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I believe that is correct.

If I had suffered 7 years of <deleted> from the Dems, I would definitely want revenge on them. I hope he gets his opportunity.

trump, along with his supporters, are losers. Somewhat broad brush there. Everyone of the millions of Americans that voted for Trump are losers? Somewhat arrogant there. Would anybody on the face of the Earth be envious of them and what they have accomplished in life? I could list Trump's achievements but you would refuse to acknowledge them, so I won't. All the people trying to get into the US illegally while Trump was POTUS can't have had a problem with the US under him. Seems to me that any posters that denigrate Trump and his supporters ignore that supporting an old man with obvious mental problems is just as barking. I saw Biden on tv this morning "savaging Trump". It was like being savaged by a damp poodle. When he walked out he just looked so very, very old. However, he almost managed to make the entire speech without messing up till near the end, but his handlers must have told him when that happened to leave without taking questions, which he did.

No, I'd rather that they'd negotiated and not had a war at all. Now it looks like Ukraine will end up at the negotiating table anyway and so many deaths and destruction in between. Much of the world seems to live under tyrannical regimes, so why is Eastern Ukraine different? It's not like Ukrainian leaders have been beacons of love and light, is it? Democracy? Don't make me laugh.

I've said it before and I'll say it again- the US media is IMO so vile now that any person with half a brain cell will likely avoid applying for POTUS like the plague. Had Kennedy been standing now they'd likely have ripped him to shreds for his womanising. Back then the media ignored it- times change. https://katiecouric.com/entertainment/book-guide/john-f-kennedy-incomparable-grace-book-infidelity/ A New Book Explores John F. Kennedy’s Life in the White House — and His Infamous Infidelity By Katie Couric Media

a very angry huckster who's committed in an entire life full of crime. Bill and Hillary didn't think he was bad when they were pals with him. It's so great finding evidence that TDS posters are making it up. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/magazine/when-hillary-and-donald-were-friends.html Donald Trump, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Melania Trump at the Trumps’ wedding reception, in January 2005.

It's good to see a poster with common sense. Far too many posters on here with TDS that refuse to acknowledge that Trump did anything right. Sometimes they even blatantly lie eg that he did nothing to control illegal immigration across the southern border. I'm the first to acknowledge that Trump was imperfect, and that he should not be standing again, but he was the man for the time, not least for preventing HRC winning, which IMO would have been a catastrophe, not just for the US but for the world. However, if he is all that stands between us and a Harris presidency, I'd vote for him if able to.

Remember Thatcher, who went to war, apparently against all the advice of the generals? I think they used to say that she was the only real man in her government.

Regardless of what the girl did after, IMO uninvited kissing a girl on the mouth that one is not in a relationship with is a form of assault. Even prostitutes often refuse to kiss customers on the mouth. Had he kissed her on the cheek, no problem. Perhaps the girl was just so stunned by it at first that she made one of those embarrassed smiles we make in such situations. Wolf whistling makes many girls uncomfortable, so why allow it? It's not as though they give permission for it by just walking around. It's not at all like having a Playboy centerfold in a workplace where women are not in evidence. I doubt men would like it if women commented on the size of their junk in public. I'm not in any way a supporter of emasculating men, but some things are just not polite in public places, so there is no justification for doing them

IMO, the western world, for reasons I'm unaware of ( perhaps all the intelligent people got killed off in 2 world wars ) has become controlled by minorities, and they are so powerful ( Metoo, BLM, homosexual organisations etc ) that any rational person is quite rightly afraid to speak out against them, for fear of overwhelming attack. For example I give you the humble Playboy centerfold, which used to be prominently displayed in most male workplaces, but is now a "banned" decoration. Rather than stand up for the right to have a Playboy centerfold on display, businesses wimped out and removed them. Real men everywhere are diminished by the lack of a Playboy centerfold to admire in their workplaces.

Must be something special about Thai girls that so many western guys lose their brains when they get involved with one.

If you hadn't noticed the whole world is a bit sad nowadays IMO. If we look at the big picture, rather than just our little part of it, the human race isn't doing very well. Begging on line is just a symptom of a wider malaise.

They are not leaders of the free world and don't have access to the firing codes.

I'll be happy if she is the candidate as IMO a sure loser, whoever the GOP candidate is. My worry was that she'd be in as VP and then Biden would opt out leaving her as POTUS.

Thanks for that. When I was a regular on them they had inflatable life rafts, but they obviously wouldn't inflate- probably never checked. Life jackets- only after a ferry sank in a storm that had none at all. I think it was one of those fast ferries- don't remember the company, I think Raja. I spent 4 hours on a Raja fast ferry floating around after the engine failed. We were only 1/2 hour from Samui, but had to wait till a boat came from the mainland!

I was so concerned by the lack of liferafts that worked on the ferries ( perhaps that has changed ) that I always took my own flotation device.

Thanks for the reply and the entirely appropriate reason for not going on the train. I always went sleeper so as to save the day for sightseeing ( and save a night's hotel bill ). I'd leave Bkk in the evening and be on Samui by mid day. It's not as though Samui had a lot to do except walks on the beach though. Hua Hin was nice till they destroyed it with the monstrous Hilton right in the middle. Had some nice restaurants over the water. It was OK for a couple of days.

