thaibeachlovers

If the US ( ie Biden ) wanted a truce extension, they are in a position to make it so. That they don't "insist" on it, makes one wonder if the US has any influence over netanyahu, despite funding the israelis, arming the israelis and providing political cover for their excessive and disproportional activities that are condemned by many countries around the planet.

One suspects that a lot of potential conscripts will use such qualifications to "volunteer" for a rear position but for cannon fodder, not so much. I read once that for every soldier on the front line there are 10 in the rear echelons as support. That could be wrong.

LOL. That doesn't explain how such a rotten man as Trump can be ahead of the far superior Biden at any time in the election cycle. Try again.

Thank you for your well considered and thought out response. Keep 'em coming as we need more like that.

LOL. Almost everything the government does I disagree with, but I have no way to make them stop wasting my tax money.

That's no reason to allow undocumented immigrants to stay. If they had qualifications actually needed, they could come by legal means. The real problem is that countries don't force the lazy to work and don't pay enough to get those that want to work to do the jobs that are given to illegals. Anyway, in the not too distant future robots will do those jobs and millions of culturally different will end up existing on a pittance as not legally in the country. A recipe for chaos.

Sooooo, your much better solution is.......................?

It's a fact of life so yes. Re the lights, I was there in Pattaya when they were erected and I never saw cars stop in Pattaya for the red lights. There was even a VDO of a cop car not stopping for the red light. Eventually they just turned the lights off.

Reminds me of the time I went to a new place that I read about in the local rag, as it mentioned free tarter sauce and refills ( I like a decent tarter sauce with fried fish ). Place was run by a Brit that was cooking. I got the tartare sauce, but the guy was so unpleasant I never went back. The food was average, so nothing to miss.

I tried many a Thai resto that offered fish and chips. They got the chips right, but the "fish" was always some tasteless soggy mush that didn't resemble any fish I had outside Thailand. Usually the batter was the best part. Gave up in the end. If nothing else about living outside LOS is good, at least I can get decent battered fish.

As long as the above disincentives to families exist it makes families less likely in Pattaya, so bring on the katoeys, and the fake food if it keeps the sprogs away. All good.

Kids don't need to stay IN Pattaya to go to those places. They can stay along the coast. Families not welcome in Pattaya- it's for big boys, not kids. They should be banned.

Loads of Russians used to take their kids to Pattaya. I'd see them out and about on Walking Street.

They did, with their left hand, which is why they eat with the right hand. The Bedouin probably still do. Oil and western money gave them many things like running water and cars, so they don't ride camels any more.

More than once. There was a time in Sri Lanka that was so bad it can never be erased from my memory banks, actually 1 1/2 times as the second time I almost broke the door down in my haste to escape. If you want to rank sex from bad to good on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being awful and 5 being elevated to the stars, almost all my sex was a 2 or 3. Few 1s thankfully, and no 5s, though I did achieve more than a few 4s with my wife to be, though that ended once she had the paper signed and it became 3s till even that ended.

I laughed when you included the time honoured phrase " I never pay for sex"! We all pay in the end, one way or another, even if it's only the mental anguish of realising what we actually did it with- the horror, the horror.

Well, was it good sex, or a fumble in the back of a small British car? I didn't lack for sex as long as massage parlours were there to subvert the law at that time, but a half hour quickie is vastly inferior to a long time of the Thai variety.

Thanks for the support. I am envious of you and any western guy that managed to permanently escape the dead hand of western society. I did my best to, but sadly my best wasn't good enough.

Not really. They were in Saudi as well.

Thank you. It happens to loads of guys, but somehow, there are always loads more suckers out there for women to exploit. The power of the <deleted> is strong.

That sperm was the chosen one.

I respect nature because if we don't nature will <deleted> us up, as in idiots that build on flood plains, fire zones, coastal regions subject to erosion, and destroy the environment that they live in. Sadly, most people apparently think they are more powerful than nature, and then complain when they find out it ain't so.

Hello and goodbye. Miss you? Not really- posters come and go, come back and leave again. Such is life on a forum. The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Thinking about that, one might assume that the universe exists in the "mind" of God.

Nothing wrong with believing nature is sacred ( I believe that nature is part of God, so if I subscribed to religion { I don't } I'd say it was sacred ). The problem is when one or more people put on silly hats and proclaim that they hold the attention of god(s), and for a price they will ask the god(s) to help out.

What's wrong with calling surfer dudes surfer dudes? Chill man!