save the frogs

yep, he's going back to where he comes from.

This is the "research". He is starting threads to get tips, feel people out. If most people on AN think ladyboys are ok, then he won't be so conflicted.

So all central Europeans are scumbags? That statement is pointless and silly and will not help to resolve the crisis in the Middle East. Try harder.

Is it still up for sale?

I don't like the way women dress on the beach. Well, if the girl is single, maybe it makes sense to wear a G-string bikini to attract men. But I see married women with children in these bikinis showing their asses and it seems ridiculous to me. In the old days, bathing suits for women looked more dignified. Now, everyone looks like a hooker at the beach.

Yes, please do us all a favor and stop procreating. He has longer lectures if you want to look them up. But I am posting this one because it's only 2 minutes. It may sound like madness, but realistically no activist or anyone else, neither Jesus nor Buddha nor Allah, has figured out how to get rid of evil in the world. Alan Watts - Bad and Good are doing a dance and need to co-exist

but if vegan was so "normal", they wouldn't need to create an entire industry around fake lab meats.

I stopped going to the gym. I got sick of it. I am trying to figure out how to just do basic exercises at home. I will never get big, but I don't care. When I was going, I noticed a few things: 1 - Some people go there mostly to socialize. One idiot kept bothering me during my sets, chatting me up. You're not supposed to bother someone when they are lifting. And then a Thai girl got pissed off because she thought we were wasting time and she was pushing me to get off the machine. Also, the same guy kept going on the treadmill next to me and I was forced to talk to him for an hour each time. I hate treadmills now. 2 - One guy seemed to be there to pick up girls. And I'm sure a lot of guys do it. So that means they extend their sessions to 2-3 hours, lounge around like they're in a bar. 3 - A fight nearly broke out once and one guy was making a facial gesture to me to join in and help him. Screw that. You need to be careful. If you piss off the wrong blockhead, it can turn into violence in there. 4 - Maybe 3 or 4 in 10 guys are muscular. A lot of guys are fat or too skinny. Not sure what they're doing, but the training doesn't seem to be working. Even the guys who are muscular, some of them smoke and eat junk food and probably do steroids. I did see 2 guys injecting themselves in the bathroom. 5 - Some guys push themselves too hard and have injuries. That's one thing I was worried about. Many people have not been taught properly how to train. Going to failure each and every set and lifting as much as possible all the time may not be the best way to train. 6 - I noticed way more Thai girls than guys at that gym, for some reason. Some of these girls are working hard to stay slim and toned.

There were thousands of ants in my kitchen. If I didn't take them out, they would take over the joint. I learned that ants only live 21 days, so I don't feel so bad. Anyway, rodents and insects are constantly being killed, even growing vegetables. So even vegetarians are not off the hook.

Travel is expensive and exhausting. I'm not convinced all the travel people do is worth the effort. And people brag about seeing every corner of the country. I'm not convinced it's worth the time and effort. Much of it probably looks the same. Also, while going around on a motorbike might be exciting, I'll take a pass as it seems too dangerous. Some travel is good, but I won't be heading on a motorbike to see every corner of the country any time soon.

$$$ is a part of it though. No one likes to pay high energy costs. But with renewables, everyone can just get the hell out of the middle east for once and for all? Hallelujah!

I think the thugs know what they can and can't get away with. In other words, when the cops do finally come around and inquire about what happened, the thugs know they will need to justify their actions. And I doubt they would get so vicious over a triviality because they know the police would not turn a blind eye or just give them a slap on the wrist. Since Thailand relies heavily on tourism revenue, if you rack up a bill of 10,000 Baht and refuse to pay, the police will likely turn a blind eye if you got a beating.

These tourist zones are very dangerous places to hang out. The story does not appear to have all the details. The motorbike taxi refused to return a mobile phone? I don't think they normally steal phones. Something else must have happened. Walking Street needs to have police patrolling. Come on guys, make a budget for it.

The US is a net exporter of fossil fuels, probably why they don't want to switch to renewables. The EU needs to import fossil fuels, one reason they do want to switch. In the meantime, energy costs in the EU are double of the US and China. Remains to be seen what the energy costs will be with renewables, but it has a major impact on cost of living.

Just watched video by an Israeli guy, so he may be biased. He claims Israelis did not steal any land. In the Israeli declaration of independence, it states "we extend a hand of peace to our neighbors". But the Hamas charter states Israel must be obliterated. So yes, that is precisely what the Israelis believe - kill or be obliterated and wiped off the map. This is a quote from Golda Meir:

there probably are, but you are probably the only one who goes to chiang mai for gogos.

It would be good for mental health to travel more and take a break from the daily news. I'm preaching to myself here too. The world will not burn. Elon Musk is promising that we will become an intergalactic species soon. And you will be able to book a trip to Saturn at a very reasonable cost. See the ring up close.

This guy's theory on the Iran War: Iran War - An Engineered Crisis to Bury the Petrodollar and Usher in a New Monetary Order.

You found him offensive because you spend too much time listening to blockheads. Comedians are the only people who can be brutally honest. Because everyone else would be considered too offensive or politically incorrect, but their comments are thinly veiled as humor, even though most of what they say has some truth to it.

There is possibly some information missing. He refused the offer? Why did he stop in the first place? Could be he was so naive that he doesn't understand why the ladyboy was flagging him down I guess ... but ... or the asking price was too high? Yeah, don't try to negotiate with ladyboys in dark alleys at 2 am.

But I can't grasp the history of these people. Makes no sense. This is from Quora. Their original homeland was a "Roman Province"? So they never had their own country? So if you don't own the joint, then you can get expelled. Which they did. But how come they never had their own country to begin with? So makes sense that they should have their own country, but the fact that they didn't historically before Israel seems odd. https://www.quora.com/Why-was-there-no-Jewish-state-country-before-Israel-Why-are-there-so-few-Jews There was also, at that time, no “Israel” as a country we know to day. There was the Roman Province of Judea. (Named JUDEA because it was where Jews lived as their ancestral homeland). When the Jews of Judea were expelled, the Romans renamed the province as Palestine (and also renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capotilina) - the aim being that the land had been emptied of Jews. This is where the name Palestine comes from: the ETHNIC CLEANSING of the indigenous inhabitants who managed to return to their homeland c1900 years later.

Seems like the Palestinians also killed women and children at one point.

maybe need to wait. it's probably coming. and this would be great news. no need to take a flight to hong kong / tokyo / singapore to hitch a cruise

ChatGPT was out in 2023, no? No more need to English tutors.

Obliterate is my new favorite word