save the frogs

Yeah, the way Trump decorated the Oval Office bothers you. What a joke. He put cherubs in there. Angels. For good luck. Yes, made of gold. But so what?

I just met a Buddhist monk woman. She was a working professional and then got into a serious car crash. The person next to her died. She had a NDE I guess, was in a coma for a while. When she came out, she ran off to monastery. She was in a monastery for a while, now basically just sits at home all day praying to Buddha and meditating and chanting with Buddhist chant music going on in the background. She tells me she keeps that chant music on while she sleeps. Seemingly no friends, never goes out of the apartment. It's Buddha 24/7. It's one way to live, I guess. But almost seems like a "penitence" of some sort to me.

Well, the price is comparable to what this goes for on iHerb. I avoided the ones with ridiculously low prices ie with non-Western name brands. I've already ordered it, so I'll take a chance and use it. But next time, I should do a background check on the selller? I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, there is a mall near me. I guess I can go hunting for it there, but I doubt they will have the variety I'm looking for. There was a few other supplements I also wanted. I doubt I will find any physical store that has them all. Thanks! Appreciate it.

You are putting on overly negative spin on things. For one thing, they can be labeled debates, not necessarily bickering, which has a more derogatory slant on it. And the debates are about rather complex issues. It's not like people are bickering constantly over nonsense, apart from ocassionally. When it comes to politics, it's complex. So it's normal that arguments will occur.

good point I hadn't thought of. they are not using the hospital system. probably a net gain for the govt then. so it makes no sense then to freeze the pensions.

Thanks for your reply. I mean, the prices vary wildly from non-descript shady name brands to Western brands I recognize, which are 4 times more expensive. The question I had is if it's a Western brand, can they seller actually sell crap and put it in a Western brand name container? Based on the answers I got here, it seems like this is possible. But I find it hard to believe Western supplement companies wouldn't come down hard on Lazada with lawsuits for this type of behavior. Or maybe there's no way to check?

I don't have any friends on here. Doesn't stop me from posting.

you resurrected, hummin? thanks.

One thing I noticed looking at supplements on Lazada is a huge variation in price. So I'm guessing buying a Western name brand would be safe, and the big cost difference is due to both tariffs and better quality. But can Western brand supplements be "tainted"? Can they tamper with the product? Or does Lazada have safeguards in place?

run on sentence

I used Facebook Marketplace to get rid of my crap. Some stuff I sold, but it's very time-consuming so I gave some stuff away for free. And when you give stuff for free, some people will resell it. They're pro scavengers who make a side hustle with Marketplace. One woman I gave sth away to came to pick it up in a Mercedes ..

haha, brain worm. forgot about that one.

there's charities that take furniture in my neck of the woods. and they have trucks and pick up for free. but funny story.

He doesn't seem like a "laughing stock" in front of the President of Italy in this clip. I don't know where you people are getting your information from. Your thread is a laughing stock, maybe.

And that's why I don't think it's a good idea to encourage this practice in Thailand as the same thing will eventually happen here.

Exactly. You got it.

of course the obligatory weekly road rage incident

Yeah, he's already been defeated. He's drowning his sorrows in a bottomless bottle of Jack Daniels. This article title is "trash talk", like when 2 boxers meet up before a fight and say "I'm gonna kick your butt".

Do you think you might be getting a bit carried away posting the same diatribes in multiple threads?

haha, sexpats in thailand complaining about "sex pests". getting desperate much?

He has at least 6 economic advisers. That doesn't mean what he's doing will work out. Sometimes even the best economists make bad decisions. But he's not an impulsive maniac like you pretend. Trump's Economic Whisperers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/business/economy/trump-economic-advisers-bessent.html

It's your opinion that he doesn't have a small army of economists advising him. People think he's an unhinged lunatic because they see him on the news talking trash. You don't see the meetings going on behind the scenes.

Because when you remove a Band-Aid, do you remove is slowly or just rip it off?

I'm going to the same restaurant daily now. Because it's close to me, it's clean, the waitresses are nice, and the food is reasonably priced. I am not tipping. Loyalty to the same restaurant is good enough, as far as I'm concerned.

you wear flip flops and wife-beaters? you have a bunch of tattoos on your forehead?