Woof999

Buy your wife the cheapest international ticket from the same airport at roughly the same time on the same day, no checked luggage. She can be with you and your son as you go to the immigration desk on departure. She does not need to take the flight. I'm not saying to make it look like your son is travelling with your wife, but he then boards with you, as that would be naughty at best.

If true, that made him the least bad choice. Let's hope the world has better choices moving forward.

No problem at all. Somewhere outside of all of these possibilities, we're all on the same side.

...because this is a discussion group. You also make the assumption that I haven't put in any effort, or you're blinded by a belief that if I had, I must have come to the same conclusions as you (I'm not sure which). Fantastic answer. Thank you.

I beeped my horn so that I didn't need to ram her off the road, which would have caused an accident.

In whose mind was your god constructed? What other species exist or have existed that you are 100% confident see your spiritual word in the same way you do? The very notion of the spiritual world that you see is absolutely a human construct, but one that cannot be seen, heard or measured by any device available to anyone that does not share your faith. In that sense it could easily be seen as a figment of the imagination. The additional dimensions, whatever they may be, that might need to exist for the spiritual world to be real could indeed be real (yet currently still improbable). Many spiritual posters here have used the phrases "I know" and "I told you" to describe things that they cannot show to know and no amount of telling would make any difference. Here's a though that is not meant to be antagonistic... do you think it is at all possible that the spiritual world is just a state of mind, a figment of your imagination that you would love to be real because it allows you to answers questions that, without other means, cannot be answered?

Now that is getting closer to the straw man fallacy. Your question was why Trump is so hated, not whether someone else may have been better / worse as president. However, to answer your question, I really don't know. All politicians have a level of narcissism and are bound to divide to some extent. I'd find it difficult to believe Clinton, or anyone else, could do it as well as Trump though.

You asked why he is hated. I gave you 9 reasons why I think he's a total muppet. That he manages to be hated so much without invading anywhere, without killing foreigners, without drowning a girlfriend, without having a cigar smoking BJ or mysteriously paying a family member $1M (are we sure on that one, his daughter and son-in-law plus his own hotels/golf resorts did pretty well out of the public purse?) shows that he's truly gifted. The events leading up to Jan 6 and the still ongoing cries that the election was someone stolen from him, ignoring everything else that he has or hasn't done is enough for him to be hated.

My opinion only of course, but: 1.) He did nothing that was not in his own interest. If that interest aligned with a portion of his followers was nothing but coincidence. 2.) He wasn't very good at starting anything. He was born into wealth and did little but lie and cheat to keep his empire. 3.) Make America Great Again was a thinly veiled attempt to Make Trump Great Again. 4.) America First was a thinly veiled version of Trump First. 5.) He is likely the west's most narcissistic leader in history. There is little that he could teach my kids that I wouldn't need to un-teach them. 6.) His followers are predominantly bible-bashers that should have been confined to an asylum decades or centuries ago, living a hate filled fairy tale. 7.) His followers are totally blind to one of the most dangerous lies in American political history. GOP has become a cult, diverging away from a supportable political party by anyone anywhere near close to centre. 8.) He breeds and promotes the likes of MTG who has no place in any position of power. 9.) Seeing a fat old man say "I'd like to punch him in the face" was comedy gold but not the behavior of a leader. Just imagine him in a fight against anyone. Covfefe

Clap your hands?

A reasonable solution requires both parties to be reasonable. It already looks like your in-laws can't be reasonable. If the BIL cannot accept that he is no longer permitted onto your (wife's) property without you being there, even after he's caused damage, then to hell with him. The ground rules need to be made crystal clear and upheld right now or it will only get worse. Imagine what he'll be like once it's built. Perhaps he already has his eyes on one of the bedrooms.

Pornhub had a special on transgender porn the other week apparently. Load of bollocs if you ask me ????

Many counties with a fine history of culture and fashion. For crimes against makeup and hairdressers.

You're not very good at getting the gist of posts are you. 0.1% of the asking price isn't a joke because it isn't funny. You even wrote that it wasn't a joke yourself. Make your mind up.

Offering someone 0.1% of the asking price isn't much of a joke. In the airline business that would have made them a TWA Coffee. Or was it a TWA Tea?

Oh poor Mr Putin. Are those unfriendly countries provoking you again? The very definition of short man syndrome.

Cobblers

Forced my way through it after literally falling asleep multiple times out of boredom. Terrible film.

They are so cheap (I think 20 baht?) that I get 2 originals. I can turn an original into a copy but not the other way around.

You've listed 10ppm for free chlorine. If that is the real level then yes that is on the unsafe side of high and I definitely wouldn't let my kids in that pool. Even 5ppm can be irritating. I'd have the water tested with something more accurate than the method you're using so you have specific figures to work with.

Is that your own pool? That acidity (I've seen a lot worse) will prematurely age your pool fittings and clothes. I've seen it totally take off the glaze of pool tiles, causing 100,000+ baht in damage. The chlorine level will also eat clothing and sting eyes. Shower well before and after. The before part is just as important. The water is generally quite acidic here, whether from the ground or the municipality. That doesn't mean it doesn't need to be brought up to the correct level. Aeration would be my first method.

I think that is the short anwer.

The first thing I do is to try and remind myself that they might just be having a bad day. Then there is the communications barrier. It's much easier to take the written word negatively compared to live conversation, especially with native English speakers where more is said by tone and body language than actual words. Add to that the fact it's a "faceless" internet forum and you're less likely to get a smack in the mouth with what you type than with what you say in a pub, I just accept it for what it is. If the poster is forever negative and no amount of reasonable conversation would change it, I just smile at how positive my life has turned out. I'm not above stirring the pot, which I shouldn't, but I guess I'm still a child at heart. I hate negativity in my life. I steer away from it unless I can turn it into a positive. How about you?

I hadn't considered that as an alternative, but if you believe in the afterlife then many new (and old) friends could be waiting.

You might be spot on there. I left the UK before the referendum so I haven't seen first hand what the UK has become, but had I stayed I would have voted against, as I believe it was the least worst choice. To keep on topic (and not directly answering something from you), I believe immigration issues now are harder to resolve because of immigration policies from the past. That would include Blair's government and, going back much further, the influx of migrants from the old Empire. The Tories might have made policy to reverse the trend but didn't. Whether that was because of EU legislation or not I do not know. However, I strongly believe that immigration policy is cumulative. The policies from the past directly influence the policies of today precisely because they shape the electorate who ultimately get to choose who makes those very policies.