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In my experience a lot of LGBTQ-phobia is generalized. I mean like, people who speak ill of LGBTQ folks in the abstract but their LGBTQ acquaintances they are cool with.

Matchbook signed by Willie Dixon. Saw his performance at a bar and he signed for me.

right, isn't that where the comedian Bob Mortimer comes from? Maybe I should say "the great Bob Mortimer".

I would call you an a$$hole, but that would be an insult to a$$holes. You exhibit the unshakeable certainty only present in the half-educated. I know that's two, couldn't choose.

This is a place for information and also for diversion. You know harmless entertainment. Is the problem that you feel uncomfortable talking about your mother and father? What do you think Dr. Freud would say about that? Just to be crystal clear, I'm kidding, so don't get offended.

You know there is an expression "There's no fool like an old fool." But then there are young fellas too.

I once wrote either "SNAFU" or "FUBAR" and the mod at that time objected that the F in that stood for a verboten word. I didn't object but all dictionaries have these two acronyms and say that the FU stands for "fouled up". I remember thinking that someone's grandmother must have become a mod. Remember the kid in grammar school who volunteered to be hall monitor? Sometimes they never grow out of it I guess.

This is a good forum when you need information. There are a lot of well-informed people on here. Discussions I often find show me posters who only serve as a bad example. I mean that seriously, sometimes I remind my self I don't was to be like Mr. XYZ, I prefer to be positive when I can. I have half a dozen posters on ignore as I have found they have nothing useful or positive to say. I have 1600 posts over several years, I feel that if always asked myself "does this need to be said" (as I usually do now) I would have half as many. I have to admit I occasionally post just to return fire at someone who annoys me. I feel that it is safe to say if a person is topping 40 posts a day and they are not on house arrest, they need to get a life. Have I made any body mad? Probably, sometimes you can't avoid it.

Beat me to it, I had the same thought. Cherished paddy's, Pat and Mike?

My first reaction was, that sounds cruel. Then realized this was diet "for" aging dogs, not diet "of" aging dogs.

Don't feed the trolls, don't feed the trolls, don't feed the trolls. Nevermind, I have no response.

Why "Genocide Joe"? I hadn't heard that one. Just for alliteration?

If drunks were a nationality they would of course be the worst, especially groups of young males who are drunk. I would say Chinese and Russians but in different ways. Just my limited experience and I have much more experience with Chinese than I do with Russians. Chinese are just clueless, as if dropped here from another planet. No sense of personal space and very loud. Slack jawed yokels, blocking public walkways and entrances to elevators etc. But no malice in my opinion. Russians seem hateful and are physically aggressive for no reason. Pushing their way onto a baht bus or in a store aisle. My friend tells me it's from years of elbowing their way to the front of the bread line.

You are right, there are notable exceptions. I have met bargirls who own farms and homes in the provinces. This in contrast with folks who are taken by surprise when the rent comes due each month.

thought I was in the wrong thread with some preceding posts. Anyway I was wondering it this is a stand up pinball machine or a video game type replica? Cool either way and an original gift idea Thanks for sharing

This was some years ago. I overstayed because I counted the days wrong, I was one day overstay. The officer in the kiosk directed me to a supervisor who was standing behind the row of kiosks. She asked me why I overstayed and I said it was an error in counting the days. She just handed me my passport and said "Safe travels", no scolding, no warning. YMMV, but i think they are not trying to penalize 1 day overstays.

Didn't mean any disrespect, but 8000 THB is over $200 USD. And I can't imagine not even making a phone call or writing an email to try and recover it. I'm not poor but as I said for $200 I would make some effort though not unlimited.

In my experience the prices are comparable to meter taxis. In my experience the big benefit of Grab is the drivers use GPS so can find your pickup and destination. Sometimes the taxi service my condo service people call gets lost on the way to pick me up.

I wouldn't take too much solace from being better than the US at cricket. The US has almost no consciousness of the existence of cricket. How there are enough US cricketers to 22nd or 17th in anything cricket related is a mystery. T20, ODI, Test? No idea what those mean. I thought this was a thread about World Cup football which has significant participation in the US.

Never had a girlfriend before. Socially challenged. and obviously, not the brightest star in the Milky Way.

" From some regions of Thailand parents have not taught them how to plan, save, budget " Even Thai acquaintances have told me this about Thai people. "Thai people don't save." And have observed the same with my Thai acquaintances by and large.

Power WC is a great idea. Not hard to operate unless a person has major cognitive issues and it sounds like your acquaintance doesn't have such issues.

I worked with people after their return home from hospitalization and often they experienced an irreversible decline in function. I observed, and this was confirmation of academic contention, that after an adjustment period what QuantumQuandary says is true. After a period of adjustment people's self-report of their satisfaction with life was about the same as it had been previously. This is of course a YMMV situation but chances are an intelligent guy without economic troubles should be able to adjust. Social contacts can be important, hope he gets out and about. I think that the fact that most people he knows will treat him the same as they have done before gives him some continuity and the sense that he is still the person he always was. Best wishes to your friend.

Not to be disrespectful but every time I hear or see the words "King Charles" I expect the next word to be "Spaniel". I guess I'll get used to it with time.

"Personally I wouldn't bother about 8000, it's simply not significant to me" You would just blow off 8000 baht? You must be doing alright. I wouldn't go to court over it but I would definitely pickup the phone, go to the branch, send an email.