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A very famous movie, click your heels 3 times to return home to... oh I can't make it that easy for you.

I like your variation although it will be lost on many. Gotta love the Stable Genius's version, "not the sharpest bulb".

It's a good joke (I guess, though a bit obvious) but the problem is that for many of the geezers here it is exactly what they think.

Interesting to note that in elementary school curricula at International Schools in Thailand, English classes spend significant study time on learning the difference between fact and opinion. I guess some individuals in their dotage enter into a phase called "second childhood" or maybe they just never learned the distinction.

Or possibly just give up loser.

Chldish envy for a talented writer who wrote one of the most successful fictional series since printing began. If people disagree with her opinions it does not detract from her writing.

From the fairly frequent mention of the Dunning-Kruger effect in discussions I think that this effect is fairly well-known to the AN members at large. The thing I wonder about is do the members in general consider the effect applies to anyone? Including them?

Why on earth do they like you? World wide women like men for different reasons, but underlying them all is money and prestige. The payments may be structured differently but money (and other material things, jewelry, real estate) are always the foundation. Materialism is clearly the basis of love and marriage in the US, (I can't speak for other countries), usually starting with the extravagant wedding, buying a house and paying the mortgage for 20 to 30 years and then doing the right thing and dying first so she can collect the life insurance.

"I don't see a reason to demonize the mamasans. " You are of course right that the mamasans have their place and serve a purpose. I don't mean to attack all the mamasans. Some obviously take extreme advantage of the naive girls, and by that I mean they make them kick back more than is customary in the bar scene. But that is not really an issue that impacts me. The ones I don't like are the mamasans who show up when I am buying drinks for a girl and try and squeeze drinks and tips out of me. I would almost never give them but sometimes the girls makes it clear it will be bad for them if I don't. That is the point where I feel the mamasan is doing nothing for me and expecting drinks and or tips.

As Travis Bickle said "Are you talking' to me?"

You missed the part where she said living in the US is no different than living in Iran.

Silly. Easy to compare just about any country with the "Islamic Republic of Iran" and make a judgement. You just like to argue, anyone can see that with 4k posts since February. And of course the implied boast about how many countries you have been to. Can't wait to hear that, I am sure I will be impressed.

She was saying that the US does not compare favorably with Iran. Is your response reflexive?

OK, I will try and go slowly for you. She is saying the USA is as bad as Iran. And I am saying if she lived in Iran... well she would not be living. So that would indicate the US is not as bad as Iran. Do you understand that ? If you find my position controversial I will say we must agree to disagree.

"Sure, you can say I'm cheap and bitter .... Ok go ahead with the nasty responses. " I don't know what to say. Maybe self-awareness or lack of enters in. Do you project that rainbows and beautiful music emanate from your soul? Or not?

She would be hanging from a crane if she lived in Iran. She tries to shout down her co-panelist. If someone doesn't agree, classic smug privileged person, "you don't understand". So arrogant, is there a category for "honorary white lady"?

Heart breaking. Mental illness in parents and child? Not jumping to that conclusion just trying to think of an explanation. Horrible to think of starving to death in the midst of plenty.

I think a delivery option should be legally mandatory. Something like Food Panda, could call it Poo Ying Panda. You can cobble together this service using Thai Friendly and Grab taxi but for convenience a streamlined solution would be nice.

Often there is an alternate explanation. If doses are 6 months apart, every dose you get you are 6 months older, 6 months closer to your expiration date. So yes, for sure "you are more likely to die" the older you get. Just a thought.

I haven't experienced this particular problem but sometimes the mamasans really seem to have a lot of control over bargirls who seem to feel obligated. Like "She did so much for me." I was barfining a girl in Pattaya who was like under the spell of the mamasan. She thought the mamasan was always looking out for her and trusted and looked up to her. Not my business so I didn't get involved but the mamasan was getting a cut of any money this girl made, more so than with other bargirls I had known. Trying to remember exactly what she was getting a cut of but I just remember thinking that I had never heard of the mamasan getting a cut of things this girl was paying. Some bargirls seem to see the mamasans as I do - money grubbing parasites; but others seem to see them as if they were a revered older relative or something. Maybe a function of how long they have been in the bar scene. I suppose when a farmer girl starts out as a bargirl it seems like the mamasan is helping them. As your girl says "Mamasan gave her the job, accommodation, lent her money, bought her clothes etc". Maybe the bargirls get some benefit from bribing the mamasan that I don't understand. Actually, sometimes I see punters acting the same way and tipping the mamasan exorbitantly for no reason that is apparent to me. In general I don't see any benefit to me from the mamasan.

Anyone know of a source (local or online) for the Australian manscaping product "Nad's for Men"? I haven't been able to find it locally and it is expensive to buy from Amazon. Much more convenient (and safer) than shaving for challenging manscaping areas, refer to the product name if unsure. (Not sure why it is "Nad apostrophe s" but who cares.)

She kinda looks like mom didn't lay off the drinking and cigarettes when she was pregnant with her. Mildly developmentally disabled.

"anti-VAX brigade or the tin-foil hat brigade" What do you reckon a Venn diagram of these two groups looks like?

" if the objective is good health and being disease free, then the Holy Bible is where the answers are located. " Do you have to read the whole thing?

Another disciple of Pee Wee Herman. "I am rubber you are glue..."