thaibeachlovers

At least on Lanta the beach doesn't vanish at high tide.

Too long ago. Not so easy when living in Chiang Mai and my wife worked too much to get enough time. I certainly didn't choose an island for a gym and if it cost more than 600 baht a night it was a rip off. Didn't need anyone to provide "activities". Walking and communing with nature was enough. My most favourite beach was Than Sadet, no gyms, no hotels, no "activities", very difficult to get too ( kept the riff raff away ), no electric after 10 pm, no hot water, no tv, no clubs, no discos, no bar beers or gogos, but great scenery, fantastic ambience, wonderfully quiet. The food in the cliff top restaurants may not have been Cordon Bleu, but the view was worth a million baht.

That's good news about Samet. Last time I went it was filthy. I hope they made the piers safe too. Very dangerous last time I went.

Lanta Villa used to be my go to destination, but haven't visited any beach in LOS since 2010 ( I don't consider Pattaya a beach ). Back then Lanta was a great destination as they couldn't ruin the ambience with long tail boats. Phi Phi was the worst for them. Phi Phi was OK before the tsunami, but they concreted it over after. Greed is a terrible sin.

Seriously, does anyone choose an island destination based on the restaurants? Five star hotels on the islands! Goodness me, I hadn't realised that they were that destroyed.

Gosh, it's like some go to an island based on the restaurants. Silly me, I thought people went for the ambiance of a nice beach. My go to restaurant meal was always fried rice chicken as it's quite hard to mess that up. Not that I had a favourite restaurant for it.

Last time I went to Samet the entire island was a rubbish tip, the village was disgusting, the road was rubbish, the pier was a threat to life and the National Park officials just took the money without doing anything for it. First time I went in the 90s it was OK, but the beaches were never as good as those on Samui or Phangan. I had my first dose of dengue there, so didn't see as much as I'd like to have. I recall the hut I stayed in had electrics that were a threat to life. When I complained to the management they told me to leave if I didn't like it, to which I retorted that I was leaving.

You need to prove that sea level is rising more in the Maldives than in NZ then. Sea level is not and has not been a problem in my lifetime. It's as likely to be that the airport is sinking, rather than the sea rising. Without proof your claim is just an opinion.

Putin didn't invade any western country, so what is your point? I was talking about supporting a proxy war and I don't think we should. No idea what your post is about.

Personally I find it incomprehensible anyone can believe your first sentence. Acknowledged by whom? People with TDS I suppose.

That's a given. Does anyone think that the present young adults of western countries would last more that a few days in a real WW? It took hard men to win WW2, not obese youths that spend their time in mummy's basement looking at porn?

Thanks but I think I learned enough about WW2 as a young man to not need any U Tube VDOs. The main takeaway is that it was not a sure thing at all for the Allies. But for the Spitfire, The Enigma decoder and Hitler Britain may have fallen, ergo no base for D Day. I say Hitler, as his wrong decisions helped Britain when it needed a break. Eg deciding to stop attacking airfields during Battle of Britain and bomb London instead, saved the British airforce.

Oh dear oh dear, is it all going wrong for Mr Zelensky ( and all the Ukrainians that will die in this proxy war )?

From the link He wrote on X that it was “not the right time, not the right time at all. So many people die every day because we don’t have enough weapons and enough support from our allies.” Perhaps they should have thought about that before they rejected negotiations. Always a losing prospect depending on countries that may have domestic issues affecting public/ government support. Given that no western country has a treaty with Ukraine, none are obligated to help.

Actually I've heard of zero solutions from the pro MMCC lot. They just keep saying the world is warming. Personally I don't think there are any solutions we humans can do to change it, regardless of what caused it. I suspect Obama knows that with his Hawaiian waterfront property. Perhaps they can put a big sunscreen up in space and plunge us into a new ice age. That'll sure solve global warming.

All you prove is that both the Russians and the Allies depended on each other for success. Without either likely failure. BTW, Russia defeated Germany in Russia before D Day. The Battle of Kursk July 5–August 23, 1943, was the beginning of the end for Germany in the Soviet Union. So duh to you too.

A guaranteed failure IMO. Success was by no means guaranteed by the Allies, and had the Germans had more reinforcements available likely the Allies would never have left the beaches. Without resupply, the paratroops would have had to surrender. Only need to look at the bridge too far to know that an army fights on it's resupply.

Did you miss the part of my post that referenced how the Russians diverted so much of the German army that success on D Day was even possible? Did you also miss that during WW2 Russia was an ally of the Allies.

I thought he was being sarcastic or trying to use satire. There is no confidentiality issue with what is found on a computer.

Oh, I'm certain that our illustrious ( sarcasm alert ) leaders will try to make us pay for it, but that may see them gone at the next election. IMO they will talk a lot and do very little, just as they are doing now. If they were actually serious, they would ban all recreational air travel and all private cars in cities, but IMO they ain't serious at all. IMO they know that whatever they do, it ain't going to change anything. We are doomed.

That had occurred to me, but I was trying to be brief in my post. I suspect a repeat of the "Leopards will win the war" saga- substitute F 16 for Leopard.

If it's not affordable, who is going to pay for it?

Hardly progressive. NZ was blessed with a lot of potential for hydro and a very small population. Pretty much run out of rivers to dam and they've been letting in so many people that we might run out of capacity. Auckland depends on a coal burning power station.

I have yet to hear of any solutions from them that is affordable, acceptable and works.