ignoramus

Thanks sbk, I didn't expect a reply, but you were kind enough to elucidate. Most interesting.

simple, I note that your need to misinterprate continues. If my post/s is/are 'irrelevant', are not your replies?

If you want to have another go, kindly directly quote the sentence where I included the words "Arabic men on welfare" [or whatever you think comes closest to that...

Reading between the lines is a cheap trick [and fraught with peril].

Your manipulativeness hasn't worked.

I'll return to this just the one more time to see what you can invent. Should be good for a chuckle. Otherwise, finito for me.

Very early this morning, I see "Sign In" [and of course my username doesn't appear]. I return to my email [out of TV i.e.]. I make a cup of "tea", return to TV and there I am.

Now, many hours later, again no name, just 'Sign In'. Box appears - I key my 'day 1' email address and 'day 1' password [with one finger just to be sure], and am told I am wrong.

I click on Forum Support, have a little read, and lo and behold I see my Username.

Not asking for help, just reporting, as I feel this may be an insurmountable 'glitch' .

Thanks,

ignoramus.

Dear simple1 [appropriate nomenclature], you, like cloudhoppe, CHOSE to entirely miss my point. To what end one wonders.

I was merely replying to cloudhopper's rather silly and emotional accusation that I was a racist. My response did not directly address the death of the Swedish citizen, per se [though the undignified placement of the gentleman's body was such that one could not but feel for him - and his family - and hence feel deep sympathy].

As for his being a Swedish man - I rather think that Harry or Jock is not the first name of ANY Arabic man - repeat ANY ARABIC MAN - in the middle east or anywhere. Arabic CITIZEN perhaps.

Omar was doubtless a Swedish citizen as stated on his passport but he wasn't a Swedish man with THAT name, unless his heart was or had been in Sweden rather than his country of origin. If this fact was KNOWN then he was indeed a SWEDISH MAN. It's the heart that counts, mate. The 'eart, mate.

I will always be an Australian man, regardless of my place of domicile - even though I may love that place, and never want to leave.

My feeling is that your response was FAKE. Try reason. It works. Try authenticity. That works too.

'Ave a go at faking it, if it don't come natural like. Mate.

Oh dearie me cloudhoper, try really hard to avoid the all too common knee-jerk reaction syndrome. Try free-thinking.

Read the sentence FOLLOWING the one you quote -- the point at which you stopped reading.

I work with 150+ people. The two nicest people - by far - are Philipino and Pakistani.

BUT, mate, they love my country.

C'est la difference, mate.

Too many here HATE my country, yet greedily grasp its welfare system, and abuse us as non-believers [whatever that means].

Omar a Swedish name? Sven is. And Ingemar methinks. In Australia, we often see newspaper headlines such as, for example, "Aussie killed in Tashkent" - you name the place dear reader.

One needs to get into the story to realise the headline refers to a person who might have obtained citizenship 2 weeks earlier, and immediately returned home for a bit of a brag with her/his shiny new passport.

Such people are accorded equal status with, for example, 6th generation citizens whose forefathers fought - and died - to protect this country in one or more major wars. This of course is perfectly fine if such people actually love this country, intend to die here, and would fight for it. Otherwise it's just politically correct rubbush. But this is Oz in 2012.

This poor gent might have been a Swedish citizen, but this tells the casual reader nothing about his ethnicity.

"RIP" posters - leave them alone dear reader. They need to increase their post rate, and the few seconds it takes to type 3 letters has to be efficiency itself!

Agree 100% with Pdavies 99 re you Sydneycraig. You need to forgo your adolescent desire merely to increase your post rate.

Sadly you reveal you identity as an Aussie. If you can, change it, unless you intend to be HELPFUL in future!

Puhlease don't embarrass us sensible Aussies.

I am truly sorry that I [1] don't have time to read the whole thread, meaning I may have missed Sheryle's response and [2] that you waited longer than 72 hours to have the shingles looked at. It's going to be a problem for a while. I had it and the first symptom was a sensitive scalp, which I ignored, then a rash on the chest [not ignored], and got it in time [72 hours]. Best advice I can give is maintain your immune system at peak levels. Alcohol, smoking don't help. I indulge in both, but them I am a silly person.

Warming things up automatically makes them colder. The logic is inescapable, n'est ce pas? If you want to warm your beer up, chuck an ice block into them thar bubbles. Simple as 1, 2, 3. n'est ce pas? How hard is it? Gotta love Newspeak.

Oh BTW, swimming is also very good for the body's 'smooth' muscles.

