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On 9/21/2024 at 4:57 PM, proton said:

 

Deflecting again, this thread is about the airhead and the stolen valour chump

Wrong again.

Here is the correct thread heading.

Harris-Walz Campaign Opts for Media Silence as Election Nears.

The only thing about airheads and stolen valour is in your own tiny little mind.

On 9/21/2024 at 3:32 PM, proton said:

 

Don't the American public have a right to know what Harris's policies are and see her answering real questions, instead of the media grovelling to her and putting up with her NOT answering anything put to her?

Would that be instead of listening to the daily drivel from Trump or the daily lies of Vance?

On 9/21/2024 at 8:24 AM, 300sd said:

That's why they are keeping "her" in the basement. She's not drunk on power, she's just drunk.

Besides they really don't need her out there. The die is already cast!

More Trump BS.

Naturally you have the proof and links that Kamala Harris is just drunk and that YOU will post them asap. Otherwise your BS post is only an opinion, and not a good one at that.

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

How many questions does she take from the audience then. None?

 

Campaigning is sound bites and the faithful ones in the crowd. She needs to be asked the hard questions, so she needs to do interviews.

 

Given she probably has nothing but sound bites to offer it's probably a good strategy.

Unlike your hero Trump, she IS out every day talking to people to people face to face and NOT in a studio talking to 2 or 3 carefully selected talking heads, who offer carefully selected and scripted questions.

5 minutes ago, thesetat2013 said:

Very sad day if she wins simply because of the hate of another person... Shows the mentality of using evil to become a leader works. Makes me wonder what other evils she will accomplish if voted in the office. 

Is that anything like the hate that you spew out every day against her?

2 hours ago, thesetat2013 said:

funny because MSN has an article about this also saying she is hiding from the public using a strategy of some prince i think. 

Saying by hiding from the press she will be able to win just on those who hate Trump. Sounds familiar huh. So many here validating Harris just because they hate Trump. 

She is hiding from the public so well she is actually meeting them face to face instead of in a studio talking to a few carefully selected media talking heads as Trump is doing, whilst he is babbling away endlessly about Haitians in Springfield eating cats, dogs and other pets and talking about the election being rigged against him by the Democrats and the media. Meanwhile Vance is faithfully following in his masters footsteps by telling lies every day.

2 hours ago, advancebooking said:

I have to give a lift to a bar girl and drive from Pattaya to Burriam. Can anyone give me basic directions how to get out of Pattaya in the right direction. I have a fold out map but its confusing. 

 

Im not in Pattaya right now and cant work out how to use google maps making pattaya the start destination and burriam the end. Its all too hard. 

 

Please help. I dont want to fail on this mission. Oh and how many hours would that take?

thanks

If you can log into Google Earth you should be able to locate the start point and the lady can give you and end point in Buriram as the end point.

That will give you a route and the rough timing as it will depend a lot on your start time and also the weather. Heavy rain will probably slow you down a bit for safety.

If you are still stuck then send me a PM and I will see if I can sort a route out for you.

1 hour ago, connda said:

He from the Tuva areas of Russia and the primary form of Buddhism is one of the sects of Tibetan Buddhism. 

And she was a Thai Buddhist, which is not quite the same religion.

It started from the same roots 2,500 plus years ago, but like the Christian religion it split and divided many centuries ago.

For example, Buddhists in Sri Lanka allow women to become nuns and they can go all the way up as monks can and they have their own Sangha.

However, in Thailand they cannot as the Thai Sangha will not allow it.

5 minutes ago, connda said:

Ex-Russian-Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is a Buddhist.

Is he a Thai Buddhist, a Buddhist of the Tibetan school (approved by the government in Russia), or a different version.

That is like describing someone as a Christian. Is a true Christian, CofE, Catholic, CSFC, Lutheran, Russian Orthodox. Greek Orthodox or any other version of Christian?

47 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

Russian religion is Russian Orthodox interpretation of Christianity. It looks down on other religions. They won't care about the Buddhist rites, so I don't know where you would come up with there being a proper ceremony. Russia is the country which is famous for its pogroms of jews and for its systemic discrimination against  Polish and Lithuanian Catholics and Jehovah Witnesses. Today, Russia uses its  Yarovaya law to persecute and to imprison protestants. The Russian mentality hasn't changed since the time it  used to send its cossacks to massacre jews in the rural villages whenever the state needed an excuse to distract from the failures of the Russian state. The only thing that changed is the victims.

 

I just did an internet search for Buddhism in Russia and the results are quite interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia

Depending of course where she was living in Russia she may be able to get a Buddhist cremation, though it is unlikely to be a Thai Buddhist cremation.

On 9/20/2024 at 5:41 PM, chiang mai said:

Yes, but you can argue this a number of different ways. You could say that at least the country doesn't have massive social security/pension costs hanging over its head plus it's free of unions. Plus the debt level is not that high by comparison and it's all Thai debt, not foreign. In those regards the country is still its own master and not obligated externally. Western countries are now on the cusp of having to take things away from citizens because of massive debt overhang, Thailand at least is still at that point where it has an opportunity to get the way forward right, for everyone's benefit.

