TroubleandGrumpy

You were doing very well until then - any male who has lived and worked with females know the vast majority are just that - especially during their once a month 'episodes'. One of the reason why Asian women are far happier and feminine than western ones (and why most are here) is because they accept and embrace that reality - they make by far the best female companions in the world compared to western women (on average). I did watch it on my IPTV service (not all but some on FF) - and I have been to Women's World Cap matches in Australia and I and my kids attended many women's games in Australia. I helped Coach several girls in Australia and one of them made the Australian squad years ago. The women's game has improved a lot over the last 15-20 years - although they still need to develop the goalies a lot more as overall they are not as good as they should be (girls hate playing in goals). My point and that of the others is not that they did not do well, my point is that they are not equal to men and are in fact no where near that level. The over-hyped BS afforded to them has been way over the top and is undeserved. That is why we are being negative - not the fact that they beat the world champions. We dislike the whole PR BS that accompanies any women's sports these days. Hats off to the English girls - thumbs down to the media and political coverage.

And New Zealand too - dont forget the Kiwis mate.

Frued Jung wanna be?? I am very happy being discontented sometimes thank you - and even happier when I am contented - life is both. The only people who are always contented are either on drugs or are mentally damaged (or both). Same for the constantly discontented - they just need more drugs probably.

Yep - they love their 'isms' and 'ists' dont they. Great to see that they are being shut down more and more - long way to go but the tide is turning slowly slowly. For all you guys from UK the great news is that Starmer and his crew are doing exactly what Biden and his crew did - absolutely destroying the People's support for the looney left woke progressive agenda. Same thing is happening in Australia - but not as bad as UK. We can all look forward to more 'pivoting' by the woke (like your point about Trans in sport), as they realise they are becoming irrelevant and ignored - and they hate being ignored or irrelevant 🙂

As usual - the wokes will see any negative response pointing out reality as 'hate'. I blame the 'female focussed' schooling they get these days. There is far too much concern over feelings and equity, instead of facts and results - the inevitable result is they carry that lunacy forward and demand it also apply in 'real life'. In my day it was 'stick and stones.....' and the boys and girls who succeeded were celebrated. Now it is the minorities and disadvantaged that get recognised - and they will expel you if you hurt someone's feelings. They will ban you from all schools if you hurt the feelings of the school's gay black handicapped girl who they proudly display to show how 'inclusive and progressive' they are.

🤣 🤣 🤣 The truth hurts - especially woke liberals. Suck it up Princess.

The Aust Govt gave them $5 Million recently so I am sure that was well spent on fact finding trips overseas, consultants fees (uncle Jack), and a good p*ss up after the successful launch 😁 Next time they will reach 100 metres in the air - another $5 Million please mate 😆

That 6 woke liberals disliked your post says it all these days. It may have been blunt - but the truth is that at Football, Cricket, Rugby, Tennis the U15 Boys would annihilate the Women - State, National and International levels. The best woman tennis player of all time (Serena Williams) admitted that any of the top 50 men players would beat her 6-0 6-0. In fact she said that the top 200 would beat her - it is a 'no contest'. They hated her for that 🙂 One day soon reality is going to bite the woke feminist women on their collective butts. They are both physically and mentally inferior to males at all sports - and IMO they are the same in most aspects of life. Where they excel is where they have always left men for dead - running a home/family and work roles like teaching kids and nursing and media communications. Some wokes will shout sexist etc. but it is not - it is realist. The reason it is being said by myself and others is because we are sick of the BS about women's sports - especially their demands to be recognised and paid as much as the men. Right now the WNBA in USA is demanding they get paid more - even though they are totally subsidised by the NBA and have never made a profit. They, like all woke liberals and feminists, are delusional.

Your grasp of tarrifs and reality is as distorted as your political views. The tariff is a tax on those exporting to USA - what the importers 'pass on' to wholesalers, distributors and consumers locally (if anything) is another issue. As Trump said - last time around China 'ate' most of the tariffs (they kept the prices the same to importers and did not up their prices).

A lot - judging by how many left wing media organisations are in financial trouble. Over here (Pattaya 103FM) gets funding from BBC - lots of UK Expats there. I believe it is the same deal - and for sure they have the same bias - too but not as bad as those in Europe and USA.

Yes indeed I have - as they say - wo woke, go broke. Some of it is due to the NDA 'settlement' with Trump - and a lot more is because the People are turning away from the left win lies and distortions in droves - and some is also because USAID PBS and other public funding of media organisations has been crushed under Trump.

