TroubleandGrumpy

Excellent advice and something all Expats should think about. There is IMO no need to become delusional and think you are Thai/Buddha (like some Expats do), but it is great advice to let the things of the past stay in the past, and to not think about them too much today. They never fully go away, not should they as they are a part of you, but it is a constant 'activity' needed to keep yourself positive and living today, and not trhinking about the past. The past if full of regrets and delights (you can learn from), and the future is full of hope and concerns (you can plan for). But today is all you can actually live in - and each and every one of them is a 'gift' - a gift that will one day be your last one - but not now, not yet. As the lady said "Tomorrow is Another Day."

LOL - 20 year old out alone at 4.30am. Maybe you dont but I know what that means - clearly you live in Utopia. She posts on social media to warn other girls out at the same time - LOL. You believe anything - I am a sceptic when it comes to social media posts. Do you recall that Chinese girl who walked that 'walking street' type place in a short dress and posted social media stuff about being afriad and that there were 'bad people' everywhere? That was all about her getting social media exposure. Me thinks this one too. I just love this 'me too' generation - not.

True - but her posts were all about his dress or lack of it. Clearly they never crashed or that would also be an issue. Either way he is in deep poo poo with Police - after admitting to being drunk. Were they both wearing helmets - not the issue.

Rolling right on out of here will he be me thinks.

It will not be as bad as that or in the movies - if I recall that panel discussion I saw a while back, the smoke/haze will clear within a year or two (depending on how many bombs dropped). Growing plants under lights is very achievable - power and water would be problemmatic.

Sorry to be going against the grain (not) but all this BS about nuclear fallout from atomic bombs is like the climate crisis - scares children and is greatly exaggerated. But dont tell anyone - Hollywood and all the other media BS will be annoyed. And in answer to the question, given Neil is correct and a nuclear WW3 is survivable by those not in/near the blasts, I would look for a location where you can grow/make all your own food and necessities, and where you can either barracade or hide yourself against all the roaming mobs/gangs that will take everything you have and/or kill you. Remote places away from all other modern people (who are toitally dependent on civilisation to give them everything), where the natives will leave you alone if you leave them alone and/or add some value to them - Papua New Guinea? - Remote Outback Australia? Or an underground bunker with decades of food and water and all the other necessities - but me thinks no one here will be allowed inside 🙂 Maybe all those preppers will finally be happy - until the starving mob arrives and takes everything.

The guy immediately apologised for being drunk, did not in any way molest or accost her, and made an offer as compensation - me thinks she is just after social media likes.

I can only laugh - this is not news AN - this is PR BS.

He is toast - burnt toast.

Me too 🙂

What I meant to add was that TAT should count only the international visitors that arrive direct though Swampy airport (and the others like Phuket and Don Mueang). Swampy gets the majority of Thailand's international visitors, and that is why they are talking about a billion baht project to 'fix' Swampy.

Mate - you are missing something. After they get rid of 80s and below, the average score (100) means that in the next cull, all the 81s-85s now will be under 80 - and gone. Aim higher - 90+ 🙂

Yes indeed - TAT counts anyone walking/driving over the border with Malaysia as a tourist. I guess technically they are a visitor, but they are not a tourist. IMO TAT does not count all the people doing border hops, versus international visitors, because they can pad the numbers out and get all that bonus money 🙂

Bowell Cancer is one of the cancers where death can be prevented if caught early enough - it is a slow growing cancer - unlike skin or breast cancers. Having the bowell checked via colonosopy is a good idea IMO every 10 years after turning 50 if there is a hsiroty of bowell cancer in the family. There is also the option of having your poo tested for blood every few years - in Australia there is a free test service done every 2-3 years for all over 60. Blood in the poo (very small amounts) is a sign of possible cancer - test positive and then they recommend a colonoscopy - often just a bleeding polyp/s, but good to find out if it is cancer. Testing poo for blood can be done here - and there are several very good hospitals here for a colonoscopy too - and surgery if it is needed (but check their blood supply of your type first - those operations bleed a lot).

Yes indeed mate - me thinks a lot of single Expats are enjoying too much of the wacky tobaccy and have no idea the brain damage they are causing themselves. Getting back to the topic - IMO in the USA it would be foolish not to live with a gun in the house, or not have one when you go out into the 'sticks'. The reason is because there are so many guns in the hands of criminals in USA - who will never give them up voluntarily. IMO in other civilised countries (not Mexico etc.) there is no need to have or carry a gun for personal safety, but if you like to shoot for sport (I used to) then by all means go right ahead. As far as I am aware not one member of the NRA or an official shooting club in USA has ever committed a gun massacre in USA. IMO all legal owners of a gun in USA should be a member of a shooters club (safety re-certified every 12 months minimum) and that means undertaking the NRA safety course and training (and voluntary memberhsip).

100% winner - right there - unrefutable. Only a person with incurable cognitive bias would claim otherwise. No matter what they think about the protest on Jan6 - it is clear the left have gotten away with far more than the right when it comes to violent protests - jkust look at what they did to the home of Supreme Court Judges (none of them charged with sedition). To deny that factual outcomes is a classic sympton of cognitive bias - a person who is unable to mentally process something that would tear down their thinking processes. Like when a stupid young female liberal is asked, in response to her demands for equality and equity of outcomes, 'so you are OK with being drafted to fight in Ukraine?'. Now that is a funny thing to witness - many similar examples are freely available on youtube.