Debt is debt no matter which way you look at it. It has to be repaid whichever way you look at it, and it costs more money than you borrowed, including interest to repay it.

55 minutes ago, Smokin Joe said:

 

Mobi format works fine with a Kindle. They don't need to be converted.

 

And if you do need to convert ebooks the Calibri program for PC will do batch conversion of many books at once.

Thank you.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Nope, easiest thing in the world .......

Plug kindle into pc usb port.

Open calibre, right click mouse on the book you want to transfer, choose "save to main memory"

Calibre will then convert to AZW format and load on kindle.

 

I'm currently reading  SF the Archimedes Engine by Peter F Hamilton, and the mystery series Alex McKnight omnibus by Steve Hamilton. Always use my Kindle as it's easy on my old eyes.

Firstly, I would have to buy a Kindle reader which is fine IF I only want to read books, but it is of no use if I want to do anything else on it.

Secondly I would have to convert all of my existing Ebooks to the Kindle format. As I have over 6,xxx authors and some 20,xxx books in Mobi format in My Ebook library already, It would take me months of 8 hour days, 5 days a week to do.

My pc screen is 24 inches and I can adjust the print size easily.

Thank you fot your though but I think I will stay as I am.

I am clearing down my Ebook library and only keeping Mobi format as well as deleting all the other formats and deleting duplicate books and authors. I have been doing that for the last 5 years, on and off, and I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.

11 hours ago, RSD1 said:

Did they happen to have something called humor in your country?

I have no idea as I haven't really lived there since 1992. I believe that having a sense of humour in the UK is banned now and has replaced by wokeism.

Political jokes however are permitted, which is one reason why the Tories lost and Labour won.

6 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

 

Since you only update when your phone dies, and if you decide you'd like to update sooner than five or six years, just place your phone on the roof of a taxi when you get out and then let him drive off with your phone on the roof. Then you should be able to replace your phone right away without waiting.

Why would I bother to do that. My mobile phone is mostly used for phone calls, SMS and playing the odd game while I wait in the hospital to see the doctor.

It is also very useful using both Google Search for an item that I am trying to get from a shop or Google Translate when I can't explain something in a shop or a business. Sometimes a picture IS worth a thousand words especially in another language.

7 hours ago, johng said:

 

Neither do I  as they are often bogus,disingenuous, biased and often proven some time later to have been totally incorrect and have to retract after the damage to someone's reputation has been done...too late then eyy ? ohh well never mind  mission accomplished.

If anybody want to fact check my posts then they are welcome. If I get something wrong then please let me know and I will check it myself. If I am wrong, then I will apologise and not repeat it again.

12 minutes ago, still kicking said:

My smartphone cost me 500 baht and the reason I bought it because my phone company stopped using 3G

I have a Samsung AO4 that cost about 6,000 baht. I only bought that because my old phone died, My time between buying a new phone depends on how long they last before they die and I need another one. Usually 5 or 6 years.

22 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Way over priced rubbish. All about showing off with a phone that maybe 10% of the features will actually be used. Same as all smart phones. Consumerism at its craziest. MUST GET THE NEW ONE!!!!!!!

Over priced, certainly, over hyped, definitely, rubbish not so much. It does just the same job as an ordinary smart phone that comes in at half the price or less.

The people that rush to buy them are simply showing off, and will never use most of the functions anyway.

3 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Sorry... took me a while to think outside of the box. 

 

Like a lizard!  Or a culture club song...  

 

I'll grab your hat for you as well! 

Close. Perhaps you should have looked up Boy George, here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdOYG4SZjM

I always thought that he was a bit "different", but I did enjoy his music.

17 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

If it's taking until Monday, they will be FTTs. I did 20k THB on Wednesday, put Family & Friends. It was Instant but from Another Bank Account. Keep us informed please.

That is what I think also but I would like to be sure, not only for my sake, but for the IO when I do my next extension at the end of July next year.

I will update my post later on Monday afternoon.

27 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I cannot be any more specific, I said everything.   It can be proven by simply listening to the debate.    Can YOU prove that anything she said was true?

I don't have to prove anything.

You claimed it.

You own it.

YOU prove it, otherwise YOU are just posting lies and disinformation.

2 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Hub of maxing out the cash advance on your final available credit card to pay the late fees on your other maxed out delinquent credit cards!

Luckily for me I got rid of all my credit cards years ago and I just have debit cards only.

If I order something using them it will be rejected if there are not enough funds available.

A brutal but effective way of staying out of debt.

I have just done 2 transfers from my Wise UK account to my Thai BBK account using my pc and the UK Wise website.

The first was using the "personal funds" code, and the 2nd was using the the "other" code. 

Both will be paid out on Monday afternoon, but until then I won't know if they were an international transfer or not.