The Australian standard for 'alternative medicine' supplements is world's best practice, and is administered by a body called the Therapeutic Goods Administration. It is superior to any equivalent body in the U.S. Blackmores makes a saw palmetto product, but I forget the name. This company has been around for 70+ years. It is sadly expensive both here in Oz and LOS. I think their site is blackmores.com.au. Bioglan is another reputable company but I don't know about their availability in LOS. If money is no object then Blackmores is a no-brainer.

Youngmac, you and animatic joined in the same week nearly 5 years ago. Animatic has posted over 10,000 times, you twice. Are you one of those people who has what is sometimes described as "a life". If true, what is you secret?

No offence to you animatic, as I'm on TV way too much [being a person who is without a "life", so far anyway.

A fault under Thailand? Where is Mae Hong Son. I need to retire elsewhere.

I enjoy  Ulysses' posts,  so there.    What  else is relevant?       Great photo bunta71.    A happy snap.     Most would by rights be envious.    Goodness gracious methinks I too am.

Mr Rimmer, I have just spent an hour transposing many posts from this topic to a word doc and you tell me it's 3 years old. OMG I'm a dunce.

[Though I expect prices would be no more double by now].

Some brilliant posts here. I understand that females are far more practical than are males, whilst males tend towards the truly romantic [biological imperatives would seem to support this view]. Which gender writes all those gooey lerve songs for example.

When in the mood the gals can behave incredibly 'romanticly', overcome with emotion and all that stuff, but it's only in the moment.

The need to be constantly upgrading seems to me to be a fairly universal phenomenon though [Hollywood provides some nice examples]. Elephants too: young females, once got at, prance around joyously with tails aloft [get my drift?] inviting competitors to have a go. Upgrading in quick-time. As Costanza said, or was it Jerry, you've got to have 'hand'. As someone here said, maintain the upper hand, stay cool. Don't submit, be submitted to. [sorry about the prepostion ending the sentence]. I've added little but god it felt good.

No problems for me last October, either in or out. No major delays. Taxi to pattaya was arranged without probs Maybe I'm a patient person, though I doubt that's it..

Google 'Blackmores vitamins', then search for 'lutein vision advanced'. Blackmores quality control is worlds best practice. They've been around for 70 years.

Nice post NancyL, especially the point about humor/whimsy.

If the egg doesn't float in water it's OK.   I've eaten 2 raw yolks daily for years without mishap.   If I wasn't lazy I'd cook them.

Was in a minivan, with other foreign tourists, some years back heading to Phuket airport. Driver thought a cute trick would be to overtake approaching the crest of of a hill. Nobody squeaked, but I screamed rather loudly at the dumbass driver -- he complied. Think the other passengers were Europeans. They were obviously still in holiday mode. Pathetic all around. Is it the religion I wonder. Self-preservation sure ain't the first rule in the dear old LOS

Terrific story Mark, but by god you can talk. Don't mind me...I'm shy.

Nice one bitterbatter, though it should be beerbatter....much tastier. Nice ones too, Nanlaew (as usual) and Huey. Love the chap who said he had a decent quid but described a peasant as a pheasant; then again pheasants aren't cheap. I understand Prince Charley shoots and eats 'em when he ain't talking to plants and telling us to consume less. The chappy who said 20k Euro isn't much money to have lying around should really be overlooking Central Park from the Waldorf Astoria, yes? And driving a Ferrari or 3. Love you mate. So quaint.

If she licks you, she appreciates you, and your largesse. Do you require more? Dogs want [need] a pack leader, not a buddy. Puhhlease let's not discuss lerve, far too complicated a subject. More comments from dumbass cat-haters please. I'll get back to you.

I seriously don't know if the people who talk about Thailand as a hub for organic food are kidding themselves or believe they can kid the potentially interested public. I wonder which class they think would salivate over the prospect of organic food. The middle class, the upper class? Internationally, who would believe it was a serious possibility...

The average Joe in Australia doesn't give a fig about the organic label, and it's been coming for 15 years or so

On my second to last [very recent] trip to Thailand [in '94] I read an article in The Nation about the spraying-of-crops-with-wild-abandon. I can't help but imagine that it's got worse rather than 'better'.

It's a bit of a giggle, in my less than erudite opinion. But then again maybe there are various bureaucrats and others who are paid big bucks to produce big but silly ideas. Happens here.

If you ever wondered what the word "surrealism" meant this is the perfect example. The funniest story I think I'll ever read, from anywhere.