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and some of us despise the dominant global culture for many reasons. We certainly have no wish to emulate it.

I'd prefer they had not brought the vile social media or the vile facethingy to the table. They play a large part in the descent of humanity into greed and barking cults eg man made climate change.

I don't get your point on that. Are you saying bad things happened and I just didn't see them?

That's true, but Harris is not normal. She's a fraud, IMO, and was never voted for to be a POTUS candidate.

Deflecting as usual.

That only works as long as they willingly have sex in return. When they decide they still want the goodies but do nothing in return is when it becomes a problem.

Were you just teasing us when you posted?

Fair enough. However it's basic preparedness for the unexpected to have some supplies. The Mormons have stores for a full year. It's not expensive to have some canned food that doesn't need heating to eat and some bottles of water, and a basic first aid kit. I'd have thought in a hurricane zone most would do that. Perhaps having lots of money does not impart common sense. Surely time for insurance companies to refuse for property on the coast. Everybody from the area is saying this was beyond imagination Not so. Worse in the past. Those that forget the past are condemned to repeat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

Are you OK with Harris supporting Biden to send US bombs to blow up thousands of women and children? Who is the real thug?

I have no problem with his opinion of Harris. As for decency, what was hiding the apparent fact that Biden has the intellect of 10 day old banana from the American public?

If he's so deranged, why is she stealing his policies?

Better to be called a basement dweller than vote for that cackling disaster Harris.

and like you, millions will hold their nose and vote for Trump as they see Harris as who she really is, and not to be trusted. It's not like she was actually voted for in a primary, so she has no democratic credentials to be the candidate.

A mere laugh emoji doesn't do that justice so here you go

I'll think of you when he wins in November.

I thought my opinion of Cameron could not have gone lower. I was wrong.

Myanmar is the preferred name that the vile dictator regime prefers. I'll continue to call it Burma, reminiscent of a time the leaders were not genocidal scum.

IMO speaking with forked tongue, given he allows the endless supply of weapons to israel to prosecute a one sided assault on an almost defenseless people.

The UN can be saved even now, but only by removing the veto from the security council permanent members. Otherwise it can join the League of Nations in the garbage bin of history.

In three or four years he'll be looking to retire from being POTUS.

I'm luvin' it.

LOL. They only go because it was in the movie and it's no more spectacular that any other beach in that area. When I went it was included in the tour to Phi Phi and I had no choice. At least back then no tour group was allowed on shore. Coral damage was by thousands of anchors being dropped on them, so hopefully they have fixed anchor buoys now. The beach was ruined by thousands of feet- no more people on shore. Bit of history. Richard, the main character in both book and movie despised, nay, would more than despise every single person that visits Maya Bay to gawk. The real beach was near Samui in the Marine Park, not on the West coast, and because the Maya Bay beach has no palm trees, they transplanted a load of them, and removed them after. The cliffs in the entrance to the bay in the movie are CGI. Krabi town used to have the big Reclining Buddha from the movie on display. It was made of polystyrene. Long gone from the town. The On On hotel was used as the hotel Richard stayed at in the movie. The bus routes on the bus shelter at the start of the movie don't exist from that place De Caprio changed the entire story from that in the book by insisting that he got the girl. I read that Danny Boyle regretted allowing him to do so. He certainly ruined the movie. So much for sucking up to film stars. I understand that he wasn't even the first choice ( I think it was supposed to be Ewan McGregor ), but he called Boyle and wanted to do it. In the book Richard is English and the main female character Sal is American. In the movie Richard is American and Sal is English. The design of the settlement at the Beach is supposedly based on a resort that was on the west coast of Phangan.

IMO the Thais have it right.

Not half as strident as in actuality. Up to me any immigrant has a time limit to adjust to their new culture, and if they fail or refuse would be deported. The actual time limit would be decided by people more knowledgeable than I, so it could be 6 months or 6 years. Definitely, a son or daughter succeeding in becoming a citizen would in no way entitle them to bring in their aged parents to live off social security they never paid into. That attrocity happened all the time in the UK when I was there with parents getting free NHS operations, and couldn't even speak English. Any children would have to go to a normal local school ( can be private, but not of a different culture ), not a Madrassa or such like. I'd also be like the French and ban any wearing of religious apparel in public, or at the least in a public institution or as a government employee. Far as I'm concerned if someone wants to be a citizen, their new culture takes precedence over their original one, and if that's not acceptable they can go back and live in their original culture.

Still true though.