watthong

This forum is not for spewing hatred and discrimination. If this thread gets shut down, I'm gonna start 10 mores until we get rid of the social viruses.

Counting my eggs before they hatch, I'd like to know after getting legally married in Thailand, what the A to Z to get green card and social security benefit for the newlywed spouse? 1) to the embassy and get US marriage license then apply for green card - 2) correspondence with SSA Manila to get the SSA thing started?

Answer my marriage-related question, Jing. That's one way to keep this thread going. Ignore the goblins, otherwise they are going to bury it with their crapbola.

Let's not allow bigots to hi-jack this important thread. DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. And keep the topic on due course.

There are and always will be anti-gay bigots. The civilized world stays away from them so don't give them neither berth nor oxygen here. Don't let them take up space on this thread, ie don't engage with them. Now back to the topic at hand: Counting my eggs before they hatch, I'd like to know after getting legally married in Thailand, what the A to Z to get green card and social security benefit for the newlywed spouse? 1) to the embassy and get US marriage license then apply for green card - 2) correspondence with SSA Manila to get the SSA thing started?

Yes, when there's no arguments left/no legs to stand on, there's always the alphabet and("those irregular verbs"). Don't forget the kitchen sink and left over spaghetti also. Try harder.

"Were you ever (or never) swoon worthy beautiful at any point in your life?" - Yes, many many times. (Mostly in my dreams, but also quite often, my nightmares.)

In the meantime, if the soreness of yesterday still persists, a slight application of Burnovagel on the impacted area will keep the swelling down and do away with any remaining redness. (Make sure you don't get it in the eye areas.) Highly recommended.

Sorry to inform, you were already there...

I'm jealous of you, Brian. If only I got some of those terms of endearment, Brian.

Sorry but it's kind of late at this stage - for you I mean - don't you think? I don't want to elaborate any further. For fear of being accused of "hurling insults." A no-no by forum rules.

Big thanks for your well-researched comments as well, we need as many as we can get. To answer your question: We all know why " a thread like this should even exist" don't we? (Whereas a recent solidly informative thread was gone in a blink of an eye.) But let's not go there....

Yep, that should consequently explain the "logic" of their thinking (or vice versa). Anyway, a frequent poster that we have grown to be quite fond of, purely for comic relief. (Clarification: I meant the one you commented on, and not you @gamb00ler

Such a golden rule to live by, thank you. .. Therefore those in the right never utter insults! As I said before, try not to rush to your keyboard but allow a few moments for ideas - or something akin - to germinate. Just pretend like you're making yogurt.

Yet it's their weapon of choice, the more beneath the radar, under the haystack, sub-terrain, peer-less study the better. Their motto is: "Never let a(n obscure) study go to waste" - along with "Don't let the covid19 'saga' be swept under the rug.") We appreciate those like you who go to great length to present the whole picture. Thumbs up!

Consider this my one compliment to you - and those others to whom the concept of "context" did not seem to register: The individual in question has a PhD but he's not an MD. As been called out before, a PhD holder can go by the title "Doctor" anywhere. Fair enough...However, his real-life medical career consisted of nursing. Ie a nurse, not a physician. Therefore in the context that he presents himself on his youtube channel, which deals with medical matters and mostly covid-related, he should present himself as Nurce C. - not Dr. C. And if he chose the latter, it would call out to his ethics, that is if he had any, to put a disclaimer that he is NOT a medical doctor by trade. Failing to do either, he unwittingly presents himself as a fraud (and we are not talking about his channel content just yet.) My rationale was about his inclination to deceive, and not his medical qualifications, or lack thereof. In short it was an ethical matter and I'm NOT surprised that many on this thread failed to see it.

Wrong - maybe my rationale went over your head but never mind. And the answer to my question is, yes, deflect, deflect, deflect.

Your rationale is that one has to be a qualified doctor to make assessments about Covid. Wrong - maybe my rationale went over your head but never mind. And the answer to my question is, yes, deflect, deflect, deflect.

What about Whataboutism? Deflect much - don't you? Try to get a good grasp of my "rationale" before you hit the keyboard. Btw we need more of your links. Pile them up. They might work as arguments, some times.

Again, context is absent in this kind of argument. There seems to be quite a few among this "contingent"...

Just so we know where things stand: One Two Three Four Finally, something "scientific" did emerge from all this (...and that was just the 1st page of this thread!)

Now, now, easy, boys... (On a lighter note) This brings back fond memories of eons and eons, say half a century, ago: 1) When as a sweet young thing I followed a priest "home" for further "confessionals" after a brief chat/dance interlude at the local bar... It was in the wee hours when we came into the hallway of his dormitory (in the abbey.) An old priest came out of his room seemingly heading for the communal bathroom. He briefly glanced at the two of us. I squirmed a bit, naive as I was then, but he walked on, didn't bat an eye. This was in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley during its heyday. 2) Also in the same epoch of "as a sweet young thing," during a tour in Italy, in Rome due to our guide being my travelling companion's cousin, and also a priest "apprentice" (sorry I don't know the correct word for it,) we got a chance to go into the innards of his residence (not sure it was at the Vatican, mighta been...) In the dormitory hallway, there were signs on the wall (in English) that say something to the effect, "homosexual activities are not allowed here" - maybe not so blunt, but one got the gist. Lesson learned: One should always observe being in the right place AND at the right time.

Yeah, it's hard to engage in a discussion when for all the so-called expertise displayed here, one party refuses to understand the simple concept of the word "context." "Deep sigh" indeed.

Can be equally said that this forum is not for you...I'm sure that's there plenty other places where you can tryst your scientific "knowledge" but this forum or any of its sub forums - including the health and medicine one - are not a theatre for your kind of stuff. In other words, it's useless to 99.9% (and that's being generous) of us here. Sorry for being frank but that needs to be said.