thaibeachlovers

Thank you for that. I've said it before but I'm a socialist ( small s ) but that doesn't mean I have to agree with the idiocy that the loony left are wanting. More about public health for free and the tax payer owning major organisations eg electricity, rail, water etc. Selling them to private ownership has been a disaster.

and the UK, USA etc haven't been doing the exact same thing as Russia is doing? If you believe that I have several bridges for sale.

Sooooo, go to war with Iran because Geller says so- what could possibly go wrong with that? He may be right, for all I know, and little green men may be going to land and take over for all I know too. However, we can't base world policy on what someone thinks will happen because of a premonition.

The thing to take away from that is that wherever we go now, some nosy person is probably making a vdo of us. No privacy anymore.

Jomtien isn't Pattaya. No bar scene to talk of, loads of condos and since the sea got polluted there too, not much reason to bother visiting except immigration.

Yup. He and Biden should start a club for people that have lost their brain somewhere and can't find it.

I wonder if you guys posting your graphs and stuff about the stock market realise that most of the humans on the planet have never, and never will have shares or suchlike. For most of us, it's just gambling for rich folk, and the dealer always wins. Perhaps one of you should start a thread about it and you can talk to each other as much as you like without confusing the rest of us.

Unless you are really old I doubt you remember much more than I. I'm not going by my memory but by the quality of life as reported by history. With only 3 billion people the world was a far, far better planet to live on than now ( as stated, only for us fortunate enough to be born in the west ). Without even an electronic calculator, people had to develop a working brain and reading books is far better than the mindless garbage they put on tv these sad days.

Once upon a time I thought that you had something worthwhile to contribute to the discussion. I guess we all make mistakes.

An imaginary person would have been a better POTUS than Harris. My toe nail cuttings would have been a better POTUS than Harris. Why, because they couldn't stuff it up.

I don't think the OP understands the meaning of the word ... 'tanking' Fixed it for you.

I agree that Globalism is the curse of the modern age, but I disagree that the golden age will return ( simply because AI robotics will consign most of us to irrelevance ). For us westerners the 50s and early 60s were the golden age, but the rest of the humans on planet earth never had a golden age, not even a silver one. Perhaps a fool's gold one.

We still live in barbaric times. Ever heard of Sudan, the Congo, South Sudan? We in the west benefit from having the biggest guns, but that time is almost over, then there really is going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth in western households. We have had it easy, perhaps too easy, so we became soft and lazy, but the party is almost over and the crying is about to start.

Had WW2 not happened ( the war started for real in 1939- which is your decade ) would we have recovered from it? I think not so quickly.

You are correct of course, but seems that some have nothing to offer but insults, and some come on because they want to offer insults. I guess that when one has no life, insulting others anonymously livens up another boring day.

That's probably what they were saying before the depression. Took WW2 to recover from that one.

I don't see anything in that list that a normal human being couldn't write. If that's all we get for the billions spent they might as well have spent it better improving people's lives.

Soooooo, tell us how much Russia exports to the US. You're so clever it shouldn't be hard to find out. PS ever heard of sanctions? You know, those things the US has heaped on Russia?

and your so much better plan to save the western world from destruction at it's own hands is? I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer.

and that was long before Trump became POTUS.

How much money does GPS save? Not everything can be evaluated on what it earns.

The internet has given us social media, intellectual property theft, Musk and porn. They should have restricted it to government agencies. We'd have been better for not having it.

It was a mistake to mention that life isn't going to be easy. Western people have grown used to "easy" and have no capacity to accept things being "not easy". Generations without a real war or a depression have created a population grown soft and lazy. The sheeple want to know what is in it for them, not some hard times to build a better future. IMO Trump's real battle will come not from the Dems and the liberals, but from the GOP, panicked by a possible loss in the vote box, which will put self interest ahead of the country and defeat Trump's program to remake the US. So, back to the rotten, corrupt system which will just delay the inevitable crash till later.

and?

De Niro?