FolkGuitar

The irony, lol.

Oh, so very much! A little research shows that you have posted 2600 times here in 9 years, and I have made 5700 posts here in 18 years. Roughly the same for you as me... 🙂 Kettle?

Attention whores on the Internet. These days, the computer has become a central entertainment device in most homes. It's a shame such a powerful tool for information, communication, and entertainment has to get overrun with people whose personal self-worth is based on getting 'likes' from complete strangers. For some of these, it doesn't even have to be 'likes.' Any response, even negative ones, reinforces their self-worth. Current events in the Middle East don't affect my life here in Thailand. Even the political nonsense going on in the US today will really have very little effect on the rest of my life (Hey, we've only got a few more years, right?) What does affect my day-to-day life here is the Internet. It's a shame to see it getting clogged up with nonsense just because some people need to have others react to them, regardless if it's a positive or negative reaction... just so there is SOME reaction to them. It's graffiti. 'Hey, Mom! Look at meeee!'

With several different identities, it becomes quite easy. My question is how does he keep straight under which name to post?

I wonder if one of the AI bots could give us a figure for the number of people (we could do it for Thailand alone if we wanted to, I suppose, but that would really throw off the numbers,) who have found foreign objects in our food? Sometimes it seems as if the whole world is becoming petty.

Unless your shape at 80k looks like you're hiding a basketball under your shirt, you sound like you are actually not in 'such' bad condition. Yes, you're a few kilo overweight... but not so much. You could take that off in a few months if you cared to. At least your stomach doesn't enter the room 60 seconds before the rest of you gets there. I see so many guys looking like that today. I'm pushing 78yrs, weigh 71 kilo, and my blood pressure, unless sick, is ALWAYS around 120/70, give or take 10 points. I eat a very high-fat diet (80% fat, 15% protein, and 5% carbs,) and use a LOT of salt in my diet, adding it to most foods, and have done so for many, many years. I have serious questions about relying upon the 70yr-old anecdotal nutrition guidelines we learned when we were in elementary school, preferring the more modern peer-reviewed scientific studies being done these days. You sound as if you are pretty healthy. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Obviously, Thais have never ridden the subways and trains in Japan on a Friday night after 11 pm. There are signs outside most train stations telling people not to urinate on the walls of the station... but by 11 pm no one listens. Stinks bad!

This might surprise some people as it's a radical concept, but... If you want to reduce bad public behavior, be it excessive noise, drunk driving, or walking around the city half-naked... ... perhaps a policeman or two 'regularly' stationed (as opposed to one night a year, well advertised,) where the bad behavior goes on 'might' reduce the numbers. To date (and I've been here almost 25 years) I've not seen this tactic being used, just repeated complaints about the problem. I know that has been shown to work fairly well in other locales.

Do I understand correctly? Thailand wants tourism. Thailand complains that tourism is flagging. Then Thailand complains when they come? Thailand advertises the Full Moon Party that attracts thousands of young tourists every single month, to a beach party (NOTE: Bikinis, alcohol, bare skin... things usually seen on a beach.) Thailand complains about bikinis, alcohol, and bare skin. Thailand advertises Pai as a resort town with river tubing (NOTE: Bikinis, alcohol, bare skin... things usually seen when river tubing, attracting thousands of young tourists every month. Thailand complains about bikinis, alcohol, and bare skin. Wake up, Thailand. Young people like to party. Young people like sex! (OMG!) If you are going to advertise activities for young people, young people are going to come to participate... bringing all their 'young people, and perhaps childish' behaviors with them. Don't ask for it and then complain about it. That's just childish behavior, too. That said, there is no reason that these young people should walk around Chiang Mai in bathing suits, to say nothing of Pai...

Mods, please close this thread. I have already discovered the information I need. They do NOT have the same sort of online menu as the others. Thanks.

Help please. I'm able to locate the online sites for Tops Supermarket and Makro, but can't find anything similar for Rimping. I feel as if there must be one and I just can't find it! Do YOU have a link to an online order page that is NOT from the Line app? Thanks.

What about it? Two air purifiers in the house and an N95 mask when we go out. Our activities don't change much during Burning Season. We still play our sports every day, eat in restaurants, explore new areas. Too much to see and do to just hang around in bed. After 30 years of marriage, we find it OK to just smile and hold hands for a few minutes when waking up in the morning.

Never. I wake up around 6:30, get out of bed immediately, and don't see the inside of the bedroom again until around 11:30 pm getting ready for bed. There is just too much to do here in Chiang Mai to waste it lying in bed!

Same general problem last week with Grab... I hadn't used one in a year or so, and remembered fairly good service... back then. Last week I booked a Grab taxi to pick me up at a shop just outside of Warrarote Market. However, the ride was accepted by a driver near Airport Plaza who then told me he had one stop to make first. So... not only a driver on the opposite side of the city from my pickup point but one still engaged in delivering another passenger! This was 1pm mid-week. No real traffic to speak of. I guess long waits have become the norm, too.

I do. And I can see how you are working hard to deflect my comments by pretending you didn't know what I was referring to. Sorry... I won't debate with people who use such sophomoric tricks to avoid answering questions.

What? Since when does Trump control the DOJ or FBI? His own private hit squad? Aren't these agencies supposed to be non-biased politically? Or are you no longer in favor of Democracy?

How much did the RNC have to pay to create such a fake attack?

P5

So then, as I said at the very beginning, it's no longer about politics. It's about morals.

So then, as I said at the very beginning, it's no longer about politics. It's about morals.

1. The members of my Stop Smoking Support group use a meter on our computers to keep track of several things. It serves as great positive feedback when we see the numbers increasing. To date, I have saved or not burned up $170,251.00 USD since I stopped smoking. This figure is based on an average price of a pack of 20 sold in various countries where I've lived. smoked at a pack and a half a day which was my norm. That would pay for a few flights.' 2. The patches are a nicotine delivery/replacement device only. For the time that I had the patches on in the airports, I had no craving to smoke as my body was getting the drug it needed. They are very effective for this purpose. Used with the proper mental frame of mind, patches are an effective quit aid. Used alone, they are not. 3. You quoted me saying "That was 25 years ago, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since." Why would I want to put nicotine into my body now? Please explain.

Trump and the Republican Party needed no outside help to make America look bad. They managed to do it very well without any. But I'm pretty lucky. I'm old. I'll be dead in a few years and won't have to witness the long-term results if he gets elected again.

Do we interpret your comment to mean that you will vote for anyone who can speak, regardless of the fact that they are convicted felons? Found guilty by many different juries of his peers in American courts of law. Not 'fake news.' American law courts. He's a criminal. If you think it's OK to follow a known criminal who has been found guilty of fraud, sexual improprieties, failure to fill or pay contracts, cheating on his spouse... sorry, but the list can just go on and on says more about your morals. You are not someone I would want around my children.

The videos of him speaking them himself can be found in every news source. Not reports of him saying these things, but he himself speaking them. If you haven't seen them, it may be because you've only been watching the Fox Entertainment shows and not news.

It's no longer about Politics. It's about morality. That anyone can follow a convicted felon who publically mocks handicapped people, a racist, bigoted misogynist who speaks like a 4th grader, and repeatedly cheats on his wives, boggles the mind. It's no longer about politics. Your morals suck. Can you really call yourselves the Party of Family Values with a straight face? (If you're going to quote me or reply, try hard not to mention Obama or Clinton in your argument... I know it's going to be difficult.)