Obviously the brain dead would think that Biden is a viable POTUS. Me thinks you have quoted Marx - but I understand that is how the left tend to operate.

He/she/it believes everything that comes from CNN, NPR, The Guardian, etc - any left wing TDS media organisation. Quoting those rags as a reliable honest source is like quoting the cat about the dog. libertard - Wiktionary, the free dictionary libertard, English, Etymology - libertarian +‎ -tard, Noun, libertard (plural libertards) (US, slang, derogatory) Synonym of libtard (“a stupid libertarian”).

I am stating what has happened organically - sure there are always one or a few people that first change a word/s meaning, but whether or not they became mainstream is organic. The term Fake News is now mainstream - the majority use it and/or are aware of its meaning. The term 'woke' is now seen as a negative by the majority of people - especially in USA. Unless you can provide a credible source from a bi-partisan statistical research organisation undertaken with methods approved by the American Statistical Association, then I stand by my claim that woke is now a negative term - as in Go Woke Go Broke. Yes it is used more by right wingers - but the majority know what it now means and are aare of that meaning. And in my experience words never 'go back' to their original meaning - the either stay as the new meaning/s, or they are replaced by another word with the original meaning. It is like fashion mate - even for blokes - hats were in, then out, now back in. Same for beards. Same for words.

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The woke progressive mindset is too strong in you - impossible to get through - even with impartial logic and reasoning. You are now quoting left wing media organisations as if they are some form of Oracle of Truth. Not aware of who first used the term (unlike Fake News) by 'Go Woke Go Broke' is reality - look around you - look outside that self-appeasing bubble. Best wishes in the future - I can see no value in us debating further - we can agree to disagree, if you agree.

Keep dreaming and drinking that kool-aid mate - clearly you are very invested.

Good for you - does not make you right 🙂

So say the woke with cognitive bias. Yes he made the term 'fake news' - and it has become common vernacular - not many politicians have done that. They are all con men and liars - you juyst cannot see that in the Dems - Biden is one of the most hypocritically corrupt of them all.

Here we go - the pedantic woke 'Professor' type demanding exact definitions of what a word means - with at least 3 accreditations and 4 documented references no doubt. But attention to detail is a charateristic of right wingers - call it pedantry if you will - and I am happy to retort in a manner I hope most people will see as rhetorical regarding you choice of the subject - 'words'. The meaning of words change - it is an automatic condition of the human nature to reassociated the meanings of words - and to create new words. This is pure right wing mentality at its core - the people decide what a word means and if they want to change it and if they want to use a new word - it happens organically. Your left wing mentality demands everything to be defined centrally and controlled, such that what is 'approved' is accepted and is used, and what is not approved is not allowed to be used. Classic example is the N word - while decades ago that was freely used and not a negative, it became an insult towards black people because of its derogatory use. Another is 'retarded' which also many decades ago was freely used and not a negative, it became an insult towards disabled people because of its derogatory use. The best example I can give you is Obama when the owner of an NBA team made some very negative and racist comments towards some of his players, including liberal use of the N word. The outrage was everywhere (left and right), but the left demanded legislative action and the implementation of laws banning certain words being used in public. Obama responded that he would not undertake such an action because who decides what words are in and which are out. He stated that the people have clearly stated their opinions and the court of public opinion's verdict was guilty and that they will deal with it themslves. The NBA banned him as a member of their association - he therefore could not own an NBA team and he had to sell the team - he disappeared publicly and was never heard from again - problem solved. What woke progressive people do is try to impose their values and views on others - as in the NBA case above - such as currently the use of pronouns. Plus they immediately accept the use of whatever words that a minority demand they use to 'appease' their feelings - expecting others to also comply. That is a part of what the woke demand in the way of social and legal changes needed to encourage 'diversity and inclusiveness'. And that is part of the reason why woke is now an insult - they have gone too far and the people are rejecting it. Ricky Gervais was an outsider many years ago - now he is mainstream. And it is not just the woke demands on our use of words (as opposed to natural changes) it is how they try to justify their actions and behaviours under their woke banners - a good one being exactly as you said - Social Injustice. Under the term and/or in the name of 'social injustice' the woke demand we all agree whatever they think will fix a problem that they think matters more than anything else in the world (usually a social and/or feeling issue). Woke people sit on the roads blocking traffic and justify that because they are saving the planet - the truth is they are being selkfish narcissitic virtue signallers and we (the majority) have had a gutful of their khrapp and we want the Governmewnt to crack down on them. But they are woke, so they vote left wing, so left wing Govts turn a blind eye, and they encourage them because that causes a divide, which they can exploit to gains more votes. That is just a small part of why people are rejecting the woke progressive left wing BS. Your time has come (in 90s) and it is now going away - it is time for us to take over (for a while) and when our lot goes too far we will be thrown out too. Politics mate - both sides suck in the long run - best to nebver leave any side ion power too long. When one side takes power they make changes - but they dont stop making changes - when they go too far they get thrown out. The alternative is Kings or Dictators - OK if benevolent awful if not. Me thinks the constant re-balancing achieves the best outome in the long run.