JonnyF

It's not 'dumb'. It depends on who is using the phone. If it's some old granny it can take what seems like decades. And that's just them typing the passcode. I'm aware of that. But they always do because they want their "member points" or whatever. The 2 are not related but it further delays what shoyuld be a simple process. But you're missing the whole point. If we go cashless you can simply be "turned off" at the push of a button like Trudeau did to the truckers. Plus I don't really want the state having more access to my personal life than they already do.

So cynical. I was there later the same day.

The BBC once again showing it's desire to deliberately mislead. How much longer do we have to tolerate this garbage?

Clearly photoshopped. Unless he is kneeling which I very much doubt he is capable of. Like most things in the Biden era. Fake. Staged. Inauthentic.

A court ruling didn't say 99.9% of women haven't got a penis. Starmer did. The complete melt. 😃 https://news.sky.com/story/keir-starmer-says-99-9-of-women-havent-got-a-penis-as-he-faces-questions-over-trans-rights-12848438

It is when they are afraid to buy a product for fear of someone attacking it/them. But you already knew that.

Not only that, but they are destroying the standard of living of it's inhabitants in order to "achieve" it. Complete Muppetry.

Domestic terrorism by the left appears to have worked on this occasion. I hope it doesn't spur them on to greater acts of violence.

Clearly this cooling effect is only present in the flights of wealthy virtue signalling celebrities. When the plebs do it, it brings Doomsday one step closer.

Funny how the gays want their festival but object to the straights having theirs. "Get yo' hanths of our fethtival bitcheths. You're not spethial like uth". 😃

Yeah I love waiting behind someone finding/playing with their phone for 5 minutes to pay for a bar of chocolate. Especially when they have to tell the cashier their phone number 3 times.

Well done Trump. Brilliant job. I hope Starmer is watching how a real man leads a country.

Only in your mind. In the actual vote, they voted to Leave. I never expected Starmer to respect that though. The man has no principles.

They can't stop a Dinghy, but they want to stop the sun. 😃 Failed state.

Reversing Brexit, one step at a time. What a surprise.

You appear to have missed most of the major news stories of the past 9 months. 😃

The guy is a weather vane. Totally spineless. Stands for nothing. Or sometimes everything. Total clown.

This is absolutely shocking. You cannot celebrate being Straight. Or White. Or Christian. What WAS he thinking? I'm literally shaking. We must kneel at the altar of LGBTQ+ ideology. We must pay reparations to atone for our whiteness. We must be prepared to be arrested for silently praying in public. We are the lowest of the low and must accept it and apologize for it. Everyone knows this. Now excuse me, I need to make a TikTok video of me bawling into the camera.

The evidence suggests otherwise.

Yeah I must confess I do the same. If I'm up at the farm (where there are not many foreigners) and I see another white dude then I'll say to the GF "I saw another farang this morning outside the 711" or wherever. It's just a lazy description, easier than saying Caucasian or "Gentleman who appeared to be of European descent". The only time I object to such things is when there is a double standard i.e. when people can use slang for Caucasians (farang, cracker, gringo, whitey, gammon or whatever) but get mortally offended when a white person uses anything but the latest PC term for another race. The double standard is most common amongst virtue signalling Liberals. They are happy to say Gammon/Karen/Redneck but if you dare say coloured person instead of person of colour they'll try and get you locked on a 10 stretch for hate crimes against humanity.

Unfortunately he was wrong. Farang essentially means Caucasian. Someone of European descent. Not any old foreigner. They don't call Chinese, Indians or Koreans, Farang.

I thought her post was nasty and stupid. Certainly ill considered. That's why she took it down after an hour. But you are misrepresenting what she actually said. She wasn't encouraging anyone to do anything. She said do it "for all I care". In other words, she doesn't care if you do it or not. That is different to encouraging someone to do it. If I said to you "Go on holiday to Samui for all I care", it doesn't mean I want you to go there. I am not demanding or even encouraging you. It just means I don't care if you do or you don't. Same as "if that makes me a racist then so be it". That doesn't mean she was saying "I am a racist". It's like if I said "I'm think I'm going to have half a shandy once a week, if that makes me a raging alcoholic then so be it". That is not a confession of raging alcoholism. It certainly gave them an opportunity to make an example of her though. Even so, they went way OTT with the sentence. Especially considering her loss of a young child and subsequent PTSD. I think if you were being honest you would admit that instead of posting your usual reply of "check the court records" which you will probably do again. 😆

AOC is too far left IMO. They need someone just a smidge to the left of centre, not someone with radical opinions on pretty much every subject. It will alientate the centre ground/swing voters.

There is no doubt that Thai people often expect more respect than they tend to give others. A couple of examples... 1. The use of farang, negro, Kaek etc. when only "Khon Thai" will do for them. 2. The uproar when a Thai flag with a Man City logo/slogan was waved at the City ground under Thaksin's ownership, meanwhile flipflops, underwear and various other tat is sold with other countries flags on them all over Thailand. I don't think it's intentional, I just think that like leftists they are oblivious to their double standards.

Here's my take on it. 1. It is not generally intended as a sign of disrespect. 2. They do however know many foreigners do not like it. 3. They use it anyway.