thaibeachlovers

I gave you a thank you for that. However, to be correct, the only misfortune I suffered IN Thailand, was marrying the wrong woman and having to leave. Even though she turned out to be the wrong one, that was only after 5 years and the first 3 1/2 years were just peachy, for the most part. As for the rest of my many decades of visiting LOS they were for the most part delightful. Even the last year of my time in LOS, living alone in a very nice hotel near the night market in Chiang Mai was an extremely pleasant one, and I often wish I had been able to continue living there.

You lost me there. Is she fat and sings perhaps?

Gee wizz, I could have told them that, and I'd only have charged half as much as they spent to confirm what has been known for about 50,000 years.

I don't know if the lines are sawdust or cocaine, but if that is all the prosecution's case relies on they might as well pack up and go home now. It's almost as though they wanted Hunter to get off- surely not?

Perhaps their ideas were sound, but so was the poll tax, in theory, and that ended Thatcher. I don't know what Truss was like personally, but the impression I got at the time was that she was not a nice or popular person.

Must be the first time I've agreed with anything from official China.

I've been saying from the start that they won't win, so I'm not surprised the lights are finally coming on. If it does end up in a Russian victory ( the fat lady hasn't sung yet ) it's going to be sooooooo embarrassing for a lot of western leaders. I'm definitely going to be tuning in if Biden has to make a public statement to that effect.

Here we go again with the propaganda machine in full on action. Hopefully this entirely, IMO, foreseeable defeat will not be the excuse the nutters in NATO are looking for to commit NATO troops to the front line. the urgent need for international intervention to address humanitarian concerns. and what possible "international intervention" could there possible be other than throwing more money away or sending NATO troops. Ukraine needs trained men by the thousands, and they apparently don't have them. End of. Comes a time in every war when continuing just ends up in a lot more dead boys and the same outcome. IMO this is the beginning of the end of the Ukrainian resistance, and sending more boys to die isn't going to change it..

I worked at many hospitals in my career, and in none of them were nurses treated well. That is hospitals in NZ, Saudi, and London. I did agency in London so worked in dozens of London hospitals and most were bad for nursing. London hospitals needed agency nurses in vast numbers because they couldn't get nurses to be permanent staff as the wages were so bad for permanent staff. On one shift in a London hospital there was one permanent staff member and all the other staff were agency or poorly trained nursing assistants for 30 patients.

IMO Drs, who actually run hospitals, like having handmaidens to follow them around waiting on their every word. I had an operation in a Thai hospital and all my actual care was done by non registered nurses. The only time I saw a registered nurse, she was following a Dr. Even my medication was given by a non registered nurse, and she did everything wrong when doing so.

Perhaps, but my point about washing hands is valid.

Probably because the word has got out that the job sucks and doesn't pay enough to make it worth while. It was different in the days of hospital training ( which I did ) and every course was over subscribed, but we got paid while training. Now they have to go to university and pay for that, but the wages of nurses are too low to be economic.

I'm pretty sure that having a bevy of beautiful maidens pandering to my every whim would make me happier than I am now, but a bevy of willing maidens requires much treasure to employ. If that's a mistaken way to happiness I'm sure I could live with that.

Proof of that? Making it up again?

No proof, so it's just your opinion.

Some actual proof of that would be in order. No proof and you are making it up.

As usual not a shred of evidence from you to support that. For someone that has asked other posters to provide evidence you sure have a disdain for following your own advice.

I find the poem very accurate. I assume you were/ are not a wanderer then. When one is just waiting for the great adventure to begin and AN is about as good as it gets, it's hard not to be filled with regret. My life was interesting and full of adventures and then I started posting on TVF. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that my life went on a nose dive at that time, but it's a fact that it did. The good thing about living in a "free" country is that my life does not have to conform to your opinions.

It's many years ago, but I seem to remember that my post number diminished substantially. Not that I care as I don't post to increase my numbers, but because I enjoy being insulted by losers. IMO there comes a point in most lives that we need to feel superior to other people.

I just love the air of superiority that posters with Trump living in their heads exude when posting anything about the supporters of the guy that live in their heads. They provide the amusement otherwise lacking in my life. So, thank you for posting and please keep it up. I need more humour in my life. BTW, it's really easy to see which posters have the Donald living in their heads as they will insist in posting about him in threads with nothing to do with him.

Obviously. If the bad times lasted forever I suspect the suicide rate would be higher. If I split life into good, bad and boringly routine, boringly routine ( neither good nor bad ) would be 70%, the bad times 20% and the good times 10%. The really bad times would be 5% of the 20%, the really good times 1% of the 10%. This might be an appropriate place to post a poem that explains much about my condition. The Men that Don't Fit In by Robert Service

Heijera. It was very popular in the bar at Scott Base with the cool guys, which is where I first heard it. It's a bit depressing though with all that loneliness of the road and such. I haven't listened to it for years though. I'll have to have a listen again soon, if I can find the CD.

Agreed. It's like the language that kindy kids use. I wonder if they speak like that to real people- I don't of course- they'd be too gutless to say stuff like that to a real Trump supporter.

IMO they see Biden as weak and approaching senility. They probably want the US to degenerate into chaos and he's guy to cause that. IMO it's already broken, and just needs a final push.

Who else has ever stood up and said he wants to destroy the "swamp". Bernie sort of did, and look what happened to him. In the absence of good men wanting to reform Washington, those that despise Washington will grasp at straws and Trump is the only straw out there. I think those that reject Trump underestimate the hatred the unprivileged of America have for Washington. IMO Washington needs to be "destroyed" to save America from it. Completely reformed from top to bottom. Putting a time and age limit on ALL politicians would be a good start, as would sacking half the bureaucrats.