JonnyF

We called him PsychoKrueger. It's a bit of a mouthful so I normally just call him Psycho for short. Only kidding. His name is Franky. I trust that meets your approval? It's been really wet up on the farm so not much exercise for 2 weeks. As a result, he's been causing mayhem, as per usual. ????

Negotiations being done in public. A little classless if I may say so. But I have to admit, 200 Billion is one heck of a bribe to keep Italy on side. The EU clearly know what's at stake if they were to leave. The house of cards is clearly teetering on the brink of collapse. Bribes to dissatisfied nations will only delay the inevitable.

It is a problem because as a UK citizen I do not care what French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Polish MEPs vote for, and I do not want their votes affecting legislation being implemented in the UK. Because I am a citizen of the UK. Not a citizen of Europe. I want legislation to be passed in the UK Parliament, not the European Parliament. It was supposed to be a trading bloc. Not the United States of Europe.

Italy is a net contributor. Meaning they put in more than they get out. I've already provided links to show this. Unless by support, you actually mean regulations banning them from acting autonomously... The Washington Post is a rag. It's the equivalent of quoting The Daily Star. But hey, if that's the only source you can find to back up your points...

That's an opinion, not a fact. Here is another opinion. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/30/italy-eu-face-big-risk-of-potential-far-right-victory-ex-pm Personally I believe that Italy will try to renegotiate their terms with the EU. A bit like Britain did. We all know how that went.

So now they are dressing up even tighter rules and regulations for Italy as 'protection' of Italy. Under threat of removing their funding (even though Italy is a net contributor to the federalist project as I have already demonstrated). Wow, Italy must be SO grateful. You gotta love the EU. ???? BTW, the Washington Post is notoriously ant British and anti Tory. I take their biased opinion pieces with a huge spoon of salt. Just one example of their nonsense below.

The chart shows the net contribution per year in Billions of Euros. That is what I am focusing on because that is what the EU will lose if/when Italy leaves. Per capita is not particularly relevant to the discussion. If the EU loses 7 Billion Euros per year net contribution I am not sure there will be particularly concerned about the 'per capita' amount compared to The Netherlands. They will be down 7 Billion Euros and 2 of the top 4 net contributors in terms of "Billions of Euros net contribution" will have left in under a decade. Of course, all of this talk of ranking and per capita contributions is your attempt to divert away from the fact that Italy is a large net contributor, and doesn't "need" the EU for grants as the other poster was trying to suggest. It's the old Europhile trick of claiming the EU 'gives them money', when in reality they are receiving back in funding much less from the EU than they put in (hence the term "Net Contributor"). Send me 1000 Baht, I'll return 400 and tell you to be grateful that I am "funding you" ????.

Let's look at net contributors then... Oh look, the UK moved up one place in the chart from 3rd to 2nd. Shame they left huh. Italy still in 4th place. https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/

I like Banksy's artwork, it's great. However, when you spray your art onto public walls, you kind of lose any rights to stop people looking at it without your consent. I'll go and take a look, assuming MOCA doesn't have a 10x for farang pricing policy.

Grants? Where does that money come from? You mean the EU is giving back some of the money Italy pays the EU every year... And for this, Italy should be grateful? EU logic... https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/eu-budget-contributions-by-country/

Just because the removal of sovereignty is gradual, does not mean it is not occuring. Despite the EU's best efforts to pretend it wasn't happening, many of us could see the direction of travel and didn't like it one bit. Hence we voted to leave, and left. True Democracy in action.

The EU doesn't like anyone who opposes their failing federalist project. Giorgia Meloni isn't really far right though, she is centre right. The left love to label anyone to the right of centre as 'far right' or 'alt right' in at attempt to discredit them, simply because they fear them. In this case however, the EU is probably right to fear them. They are against the globalist agenda of the EU and many of it's prominent leaders such as Macron. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Italexit back on the cards under Meloni. If that happened, it could well signal the end of the EU. And not a moment too soon IMO, had they remained a trading bloc it would have been fine but too many power hungry politicians saw it as an opportunity for empire building. Still, you live and learn.

