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Don't go when it's hottest. The heat is brutal, and some of the tours don't go.

I think the hotel I stayed at was called Chicago Beach Hotel. The breakfast was not included and was too expensive, but they had a free van to go to town so I'd go into town for breakfast every day. Can't have been a memorable hotel as I remember nothing except that about it. That was back in the early 90s and I don't remember any hookers being around then.

Try the 60s. My last posting was to an airforce base, so the food was pretty good.

It's the most important thing when picking a partner, unless one wants to pay out endlessly for a sexless relationship.

I didn't reject them first. Had they been decent people I'd have stayed with them till the end. Some of us know the meaning of loyalty and commitment. I know there are good women out there, but the ones I knew were always married to someone else.

You must have a large bulge, in your back pocket.

I was going to put the Batman meme on but didn't. It's true though, IMO. They are only different till they ain't.

You are just lucky that you picked a good 'un.

A married woman isn't guarantee of sex. Paying a woman to stay with you isn't a guarantee that you are the only one. Why short times? Has long time finished as an option? I always had a long time on holiday. When they become a problem, even a long time will leave if the money is cut off.

Both my disasters were fine for a few years, so how was I to know 4 years before it went sour what they were like? I've been better off without one than I was with one. Loneliness is preferable to living with someone that doesn't like one. I accept that there are good women out there, and some guys get lucky. I was just never that lucky.

The laughing was for thinking that she would be "different". No, That wasn't me. I got divorced, but not because she "cheated", and I didn't leave in a hurry. I stayed on a year by myself before I left.

Better an unmarried nobody than an exploited somebody. Nothing to do with age. The one in my 30s was just as rotten as the one in my 60s.

Judging by the emojis on your post there is no one suggesting that getting married is a good idea.

There is always an exception to the rule. You were just lucky.

IMO getting married is the most appalling attitude. One is far better not being subject to some woman that only cares about transferring as much of your money to herself as possible. If one wants a woman as a bed companion they are not too hard to find in LOS and when they become too demanding or stop having sex they can be easily replaced.

If you are living long time in Thailand why are you doing visa runs? 100% Chinese with MBA.

Are you mad? By all means live in Thailand but think seriously about getting a wife and then give yourself a slapping. Why spoil a good thing?

Given the ease with which drones and missiles have changed the battlefield, they will have to develop a solution, else war as we know it will be history, and fought by autonomous machines- what could possibly go wrong with that? Nobody in their right mind is joining the forces these days either. Ain't that the truth. Given western countries make being unemployed a career choice, that's not going to change. I loved being in the military, and it gave me skills I use all the time since I left it, but in the end, a peace time military eats itself and gets taken over by the incompetents, so I got out. Seems it hasn't changed much given how many are leaving it in NZ. It's so insignificant now that I wouldn't even know we still had one, except for news articles on the radio about how the airforce can't find a plane that works to take the PM overseas

Most of them are cold countries with a mainly similar population. Singapore has a tiny population, but likely most will die if the water supply from Johor gets turned off. It doesn't even have land to grow enough food as they have built on most of it The UK freezes if the warm ocean current stops flowing. NZ will have problems that I can't discuss on here.

To answer just a small part of your post ( us ancient people need to preserve our energy, don't you know ), in the real world the great forests and jungles of the world are being destroyed as fast as humans are able to light fires in them. That's so they can raise cattle for hamburgers and plant palm oil trees to make soap and such like. Why do they need to do that, you ask. Because the human population keeps growing and needs more hamburgers and soap, and that makes the 1% very very rich. After all, doesn't every peasant dream of being rich and living in a mansion with a tv in every room, a huge yacht, a private jet and a car for every day of the week? Your lot can blather away about sequestering carbon and such like as much as you like, but while the world's population is on a vertical graph line increase, it's a lost cause. IMO humans are the author of their own demise because they just keep making too many of us. That's never going to stop till Gaia removes us, so why worry, be happy ( till you can't ).

Seems pretty plain to me. If anyone else can't understand it I'll explain very slowly.

He's back, safe ( perhaps ) and sound ( hopefully ). Political study courses will no doubt use his case as an example of the desire of corrupt regimes to cover up their crimes and crush anyone that tries to expose them.

I hope he loses. Unfortunately I doubt his replacement will be any better. They seem to all be rotten these sad days.

In case you hadn't noticed we do have robots everywhere. They just don't look like the ones in comics.

Why? It's supposedly autonomous, so it's as likely to go Terminator as obey it's orders. Do you really want a load of autonomous kill bots in the ocean, that you might be sailing on?