JonnyF

It only works one direction I'm afraid. They'd love to have a black woman playing James Bond, but try using a white guy to play The Black Panther from Marvel and all hell would break loose. They're fine with black women straightening their hair, but show them a white guy with dreadlocks and it's "cultural appropriation" ????. Gotta love the Wokies and their double standards. As for this Pride whopper, I don't see the harm. Surely it's about 2 men or 2 women being together. Not anal sex. I mean, does a regular burger with different buns represent hetero sex? They try and do something to show support for LGBT and LGBT get all outraged by it. They shouldn't have wasted their time. Some people just love to be offended, it's like a hobby for them.

I know a few who have left already, mainly for financial reasons due to Covid ruining their business. Personally I like it. It's not perfect but you learn to mostly avoid the bad things and focus on the good things. The only bad thing I cannot avoid are the roads. Incredibly dangerous and I do at least a couple of thousand kms per month. I have no plans to leave any time soon although my family sending me pics of their Mediterranean holidays does make me think about it sometimes. Clean beaches, beautiful water, cheap food and drink, looks great.

I can explain it to you. But I cannot understand it for you. It's a fairly basic concept we are talking about here. Maybe try addressing the points I made. Rather than pretending I said something else and refuting that.

If you believe that saying that something is politically problematic is the same as claming that it is unlawful then I am afraid that is your comprehension issue, not an issue of my misrepresentation. Thanks for demonstrating that so succinctly.

Well, if someone says "The sky is blue", and you retort with "Ah, but grass is green" then yes, I suppose you can claim to be correct on some kind of level. However, you have also demonstrated that you are unable to disprove the original statement. So thanks for that ????.

I didn't say it would have been unlawful, did I? I said that politically it would have been very problematic and huge pressure would have been put on us to follow the EU debacle had we still been a member (perish the thought). As for the link, yes some countries have caught up now. But that wouldn't have helped the people dying while the EU was playing political games and messing up the rollout in 2020/2021. The UK vaccine rollout was streets ahead during that critical period.

Let's face it. Nobody does these occasions quite like The British. What a reign. What an image. Marvellous.

He was never a hero. Likewise, he is far from zero now. A silly headline. Brexit was a sound move though. Why do you think Putin is highlighting otherwise? Brexit also made the vaccine rollout much quicker by removing political barriers which would have made going our own way on vaccines much easier. The EU made a right mess of it early on and many EU countries still have a relatively low % of adults fully vaccinated compared to the UK.

Well that's a slightly different point but I will address it anyway. IMO 2 years is too early to conclude on the economic side of things. You can't unravel decades of EU rules, regulations and incompetence in 2.5 years. Neither can you sign all potential trade deals in that timeframe but I believe long term (10-20 years) it will prove beneficial. In terms of escaping the EU federalist project and regaining our sovereignty and democracy, it was absolutely worth it. I prefer the decisions affecting our country are made by politicians that we elect, not some unelected technocrat in Brussels. You can't really put an economic price on that.

What does that have to do with wishing death on Boris Johnson?

Ironically, it was the anti Democratic Remainers that provided him with the perfect platform. All he had to do was say that he would deliver what the people voted for. Bam. Landslide victory. It really was that simple. There's an important lesson in there there somewhere about not disrespecting voters, but it might be too complicated for the extreme, anti-democractic Remain/Rejoin factions to see. Jo Swinson learnt it the hard way.

It will blow over. A week is a long time in politics. He's safe for another 12 months.

Charming. I assume you are one of the lefty 'be kind' brigade?

It's got a blue tank and a white lower fairing. One pic is from the top (with the bike facing left) and one from the bottom (with the bike facing right). It would have looked like this before it cartwheeled down the road.

I don't believe he is. My gf always used to shoo me away when she was browsing clothes at the Phuket night market for the same reason. Once she'd agreed the price she'd give me the nod and I'd come back to give my opinion on the piece of clothing she'd chosen before buying it. Same reason, if she was 'mia farang' the price went up. And she was paying so she didn't want me there while negotiating.

Hero to Zero? He got Brexit done, negotiated the country's way through Covid and has just won a no confidence vote meaning he is immune to a leadership challenge for 12 more months. Best of all, the cherry on the icing on the cake is that the main opposition is the Labour Party, consisting of the likes of Dianne Abbot, David Lammy, Angela Rayner and led by Keir Starmer ????. So no matter how bad he looks (and he has looked pretty bad at times), the clowns opposite him always make him look mildly competent by comparison. Hardly Zero. Sitting pretty would be a more accurate description.

Never in doubt. Immune from a leadership challenge for 12 months. The BBC and the haters must be disappointed ????.

Maybe that's because the bars and clubs have already been open for months, using a restaurant licence.

Same here. I used to go out of my way to support the local Mom and Pop style businesses, or the market vendors, street food sellers etc. even when it was less convenient for me. Until they inevitably started trying to rip me off and then I switched to the likes of Tesco where we all customers pay the same price irrespective of race. Same as I used to go to the parks and spend cash there when they used to accept a drivers licence to pay the local rate. Haven't been in years now. They really do shoot themselves in the foot sometimes.

Maybe they could extend the practice. 2 prices for everything at the 711. A can of beer, 40 Baht for Thai and 200 Baht for foreigners. Think of it as a discount for the poor downtrodden locals, even those who arrive in a 7 million Baht Benz. They could even have separate menus/prices at the restaurants with Thai prices in Thai script to hide the scam from tourists. Oh wait a minute they already do that, bless 'em ????.

Looks like a 2006 GSXR 1000 with badly worn tyres. Bikes that age don't tend to have electronic rider aids like ABS or traction control to bail you out of trouble. In this case, most likely a tourist on a poorly maintained rental. Hopefully he's got insurance and isn't too badly injured.

So how come the 'discounted' price always stays the same, but the 'normal' price constantly changes based on government policy, the mood of the cashier etc? It's clearly an arbitrary increase for foreigners, not a discount for locals. You are twisting it to make it sound like the well thought out, fair rules that apply elsewhere instead of the racist, constantly fluctuating, shady practice that it is. In other places, it's based on residency, not ethnicity or nationality. PS aren't you a Scottish Farang?

I didn't know we were still allowed to be exclusively attracted to 'people with wombs' as they are now fondly, and so eloquently referred to. I've never really got the "Gay Pride" thing to be honest. Why would someone be proud of an immutable characteristic? It's like proud of being tall, or having blonde hair, or being White/Asian or whatever. The sooner we think of being gay/bi/straight as a morally neutral fact that is deserving of neither pride nor shame the quicker we can move on to more important issues.

Please don't insult our intelligence by pretending that Covid is the reason for any of this.

My dog loves Durian. Fortunately, he is tee-total.