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I have one that bugs me. I take a taxi to work 5 days a week. The inability of a significant percentage of taxi drivers to find my condo is a mystery to me. It is located 1 km off Ramkhamheang Rd., take one main soi and make 1 left turn and you are there. The security guard calls me a taxi and sometimes 2 taxis cancel because they can't find the place. Sometimes I can see the taxi stopping in the middle of the soi and apparently giving up and turning around unable to continue another 200 meters. Grab charges a 20 baht flat fee on a 60 baht fare and often no Grab taxis are available in my area when needed so I rarely use Grab. The taxi drivers always show up with a little scrap of paper with directions on it from the dispatcher. The drivers are unable to find the condo on a regular basis, I would say on the order of one out of ten. What I can't figure out is why the dispatcher considers this acceptable and doesn't try to improve the directions given. Only needs go "east on Ramkhamheang, left on soi xx0, after 600 meters left on soi 1x. Continue 400 meters Condo on the left." Alternatively, my condo is on Google maps, only need to enter the name of the condo to get directions. I don't get it.

Some of us know before and so are still alive not having engaged in ridiculously reckless behavior.

It wasn't for the RIP part I'm guessing. The plastic straw bit was mean-spirited.

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In your home country when you meet someone for the first time what do you say? Something like: "Do you think that a priori synthetic judgements are possible?' Or do you make small talk? What you quoted is normal small talk.

Yes, I agree, but since you say "I could survive without it" I don't think you are in the category of super rich that is being thought of for exclusion. Taking someone who is super rich and fairly well-liked by the public, does Warren Buffet "deserve it"? He probably does, he paid in right? The max SSA benefit is $4018 per month at full retirement age. Would that make any difference at all to Warren Buffet's quality of life? If cutting off the very rich allows SSA to continue for you, are you for this change? People are not looking to make changes just to screw with people, they are looking for ways to keep SSA viable.

I can understand the mortgage interest deduction, noting that it is a deduction, not a credit. But I can't understand why the mortgage interest deduction is applicable to multiple homes. Again seems like reverse Robin Hood, giving more to the rich for no reason.

Are you the reincarnation of Rod Serling?

"All was going fine until the waitress said: "One" (after I ordered the carafe of iced tea). So, you tell me, IS IT ME???" I don't understand. What was she telling you?

Careful readers will notice this is an article about the UK.

Also eat blueberries, and don't forget essential oils.

"Strange Enough The 'Common Flu' Has Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth (?)" Not true, I had it earlier this year and blood test they did at Kasemrad ruled out COVID and ID'd which flu variant it was. So maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think that saying things that are not true is lying.

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" I met this amazing girl who works at one of those little bubble tea kiosks in a Skytrain station" Just to better understand you, which Skytrain station and what's the name of the kiosk and what is her name? Also, in the OP you mention intimacy. Are you having sex or do you just tell each other your innermost thoughts?

And what about the fatuous in all their varieties?

Yes, I think that is the point.

Why not negotiate? Be interesting to see what that brings. If doing business with friends can still negotiate. Offer 10k/month see what she says.

Sorry, what was the middle part again?

Where was it before we were born?

I notice the guy in sweatpants has the recognized signifiers of wealth, intelligence and success: multiple large tattoos. I keep reminding myself that heavily tattooed individuals are probably richer, more intelligent, and more successful than I am. as I have been told on AN. I need to remember the words of Groucho "Who you gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?"

The cartoonist R. Crumb had a character named Mr. Natural who was intuitive and wise. He was known for the following exchange: Random person: "What does it all mean Mr. Natural?" Mr. Natural: " Don't mean sh$t." Brief and to the point.

I had an acquaintance who lived in Beverly Hills, she told me that her husband built up a small dry cleaning business. Then he sold it for a million dollars, she said "That is when our troubles began".

Here's an idea: shut up and go away.

In the US poor kids (way back when) liked the uniforms cuz they didn't have to be compared with others. My friend hated having to go to school in clothes her mom made. I don't know how many feel that way here.