Naam

9 hours ago, mogandave said:

10 hours ago, dreaming said:

Bitcoin is still up from 2 years ago 300%. Dow jones only 20%

Good point.

Bitcoin is down from 1 year ago 80%, Dow is down 9% and i am glad having not touched any stocks/shares for 40 years.

3 minutes ago, xylophone said:

In the great depression, there was well over a decade of poor sharemarket performance, yet at sometime around 15 years after that started, peoples investments turned positive and if they were lucky enough to catch the upturn about the end of the Second World War, then they were in heaven with the growth which ensued.

that's soothing balm for those thaivisa members age 60s and 70s who believe in stocks and mutual funds.

3 hours ago, balo said:

What are the prices for same quality dry-aged imported beef  ?  Dry aged beef is not common to find in super markets , it requires a special process. 

 

"Dry aging is the process by which large cuts of beef are aged for anywhere from several weeks to several months"

i have no idea whether imported dry-aged beef is available but as a comparison here's a U.S. price for boneless rib eye is ~USD 110.- (35 ounces) add transport and 40% customs duty (ad valorem cif) i estimate landed price ~USD 160.-/kilo = THB 5,200.- (nothing to laugh about).

On 10/19/2018 at 2:58 PM, Stokakrishna said:

I used to build swimming pools in Hawaii few years ago.

 Salt water pools are way better. Almost zero maintenence.

 Chlorinated pools are pain in the arse

spoken like a true eggsburt who is not aware that a "salt water" pool is a chlorinated pool too.

8 hours ago, Dario said:

How right you were, Naam. XRP was below $0.30. But now, all cryptos are gaining momentum again. Hope it continues.

XRP better than BTC!

2 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

2 hours ago, bristolboy said:

Sure, it was worded that way with no intent to deceive. They just happened to juxtapose the factoid with the promise of more funds for NHS.  And it also wasn't trying to fool the UK public into believing that the cost to the UK of EU membership was a net 350 million per week.

The brexit bus is always the main 'lie' argument of remainers.  Funny how they forget to mention Osborne's promised punishment budget - and he was a member of the govt.!

 

And sacked immediately after the referendum result as his lie was immediately proven to be a lie.....

 

A bit unfair, as the biggest lie has been proven to be Cameron's. 'We will enact your decision'....????

bus or no bus the £350mm per week (£18.2bb) was a blatant lie. here's the beef from Uk's "Office for National Statistics":

https://www.ons.gov.uk/.../theukcontributiontotheeubudget/2017-10-31

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Using EC data that includes credits from the EU to UK public and private sectors, the UK’s average annual net contribution on this wider basis for the years 2012 to 2016 was £8.1 billion.

no more palaver please.

51 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

And that's precisely why so many of us have no interest in 'experts' opinions.... 

 

They proved their bias before the referendum - and continue with the same 'arguments', as if their previous 'arguments' were anything close to accurate ????!

arguments like the Brexit bus?

1 hour ago, TopDeadSenter said:

The derision on this thread is purely towards those adult men having sex with children. There is nothing to defend about such practice, it is a disgrace wherever in the world it takes place. Whoever is doing it (and defending it) will get some grief as you noticed.

i fully agree with you that defending sex with children is a disgrace. but i don't agree that any religion is slandered based on selected few pickings of collected unverified comments which are not only centuries old but written centuries after the alleged action. unfortunately Arabic is an extremely multivalent language enabling different and even contrarian interpretations.

anybody who worked in an Arab country and had to deal with local law tenders can sing a song with many verses. in the company i managed many rainy seasons ago we used five different interpreters and never got a more than 70-75% identical english versions; i am talking of modern Arabic! inspite of my fluency i'm not even able to decipher and translate a single page of the calligraphically written old Qr'ans and the same applies to Hadith versions.

even native Islamic scholars admitted to me that they are not able to do that but have to rely on different interpretations by "accredited" and influential persons which quite often contradict themselves or in the case of the Wahhabbi Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari's who came up with the ridiculous claim "the earth is flat". that only a prince of the house of Saud who was an astronaut dared to contradict him speaks of course volumes.

15 minutes ago, Oxx said:

 

You are either extremely ignorant of the teachings of Islam and the contents of the Koran and more reliable Hadith, or are overly defensive of the religion and its prophet.  Perhaps you married a Muslima? Converted? And now show a convert's misguided zeal?

the Mrs and me have spent many very good years in "Wahhabbi Country". we visit KSA every year, have dear friends there and gained more insight on Islam (i am fluent in Arabic reading and speech) than a bunch of bigot Muslim haters who only know to generalise and by de facto condemning a faith in which ~20% of this planet's population believe. like in other cases discussed in this forum i find it quite interesting to act as 'advocatus diabolo' if i possess a relevant amount of indepth knowledge not based on Wikipedia. 

p.s. your ridiculous comment "more reliable Hadith" disqualifies you as a party to further 'cross swords' with.

