thaibeachlovers

Why don't you remind us of whom is POTUS while the Middle East seems to be degenerating into all out war.

Seriously? No wonder western civilization is doomed IMO.

LOL. To do that would likely cost more than all the welfare that the woman would receive in her lifetime. It's not like a chicken where the egg pops out of a woman's body every month. I doubt any doctor would agree to participate in such a scheme and even if they did, it also requires technical assistance to keep the egg alive. If it's just left in a dish it will die, and to become an embryo it requires a technician to fertilise the egg, or did you think it's just getting a man's sperm and rolling the egg around in it? Then after the egg is fertilised it needs to be frozen or it will die. That requires more advanced equipment than the home freezer. I think Alabama finances are quite safe from your scheme.

LOL. Do you think the egg and the sperm were created by a machine? Of course they were created in an actual human body, of two different genders, and the resulting embryo is an unborn human child. There is more to marriage than just producing a rugrat child, but perhaps you are a one issue type of person. Personally, I despise the institution of marriage and up to me it'd be sent the way of jousting. People want to live together just do it. The idea of spending thousands of $ just so people we don't even know can get drunk on our booze is ludicrous to me, and that so many non religious people get married in church is just hypocrisy. Makes zero difference to getting divorced and all those promises they made were just lies.

If he wins I'll be sure to remind you of the posts you are making now. IMO he won't be the candidate, unless the GOP really can't do better than Haley. It's a long way off yet and a week is a long time in politics.

But if you do the wai wrongly and insult them, or put yourself too low or too high status...............

Thanks. I don't normally watch any U Tube stuff off this forum as I spend too much time on it as it is and I have a life as well, so U Tube links are not generally watched. I'll make an exception for links to AKB48.

Do you know why there are so many Pl nurses working outside the Philippines? I worked with many in Saudi and London. It's because they get paid too little to work in the Philippines. Many of the females were married and had children living in the Philippines with their grandparents. The nurses would save up their holidays and go home once a year. They earned so much working outside the Philippines, that they had grand houses and servants back there. I worked in Saudi and London because I got paid too little to work in NZ. Loads of qualified nurses go overseas to earn more, many to the US. These days loads are going to Australia, so nurses are having to be imported. It's a money go round.

Thank you. I was pointing out something that most non medical staff would not know. It could have been a drawing and the same would be true. There are a lot of things that nurses have to do to keep their patients safe from infection from themselves and other patients. This is why nurses are worth more. The untrained or poorly trained nursing assistants often employed because qualified nurses are not available ( because people are reluctant to train when the rewards are so poor ) are far more likely to cause problems for patients.

I'll warrant that even you, who knows everything, will still not know every nuance of the wai. For that reason I did not wai in LOS. It was never expected of me either.

I didn't wai in LOS, nor did I shake hands. I gave a little bow, if it felt appropriate, ie I didn't bow to my temporary girlfriends.

I can vouch for that. During the year I spent in Antarctica ( outside temperature from - 4 degrees C to more than - 30 degrees C, and I spent most of my day outside ) my shirt neck size got larger by 1 inch, and I was able to stay outside comfortably, wearing only a thin track suit, which would never have happened at the start. We all learned the 30 30 30 rule on orientation https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914801,00.html when exposed to a 30-m.p.h. wind at —30° F., human flesh freezes solid in 30 seconds.

Are we simply lucky; or they unlucky? Excellent question. Some on here apparently think that we make our life ourselves ie we make the things happen that make us happy or otherwise. I disagree, as if I made my life happen I must hate myself. Apparently some believe that a higher power can intervene and provide the means by which they can be happy, and pray to ask the higher power to give them stuff. Others, myself included, think life happens all of itself, and we just react to it. Obviously, the last cohort believe it's just luck. I was lucky to be born of reasonably well off middle class parents in a safe country, who were able to have me educated and stay healthy, till I went off on my own. Would I be of the same mind if I had been born in Gaza? I doubt it. Did I create my life myself, do I think God intervened and implanted me into a certain egg in a certain woman or do I think it's just random chance that put me where I was born? Obviously the last option.

Isn't that like asking if a tree falling without any animal to hear it makes a sound?

Ugly is a human construct. Nature just is, and we interpret it as we will. I'm sure a farmer seeing his crops drowned sees the rain as an enemy, while I love it ( as long as I'm looking at it and not getting wet in it ). I think a cockroach is very ugly, but I'm sure that a male cockroach thinks a female cockroach is just peachy.

I didn't ask you to have empathy or any other emotion for me, so go take a long hike with your faux complaints.

Oh dear, another poster that has apparently learned nothing from history. No wall has ever worked on its own. Walls always need men to back them up. Even the Great Wall of China had garrisons to enforce it, and likewise Hadrian's wall, which had Roman garrisons along it.

Oh gee wizz, hold the presses. The Donald is having marital problems, just like 50% of other western men ( western divorce rate is apparently about 50% ). However, according to you, he is unique in having marital problems. Who would have known that? ( sarcasm alert ).

IMO "democracy" is in the final stages before vanishing into history, like every civilisation before it. Killed off by the rot within, like every civilisation before. IMO the day it was accepted that there are more than two genders was the beginning of the final descent into oblivion. The Roman empire took hundreds of years to end, but IMO ours will end in 150 to 200 years ( everything speeds up ) from the end of WW1, when most of the brains were killed off in trench warfare. Trump, IMO has nothing to do with it. He has always, IMO, been a result of the end times, not a cause, which happened in WW1. IMO, if we want "democracy" to survive, it needs to be destroyed in it's current iteration and replaced by a more robust version sans PC and wokeness. If Trump begins the destruction, bring it on. However, I think it's too late to save the beast.

I seem to remember that Britain, once upon a time, long long ago, actually made things themselves, including missiles, but somewhere along the line someone decided to just buy them off the Americans, and Britain stopped making stuff itself. What a great idea, NOT.

I imagine the reasoning goes along the lines of "if we make anti semitism ( referring only to Jews ) un acceptable and link Jew and Zionist as one, then people will be reluctant to criticise the zionists for their war crimes and crimes against humanity, leaving them to carry on the one sided assault against the Palestinians". Luckily many are ignoring that and criticising israel for its crimes in Gaza.

Rubbish. A living egg is fertilised with a living sperm in a petri dish or whatever they use. They are not created in the dish.

Why? An embryo is a child that has not been carried to the point of birth. Do you consider that life starts only with the first breath? America never fails to boggle me. On one hand it seems that most women want to abort their unborn children while some want to get pregnant at great expense.

You are 100% correct on that.

I hope Biden is the candidate, as he now is the best reason a GOP candidate will win. If the Dems had a candidate that could speak coherently and not talk to dead people they likely would win, but that doesn't include Harris. If she was the candidate the GOP should be a shoo in. However, I doubt even the Dems would be so foolish as to put her up as the candidate. IMO the plan is to let Biden win, then for him to hand it over to Harris.