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On 3/7/2020 at 12:03 AM, RuamRudy said:

This really is eye-opening:

 

15 Headlines Show How Differently The British Press Treat Meghan Markle Vs Kate Middleton

 

 

Kate is everything a British royal should be. Markle seems to not want to be a British royal. Ah, if only she could be getting married every day- the cheering crowds, the good press, happy days. Welcome to reality.

On 3/6/2020 at 11:15 PM, RuamRudy said:

I fully agree with your last sentence, but I think you are a bit unfair in the rest. He says he will repay the cost of the renovations -let's give him a chance to do so.

 

As for security, it's not his fault that his family, for decades, has courted and patronised a very pliant media to create in us plebs this illusion of their grandeur. He needs protecting from the nutters that will, because of the myth of royalty that we all seem to have willingly lapped up, invariably, want to be his special friend. 

 

The level of outrage he and his wife have received, the sheer hypocrisy of the press in the way they have vilified her, is shocking. I wonder just how many column inches have been written about them, compared to his uncle and his rancid friends?

Contrast that with the adulation the press had for Diana. I'm pretty sure the press didn't wake up one morning and decide they'd attack her for no reason at all. She was on a good wicket when she married Harry, and had it to lose- seems she did lose it.

BTW, I think the press are after her primarily and Harry is just collateral damage.

On 3/6/2020 at 10:44 PM, sanemax said:

I dont think that she wanted all the media attention , that is the reason why they left the UK, b because of the constant media attention 

Add "unwanted" before media and I'll agree with you. The British media were probably being "rude" to her so she thought perhaps the Canadians would be more "loving", IMO.

I'm pretty sure she loved all the adulation when she got married. Didn't take long for it to sour though.

On 3/6/2020 at 4:02 PM, RuamRudy said:

He is escaping it - he is moving to Canada to get away from the Windsors. 

That would be his father and brother too. He's had a good run sucking on the public teat, and is looking like an ungrateful brat.

16 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Good man Harry - no longer confined by protocol, showing our PM his real opinion of him?

 

Doesn't matter what his personal opinion of Boris is, he's the PM and Harry should be polite. Good riddance to a rude man, in my opinion.

On 3/6/2020 at 3:26 PM, saengd said:

Not of his doing! Was he coerced, drugged or hypnotized, blackmailed perhaps? He's a grown man, he made his choices and his bed, the good guy is always the victim in these stories, too funny. Colin will be along soon to let us know how confused he is at what I've written, I'm worried about the man, he's perpetually confused.

Strange thing to post on a Thai forum. Hundreds if not thousands of farangs married toxic Thai women, and only found out what they were really like after signing the paper.

On 2/29/2020 at 6:26 PM, rooster59 said:

Critics of the #MeToo movement in France say it is puritanical and fuelled by a hated of men.

Agree with that. Dredging up things that may or may not have happened decades ago without proof of any sort is evidence that an agenda is in play.

20 hours ago, Thongkorn said:

I dont understand why so many People of a certain Religion want to go and live in Countries they cannot stand or integrate with, why are they not moving to Arab countries of the same beliefs,

Perhaps said countries won't take them.

On 3/7/2020 at 8:08 PM, Maybole said:

Also all are agreed that face masks are a waste of time.

They are, IMO a waste of time used to prevent GETTING the disease, but anyone with any sort of flue or a cold, cough should wear one to protect other people.

On 3/6/2020 at 11:14 PM, Lacessit said:

1/ COVID-19 is apparently highly contagious.

2/ Some people infected with coronavirus are asymptomatic. They can transmit the virus to other people without even knowing they are carriers.

3/ The death rate thus far is significantly higher than flu.

4/ Travel bans and quarantines are causing quite a few sectors of economies to flame out. The airline industry uses a lot of fuel, so there is a knock-on effect.

5/ China exports about 90% of the world's antibiotics. That supply chain is strangling.

6/ To date, there is no vaccine and no cure. It's a lottery.

 

Yes, I'd say there are reasons to worry, and take sensible precautions.

 

 

Cars kill far more people in the past than flue etc, yet sod all done to prevent that. Corona is the big thing now, just as swine flue was and avian flue was. It's what the media does. Every day on the "news" I hear how many people were killed on the roads, but never ever anything "good". IMO the media are out to make us fearful because they think it sells, and they will get rich off of it.

12 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i am normal.

Sorry. IMO no such thing. Collecting stamps was "normal" when I were a lad, but I doubt it's done by many kids now etc etc etc.

Everyone is different, and if we all said what we really believe in public IMO the men in white coats would be along shortly.

In Malaya it is normal for men to wear a dress ( sarong ).

21 hours ago, Rancid said:

Nor is the universe created, it manifests periodically from what has always been described as the unknowable and unnameable for the very reason that it is beyond our restricted comprehension.

 

and you know that how? I'll accept an IMO.

On 2/11/2020 at 2:58 PM, cnxgary said:

Do the witnesses of the marriage at the Amphoe have to reside in the Amphoe where one registers?

Check with the amphur if you have to bring your own witnesses. I didn't have to. The staff witnessed for us.

