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I wish I had kept the package, but I wanted to erase all trace of that shameful experience as fast as possible. All I can remember is that the packaging looked delectable, a beautiful photo of a meat pie and thing said "made in Australia". Since I could not find the real thing, a British meat pie, I thought I'd chance it, my Australian lawyer colleagues were always meticulous and sticklers for detail, surely they'd get a meat pie right? But no, whatever that was, it was a culinary Waterloo.The worst, I got had again! As my usual bagels were not available I thought I'd get a pack of Cole's bagels. Again, nice packaging, shame about the inside. I really do hope Australians eat better than the selection of Oz food they have in Tops. This one Australian pie and the Cole's Bagel. And the beef obviously, but the beef is really good so I'm keeping quiet about it.

I'm with Bob on this one. The proliferation of Russian voices and Russians in Pattaya is the reason why I could never live there. They are obnoxious to a fault.

Navalny DID embezzle money through his company, look up the Yves Rocher case. His body was returned to his family and an autopsy was done. No foul play was in evidence. On 27 April, The Wall Street Journal reported that US intelligence agencies had concluded that Putin likely did not order Navalny's death. The assessment, which US intelligence says does not absolve Putin of culpability, was shared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Alexei_Navalny

You must be so diabolically cunning because whenever I have the misfortune of picking up an Australian item from Tops I actually start praying for the culinary savvy of the British, which I am sure tells you how bad things have got. How can you even get a meat pie wrong? You make a crust and put meat in it. How is this hard? Cole Bagels? The worst in the world. No wonder all Australians want to move to Bali. The food is so much better.

Listen, Mr Hellfire, you cannot forget what you never had. Your notion of "freedoms" is, I am sorry to tell you, just a fantasy of yours. You are no more free in Germany or Thailand or UK than you are in Russia. Just ask Horst Mahler. He was convicted to 12 years imprisonment for expressing his views in Germany. Or ask Mahmoud Khalil in the US who was just arrested for his views in the US. Or ask Dominik Bullok, arrested in the UK for looking at a woman. Or ask any number of Thai people arrested for publishing their views on the monarchy. I would have thought it is quite clear what I am saying, that what Russia is doing is no worse than what other governments do. All governments curtail personal freedoms. Your idea of total freedom is just a fantasy.

The more you learn about Donald Trump the more you have to like the guy.

No, most Russians do not fear expressing their thoughts, because most Russians in fact support Putin. A small minority fears expressing their thoughts. Much like a small minority in Germany, UK, US etc fears expressing its thoughts. The MINORITY always fears expressing its thoughts. Personal freedoms are very much restricted in the UK, Germany, France, US even, I don't see your point. No, you can easily compare Russia's clamp down on opposing views to Germany's clamp down on views it dislikes. Or the UK .Or US. Very similar. Same same. Btw, have you ever tried to insult the monarch in Thailand? I thought not. 😂

Good God, I am not saying life in Russia is great. The people are obnoxious, service is non-existant and the weather is diabolical. But let's be objective, qualiy of life is passable by most measures. Alcoholism and crime were ALWAYS high in Russia, pre and post invasion. I remember going to a bar in a Russian province and there was a guard with a gun at the door. The people are obnoxious in Russia, the men I mean. True, I've never actually been to Australia, what with it having no culture and being in the sphincter of the world, so I have not had a Bertoldo pie, I DO hope it is better than the <deleted>E Austrlians deliver in Tops, because the Austrlian meat pie I had from Tops was the worst experience of my life. And the Cole's Bagel was not much better.

Actually everyone lives under those conditions. In Germany a man was recently arrested and imprisoned for publishing a social media post. Also look up Horst Mahler. In the UK a man can be imprisoned for looking at a woman suggestively, if she considers it threatening. In the US a man with a green card was just arrested and deported for his views. This is just normal life, Hellfire, all governments control their population. You thought otherwise? My, my, my, what a sweet naive soul you are.

US 'in secret talks with Putin ally to restart Nord Stream 2 pipeline' two years after it was blown up in sabotage attack https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14454979/US-secret-talks-Putin-ally-restart-Nord-Stream-2-pipeline-two-years-blown-sabotage-attack.html

In your dream world maybe. In reality Russia is routing Ukraine.

Lol, Ukrainian males are clogging up Poland, UK, Germany and Pattaya, they are running in greater numbers than the Russians.

About 60 million Russians own dachas, it is quite common. The question was about quality of life, objectively speaking Russians have amazing bakeries. This suprirsed me greatly, something about the French having been brought to Russia for it. Some of the food is really not bad. They have amazing markets. All the mod cons, central heating, washing machines, Honda cars, I mean the quality of life is really not bad there. They have great shashlik joints too.And of course they love to party. I am not saying the food is on a par with Spain, France, Italy, Germany or even the UK, but it is a lot better than Cuba. Yes, if you branch out to life expectancy it is lower, most likely the weather and poor access to health care in the remote areas. But purely on quality of life, an Australian Cole's Bagel or those poor excuses for meat pies in Austrlia have nothing on a Russian shashlik or kotleta.

I have forgotten more about Russia than you will ever know Lacessit. You and your fellow Ukraine cheerleaders are on the wrong side of history, wouldn't you know? Russia will win this war, Ukraine will lose and all your dreams are just soap bubbles bursting in mid air.

Actually living standards in Russia are very good. Good food, I kid you not, great bakeries, markets with Lavash bread fresh from the oven. Dachas with saunas. Ok, service is terrible, it is ugly and the weather is awful, but living standards are probably on a par with Australia sans the weather.

Oh the irony.....Hahahahahaha

Ukraine confirms withdrawal from Sudzha in Russia's Kursk Oblast https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-confirms-withdrawal-from-sudzha-kursk-oblast/ Still, hold on to the dream, Patong. Hold on. Someday, somebody's gonna make you wanna Turn around and say goodbye Until then, baby, are you gonna let them Hold you down and make you cry? Don't you know? Don't you know, things can change? Things'll go your way If you hold on for one more day Can you hold on for one more day?

I am into Yuyu Sai. Seriously, I would be deep into her given half a chance.

Hahahahahahahaha...thanks man. I needed a good laugh. Nothing is true until Ukraine corroborates it. Of course, good luck living in denial Patong.

Indeed, it is the ostrich tactic, stick your head in the sand and the bad news will go away. We should feel pity for the Ukraine arm chair cheerleaders, the lengths they have to go to deny reality.

Do not worry, a cure for Herpes is around the corner. Besides it has positive sides, it strengthens your immune system. Come back! So many willing women!

Dinsdale has shown a fairly good understanding of the situation, certainly a lot better than yours Dan.

Yes, the BBC is well known for publishing "disinformation", good call, good call. You manage to keep your streak going of being wrong in every single post, it is quite something to be this wrong, so often, like all the time. I do not think I have seen any other poster be this wrong so often.

Because it is not a factor of importance. Russia was winning the war well before the US withdrew intelligence support. Indeed that only affected prediction of when drone attacks happen, it had very little to do with the war in Kursk. You are badly informed, and much worse informed than the poster you are criticising.

Yes, much like the persecution of Pro Palestinian protesters on campuses. Trump is deep in the Israeli pocket, his most unattractive feature. Still, at least he wants to end the war in Ukraine, which is the right thing to do.