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Sixteen year old 'towel girls' at Mar-a-Lago. Sixteen year old girls working at a beach club spa. Why? Any comments @riclag? Is that considered normal?

I think some really aren't quite getting the topic of conversation 😊 Unwittingly providing us all with some entertainment. We call them "curtain twitchers". AI Overview A "curtain twitcher" is a British slang term for someone who enjoys watching their neighbours, often from behind a curtain, to see what they are doing. It implies a degree of nosiness and is often used in a slightly disapproving or humorous way. Here's a more detailed explanation: Meaning: The term refers to the act of subtly observing others, typically from a window, while trying not to be seen. Origin: The phrase is believed to have originated in the 1940s, coinciding with the popularity of net curtains in British homes according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Connotation: While not always negative, "curtain twitcher" often carries a sense of disapproval or mild mockery, suggesting someone who is overly interested in the lives of others.

I thought he was referring to something like this: https://www.aconatic.com/aconatic/cantegory/Speakers & Stereo/Multi Speaker

Report from 2007: *The source was likely Trump or "John Barron" his pseudonym. https://pagesix.com/2007/10/15/sex-case-victims-lining-up/ There's more...much more. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-truth-finally-trickled-out-of-donald-trump-but-the-media-largely-ignored-it-opinion/ar-AA1JIxXo

@cjinchiangrai Indeed. A perfect demonstration of expat discontent.

@cjinchiangrai Get over yourself. Be rigid or stay fluid. Up to you. Let's introduce a dangerous criminal who has 800,000,000 baht and a kind and gentle person with whom you would trust with your family, who doesn't have 800,000 baht to spare. Who would you prefer as a neighbour? I don't waste my time thinking about such silly things as to whether someone used an agent to obtain a visa or not. What kind of life is that? This is Thailand. Life is more natural. That's why you are here. But thank you for your apt demonstration of expat discontent.

@Yagoda It seems you do not understand the meaning of that proverb. I'll explain it for you. It means if you hate you neighbour, you are creating hate within yourself. In other words, you are hating yourself. In your mind, you are hating the Dems and Leftists or whatever you imagine. But in reality it's all a manifestation of your mind. You are creating a world of hate for yourself. I do the opposite of that. I chose to love. Of course that is the opposite of hate. So you see me as an opposite. I'm a Dem and a Leftist. What is that? It's just something you have created. It's not me. I've nothing to do with politics at all. That doesn't even enter my mind. I just see a person who seems full of hate and is constantly ranting. You convince yourself that you are arguing with an enemy. I am just bemused and wonder if you are actually a real person. Don't waste your life on hate. It can easily become a habit that seems normal. It isn't. Believe me. There's a world of love. That's the true difference between heaven and hell. Fake and real. As first I thought you were just joking. But it's been going on for so long, that there is the concern that it's become a habit that you cannot break. If I opine about someone in the public eye, like Trump. It's not at all political. I may be commenting on morality. But through your prism, it's a political argument and you will defend the immoral. You create your world. It doesn't mean that it's actually the way that you imagine it. It's just that way for you. Love your neighbour and you will experience real love. That goes for all of the 'hateful' people on here.

@Yagoda That of course is not true. Trump lies. If you deny that, then...

Some people just cannot co-exist peacefully with others. They just want to spread their misery. I prefer to spread happiness and for others to have the same idea as me. It's my default. Thailand is great as there are very many people like this too. The miserable people cannot appreciate that.

@cjinchiangrai "illegal visas"....what fresh nonsense is this? No such thing. It's either valid or it is not. No...people behaving badly is what brings scrutiny.

Optics @theblether One day you'll understand. Calm yourself.

@theblether largest trade deal? it's all optics.

@theblether What is that pile of 💩 you have just posted? The X thing was long ago. In fact he quoted that it was in support of Bolsanaro. Please post quotes from the Trump administration that back up your assertion. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250731_07 Naked politics? You make it sound so very normal.

