Prubangboy

Don't get the Tourettes-like John thing. Don't feel like you have to stammer out a hapless explanation. Was last in Pattaya in the aughts. Best wishes in locating a fan, a chore that a monkey could reliably be trained to do.

He's apparently paralyzed and can't type words into Google. 'Hope whoever typed that for you did you a favor and wiped away your drool.

I'll meet you half way. Trump has indeed, via his egregious book-cooking, opened the door for every cash-starved jurisdiction, which means all of them (red AND blue), to take a look at developers paperwork as a means to fine them. DA's are revenue-seeking missiles. You, personally, are upset about this? Tell it to a judge. The stable genius handed them his fat you-know-what on a silver platter. And then he hired the B minus-team to defend him. And now it's going to be a thing. Sweet. Fave moment: Eric (Fredo) telling the judge that he was "too busy pouring concrete" to be concerned with the details. The last Trump new-build was in 2005. Funny thing: I've had my house appraised for a loan twice. I know of at least half a dozen people who have. No one describes it as a complex or corrupt process. Only TrumpTrash does. Why is that?

There is no sadder, weaker rhetorical statement then the wishy-washy use of rightly or wrongly. Let me translate: "I know this is a bonehead argument, but rightly or wrongly, I am going to pretend that I am being the voice of reason." Rightly or wrongly pops up a lot on bonehead-central, Fox News. Again, it's an attempt to make stupid and dishonest stuff at least sound reasonable. Mr rightly or wrongly is prob just cosplaying like he's on The Five, weighing in. Said bone-head icon, Sean Hannity. "Rightly or Wrongly", a lot of people are uncomfortable with mail-in voting". No, B-man, it's YOU who put out a pile of disinformation about mail-in voting that has been proven false, over and over again. No rightly, just flat-out, lying-like-a rug-wrongly. And now the repubs realize that they have (again) shot themselves in their stupid foot, since mail-in voting helps them too. But Trump keeps changing his mind about it -rightly or wrongly.

As the board's resident Nimman-ologist, I can affirm that there are a few Canadian Trumpers here. Being a Canadian Trumper is more baffling than being a Euro-one. It's just the usual "I'm an independent thinker"-conceit of sub par rageoholics. The average Thai person could almost certainly not identify Trump any more than I could some old Thai king. They'd just shrug and say, "that orangutang is too orange, 'looks fake".

A good example of this is my wife's daughter. She's very uneducated (by choice), BUT she can reliably think up a pretty funny joke, on the spot, that's directly applicable to the situation at hand. That is a kind of intelligence: she can survey and analyze what's in front of her and create an unique -and usually somewhat useful- response, and do so quickly. If ONLY she would go into sales. As to the rest of your post, I think of people pretending to worry about multiple genders and wokeness as a kind of leaning into a sheeple inclination. My take: since this stuff has never encroached on my life one iota, and never will, worrying about it is neurotic. And neurosis is a stumbling block to directly knowing the world.

-The wet dream mating call of the incel loser. Do you think "the wokes" patronize the happy hour dumps that you call home?

This stuff never happened to anyone else in the history of the universe, and yet it happened to Trump 87 times -that we know of. OK, they moan about Trump Derangement syndrome. But what about agog, slack-jawed, complete suspension of disbelief syndrome?

If I wanted to have sex with someone who hates me, I'd hit up my ex-wife.

We do Air BNB. The agent takes a whopping 25%. But they do every last thing and market the property. The agent rejects 95% of properties offered to her. Air BNB is very competitive. You need a good property AND a good location.

My wife had a stupid Grateful Dead sticker on her fender -left over from the previous husband. I was out there with hot water and a scrubby pad. Redneck trash had a lot of fake vet PTSD stickers warning that "they might go off". Too funny. I'm never going to set foot in TrumpTrash-land again. You?

I had in inlaws in Appalachia who would often express an intense interest in somehow breaking up a flag-burning -"Man, if I ever see that, I'd lose my sheet." How would that even come up? I've been to dozens of lefty demo's. No flags at all, burned or un-. Another righty fake testosterone self-own.

There's a whole lot of interesting people who are dumb as rocks -and a whole of smart people who will put you straight to sleep. If I'm picking......

Yeah, mystifying. Like a generic donut freely available at any Central Mall. The power of branding -huge with our Chinese friends. Also: Toberone chocolate bar -ever knowingly bought outside of Duty Free?

When I was living in The American South, I went into a Confederate Flag store and the Trump hats all had made in China stickers. I said the owner: "Hat made in China. Election faked in Russia". And the redneck said: "Whatever it takes".

It's better to be interesting than smart. Anyone can fall off a log and be smart.

You need a little wax just like you need a few ear hairs -to catch micro particles that could lead to an infection. Don't be too control-freaky about ear wax. If you over-clean your ears, they will just franticly make more wax. Hydrogen peroxide slightly damages that tender inner ear skin (which leads to more wax to repair it). The water syringe method is not as good as the mini-suction technique (about 600 baht in Chiang Mai). If you're really waxed to the max, they may put some drops in to make it more liquid and easier to suction out. Hard and soupy ear wax present diff problems. One time, I went deaf after water got trapped behind the wax after swimming in a pool. It was a 4 hour process to get it out. A dark brown piece, as hard as chocolate and the size of a pea still haunts me. Interesting problem: I love ear plugs for meditation. I learned not to force them all the way in. I was creating a hard wax buildup right next to my ear drums -which took some extra time and squirmy effort to liquify and get out. I've since moved on to noise cancelation ear buds.

There's a guy growing white asparagus inside of of an old army building near Champasek, Laos, so maybe you can.

I used to go to Nottinghill Carnival every year to hang out at the legendary Channel One sound system. Jamaicans and Trinadadians did not describe themselves as English. They were Jamaicans and Trini's.

Can't think of a single thing that I wanted to do and have not already done some version of. I am jaded and spoiled. My dream would be to want something really badly and have to sweat a bit to get it. Neither of those dreams are currently possible. Other than that, better health for my wife.

The crazy MAGA-orange make-up is now just completely out of control. In a horror movie, where the more demented the star becomes, the more flame-like his skin gets, you'd call it too obvious. He looks increasingly devil-possesed -which goes good with his whole stench of the undead-thing. Smite him, Lord!

Literally millions of Trump voters live within 10 miles of both the courthouse and Mara Lago. And yet maybe a few dozen might show up at either location on given day. I guess they don't really love him long-time.

Jesse Watter's head is almost perfectly flat. I'm surprised his co-hosts don't rest drinks on it.

I worry less about the woke brigade than I do about a Martian invasion. But if a person who grew up in Scotland and was of African descent described themselves as such, it would be no biggie to me.

I think of Black as a neutral, non-offensive descriptor. African American became more popular in the 90's in the states as a show of respect. Notice that Obama is almost always referred to as the first African American President, and much less so as the first black one. Americans are def always in flux on racial descriptors. Toni Morrison, a great black writer, referred to Bill Clinton as "the first black president", due to his poor background and embrace of black culture. It was a popular point of view, but has since fallen out of favor. Toni Morrison ultimately regretted saying it. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/books/toni-morrison-defended-championed-chastised-presidents-n1039591