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I offer that it isn't about holding alcohol well. A nasty and mean person becomes a nasty and mean drunk. A happy person becomes the laughing friendly drunk. Alcohol is offered up as an excuse for being a violent turd to start with. We have all experienced these people. I am fortunate that my drinking friends in my youth were all happy loveable drunks.

Or to menace and threaten.

A solid and beautiful list. All US or UK based. We have just insulted and alienated the Europeans. 😁 And as others have noted, it isn't available in Thailand. The gay clubs don't even offer good dance music. It is heavily weighted to really bad techno, like a German interpretation for a senior residence dance night.

Ok, but my comments are on what has occurred over the period of the last 12 months. Dusit had excellent standards. Accor, Marriott too My Dusit sheets had 2 small holes in them during a recent stay. Something has happened at many places. I used to eat egg mcmuffins 2-3X a year. It's convenient at 07:30 in the morning. Last visit I noticed that they offer "oil spray" instead of butter on the muffins. It's obscene to spend 3500 baht for a basic steak dinner for 2 and to be served a chunk of gristle and fat. Where I could once count on some meat in my bacon, some places have switched to the lower cost Thai cuts which are almost all fat. It is a collective reduction in quality, much as manufacturers have reduced portion sizes in containers, but kept the same price without telling consumers. '

You are seeking to turn this thread in a vehicle to convey your political views. I am not going to facilitate your hate.

It provides a compelling reason for quick action on the part of Thai authorities. Money is a key motivator in Thailand.

One of them is 18. He will be crying for his Mama in prison soon enough.

RIP to a noble Japanese gntleman who tried to do the right thing. More English than Thai by his looks. He is a dual national. The girlfriend was also a farang. You may not think it appropriate to prevent a beating of a women, but many men who are raised right do. That is why the deceased and a Thai man tried to intervene. Looking at the smug murderer, he deserves the full impact of what's coming and being drunk won't wash. You can't murder Japanese tourists with impunity. They are exceptionally valuable and the Japanese are some of the biggest per capita spenders in Thailand. Unless the Thai authorities make an example of this idiot, there will be a financial impact.

Your revisionist history is factually incorrect. No order to land was given. On the contrary, the Russian general who ordered the aircraft to be shot down was aware of it being a civilian aircraft and chose to act on his own. (Putin has promoted this madman to General of the Army). The senior political leaders of Russia were not informed. They would not have allowed this error to have been made. Following the incident, Russia denied involvement for 5 days and blocked any foreign recovery efforts. The black box, later found by the Soviet Union, confirmed that Korean Air 007 was not conducting any reconnaissance operations, and the plane had merely deviated from its course. The pilots had failed to verify their autopilot settings. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, President Yeltsin handed over all case materials to international organizations and the cascade of errors was revealed. Putin refuses to accept responsibility for Russia having fired the missile and had the aircraft not survived he would have been as dishonest about this event as he was with the dowinng of the KLM flight. The Azerbajabians are furious and rightly so. Russia has a shoot first and ignore the consequences attitude. It is a natation of barbarians.

Please define "Alternative". There are many versions of the term. What someone from Manchester circa 1995 might consider Alternative, is not what an American kid circa 1985 would call Alternative, nor a German or French person.

The restaurant previously had a more pronounced Israeli identity. I expect it made some subtle adjustments because of people like you, who despite knowing nothing about the establishment come up with idiotic statements like baby killer, Iaraeli food is not Palestinian food anymore than Jesus was a Palestinian, as is now claimed. It's like comparing Mama noodles to Italian pasta. And yes Jews in Europe most certainly ate Mediterranean food. Greece, Southern Italy, and Spain all offer their variation of Mediterranean cuisines. Jews were present in those countries long before Christianity. Palestine was an invention of the Roman occupation and was intended to both insult and act as a forced cultural destruction to eliminate the indigeneous Israelites who had rebelled against the Roman occupation. There were no Palestinians until the Romans created them.

I will be most grateful to have another 25 years minimum in decent health.

The main roads are choked in Hua Hin.It is miserable being stuck in traffic.

And you are right. No need to offer a discount rate in high season.

Give it a rest. Adeslon's support existed long before that. The support goes back to the first election Trump ran. Trump's support for Israel existed long before this year's donation. The reality is that he dealt with jews when he was a developer in New York, and he had many jewish friends. In his darkest times of bankruptcy to the recent state of being a social pariah, those jewish friends stayed true and didn't desert him. One of them is Jared Kushner's father, the convicted tax evader.

When was the last time foam has been used for a large commercial aircraft? Foam reduces the coefficient of friction. It is no different than water on a road surface. The goal is to maximize the braking so that the aircraft will stop. Creating a slick surface does the opposite. I offer the following opinion from Boeing from 2022, that notes that the practice has not been recommended since 1987; The procedure of foaming runways was previously done extensively in the military environment and occasionally for commercial aircraft. However, the newer types of foam are not suitable for use in this operation and this procedure currently is not widely used. The FAA, in 1987, withdrew Advisory Circular 150/500-4 dated 12/21/66 and titled Foaming of Runways and has no plans to recommend this procedure in the future Boeing Fire Department Attn: J.R. Hudgins, Assistant Chief – Training & Safety

Although that is a common belief and suggested folowing the Asiana catastrophe at SFO some years ago, the current safety record of Korean aircraft is quite good, and is better than many European carriers and some US carriers.