On 3/7/2020 at 2:26 PM, Bundooman said:

And then, tracking down all those people who have been in contact with those who sat within one metre of the Italian.

and then, tracking down all those …………………!!

It's gone beyond the ability of tracking, even if some governments keep trying. A guy in NZ went to a concert with ?thousands of people- no chance of tracking all of them.

On 3/7/2020 at 3:58 PM, spinner2020 said:

So women compete directly against men in, say, athletics, soccer, rugby? Fine, bring it on. That should stop them whining.

Women are always complaining that men look on them as sexual objects, then they wear skimpy tight clothing in sports like beach volleyball and athletics! I don't see male athletes wearing budgie smugglers to make their bits seem larger.

One has to admit that the western world is now so demented that our civilization is, IMO, in the final stages of degeneration and will be replaced by a non PC country in due course.

On 3/4/2020 at 9:03 PM, Brickbat said:

And so, catching a highly infectious virus from which there is no vaccine and a high death rate is not dangerous? Good on ya! Hope you have a will. Where there is a Will, there’s always a family fighting over it. 

High death rate, ???????? More people die on the Thai roads every day than will die world wide from Corona, but no one is panicking when they drive. I haven't seen the death rate increased from 3%, and the vast majority never have to go to hospital or get seriously ill.

BTW, more people die from the common flue than have died so far from Corona. If it was "highly infectious" it'd be a pandemic last month- back when the WHO was saying it wasn't a problem.

On 3/4/2020 at 4:02 PM, mikebell said:

All strays should be rounded up and euthanized.  It's a chronic waste of oxygen and resources wasted on muck-making machines which spread bacteria/disease AND cause accidents.  I thought Thailand citizens were running fearful of catching stuff.

They used to sell stray dogs to neighbouring countries for food, then the do gooders stopped that. They should give every one of the people that stopped the dog trade take stray dogs and look after them.

Look, there is no way anyone can go out in public and not be at risk of many different ways to die. Even hiding at home, a lump of ice from a plane can fall on one.

The only inevitable thing in life is that we are going to die.

Spend more time doing good things than worrying about what might happen, so when one is dying one is not thinking that they should have done ................................

It's quite simple really, if one has a good immune system one will not die, but if one does not and gets the common flue one will die- same with Corona.

1 hour ago, Logosone said:

Equality in and of itself is not a righteous goal, though, equality among the equal is, yes, but equality among the unequal is madness and chaos.

Quite right. Equality is a nonsense, IMO. Every human has different abilities and druthers, and everyone follows a different path. If it were actually possible to enforce "equality", we'd all be exactly the same, and what a horrible life that would be. Diversity is wonderful.

IMO the only thing that matters in a life is what one does with it, not how long we live and certainly not how rich we are.

Sadly, too many waste their life conforming to some arbitrary social construct and never push the boundaries. Everything we have that makes our life better than the middle ages is that some few men pushed the boundaries.

4 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

Not an inspiration for you, but possibly for some, i hope you'll concede that.

Sorry, but hiding in a cave is not inspiring for me. I'm inspired by people that do something for others with their life, like St Teresa of Calcutta.

If I'm wrong and we have to stand in judgement after we pass over I guess most souls won't be able to point to a single thing they did for others that wasn't from self interest.

IMO the saddest thing about modern life is the waste of lives. We know more than humans have known in 50,000 years, and we have the ability to make utopia on earth, and instead made a colossal disaster of greed, hatred and killing.

Need I go on?

7 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

Although i started this thread i only come on it from time to time to see whats happening ,so sad to hear that you are lonely,i suppose luckily i never have been ,in fact sometimes i am glad to get some time alone .

I suppose fantastically handsome men like me have always had to beat the women and admirers off????, seriously though I cannot imagine what it is like to be lonely ,i hope at least coming on here gives you a chance to interact with others ,if even for a short time

take care .

Thanks for the sympathy but it's not needed. I'm lonely but not depressed- I keep really busy so I don't think about it, quite successfully. Listening to 60s music isn't recommended though- it was all about either being in love or lamenting a love lost. Unfortunately I like 60s music.

I think loneliness is more common than most realise. IMO that's why religion is still in existence as it gives purpose and hope to a dreadful and hopeless life. If I start going to Church I'd better go see the Doc for some happy pills.

I bet you never thought this thread would be coming up to 500 pages when you started it. I guess that even atheists have strong feelings about it too, even though they protest much, I think when it gets right down to the nitty gritty they have some deeply hidden belief that God exists. Like they say, there are no atheists in the trenches.

9 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

If they want to kill themselves they should do it.

They should be able to buy poison in the pharmacy so that they don't jump in public places and leave a mess.

Agree a million %.

It's our life so if we want to get out of this miserable world we should be able to do so, but the usual suspects that have got themselves into positions of power won't agree to it. Shame on them.

Although the media doesn't publicise it it's quite hard to kill yourself successfully without resorting to jumping or shooting etc, and I'd have to be way more desperate than I am to want to do either. Jumping is as likely to injure some innocent passerby, and shooting can leave one alive but in a lot of pain.

To relate that to religion, Christians seem to have the strange idea that if one kills oneself one goes to hell. Christ never said anything like that.