fredwiggy

I seem to remember you saying you thought all dogs were worthless, or words to that effect, that they were good for nothing, unless it was part from you and part from another. I do know you said it about the pitts.

Having your tax dollars go towards a smokers room is saving your health, as they will be confined to that room and not smoke illegally indoors anywhere else. Smoking will never be banned everywhere as too many like to smoke.

Good ventilation brings smoke out of the rooms before any gets near the door, and a double door could be installed if need be. I'm sure there are workers who smoke who could be designated to clean the rooms. A smoking room is a good alternative to having the smokers fly across the ocean and have a place to smoke. People who aren't addicted to smoking find it hard to understand how it feels, but it's just like any other addiction. Trust me, I hate smoke myself, but they aren't bad because of their habit, unless it affects others.

First you want to ban dogs. Now it's smokers. Who's next, coffee drinkers? My dad died at 79 from smoking 3 packs a day for over 60 years. It was his choice when cancer entered his lungs and I couldn't stand breathing in second hand smoke for the first 17 years of my life but it's their deal. Yes, they are addicted and addiction starts when someone starts most anything, especially the harmful things, but again, it's their choice. Society has made it better for those who don't smoke, by banning from public areas, especially enclosed ones. Having a place where they can smoke without harming others is mandatory, and the rooms when well ventilated, won't affect anyone else. Everyone is addicted to something, although some are bad things to be addicted to. It doesn't mean they are outcasts. It means they should do it where non smokers aren't affected.

If I, and others see it, it IS true. We aren't on mushrooms. A person that drives more then twice the amount of miles than the average driver sees a lot more incidents of driving habits. You seem to think it's racist to say that local drivers, meaning many, and no one said all, have a lot to learn about safe driving. The stats show this also. What you don't understand is that if a country has millions of more drivers on the road , there will be more accidents happening. If you have 10 drivers on one road, and three are bad drivers, you will have some accidents happen. If you have 400 people on the same road and 120 are bad drivers, you will have many more accidents happen. Per capita is viable, and so is this. Who's arguing about data? Data doesn't reduce accident numbers. Live action does, meaning having drivers prepared BEFORE they are given licenses and obeying the laws they were taught. Meaning actual enforcement of those laws, which is the police's job. having roads repaired asap, which is the government's job. No one disputed these things would reduce accidents. You thinking having all this data available will reduce accidents, leaving out the most important facet, the driver. They have decent roads here, with some very bad, not unlike other countries that are developing. They have some enforcement but not near enough. Do you think things will change here? They might, but it will take a very long time because of the one thing you're missing about locals here. Attitude. Others have also pointed this out and you dismiss it. There are a lot more drivers here that are selfish, incompetent, arrogant, lazy and non caring than where we were born. This isn't something dismissed. The attitude towards life itself is very weak here, with a lack of care that I've never seen before. You can't change that with changes in infrastructure , road improvement or better enforcement. You will reduce the amount of accidents if the roads are repaired faster, because people take risks on bad roads that leads to accidents. You can fine the hell out of drivers who break the law, and it will help more because you take money from a poor citizen's pocket, it might make them slow down, and it might not. You can have a stronger test before they get licensed, but it won't change their attitudes towards life itself. If you go onto the road driving with a "who cares who's behind or to the side of me, I'm first anyway", you will have accidents. People get mowed down here every day because they don't use their mirrors, or they don't have any in the first place. If you think road rage doesn't exist here, think again. I see it almost every day, with people cutting others off on scooters and even scooters cutting off trucks, thinking they can somehow compete with them. Stats show they can't. Again, I have not argued against research , data or science. I've agreed that it helps, but there is the one most important thing again. The mind of the driver, who is responsible for all accidents. You can have perfect straight highways, with a policeman enforcing every law immediately, and you will still have accidents, because some people don't give a <deleted>, period. And the amount here that doesn't far exceeds what we've seen in other countries. Nothing to do with being racist. We see these drivers every day. You've been watching this data every year for 20 years, and things have not improved. How long before your data improves things? It will reduce the amount of accidents if you ticket, fine and jail people breaking the law, because some learn when you take their money, especially if they're poor, but you can't change the attitudes.This is a total lack of care, and but one example. The driver wears a helmet, so HE doesn't get a ticket, but doesn't care about the welfare of his children. The police should ticket him for having too many on a scooter, and none wearing helmets.............