Why? Boeing sources the. landing gear from a supplier who also supplies other aircraft manufacturers. Why would Boeing be responsible for what most likely is going to be pilot error?

Nothing annoys me more than ignorant speculation. No it is not SOP to foam a runway. Do not rely on movie dramas for information. Again with the foam. Where have you been for the past 30 years? Fire following a crash occurs because of fuel leaks. If the aircraft has low fuel or has emptied its tanks or used up fuel, the fire hazard is reduced. If the aircraft came down as quickly as it did, it is because the pilots believed that they had to descend quickly. It is most likely that the pilots learned of the landing gear malfunction too late or did not respond appropriately with a go around and their checklists. The tarmac length was more than adequate to handle a B737-800. Basic specs require 1600m. The runway length at the airport is 2800m. There was no need to divert, assuming that the pilots were even aware of the malfunction or had done their checklists. Pilot error occurs in the Korean aviation industry. Until the investigation is complete no one knows what happened.

A new money laundering format.

There is a double standard playing out. Musk and his smarmy sidekick Vivek bemoan the US educational system and yet, they are opposed to properly funding education and wish to abolish the Department of Education. Neither of the two has made significant contributions to education in the USA. The Gates and Clinton Foundations have. The Walton and Koch foundations have. In fact they have done more for bimedical and production engineering R&D than Musk and Vivek have. I give Trump credit for being honest. I disagree with him, but on this, he's not running away or pretending he does not exploit the visas. The tech industry loves these visas because they can hold the visa over the heads of the workers and pay them less than US nationals. Indians will accept living 5 in a room with only a fan. They will accept working longer hours. Their productivity may be no better than US nationals, but they will accept the abuse if they can get a green card and be able to bring 20 family members over.

The RAF strategy forced the Luftwaffe to turn to defensive measures, away from their savage and ruthless bombing of civilian targets in England. You are applying your 2024 western sensitivities to a barbaric conflict of almost a century ago. The English strategy of dropping leaflets over German cities did not work very well did it? What's next, the death camps were holiday camps for errant ne'er do wells?

Covid. It killed off a lot of farangs and caused a great many people to return to their homelands.

He had no choice. However, the world notes the refusal to accept responsibility for the incident.

No ,he did not question the morality of England's area bombing. Sir Winston posed a rhetorical question when he was said to have remarked; "Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far? This was in June 1943 after viewing the films of the aftermath of the air campaign on the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr. England had long refrained from area bombing, but was forced into it by the barbarism of the Luftwaffe targeting of England. and before that Europe. The PM was haunted by Europe's failure to intervene in Austria and Czechoslavakia as Germany expanded and became more aggressive. He had understood that those failures enabled the Polish invasion and set the stage for Germany to keep going. It is very similar to how the west has managed the aggressive Iranian state, with European appeasement front and center. The tolerance of sanction breakers such as Turkey, India and even the Europeans themselves is similar to the nations like Sweden and Switzerland who enabled the nazis. He was no fool and had understood from the early days that contingency plans had to be made to prepare against the. Reich's brutality. Multiple historians have highlighted these plans particularly the response that was needed if the Germans used poison gas. He also stated that "Hitler and his Nazi gang have sown the wind; let them reap the whirlwind." This was after the Germans had targeted civilians and wiped out non military targets such as Warsaw and other Polish cities. Speech of 30 December 1941, from Charles Eade, ed., The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill (London: Cassell, 1942), see pp. 343-345. And on and on it went. Yes, the Israeli response has been intense and yes it upsets western sensitivities. However, the Israeli response is mild and restrained compared to how the arabs, farsis and Turks wage their wars. Iraq used poison gas on Iran. Syria used chemical weapons on its own people and dropped barrel bombs on civilian areas. Hezbollah aided and abetted the mass murder of Syrians . Iran terrorizes populations with torture, sexual violence and public executions. Turkey has carpet bombed Kurds in Syria. Hezbollah hid its artillery in Lebanese residential areas. Hamas did similar. Hospitals and schools became defacto military bases. You wish to apply western values to a culture that is not western. Israel understands the Arab mentality. You must crush and destroy the enemy and then offer peace. This is how it was done with Egypt and Jordan. The Arabs see compassion and restraint as weakness. They respect the masculine male. Don't think for a minute that any Arab nation or its leadership has respect for the Palestinians. They are the regions perpetual crybabies who have rebuffed multiple offers of a cessation of hostilities. If they were serious now, the Gaza war could have ended long ago. Instead the Hamas leadership, safe in their luxury villas of Qatar keep the war going. Hamas has death squads goiing around now executing dissenters. The videos have been leaking and are all over IG. They are dressed up in UN supplied HazMat suits and making a display of their killings. Not a word of protest from anyone in the west. It is no different than what we are seeing now that Assad is gone with the torture chambers of Syria. No one is asking how and why Hezbollah, Russia and Iran supported such evil.