thaibeachlovers

Exactly right. Just throwing more money at it isn't going to make a horrible job attractive. There is no support for the teachers, and potential teachers see that, and say "noooooo waaaaay Ho-say"

Then discuss Thai topics in the Thai subforums. I could digress on teaching in NZ if it were an open topic, but it's not.

Why is it that such discussions almost always get around to the stock market? It's not something most people get involved in. Far as I'm concerned it's just gambling for rich people that is rigged for the house ( the 1% ) and riven with insider trading.

In your opinion. In my opinion Trump is the classic result of a broken society. In other words the US created Trump to be where he is. The last election was a choice between bad and very very bad. The less bad won. What sort of insane society ends up with a choice between a flawed rich man and a cackling idiot? If we can look beyond the shouting and crying, how did US politics become so broken that no reasonable person with sane policies can win the election ( or even tries )?

Thanks for that. Every time I see something like that I'm more convinced that the western way of life is heading for the garbage bin of history. Civilizations always rot from the inside.

C'mon man, you don't know what my state of mind is.

What about the idiots that marry gangbangers?

I'd be born a girl. Even ugly girls get all the sex they want and the guy has to do the work, plus buy me free dinners and carry my bags. However, I'd like to be born beautiful so I can laugh at the sad pathetic men crawling to kiss my feet in the hope I might be nice to them. Admittedly, periods and pregnancy would be a problem, but I'd have an hysterectomy which would solve both problems. Obviously I'd have to be born in the west- not going to have to wear a burka BS.

plus wokeism, DEI and the gender nonsense. We'll all be better off without them.

Could Trump's plan fail in a spectacular fashion? It could, and I could fly if I grew wings. Both scenarios are unlikely.

You are going to be great at parties for the next 4 years, NOT. You probably think Harris would have been a good president .

When they might have to pay it's always someone else's problem.

Surely that is an oxymoron?

Don't just moan about it on here, Start your own new US political party and become POTUS. Just do it. Rather an "unstable psychopath" ( your words not mine ) than a cackling imbecile that would have perpetuated woke policies on the US, and probably brought the world to WW3.

So was Rome, till it wasn't. Caused by being lazy , corrupt and inviting the enemy in. Does that ring any bells?

We don't want your <deleted> bases. Pack 'em up and go home. We've had enough of the US's interminable wars and stuffing up the M E.

Why do some posters on this forum think that The US is responsible for everything that happens on the planet? If it's as serious as the OP suggests then other countries can front up with enough of the readies to make up for the US dropping out. There is enough money out there, except it's been stolen by rich people. Go ask them for some, why don't you?. As for HIV, the easiest disease to avoid- don't have sex with strangers without a condom, don't use dirty needles for your drugs and don't marry or have children with men that have unprotected sex with prostitutes. Up to you.

No, you can't eat the other. Hepatitis is not fun and people laugh at you because you are yellow. You could be like in a movie I saw and eat bits of yourself. Who needs legs anyway? Seriously, we all eat far too much and we can last weeks without eating. Without drinking it's game over quite quickly. I don't know how many times we can drink our own urine before it dries up though. Did you see the Costner movie Waterworld? The opening scene had him drinking his own urine, though one would think it was reasonably easy to desalinate the water he was floating on instead, using sunshine, a bucket and a piece of glass.

Great movie.

It's more likely that they were "interested" for political reasons and now that it's OK to attack Trump, they saw an opportunity to blame him for not wanting the F35. If it was the best out there, they would probably buy them anyway. Trump may well think that America can do withoutcustomers outside America but the companies and workers that produce the goods sure as hell do. If the plane was as good as the US pretends it is, would they buy an inferior product just because of someone going to be gone in 4 years? If they want to sell the plane, they should make a better one. Boeing 737 and now F35- what's happened to US plane makers?

Very, very sad. Millions of pixels whining about Trump.

That's my impression of the F35. Probably OK against an enemy that can't defend itself, but is that going to always be the case? Portugal may be making the right decision for the wrong reasons.

Wrong. If China is roaming the south Pacific, Australia and NZ will be sucking up frantically. It's not as though the UK will rescue us. However, NZ will have to do a much better job of having an actual military if we want the US to protect us, which will need money reallocating from woke projects- decisions decisions.

Apparently like American sparkling wine. Not that I've ever drunk American sparkling wine. If I ever want to know what piss tastes like I have my own to try. BTW, for those that do want to find out what American sparkling wine tastes like, piss can be safely drunk as it's not poisonous.

Thanks for the double post. Gives me another chance to at it.