We would always have gg to mop our floors. That is, unless he's in Thailand bothering people in rest rooms.

Some men use religion as an excuse because they know how many people feel about it,so brainwashing is easy if you say it's for your God. Sociopath, psychopath, maybe both. Yes, I do think he thought this over instead of doing it impulsively.

Countries that have reduced deaths and major accidents have enforced their rules, fining and jailing people. The people they are fining and jailing are breaking the road rules, bad drivers. Not necessarily incompetent but dangerous, to themselves and others. Fixing roads will make driving safer for all drivers, including the bad ones. Bad roads mean one thing, slow down. If you go slow on a bad road, you aren't going to get into an accident. People who are arrogant or incompetent think they can do whatever they want, which makes accidents a lot more likely. Education of drivers is part on the educators shoulders but mostly on the students. If you use an unsafe vehicle, you're taking a risk, which is on you. If the police see this vehicle and know it's unsafe, it's also on them to fix the problem. Good drivers rarely get into accidents, unless they are hit by bad drivers.

Half of the registered vehicles in Thailand are motorbikes. Then there are the cars and trucks, which far outnumber 32 or 18 wheelers, so I'm not sure where you get that nonsense, especially seeing you've been doing this for 20 years in Thailand. If there are millions more vehicles on the road, Like the US has, statistically there will be more accidents, so the per capita thing doesn't really apply here. Again, for quite a few times here, people here are not quoting what they see because of prejudice or racist reasons. We see what we see, and if you've driven as much as I and others who were professional drivers, you see much more of what goes on than the regular driver, and what we see here is much more in the way o reckless and incompetent driving than back home. It isn't irrelevant if it's what most of us here are seeing. To make changes here you don't need stats but enforcement of rules that are already on the books and rules that the people should know if they are given a license. Stats are already there, even if they are a bit misleading because the total deaths and injuries that reach the hospitals aren't immediately shown, but they are when the yearly amount comes up, as hospitals have top give records of all injuries to the government. They are ignoring for the most part what goes on here, besides saying they are going to do something to stop this. This has been said for decades. They know exactly what they're up against. A huge amount o\f reckless, careless drivers, lack of enforcement of rules, and roads that need repairing faster. I'm sure there are quite a few members here who understand what you've said, and knew this many years before, but it's you that's still missing the main point of who is responsible for these accidents first and foremost.

There are quite a few Christians that don't practice what they preach, in any ways. Trump is a world upon hi,self, and a very strange malignant narcissist, which explains a lot of what he says and does. Putin is also, and a sociopath.

I never said Americans didn't have accents. I lived in the San Antonio area 32 years, and of course there is a drawl down south, and I knew this when I was a child. Boston has their own accent also.

No, my cats that went outside killed as I mentioned. I'm not disputing what they do, in fact agreeing with what they're capable of because I saw it myself, and read up on the cat species as a hobby.

I had indoor cats all my life until I moved here, so lazy I wasn't. Just letting them go outside to do their business keeps the house cleaner and smelling better. It has nothing to do with ego pointing out stats anyone can find online.

Going from the litter box to a kitchen counter is a little different than going outside and walking through grass for awhile before coming in but I see your point. I only have one cat here who stays outside because he was born there. When I live in the states, they are fixed and are inside/outside cats so they aren't out as long to prey on animals and birds.

Not banned, just kept under a modicum of control. They belong here as do the big cats. When left to over populate, even deer cause many problems.

You disputed the amount of damage, so I showed where it's more than you realize. I've known what cats are capable of all my life, and being a reader of what the big cats do, small cats are just a tiny relative that does the same amount of damage and would do the same to humans if they were bigger and were hurt somehow. I did keep my cats mostly inside when I had my own home, but they were let out to do their business.

The point is to show just how much depredation they do cause, and how they are the ultimate hunters, all species of cats.

If you've had cats that just stay indoors, you wouldn't see what they do as hunters outside. I and all of my family and friends, who all own cats, saw this for all our years in the US. If you can keep your cats off the counters, they still walk everywhere after using the litter box, which means bacteria all over the house, which is then touched by humans and transferred to everywhere you touch. Best to let them outside.

