Walker88

Well, I think the repubs will find Jimmy Hoffa long before they find the Israeli who made unsubstantiated claims against Biden. Turns out the Israeli was not only an unregistered agent of China, but he is being sought by law enforcement for trying to sell sanctioned Iranian oil and for trying to broker arms deals with Iran. My guess is he is more worried about be found by Mossad than any US LE agency, as Mossad often acts as judge, jury and executioner. No walls are closing in on Biden, but no sane person would choose to be trump right now, with the stolen docs indictment, the NY indictment, E Jean Carroll likely going to a new criminal trial, Georgia election interference, and 6 January. The wall closing in on trump is made of steel bars...and that only if he's lucky. If SC Smith opts to charge trump with Sedition, that's a capital offense and could see trump sizzle like Sunday morning bacon in the electric chair.

Good News for you! Apparently his brain trust in Hyannisport is considering changing Parties, as he is much more popular with repubs than dems. His endless conspiracy theory drivel seems to resonate. If he does decide to make the switch, it will be fun to see who captures the QAnon demographic among trump, DeSantis, Haley, Scott and Junior.

The only thing holding repubs back is coming up with an actual crime Biden has committed. So far they can't find one. Maybe he owns shares in that Jewish Space Laser company that has MTG all worked up. For those unaware, MTG is the woman whose previous job---before being a 'star' repub in the US House---was putting equipment away at a CrossFit studio. She recently decided that it was a good thing to put in the Congressional Record nude photos of Biden's son. She never felt the same compulsion to post nude photos of the former FL---that's First Lady, not Freelancer---melania, when such photos are instantly available with a Google or Duckduckgo search.

Sad, but true. I was a bit surprised recently, however, to see that the US is supplying aid to the people of Myanmar. There are some who want to arm the resistance, believing that a few general-carrying helicopters shot down and a few coup leader family members taken out might 'encourage' the fake govt to take their ill gotten gains and go to Singapore.

A corrupt and self-serving system so deeply entrenched requires a Ceaucescu Moment to sweep it away. I do not think that exists in Thailand. I also think Thai Ceaucescus know that.

Clearly there has been an insufficient number of drunk expats throwing TVs from their apartment or hotel room balconies. Got to juice the GDP. Crony-nomics is based squarely on the Broken Window Fallacy.

Sometimes I feel for those expats who cannot go a day without a drink. They had to abstain from 6pm on 2 successive Saturdays for an election that was going to be ignored anyway?

At least some things are available on YouTube. Here is a 1978 BBC production with the late Julian Bream teaching a Masterclass on playing Sevilla. Watch the last few minutes to fully appreciate what skill and passion are. It was in the 1980s that BBC had Reilly: Ace of Spies and Rumpole of the Bailey, both of which occasionally appear on some cable channel in the US. The actor playing Felix Dzerzhinsky in Reilly is riveting, while Leo McKern shines in both productions.

Holding shares in a media company that hasn't operated for 15 years is a crime punishable by prison and---because of guilt by association---can lead to the banning of the Party you led. Overthrowing a democratically elected PM in a coup, then manufacturing a new Constitution that guarantees your cronies remain in power, plus tosses in a law prohibiting ownership in media companies, is an act of grace that even allows you to be a PM and take your ill-gotten gains into retirement. When the act aimed squarely at Taksin serendipitously is used as a cudgel to stop the old guard from losing power, the old guard must think their previous life earned them enormous merit. Farces, farces everywhere.

When you cannot even use the adjective 'fledgling' in front of democracy and keep a straight face.........

I guess if you think the majority of them satisfied her more than you, your comment is understandable. I guess I'm just more confident in my manhood. I'm not a virgin, having lost that moniker at age 15. If I expected that from a potential spouse, the moniker I would pick up is hypocrite. If I dallied with women with whom I have no intention of getting serious, I'm 'exploiting' them at least as much as someone who contracts for the services of a woman working an agogo. I really don't see you occupying any higher moral ground.

