is bad. Ball B, C, D, are worse than ball A. And then you have another Blue Ball E which is the worst, ie, THE worst, one.

 

And so then, you would have a group of four Blue Balls, B, C, D, E, that were all worse than ball A.

 

Therefore, you could logically state that Ball E was the worst of the balls in the worse group: ie the WORST of the WORSE.

 

But, you could not logically say that Ball E was the worst of the worst, because Balls B, C, D, E are not the worst balls.

 

And so, logically speaking....

 

E is the worse of the worse.  E is also the worst of the worse.  BUT, you cannot logically state that Ball E is the worst of the worst!

 

It is incongruencies such as this which make our lives less than worth living.

 

But, what do you say, anyway?

 

Worst of the worst?

Even if it might not be logically pleasing?

 

 

And what is the worst of the worse?:  Have a Good One!

 

 

You lost me on the logic above but it is 1) on the list linked below.  
 

Can I get a … really bothers me I reject it and always ask more politely as in “May I please have a coffee” or the alternative “ I would  like to order a coffee, please”

One time in Newark in line behind a local in Starbucks and the man said

“Lemme’ get a raspberry”

Even the barista had no idea what he wanted a tea, a Frappuccino? What size? 

https://lithub.com/38-americanisms-the-british-cant-bloody-stand/

17 hours ago, transam said:

We know, you're late, and it would seem you have never been ripped off by a taxi driver, plus you are protecting the taxi driver here when the passenger was clearly heard saying, "Give me my money".........Hmmmmm............

Was the assault justified then? 
(Not that you personally think so or would attack somebody over money just trying to understand the thesis underlying some of the opinions here)

On 4/28/2024 at 7:45 PM, VocalNeal said:

^ Can i get a coffee?

It is the worst Americanism. 

17 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

What's the penalty for theft?

500 baht and a “wai”

For  youse what blame the driver what's the penalty for assault and battery on a Taxi man in UK? There is no excuse for violence.

Are 60 percent of Windows installations in Thai businesses still pirate? 

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

OK.

 

(But, just one favorite vibrating tool is OK?)

 

 

Did you bring your LP records?

26 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Performance looks similar. I wouldn't be concerned with the “since inception“ low number as it looks like it was started at the top of the dot-com bubble. Also be aware that, if the instrument is not in a retirement fund, switching would be a taxable event. The only taxes I have paid in the 40+ years in vfiax is on the dividends. As it's mostly all profit at this point, it will be taxed when I sell. That's something most don't consider when trading/investing. All the money they've paid in taxes, in my case, has continued to benefit me, not the government.

Only pay taxes when I start taking distributions 

Dividends are reinvested

It is a holding in a 401k account what is basically on autopilot.

I am a buy and hold never pay much attention to it.

I could rebalance my holdings and future contributions as sometimes worry I could be doing better

but that is where problems start for most people There is alot of research to show that passive investors do better over long time periods compared to actively managed portfolios and risky trade behavior

57 minutes ago, gargamon said:

What a load of nonsense you spout. The smart people who own mutual funds are buy and hold. The people that treat them as investments that are bought and sold often are just the fools the investment advisors are looking for.

 

Here's a fund I've been in for a long time. The expense ratio is 0.04%.

 

I have been in VTI for a long time. Maybe I should shift into VFIAX?

12 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

This has been common place here for at least 20 years, particularly Brit so called independent IFA's who claim to sell regulated products. The products may be regulated but him advising and selling outside of the UK!

Even the rep from a big insurer here sounded like a minor character in a gangster film.

Heavy cockney accent ”chasing up” documents. Very untrustwothy fired them!

1 hour ago, Bobthegimp said:

 

The second obstruction is clearly a rodent of unusual size, right out of the fire swamp.

If the  ears are that unsanitary imagine what the choch is like. Does she even bathe regularly?

Go to an ENT clinic before you start messing about with fok treatments or peroxide.

No way any kind of indirect heat can ”Melt” bad cerumen obstrictions. Not really wax like a candle innit?