Then there is the ludicrous MAGA assertion that countries are scrambling to make a deal with the U.S.A. Can ANY of them provide evidence of that? Last I heard Scott Bessent was saying exactly the opposite, that most countries were simply ignoring them. Hence, the letters going out. Trump LIES to his domestic audience. When are they going to understand that?

I go cycling at night in London to avoid the traffic and so I can suck in clear air. No set route and no restrictions on where I go. Always discovering and rediscovering. Not once has anyone approached me with a knife to stab me nor has anyone even looked threateningly at me. No attempts at criminality, nothing. What does happen is that every single person that I encounter, gives me a positive response to my greetings of good morning when the sun begins to rise. Every single person, regardless of colour, gender and age. In the parks, on the streets, everywhere. Another thing, via the grapevine I heard that my mum needed help with putting up a new fence and pruning her trees(mum doesn't complain nor tell me), so I put the feelers out to find someone to do the job for her. Next thing I hear was that a couple of boys of the neighbours down the road were over and offered to do the job. They didn't want paying. My mum insisted on giving them something. I didn't ask as what colour they were. Likely they saw mum climbing up the tree and sawing away. Treat people like humans and they will act like humans. London is great if you make it so. The miserable ones can make their way to Thailand, grab themselves a brown woman and throw stones at their country from afar. Miserable hypocrites.

@Celsius Austria, not Australia 🤦‍♂️

One of the unspoken reasons for the apparent change of demographic in London, is that not many can afford to live there anymore, without subsidies. I know, as I'm a Londoner born and bred. I'm one of the few of my peers who still lives in London. Most have moved to the suburbs and beyond. Immigrants were willing to live ten, twelve and more to a home, sharing costs, so being able to build property portfolios. Smaller British families pushed out as the burden of owning property is often too much for smaller families. They simply cannot afford to have large families. Why else do you think immigration does not stop, no matter how much every political party pretends that they want to stop it? Without people willing to have children, it would just be a nation of oldies on pensions, with not enough young people. They blame immigrants taking their council houses, but who was going to do the work that they refused to do? That they thought was beneath them? Of course those owning properties are happy when the value of their property is going up. Not caring that ordinary people can no longer get on the ladder. Gone are the days when a man's salary could support a family. Whose fault is that? Some will blame politicians selling everything off, but at the same time they took the money and ran. So many looking to blame others for their woes, but refuse to see the part they played in it. Personally, I haven't put the rent up in the apartment I rent out in more than ten years, as there is no reason for me to do so. I'm not going hungry. I love London, just as I also love being in Thailand. Some people just spend their whole lives complaining and feeling hard done by. That's why you don't ever see me complaining about either. It's like slagging off your own family to outsiders.

@proton I strongly disagree and here's why... These people have no effect on your life at all. It's just you creating unpleasant conflict in your mind and body in reaction to simply imagining a hypothetical situation. For me, that is akin to a kind of madness. The more enlightened simply create something much more pleasant for themselves. You create your own personal hell. That's sad...for you. But it's obviously your norm. A bad habit that you cannot quit. You fail to understand that you are the 'poor sop'. They may be living their best lives. Whereas you are on here regularly demonstrating your hate for the dogs, agents, poor people... You seem quite unhappy.

It's mildly amusing to see the comments from the 'misery guts' here, whining about people using agents, not meeting the financials and various other things that are really none of their business, but likely they don't see themselves as 'discontented expats'. 😊 Let's not mention the ones who are often complaining about other foreigners behaviour whilst tone deaf and blind to their own...

Another donkey 💩 thread...

@hotsun Man cannot live on eggs alone...

He states that US companies can import freely into the EU..... I doubt it.

@StayinThailand2much 👍 I have nothing against the success of anyone who presents and sells a good product.

I cannot even think of the last time that I bought an American product... Can anyone here, who is not from the USA? I do have an iPhone...which was likely made in China.

@StayinThailand2much No one is scared. They just look at their options and decide the best path to take...at that moment. As your teacher would tell you, it's not so much what you say, but what you do. Trumps previous 'trade deal' with China, came to nothing. He blamed Biden for that. We'll likely see it all happen again. Things will be said for expediency, but negotiations and caveats will be ongoing.