A very biased and simplex revision of history - you missed quite a few things. In 1904 there was a Treaty made between French Indochina and Thailand that specified the borders. On that basis the temples (there are several) were all inside Thailand. That map drawn up by French mapmakers in 1907 was wrong and it was never part of the Treaty. In fact I doubt the Thais saw it for a very long time - probably decades later - and they just ignored it - they had their own maps. The 1907 map was dragged out by Cambodia in 1960s in a Court case that Thailand did not accept - Thailand are not a signatory to the ICJ. The People's of Isaan and Cambodia and Loas are all related back in the past and are a 'common people' - they all go back to the Khmer period. Under the Treaty with French Indochina Thailand ceded Siem Riep to them - before that Thailand 'owned' it going back to when they conquered the Khmer Empire in 1400s. I dislike it when people state such obvious mistruths and distortions that only take a little research of history to show not true. I am not saying you lied - but your conclusions are wrong because they are not based on all the information - in fact that is what Cambodia did in the past and are doing again. Hun Sen is linked to people who were part of the Pol Pot regime - he was in 20s at that time. You are very correct when you said this - The dispute is a complex mix of international law, colonial history, regional geopolitics, and national pride. Thailand believes that the ICJ Court was very biased and in error - they never gave up control over the areas surrounding those temples to . But Thailand has acknowledged their decision about the temples. But the decision was not about the borders - and Thailand maintains that the temples are inside Thailand and will never change the border line without serious reasons. Between 1904 and 1953 when Cambodia became independent from France the borders were what Thailand believed them to be - almost 50 years. Later claims by Cambodia in 1960s that the 1907 unofficial map was the boundary are patently false. But with Thailand refusing to be a member of the ICJ - it is clear the ICJ decision was biased.

Probably true - good point.

You are playing a pair of deuces against a full-house. Media Matters has been around a very long time. CBS has recently sacked people and closed shows down. The people have had enough of the MSM media left wing woke lies. Yes - there has been right wing media organisations go under. But nowhere near the same as what is going down now in the left.

Thai Military is unaware of how to deal with the media. In Cambodia the 'politicians' are running things and they know how to deal with the media. Thailand's politicians in the Govt are hanging on to power, and the Military is offside with them - so they are not talking enough to each other. There are people who could handle the media is such a situation (Prayat and other in the 'military parties) - but they are not interested in helping the Government. Thailand is run by a squabbling bunch of greedy wealthy Thainese with nil care about the average Thai person. That has never been more evident than in this matter - the Military organised the evacuations and managed their responses themselves. This and many other episodes show clearly that the Thai politicians could not organise a beer in a brewery , whilst the Thai Military know what they are doing and how to do it - except for managing the media.

Glad to hear that - not the same for others. Did you point all this out during the Covid period when Expats were telling their stories about Thailand's treatment of them? I dont recall anyone on TV/AN saying it was great in Thailand for Expats. Maybe I missed it 🙂

Australia an Argentina are alleged to have the best beef in the world when it comes to 'mass production' The USA has good cheap beef and as an Aussie I hope it floods into Australia. The reason is simple - many years ago we had very cheap beef in Australia and the 'international p[arity pricing' became a thing. The current costs of beef in Australia, where it used to be cheap, has soared over the last 3 decades - all because the big beef producers could get more if they sold it overseas so the Govt hacked up the prices for locals (subsidised the producers). Hopefully the USA beef will drive the prices down in Australia at least to where it should be - 25-30% at least below where it is now.

https://www.aol.com/media-matters-reportedly-considers-closing-193912135.html https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/media-matters-musk/2025/07/25/id/1220160/ The People are turning away from woke liberal media organisations more and more and this will continue. The 'go woke - go broke' slogan is becoming as famous as 'fake news'.

Firstly - I spoke about Thailand - and you spoke about Pattaya. My point is what happened in Pattaya was not what necessarily happened everywhere. I have been to Pattaya many times for golf (play and watch LPGA) and for the shopping and products sold there and not much elsewhere (I never lived there). I have mates who were and still are in Thailand - except for one who passed- including two blokes who were in Pattaya - neither are there now. They both told me (we old school guys email) of the things that happened during Covid. So you claim played at 12 golf courses that were open during Covid. Or did I get that wrong. Or are you saying they were all closed for about 7 weeks in total and no more??

Name the course please - were they not all closed during Covid?? Except of course for the members only ultra rich courses? One bloke who also plays golf said that his course and all the others were closed. Which one was open? PS - Thailand is more than living in a flat in Pattaya and going to bars. I mean across all of Thailand - of course.

I never responded - only 'verbally'. Someone else did not like it as well. You really do think it is all about you - dont you?

You call that 'sharp' - try again mate. Your 'insults' remind me of an Australian PM who was responding to a 5 minute personal attack by a Member of the Opposition. "MR Speaker, I must say after listening to all that, I feel rather good. It was like being slapped with warm lettuce'. The whole assembly laughed - opposition members struggled not to do so. Me thinks your attempts at insult are likewise 'weak' and maybe Covid caused?

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Let me repeat too - ignorant fools are easily scared and offended. Prove it - or look at all the TV/AN posts about what was happening. Maybe you were very lucky - maybe in a remote village ? - but I dont believe you.

If you think my Thai wife was not treated badly in Australia - you are an effing idiot. They were all treated 'badly' in the west - anyone that looked Chinese - but it was because of irrational ignorant fear. It was not a problem for us - we ignored ignorant fools. The same as blokes I know who were stuck here and experienced the same - including Ministers blaming dirty falangs for Covid. There were many lessons from Covid - one being that most people are ignorant fools who are easily scared and offended.