Thanks for the laugh ( I know it was unintentional ). Building something on land that they had no right to is so typically Thai that I just had to laugh. I'm very happy to hear that the airport never got finished- IMO it would have been the end of Phangan as the last refuge from the flashpacker menace. Most flashpackers won't travel with us peasants and it has to be by air or not at all. With any luck the concrete road they were building on the East coast didn't get finished. I was at Haad Khom after it reached there and the flashpacker palaces were already being built. It'd be sad if it reached Bottle or Than Sadet

Trump used to be a Democrat and pals with the Clintons. $60 billion could do a lot of good in the US, but it won't because it got used to kill people. You seem to be OK with the Ukrainian disaster because no Americans are getting killed. Too bad about all the Ukrainians that died then!

I did that twice. first time was great, second not so much. Different farmhouse as we went up stream.

No problem. I was based at Scott Base in the 70s. Flew in on a Hercules plane with skis for landing on the snow. Soon as arrived was put in the back of a truck and driven to the base which was quite primitive, having been constructed to last just a few years in 1957 during IGY. Water was melted glacier ice, and showers were about once a week during summer. No tv or radio, and obviously no internet. Main after work entertainment was the bar, and also going over the hill to the American Base of McMurdo. They had a big desalination plant and showers any time. They also had a large US Navy contingent which maintained the base ( time in Antarctica was counted as sea duty ) so had all the various bars for sailors, NCOs and Officers, plus the civilian bars. We were allowed to visit any of them. Americans do know how to party! They had about a thousand on base in the summer, we had about 100 at capacity. In the winter, we had 11 and they had about 100. We had huskies and a ski tow though, so IMO we were better off. We had 2 women on base, only in the summer, but they had loads in summer and 1 in winter- that led to some interesting times! I was maintenance, which involved a lot of outside work, which could get quite cool, though Canadians would have been fine. About a max of -4 C in summer, and a minimum in winter of about -50 C, if I remember correctly. Base was maintained at 15 C. Storms from the south were exciting, and in the winter we had a lot of auroras. In winter we had a movie every night, though I spent a lot of time over at Mac 10 pin bowling, playing volley ball, enjoying movie marathons with as many hot dogs and soft icecream cones as wanted. They also had a sauna- lovely. Getting to sleep was a problem,as insomnia is common, and the sleeping quarters air supply was humidified as the air had no natural humidity. Antarctica is officially a desert as it has so little precipitation. We had loads of snow, but it was very old snow and it never actually snowed. It just blows around in storms. Complete darkness for 8 weeks, and most of us went up a hill to see the first sunrise, when it just peeped over the horizon. After that it was just getting ready for the summer arrivals, and then back to the real world with strange green stuff ( grass ) and I could look into the wind without getting frostbite. Best year of my life, and still miss it.

Hmmmmm. Have you read the book and was there any comparison between The Sanctuary and the book version eg, was it completely covered by trees to make it invisible from the air? To be authentic, the visitors to The sanctuary would have had to go spear fishing for their food and smoke copious amounts of dope. I'm in two minds if it has a basis in fact or is just clever marketing. The below is hardly convincing evidence, though the dates of starting are the same, and The Sanctuary had a long house just as the book did. https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2020/11/17/real-story-behind-island-community-that-inspired-the-beach/ Asked whether Garland actually visited The Sanctuary, [one-time resident Michael Doyle] says, “I have a fuzzy memory of a guy hanging out in a hammock and just watching the flow of life for a couple of weeks in the mid-’90s. And I can put names to a few of the characters in the story, so there’s that. It didn’t click so much with the book as with the film.” "It didn’t click so much with the book as with the film.” is what makes me sceptical. Basically the movie had little in common with the book. Also, Garland was not, far as I can discover involved in any way with the movie, other than drawing Daffy's map. Certainly Doyle bent over for DiCaprio and ruined the entire premise of the book, just because DiCaprio wanted to nail the girl. I've read the book twice and saw the movie 6 times when it came out, and also on DVD. I've also researched the making of the movie extensively, and the book is by far a superior version, though I watched the movie for nostalgic reasons. As an amusing aside, the character Richard of both book and screen despised the sort of tourists that went to Full Moon Parties, but https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/thailand-the-sanctuary-koh-phangan/index.html Behind the project were two Koh Phangan residents, Gill Beddows and Steve Sanders, who decided to establish The Sanctuary after becoming annoyed with ongoing commercialization in the Hat Rin scene. “In Hat Rin we ran a café, and we were involved in the big parties,” says Beddows.

Jokin' right? The US under Biden is getting a big hammering in world opinion for supporting netanyahu in his atrocities in Gaza

Putin is deflecting, and you seem to need to see a good psychologist about that TDS.

Why do people think she'd make a good POTUS? She was married to a president, but that doesn't make her presidential material or have a clue about actually doing the job. Hopefully she won't have to prove why she was a bad idea.