Fat is a type of crazy

Article in LA times. Shows news is getting around. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-10-06/forget-california-amsterdam-this-country-wants-to-become-king-of-weed

I don't post in the marijuana pages as not my business. I had a bad experience with hash cookies in Thailand as it happens in 1985 on Koh Samui. My subsequent marijuana experiences not much better. So strong. Happy to accept it's just me and have no desire to impose my experience on others. It's a bit hard to fathom that something so strong, and I believe it has got significantly stronger, can be all a good thing. But legalisation in America hasn't lead to too many issues that I have seen so let people do their thing I suppose.

Just invade, murder, and pillage in one country and people get upset. Just one country's people being killed and their lives turned upside down. Why all the hate? You know you can criticise America's different but past issues too. Surely you can do better than this. Off topic so delete if necessary.

These Final Hours is a good 2013 Australian take on the final days. Some go for the big final party, some just freak out, some look to do some good as pointless as it may be. Netflix.

There's comedy I liked as a kid that new generations would find funny and others that were of their time only. Monty Python has something about it that as a whole is still funny to new generations whereas I think the Goons were of their time. Probably new and exciting at the time, and an influence on others such as Monty Python, their stuff has always just sounded chaotic and silly and a bit childish to me with the odd funny bit. But individually Sellers and Milligan were so funny so I am not sure why that is the case.

don't think too much good not to have things to worry about but don't want to be so simple as to be imbecilic Not understanding what is going on is not a sign of transcendence

I do but that's because I use the loyalty card too. The supermarket computers send me emails giving me offers relating to past purchases, telling me what's on special and targeting it to things I use, the odd free product. It is possible they sell my information so the powers that be know I prefer Shredded Wheat to Weet Bix but I can live with that.

Filmed in my city Melbourne Australia deemed to be one of the safest big cities in the event of the Northern hemisphere apocalypse as long as the clouds of radiation aren't big enough to kill life everywhere.

add some jazz ballet West Side Story style

You posted a similar topic 6 months ago and there were similar responses from some similar posters . My response was get fit and do some boxing if it feels good if only do build your confidence in yourself to know that it is best not to fight but you don't have to feel like a pussy by not fighting if you know you are able to handle yourself a bit if no choice.

I used to take trains on a particular line for years up to 2008 and when I went back on it, not that long ago, there is a totally different atmosphere. Everyone seemed a bit bent, many with eyebrows slightly furrowed, pondering the phone instead of looking into space, thinking, talking or reading a book.

I went to a TM session a couple of times. It used to be big in the 90's. Seemed like stock standard meditation with a bit of hype. Hard to say after two sessions to be fair. No levitation just bouncing around. Tried a few new agey things in the early 90's but then decided it's not for me.

One thing good about working for the government sector is you can do some good which makes work more fun. Worked for a bank and an oil company and not the same feeling. Not everyone concurs that government workers do good but the country would be in a mess without us.

This wasn't your standard annual hurricane. So bad. Who knows if this particular storm is related to climate change but when you see what the future may hold, devastation and life lost, a beachside dream life in places like Fort Myers not practical anymore, so many lives thrown into chaos, it must give even Maga heads pause as they see have a look at the potential future. No more scientific theoreticals but how life could be.

He is saying 5000 partners though not times. If you take out at least the first few years of a marriage where one might hope dalliances are at a minimum, married more than once, illness, periods of normal work where you are not in such an environment, start at 18 years old, 5000 is a big call. He doesn't seem prone to embellishment or to magnify or inflate himself so maybe he is in fact king of the monger people.

I know. You've had 500. Though the way you procrastinate it's a bit hard to believe. But why would you make it up. Ozimoron had 5000 he said. King of the mongers. Where is Ozimoron? He's been gone for a while. Better we care about now and keep an open heart rather than counting sheep or counting prostitutes.

If you are healthy and happy now who cares whether you had 100 women or 5 or if you climbed Everest or if you travelled through Africa in a dusty bus or if you did this and that. You care about that stuff maybe when you can't do it no more. Till then do your thing that you feel like exciting or not.

Big bands played big and small venues. A quick search will see Nirvana played at small places too such as the Coogee Bay Hotel. I saw Prince at a relatively small venue in the early nineties the night after he played a huge concert hall. Australia or Melbourne in my case had a fun party in pub culture in my teen days of the 80's. So many good local bands playing in so many pubs with sticky carpet. International bands like New Order and Echo and the Bunnymen in their early days playing smaller gigs. I missed Souixsie and the Banshees but friend said it was the best. See Violent Femmes then they come back to my girlfriends house probably trying to <deleted> her friends. So many parties in old ungentrified mansions, rented by students, and in old factories. Property prices took off and the houses got renovated, pubs became pokie venues, then knocked down to become huge ugly apartment blocks. Live music and that easy inner city life had its day. Hard for new bands.

I have been watching Jon's podcast thing on youtube from time to time. To be serious he could be an excellent president - so effective at representing the 9 11 first responders and such a good communicator. He might be the real shake up needed as against the fake Drain the Swamp shake up. But as you say he seems to be disinterested - almost a bit of a recluse. Bill seems to like his fun life too much to go down that track. Al Franken gave in too soon, even Trump said so, probably regretted it. There's hopefully some Democrat who can appear and appeal to enough by 2024.

He became PRESIDENT. He is PRESIDENT. Pontificate all you want but you need some smarts, grace, cleverness and toughness to be who he is. Jon Stewart would be nice, clever guy, but he may where his heart on his sleeve a bit too much. Joe's strength is his ability to be in the middle and see both sides. In Australia he'd be considered a bit to the right in economic terms.

A degree can give you skills. I did accounting. Didn't like it but it got me somewhere. It helps you learn how to write and structure your thinking. Skills I see lacking every day in the workplace. I am no Bill Gates. Us nobody office workers, who get decent pay and will get a nice public service pension, benefited from what a degree provided. On your other topic, I stayed in an Akha village in 1985 at 20, with my girlfriend. I looked at them. They looked at me. Learn more in a book if I happened to be interested unless I stayed for a long long time.

In 30 second bits. Have you ever tried sitting through one of his rallies .. god it's boring .. get's old in two minutes

As usual from you some good points amongst the harshness. I would just say there is a sense of relaxedness, or put a different way, a blankness, in Thai woman that can be both charming and, in the longer term, disheartening and a bit tedious. It is a generalisation, and may be related to the fact that she is likely to be significantly younger and prettier than you, and therefore have a different approach and focus in life. It is not necessarily the desire to pontificate and debate world politics but just the ability to move the discussion to other than the trivialities of food, immediate family issues, how beautiful she is and a focus on photos, smiles and .... blankness. My partners haven't been vain or social media crazy but most women like to steer the conversation to their loveliness if they in fact are lovely. It can depend on which part of the cycle a relationship is in, and as you say it is likely a blessing not to have a partner to discuss each other's 2 cents on world events, but sometimes it would be nice to have a meaty discussion with someone who understands the world, your world, and have something interesting and thought provoking to say.

Why have you ignored the feedback, in comments and emojis, to your posts. You obviously prefer a one way street. I wonder what happens to older notifications unread for confused or sad faces.

The multiple stops is for her to come here. Can take 2 days and 4 times the normal cost for the privilege. Me going there is the alternative option - direct flights - a few weeks in Phuket sounds nice but … see what happens next.