21 hours ago, Oxx said:

 

Exactly.  According to the will of Allah it's OK to have penetrative sex with a girl as soon as she bleeds (i.e. reaches puberty).  That's exactly what Mohammed, the perfect man and role model did with Aisha:  married her when she was six, and only had non-penetrative sex with her until she reached puberty at the age of nine, when he <ducked> her for the first time.

you were among the eyewitnesses i assume?

On 4/20/2018 at 8:09 AM, ghworker2010 said:

do you accept that you are wrong about your price predictions? I think this yr will see it over $3

...and below $0.30

9 hours ago, Spidey said:

9 hours ago, goldenbrwn1 said:

China needs to be contained now! The writing is on the wall..there will be conflict sooner or later.  And giving into their demands is not the way to do it.  

It's the US making demands. Trump started the trade war, the US asked Canada to detain Meng Wanzhou, if you start a war, expect kickbacks. Sheer arrogance from Pompeo (probably got that from his boss).

nomen est omen! Pompeo = pompous àrse.

6 hours ago, katana said:

The Koran, surah 33 verse 21 states that Mohammed is the pattern of conduct for Muslims:
"The Messenger of God is certainly a good example for those of you who have hope in God and in the Day of Judgement and who remember God very often."
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=33&verse=21

that is correct but a generalisation that can be stretched like a rubber band and misinterpreted by applying to specific details like hundreds of other comments in the Bible and Qr'an.

moreover, there's no evidence that the marriage with Ayesha was consumated when she was age 9.

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Al-Tabari’s statement proves no such thing, but simply means that Muhammad married Aisha when she was too young for consummation. It says absolutely nothing about her attaining puberty at the age of nine, or that this was the reason why her parents waited three years. If anything, one can argue that she was physically too young for a grown man to penetrate her and so she had to wait a few more years before she would be able to handle it. More on this later.

Moreover, the hadiths provide further support that Aisha had not reached puberty since they speak of her playing with dolls:

'A'isha reported that she used to PLAY WITH DOLLS in the presence of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and when her playmates came to her they left (the house) because they felt shy of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), whereas Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent them to her. (Sahih Muslim, Book 031, Number 5981)

https://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/prepubescent2.htm

The reason why Aisha was permitted to play with dolls in front of Muhammad is because she hadn’t attained puberty yet:

10 hours ago, katana said:

Bukhari Sharif by Muhammad Al-Bukhari is considered a primary Islamic source by Muslims and one of the most authentic hadith collections. It's from one of Islam's most respected sources.

 

what part of

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after being transmitted orally for generations.

is it you don't understand?

3 hours ago, ronrat said:

Agree Scorecard. If the parents agree. Of course they would. It was probably them who made the offer in the first place. A bit of coin exchanged and no cost of feeding a kid who should still be in school. A 13 year old muslim girl is not going to nightclubs or even a mosque looking for a 40 year old boyfriend.

 

If the local Imman agrees . Of course he will.

 

hmmm... you seem know muslim parents and local imams?

3 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234

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  also known as Bukhari Sharif is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) of Sunni Islam. These prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Muslim scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari, after being transmitted orally for generations.

completed in the year 846 (214 years after Mohamed's death)

next!

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Narrated Aisha

youtube i assume?

1 hour ago, finnishmen said:

yes, hot big criminal what need execute in jail.

no need torture before execute in jail?

41 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 IS the initial statement incorrect? Can you please share why?

i can.

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Mohammed was the perfect man and role model.

says who?

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Whatever he did is permissible to all Muslims.

says who?

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And since he married a six year old and had sex with her when she was 9

any evidence for this allegation?

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all Muslim males should be allowed to do so.

rubbish drawn out of thin air.

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This is the law of Allah which is higher than the law of man

the behaviour of Mohamed is the law of Allah?

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Why are these so called religious leaders going against Allah's law and kowtowing to the kafir?

who's the kafir (infidel) they are kowtowing to?

4 hours ago, German farang said:

On 12/12/2018 at 7:30 PM, Naam said:

and that is the reason why Germany is doing economically ok?

Do you couldn't find another more stupid comment, dude? 

i apologise for not being able to top an utmost imbecilic claim about any pre-1989 arrangement between the East Germans and the Chinese which favoured the German economy later.

medical marijuana has not yet been approved and won't be approved for quite some time.

what if there's a Brexit and nobody attends?