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On that I disagree. I don't want to share a public toilet with a pickpocketer, and they may go in a gang to demand money with menaces. The answer is actually simple, have separate toilets for those who don't know what their gender is.

That's what happens when the side one is defending from a wet and dirty trench is losing. Zelensky and his cabal can BS as much as they want to about how they can win if only they have more tanks, if only they have more planes, if only they have more shells etc etc etc, but when they are so stupid as to sent their "best troops" on a losing task, one wonders how they lasted this long. The guys on the front line can't be fooled by the propaganda.

Obviously or he wouldn't be where he is today. However, that doesn't mean he is going to lose this war.

IMO not many clever people take the renewable energy thing seriously, but it's very profitable so it will keep being pushed till it can't be faked any more. Nuclear and hydrogen are far more reliable, still work at night time and when the wind stops blowing. The new nuclear technology is well on the way and hydrogen is coming along slowly, but they are coming.

Doesn't it feel really, really, really good when you can make them look foolish?

Didn't he also tell us how intellectually competent Biden was, till he got removed for being mentally incompetent. I still don't understand how he could not be competent to be the next POTUS, yet allowed to remain as POTUS. Can anyone explain that? BTW, Biden seems to be rather quiet recently, is this a real life version of the movie Dave?

Even George Orwell didn't guess at how actually bad it really became. We live in a world where the nightmares are real, and controlled by men we will never know. Who know what monsters still lurk in the shadows? BTW, I think we can blame Babbage (1791-1871) for the monsters we know about. I gather he was the inspiration for Turing's infernal computer ( though it did come in handy for defeating the German U boats, so not all bad ).

Perhaps Alison Moyet was singing just for him.

Took me a few minutes to work that one out, but yes, I agree.

I'll be happy if he arranges for Zuckerberg to be on Elon's first rocket to Mars; one way only.

I'm luvin' it.

I don't like being tracked and spied on and having everything I write on the internet scrutinised by some spotty youth that can't get a real job. Obviously I have to accept that I have to be careful what I put on here. I don't know what the father on the run has to do with anything, but yes, and I doubt he has a mobile phone or credit cards. We live in a sad world where a nasty woman can deprive a man of his kids because the courts are biased against fathers.

and the same to you.

In that case we might as well have a chip implanted in our brain that controls us. I prefer to believe that humans can exist and function without having to rely on technology. Billions do still, but unfortunately not in the western countries, where if the internet is unavailable because a storm destroys the infrastructure, heads will start exploding. I was lucky and grew up in a world where the internet and the vile social media did not exist. However I'm told that the internet is great when it comes to sex ed for children with all the porn on it. When the likes of Zuckerberg can have influence on the political sphere, I know it's almost time for the fat lady to sing for the western world.

Did you even watch it? Doesn't seem so.

If talking about Musk and Zuckerberg, none over me, as I don't use their vile social media sites.

No, never. but I did go to this one south of Lamai. I don't remember the name and I'm not sure looking at a map. Amazing beach and hardly any resorts on it.

How many military bases do the Brits have in the US? The Brits are entirely capable of training their own pilots, and they don't have B52s or B1Bs. Next.

Note the reference to a vibrant sunset, which is somewhat difficult to see if its behind the hills on the other side of the island. First time on Chaweng I stayed at the JR Palace resort. Lovely place but destroyed by fire and I think the night market is where it used to be. Some photos of Chaweng beach early 90s. Not my photos, and link below. Chaweng was really great back then- the bees knees. https://www.traveljimmy.com/samui.html

I can only go by my own sunset dinner on a beach ( I don't remember which specific beach as I stayed on so many back then ). I knew it was sunset because it got dark. Whatever, it was romantic as anything and any western girl would have been wetting herself, but my rental was completely unimpressed- not a single romantic gene in her body. The beach with the best sunsets in Thailand was Railay West, but they never had any tables on the sand as the restaurants were on the edge of the sand. Absolutely spectacular. I have a sunset photo that I think is from Railay West, but regardless it's typical of the sunsets I saw there. Found one of Mae Nam beach back in the day while I was looking for a sunset. As you can see it is quite narrow.

I had to think hard about that one, but then I remembered the blink and miss it beach as I went past it in the songhteaw on the way to Lamai. Reading this thread takes me back to those golden days last century when Thailand was cheap and cheerful and the smile was genuine. I really miss those days.

That is missing the bit about only riding one if insured, which involves having a m'bike licence wherever one is from, and wearing a crash helmet. Best not handing over one's passport and checking every inch, with photos, to avoid the infamous scratched m'bike scam. In fact, only ride a m'bike in Thailand if one can actually ride one safely, as Thailand roads are not newbie rider friendly.

P S. As a footnote, it was the beach I arrived at on my first visit to Samui as it had a pier then, way back in the 90s. By my last visit the pier had vanished completely. I thought I had a photo of it, and luckily it was easy to find.

That was actually the beach I stayed at towards the end of my Samui days, though there wasn't much in the way of sand to be golden. Narrowest beach I ever stayed on. I liked that it had no night life ergo no young trendies disturbing the ambience.

I once looked at Bophut as a place to stay and having looked went to another beach. Unless it's changed a lot it had a rubbish beach.