In my opinion, 72 virgins is a punishment, not a reward. Perhaps that explains why I'm agnostic.

I remember having a few virgins back in my teens. A blockbuster porn movie it would not have made. Sex is best when both players know the ropes, know their own bodies, and more importantly, understand the bodies of their partners. Toss in shared affection and you've got the Daily Double, though anonymous carnal pleasures can also be quite fun. I do not care about a woman's past, whether she had one partner or 1000, so long as it's >0. I also hope that she doesn't care about how many women I have enjoyed. If we commit to each other, then all that matters is the present and the future, not the past. I assume the purpose of this thread was to ferret out responses from men who married bargirls, so that someone could gloat and claim he never had to pay, something that would make him a unicorn in Thailand, or at least have more self-control and discipline than any man with normal levels of free testosterone. For the vast majority of men who visit Thailand, the old saw of Oscar Wilde applies: "The only thing I can't resist is temptation" Thai women are just too lovely, and for better or worse, a good many have chosen to offer their pleasures for a fee. The man who can avoid the temptation is either more under control than me, has low testosterone, or is simply lying. Personally, I would have no problem marrying a bargirl if I fell in love with her. I'm confident enough in my own masculinity that her past is no issue. If I harbored any concern, it would be about catching something, but it's easy enough to make sure both of us are un-afflicted before we get truly intimate. The adage about 'can't take the bar out of the bargirl' is, in my opinion, nonsense. I have met couples who met in bars who are both exclusive and loving. Maybe some stray, but plenty of non-bargirl women stray, too.

Do you also believe in QAnon, FEMA Camps, chemtrails, and the rogue planet Nibiru?

Lavrov is vacationing with his mistress. Maybe the paparazzi will get some shots, but the images will likely appear only outside of Thailand.

Yours is an amusing comment and indicative of the perceptions generations have of others. Maybe some Boomers think they have gained wisdom worth sharing, but they absolutely are not of the opinion that anyone on Earth cares what they had for breakfast. THAT peccadillo is a trait of the Participation Trophy Generations, such as Millennials, GenZ and the more recent arrivals. Millennials can't even fart without posting it on some form of social media, the latest of which is TikTok, that app where those without talent post content for those without taste. They also are under the delusion that they are the first since humans left Oldavai Gorge to have certain thoughts. Ah, and my favorite: They all have 6,752 'friends' but they can't even get one to take their photo, instead they had to invent the "Selfie". Personally, my own particular cut off for deciding whether one has something to say or not is if the person was born when music was still made by humans, who actually took the time to learn to play actual instruments, and who could sing without the need of Autotune. Anyone fond of such cacophony as Techno, Trance, EDM, House, or Justin Bieber, etc. does not qualify. Of course inter-generational dismissal is hardly new. Perhaps Oscar Wilde put it best: "I'm not young enough to know everything".

While most people probably consider the military to be idiots, when it comes to corruption they are Idiot Savants. Engage in a coup, rewrite the Constitution that allows the Senate to be Army-appointed, declare that PM votes must reach a majority that includes both chambers, and you never have to leave power again. Just put a silk bib on when you're slurping at the public trough. If the people protest against your corruption, put tanks in the street to 'restore public order'. See? Lucky the military was in charge, less society go to hell with those nasty protesters. Then, if somehow an outsider gets installed as PM, you always have the precedent of yet another coup. Rinse and repeat. Just like next door in Myanmar....the previous junta produced a new Constitution, making it mandatory that a majority in Parliament be military, and also included a provision that the military can retake power at any time for any reason. Thus, the coup that ousted ASSK was 'perfectly legal', and anyone who opposed it was a terrorist.

