JayClay

If you really want a beer after your breakfast, you could try to find a cafe that has alcohol free beer in stock. I admit this may be no easy task, but often times when I've just really fancied a beer, I've had a Heineken Zero. It still gives me that "ahhh" chill feeling, quenches the thirst, and gives me that "having a beer at the perfect moment" feeling, but it doesn't make me immediately want another one, like real beer does.

Which one?

And I can guarantee that you will continue to do so as this thred progresses. Don't tell anyone and/or don't make any enemies and you'll be fine. The jury is out on whether you'll be 100% legit. But you'll be fine.

A couple of beers to last from breakfast to sun down is not even remotely realistic. Why not skip the regular cafe, which has all those mental associations with beer, and get on your bike and ride to a neighbouring city that you've never been to? Find a new cafe, make new associations. Follow your breakfast with a fruit shake and walk along the beach. Then ride your motorbike back home and spend the evening watching movies, at the gym, or banging your wife...

Thanks. I have now corrected the mistake.

Exempt from stamping? How will you know how long they've been in the country? If they mean "stamped in under the visa exemption scheme", how does that make them a "special case"? Top reporting as ever.

I didn't suggest it was harmful. I don't know enough on the subject. I said it was probably less harmful than alcohol. If it is not harmful at all then it is, by definition, less harmful than alcohol...

You should vote for Labour. Because of the two genuine options, Labour is the only option that may eventually lead to proportional representation being implemented. Once PR is in place, you would then be able to vote for a candidate who better aligns with your views. Change takes time. You probably won't be around to see what you want happen (assuming those are serious desires) being implemented. But if you genuinely want those things to happen for future generations, then vote Labour. To get society to the left, first you need to bring them back through the centre.

Please try to understand the definition of the phrase "to some degree". Of course people in power tend to create rules that suit them. They do this by manipulating people to vote for them against their own interests. But generally people do have a voice, even if they don't usually have the reasoning skills to use it properly.

Incentive, by definition, cannot create a better living standard for more people than a redistributive society. Incentive creates the desire for some to have more than others. You can of course separately debate the various benefits or drawbacks for society allowing this practice, but you cannot claim that it improves the quality of life for more people than a society where the aim is for everyone to be able to enjoy a similar lifestyle.

Posters claiming that people follow rules because of "heard mentality", or that people who obey rules are "sheep/sheeple" are really showcasing their ignorance, if you ask me. Society creates a set of rules, usually by some form of democratic consensus. These are rules that we are all expected to follow, and all have to follow, to some degree. But we all have our own personal moral compass and we all have an individual opinion on what is and isn't acceptable. There will invariably be conflicts between what social deems acceptable, and what we personally deem acceptable. At this point we have to make either a conscious, or more often subconscious, decision on if we will follow our morals, or those dictated by society. These decisions will be based on a number of factors such as the risk of being caught, the legal or social severity of the consequences when caught, and the level of personal satisfaction for doing so. The process was nicely summed up in the post from @KhunLA This really applies to every single one of us, regardless of whether we're actually conscious of the process. It has nothing to do with heard mentality.

Again?

Exactly. Presumably @Chivas business is making money from selling, advertising or otherwise interacting with Twitter's userbase. Sure, $15 a month may be low to get access to all those users. But those users wont be paying the $15 per month so they won't be there to have access to in the first place.

Unless you have an extremely odd business model, I assume that it relies on the reach Twitter has to it's users. If there are no users, and there won't be any users at $15 per month (never mind $100), your business model then disappears.

I think he means that he entered on a non-ED and then has extended that annually on the basis of employment for the last 30 years. I'd be extremely surprised if he's beed getting extensions based on studying for the last 30 years.

If it's that much then you definitely won't continue to get work from it. Even if it's $0.50 a month, he'll loose a huuuge amount of users. A big drop off at the start, and then slowly declining from there as the reverse-snowball effect comes into play. Rightly or wrongly, people aren't prepared to pay for these kind of things. A fee of $15 per month would expedite that provess significantly. The site would be a graveyard within a couple of weeks.

It won't do for much longer if nobody else wants to pay the fee.

I agree. I used to like a Pad Krapaow from time to time. But now I'm not allowed to eat spicy food very often. Like most Thai dishes, Pad Krapaow is bland and flavourless without the chillies. They don't only provide heat, they add a slight bitter-sweet flavour which is a vital component of pretty much any dish it's used in. "Mai pet gor mai aroi".

Maybe. Maybe not. If he chooses to get stoned at the end of the day it's no big deal. Unlike alcohol weed doesn't slow you down and burden you with a hangover the following day. That is the big problem with alcohol. A night spent drinking doesn't just loose you that evening (which is probably not a big deal if you had no plans anyway), it can loose you the entire following day. That's a big price to pay for a few hours winding down in the evening.

It would be a little hypocritical of you to label somebody a drug addict if you yourself need a caffine hit to get through the day.

How are either of those a step down from cannabis. No... He could maybe step down from cannabis to a caffeine based high like coffee or cola. Two things which I presume you never touch?

So what if his excitement leads him to take a minor liberty with the English language? He's apparently making steps to improve his life and that should be encouraged. First replace harmful addition with a less harmful one. Then, if that less harmful addiction poses a problem in the future he can work on it further at that time.

I dunno. Everybody needs their vice. CBD is probably a lot less harmful than alcohol over all so it's progress.

This is not true. Neither Thailand nor your home country make money out of people in car accidents, unless they happen to pay additional money for private medical insurance.

Good luck Bob.