thaibeachlovers

I was intending to see a lot of places in the world, but once I discovered Thailand I never saw the rest as Thailand was The Place. Never needed to go anywhere else. Do I regret it now? Just a little. I'd like to have seen Petra and scuba dived in the Red Sea, but we don't get everything we want in life.

Another western "full of BS" doco, no doubt. Even the title is BS. There are no "red lights" other than traffic lights in Pattaya.

If the visit to the gym is a big deal it's not surprising you get bored easily. Why don't you use your time to help the less fortunate? The Pattaya Orphanage is always looking for farangs to help out. You might even like it.

I have zero idea of what that means. IMO the only difference between Pattaya and C M is that Pattaya has a decent night life and C M has a pathetic semblance of night life ( ignoring that Pattaya has a beach and is closer to Bkk ). The traffic is just as dire, and the buildings are just as ugly. Oh I forgot. Pattaya has way better public transport than C M.

I accept that you are probably correct as to whom usurped "liberal", but it does encapsulate all that is rotten in western society, IMO. Sadly, every aspect of modern politics of whichever wing or hue has become toxic IMO, and IMO the end of western civilization is nigh. The "barbarians" have been invited in ( just as in the end times of Rome ) and are only awaiting their chance to take over. Hopefully I will have shuffled off by then. Isn't there still a political party with "liberal" in the title in Britain? Virtually insignificant I believe. Libertarian is not a word I'm overly familiar with, so I will not refer to that with any knowledge of it. Far as I know, it meant that people were responsible for themselves and the state kept out of people's lives as much as possible. I could be wrong, but if not we need more libertarianism and less nanny state.

You say that as if Thailand has to be the same as Norway! I hope I'm wrong about that. Norway is not a good example, as it has a small population and a lot of money from fiscally clever people not wasting all the North sea oil income like Britain did. Thailand has a lot of people and not so much money available ( as IMO the 1% have most of it ). In any event, it keeps the birth rate down which is very good thing- far too many people on this planet.

LOL. Either you have not been paying attention while the world changed for men, or IMO you are a female sycophant ( or an actual female ). My most vivid recollection of a female sycophant ( that I unfortunately flatted with briefly ) was when he claimed that "ALL women are beautiful". pith helmeted wannabe colonialists that had no game in the West so they had to come here where they might get lucky because they have some coin ? Actually they DO get lucky if they have coin. In the west they generally only get lucky if they have a lot of coin, or a very large wallet. The powerful and rock stars have to beat them off with a stick, but most of us are not powerful or rock stars.

I was probably heavier than others of my age during my 20s and 30s at 86 kg, so an extra 4 kg is not an insignificant increase. In my 40s I became addicted to sugar and my weight increased to 100 kg, and did not reduce till I mostly gave up sugar ( pre diabetes diagnosis ). It now hovers around 90 to 95 kg ( without going on any sort of diet, other than less sugar. It's hard to completely give up sugar as it's in so many store bought food items. The world is awash in sugar.

"Liberal" has been usurped by the woke/ PC in the same way as "gay" was usurped by homosexuals to mean something completely different. No one now uses gay in it's original context.

No man is hated so long as they have money to give to her. It's only when the money tree dies that hatred ensues.

Even my using hag from hell gave up smoking when living with me. One needs to sort that before the exploiter moves in with the exploited. I have an aversion to kissing someone that tastes like an ashtray. Soon as I left her she took it up again. Did someone say that women were more intelligent than men? Quinoa for breakfast? You could always make your own high saturated fat breakfast, if you didn't like her choices.

Guys in western countries end up with non bar girls and pay them lots and lots and lots at the divorce ( not counting all the loot the women get off them before the divorce ). Been there done that, got the T shirt.

I'm only surprised it took Hamas so long to start using IEDs. IMO favourite weapon in Iraq after the main war ended, and far as I know uses unexploded bombs for the raw material. Perhaps israeli bombs are more reliable to explode now, not providing explosives any more. I'd have thought they would have brought in explosives through the tunnels before October 7, in preparation for the expected response.

Of course I accept that Biden might win. I just hope he doesn't. I'd prefer that Trump isn't POTUS, but if it's a potential Harris presidency I'm willing to accept another 4 years of Trump. Since when did politicians have to be intelligent? Plenty of them that are dumber than a rock, IMO.

Unless anyone believes that we humans are the smartest species in the universe, it has to be a possibility that they are in the vicinity. IMO waiting to make sure that Elon's Mars shuttle doesn't work, but if it does destroying it. No way any intelligent species wants a bunch of warmongers from Earth loose in the galaxy.

IMO they are all as bad as each other. I haven't seen a decent government since I understood politics. Promise everything when it's election time and rarely follow through. Sooner an AI becomes the government the better IMO. Get rid of all those bureaucrats too.

I just read your link and as expected long on assumption and short on verifiable facts. Just because some guy writing for NBC ( LOL ) says that I'm supposed to believe it, LOL. You'll have to do better than some opinion piece from NBC. Something from someone that actually heard Trump say that would be a start, and then they need to be an unbiased source to be acceptable. BTW, the link in the OP just leads to a load of articles and no way I'm wasting my time looking through them all for something when they are from NBC. You don't even support the article 100% given your use of "it is a possibility that Trump did not ban bump stocks because he wanted to do something good". Next.

I try not to read propaganda from either side. BS is boring.

Nobody except you is talking about NATO countries. He likely means arming countries like Syria, Yemen, Iran and Iraq to attack US bases in the area.

Blah blah blah. Excuses excuses. If Biden didn't like the terms of withdrawal he should have stopped and done it differently. The buck stops with the guy currently in the big chair. If it was the other way around I very much doubt you'd be blaming your guy, and it would be all Trump's fault.

LOL. Hitler lost. If he had nuclear weapons would he have lost? Different times, different scenario.

You apparently don't get it. a/ neither is going to "win". Russia winning would be all of Ukraine- not going to happen. Ukraine winning would be Zelensky marching into the Kremlin- not going to happen. b/ Russia can hold onto what it wants, which is what it has, while Ukraine is destroyed and thousands more dead Ukrainians. not yet fully accepting a dawning realty. and what reality would that be? 10 F16s perhaps, LOL. More Leopards perhaps, LOL. Out of men and sending the press gang out on the streets is an act of desperation.

Accepting reality is not the same as support.

Who said it's going well for Russia? He's got what he wants, so he now wants to stop the attacks from Ukraine. Only the believers in western propaganda think he wants all of Ukraine, IMO.

What a load of <deleted>. There may be more fat Thai girls than 30 years ago now, but to say that the proportion is same as western girls is .