Normally I step outside the back door and call the dog's name. It comes running to me, tail wagging. Sometimes I offer food as part of the deal, he's terribly partial to Pork Scratchings ????.

You're welcome.

I seem to recall you were supporting Truss for PM. I distinctly remember the TrussforPM hashtag on many of your posts during the leadership contest. So you got what you wanted. A true conservative as PM. ???? Let's see if this mini budget has the desired effect.

Tough times for the EU. I wonder if they'll also have issues with Italy's democracy, now that a right wing party has been elected ? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63029909

It seems under Truss we finally have a true Conservative government. I wonder how the left are feelling now? Having hounded Boris out, they may be wishing they had left things well alone. Certainly a gamble by Truss. Let's wait and see how it works out before crucifying her. Drastic times call for drastic measures, and the cost of lockdown crisis is certainly upon us. Many of us warned about the economic carnage that would result from locking people in their homes for months, but unfortunately we were ignored. Well here comes the carnage, better strap in.

She looks Caucasian to me. It's curious to me that Thais always talk about how beautiful Thai women are (and I agree) but seem to find beauty in women that don't look Thai. Whether that be European, Korean or whatever. A quick look at Miss Thailand contestants demonstrates this weird phenomenon. No brown skin or slanted eyes to be seen. I'm sure there's a psychological study in there somewhere.

How I gonna hit the bong with a mask on? Anutin clearly hasn't thought this through.

Actually, the ancestors of PitBulls were bred for aggression towards dogs and bulls, not people. Aggression towards humans was an undesirable trait since in the days of dog fighting and bull baiting the dogs lived with the family of the owner, often in cramped conditions. Similarly, they had to be handled by humans during the fight and the handlers did not want to be turned on. Such dogs that showed human aggression were not considered ideal for breeding, so aggression towards humans is NOT in their DNA, unlike other breeds of dog that were bred to control human beings. As for humans being self aware, sentient and self conscious you may want to look at the atrocities being committed in the world right now, and over the past 100 years before you start bigging up the humans. They've done far more damage to each other and other animals than dogs could/would ever do. That is not my opinion, it is a simple fact. If in doubt, you could start by looking at the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda, then draw a comparison to dog bites. As for my comments regarding the holocaust, your faux outrage is wasted on me. There are clear ideological (allow me to repeat for clarity, ideological) similarities between the Nazis wanting to wipe out a specific race of people and ignoramuses on here wishing to wipe out specific breeds of dog. If I suggested wiping out the black population in the USA because they commit more crimes per capita than other ethnic groups you would be horrified and rightly so, yet you advocate the same thing based on the same flawed logic for a breed of dog that you dislike.

No my dog is not trained to attack or kill intruders. Thats all in your head. Most dogs protect their territory. It is instinct. So do mine. Not only the pitbull, all of them. Using your logic... Humans kill. In fact they kill way more humans every year than dogs do. You haven't killed 'yet'. But you are a potential killer human. An accident waiting to happen. How long before someone flips YOUR switch? Shall we put you down? Or how about we do the stats on which 'race/breed' kills the most people and wipe THEM out? Sounds legit... Nature > Nurture and all that... 1940's style. Sieg Heil. Wipe out 'zee pitbull'. ????

Same here. 2 of our Thai dogs were left by the previous owner of the land hence couldn't be trained until their later years. They are WAY more trouble than my pitbull.

Oh dear. It's all becoming a bit tiring????. My (rather obvious?) point is that the problem is the owner, not the dog. The example re. my particular dog is simply to demonstrate to the hard of understanding that when trained properly and handled responsibly they are no problem at all. Any dog in the wrong hands is potentially dangerous. Get it now ?

That's exactly how it is. My pitbull doesn't roam around free in the village. He has an exercise yard on our farm which is made of chainlink fence which mainly serves to keep other dogs in the village away from him as they are very aggressive and I prefer they dont fight each other, but also to stop him wandering onto the road and getting run over. A child couldn't just wander in there as the other poster suggested. My analogy was not about cars but about deliberately going out of your way to place a child into an imaginary, far fetched situation where it could get hurt to prove your point. You're clutching at straws.

Again, in English please.