These are just some stats showing what cats do, from studies........... The United States is estimated to house a population of 60-80 million cats,[48] and they are estimated to kill 2.4 billion birds per year, making them the leading human-caused threat to the survival of bird species in the country.[49] The majority of these kills are by feral cats, rather than owned cats.[6] In California, a study found that in areas where humans feed feral cats, they will continue to hunt large numbers of native birds even without the intention of eating them. This has resulted in the disappearance of native bird species, such as the California quail (Callipepla california) and California thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum), in those areas where they once resided. In Maryland, a study showed that due to cats overhunting chipmunks, the natural prey of many raptor species, the Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) population struggled to find food and had to switch to preying on harder-to-catch songbirds, which lengthened their hunting times and increased their nestlings mortality rate.[50] In Hawaii, cats were introduced by European sailing ships that used them for pest control. They prey on songbirds and many other birds that nest on the ground and in burrows. Nestlings unable to fly are especially vulnerable. Cats successfully hunt in a variety of habitats. A study was made in endangered birds' habitats with an infrared camera to learn how much cats affected the population of birds. The study found that up to 11% of palila nests were depredated yearly. The critically endangered palila produces few eggs per year and the nestlings develop slowly, so that depredation rate could result in extinction.[51] In New York City, cats are commonly brought into businesses to combat the city's rat problem. Studies done in New York City determined that cats are not effective predators against rats and much more of a threat to other urban wildlife.[52] Research conducted at a Brooklyn waste management facility observed minimal predation on Norway rats, with only three successful or attempted kills recorded over 79 days of observation. Instead, feral cats tend to focus on smaller, easier prey such as birds and mice.[53]

If you've ever owned cats, and kept them inside, you know of the litter box smell, and when they do their business there, they then scratch to bury, and walk over and jump on tables and counters where food is made. This is why we let ours outside and stopped using a at box. My daughter has two living only inside and they use the box and jump up on everything, and she's a very clean person, so has to constantly clean up. One cat pees to mark his territory because the other is a female, and he's fixed so it shouldn't happen.

Yes, especially in urban areas. Or let out then let back in after they've done their business. In all my life, I've seen all of my cats come home with birds and animals. One cat who had 7 claws on each paw was a real killer. In two days, he brought home 2 full grown rabbits. Ate half of one (head side) and left the other in the back yard. This was added to many birds and rats, mice he brought home weekly. And it's not agenda driven manipulation. Wiki is right on in everything. They posts facts and are one place to go where opinions aren't used. They go by studies.

This is what I knew of before, so I found it now again. It's true they will eat garbage and beg , especially in cities, but in neighborhoods, especially close to wooded areas, they will look to birds, squirrels and rabbits also...........https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife.

Tacos are for everyone, and most are sold to Mexicans in the San Antonio and Houston metro areas. Tamales also, although white buy them for holidays more.

Much is true but having cats all of my life I've seen their hunting skills firsthand, along with other cats I didn't own. They are born killers, just like tigers, lions, cheetahs and leopards. They eat meat manly, so if they're outside, that's what they'll look for. A handout from humans is always accepted but they still will kill just for fun. I've seen my own cats jump straight up in the air to bring down a bird flying above, and kill it, although this was an inside/outside cat that was well cared for and fed daily. A tiger, lion or leopard, along with the others, kill daily to survive, and turn to humans if they're hurt, and they will hunt humans and kill them until they are themselves killed. When I lived in Texas in a subdivision out in the country (until recently, as the city moved next to it), coyotes used to come into the subdivision (I watched them while hunting next to it), to look for food. A lady heard her poodle yelp, then disappear one day, as it was taken by a coyote. If you can keep cats inside it's always best, as they'll take a huge toll on birds, along with the vermin which in itself is a good thing. My cats in Texas went outside and I saw what they were capable of doing, although they spent most of the time indoors.

You can always sell tacos in Texas, especially if they're good and you have less competition. Truck stops, if they let you, are the best places in Texas, especially along the major highways. People need gas, and fresh tacos are more appealing than truck stop fare for the most part. Just like any business. Location, location, location.