The only thing I take from that cacophony is that young Thais have no more taste, perhaps even less, than Western teens. That the singer is popular and wealthy is nice for him, but popularity and wealth do not necessary equate with talent. Kim Kardashian makes $50 million per year, but I have no clue what her talent is. I guess there is a market for whatever it is she does. Zeus bless her for finding a niche and exploiting it to the max. Same with this guy. If there was a message in that drivel, I missed it, and I don't think it's something lost in translation. I'm thankful stuff like that isn't the soundtrack of my youth, the kind of thing which when played 20 years hence induces nostalgia. As for the farang and the ATM, I think that's just filler where the director feigned something profound, when it's all just banal pabulum. In case I'm not clear, no, that little ditty won't be on my playlist.

And the research you have to back that up is where? Your 'knowledge' seems to be unknown to researchers and health experts such as Dr Peter Attia, Dr Rhonda Patrick, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Andy Galpin and a host of others who specifically research exercise and human biochemistry and physiology. In fact, the body seems to respond in a positive way to physical stress. Lifting heavy weights results in the body producing more testosterone and more HGH, which strengthens blood vessels. Bones become stronger and the body senses the need for more calcium due to the stress.

The really amazing thing about the flat Earth is how it has this perfectly rectangular atmosphere that stops right at the four edges. Oh, and how the sun knows to pull back from it's heat on the two poles, especially in the north, so as not to make it too hot for Santa and his elves. My favorite part of living on a flat Earth is during a solar eclipse. This view of the Earth silhouetted against the sun is just so romantic:

Because you lack the knowledge to understand, there must be a Zeus. Or Yahweh. Or Allah. For you, the Earth is flat. That's an analogy, but you are essentially a flat Earther, as what you are incapable of understanding you attribute to a deity or deities, just as folks who could not possibly conceive of gravity KNEW the Earth must be flat.

I went to the edge once, but wore suction cups so I could stick to the bottom. There's some really fine restaurants on that side, and they're never crowded. Just don't drink the water, because I think it's contaminated by all the toilet flushing from Top Side Dwellers.

Explaining particle physics to you, who 'aced' science in school (likely long before CERN, discovery of the Higgs boson, and tons of modern science particle physics, quantum field theory, etc.) is like trying to explain gravity to a blacksmith in Gaul and showing him why the Earth need not be flat. Gravity, as you might remember from when you aced your exams, is a theory. Best not to disbelieve it. It is not yet totally understood, but the laws governing it are so well understood that mankind can fire a rocket and reach exactly where the moon is going to be after a few days, besides initially calculating exactly how much power the rocket needs to reach Earth escape velocity. Science is pretty cool. Because you are incapable of understanding something, it must not be true. You closed your mind to newly discovered realities. How can space and time be warped? How can massless photons not escape a black hole, whose claim to fame is immense gravity? How can a particle be in two places at the same time? How is entanglement possible? Lots has happened since you took your high school science final that you do not know nor understand, despite your 'ace'. Much of what you refuse to accept has undergone peer review and subsequent experimentation, and is now fact. The Higgs boson was only a mathematical construct. CERN subsequently proved its existence. The math worked. Much science actually has come purely from math. James Clerk Maxwell used only paper and quill to determine what makes up the rings of Saturn. He was 100% correct. Amazing. Your 'creator' hasn't been peer reviewed. Not even once. It is merely a hope, or an attempt at 'logic' by those incapable of understanding the reality of existence. The Universe is here, even if you reduce everything to Descartes oft noted quote. There is absolutely zero evidence of Zeus or Yahweh or reincarnation or a soul or Allah or Krishna or God or Bokanon or Moroni or whatever construct of fertile imaginations produced to make themselves feel they have 'meaning'.

Your 'ordinary person's' common sense absolutely KNEW the Earth was flat. Ordinary people are not the ones one should use as the fount of knowledge. Your 'evidence' for a skydaddy creator is that you cannot understand science. That is common (non)sense, just like the Flat Earth.

And the Earth MUST be flat, otherwise we'd all fall off, period.