thaibeachlovers

Thai people are pretty friendly. Yes, most but not all. Food is good and not fattening. My doctor said their diet is the best in the world? Many eat American fast food like MacC(r*p) and KFC(r*p), so not necessarily good at all. Roadwork crews are not safety conscious. True, but there are few regulations to make them safety conscious and many are untrained/ unskilled imports from Burma or Cambodia. Do they know what a bulldozer is? Yes. Why don't they wear sunglasses? ???? I don't wear sunglasses- is it a big deal? Last one -please don't comment on this one it will upset me too much WTH is the story with how some of them treat man's best friend? If you don't want a comment don't ask the question. Many Thais get treated badly and treat animals the same way. I too was sickened by some of the things I saw.

Someone must be very bored.

Agree with that 100%. Gosh, this is getting to be a habit, LOL. They have a tough job putting up with arrogant farangs that treat them like <deleted> and working for a pittance. It's a wonder to me that they are not all spitting at farangs.

You don't get that I never had a REASON to complain. Never experienced such as you are talking about, but I treated them with respect.

90 days is hardly hiding. Eventually they have to go home.

Since when has the "international community" done anything for Thailand? The Thais are right to ignore anything from that quarter, IMO. One should not put western woke principles onto Thailand.

Good to see a president acknowledge that staying in Afghanistan after destroying the taliban and the entire war in Iraq were mistakes, but has that lesson been learned as the Middle East edges closer to war with israel?

Oh dear, seems that another PM may bite the dust, sooner than expected. Good riddance when it happens. Watching him grovel to the US is sickening.

The Gazans are happy that the US can't send even more support to the israelis than already sent, as long as there is no speaker.

I'll have to accept that you may know more about the speaker position than I, but seems strange then that the position has always, to my knowledge, been occupied by a sitting member of the house, and if it is possible why is it not being considered now? Regardless, cheney would never be acceptable to many in the GOP, so not even worth considering.

When faced with the choice between two appalling people, one tries to pick the less appalling one to support.

Silly comment. 1/ Trump would never be acceptable so just a stupid idea not worth commenting on. 2/ it may have been mentioned by an ignored poster, which means I never saw it, and anyway I don't have all day to read every post on this forum, unlike some.

Quite a lot of innocent children being slaughtered in Gaza, so does that mean you think the israelis are not sane?

I'm on the side of the oppressed. I used to be on the side of the israelis but that was a very long time ago. I don't like bullies.

The USA in recent years has distanced itself from Israel no longer pledging the unconditional support it once did. Biden obviously disagrees with you. Perhaps you missed his speeches in israel vowing unconditional support? The USA has given huge amounts of money to countries sworn to destroy Israel including Iran. Obama gave $900 million and Biden just pledged another $100 million. As I understand it that was Iranian money. Yes Clinton did try, but not hard enough.

Of all the arguments saying that modern israel has a claim to that land, that is the most laughable. Over the past 2,000 years since the Jews were expelled from ancient israel, many areas of planet earth have changed hands. Only those with continuous ownership ( like the unfortunate Australian Aborigines ) have a valid claim on a piece of dirt. IMO modern Jews had no such right, and but for powerful men in western countries that were zionist by inclination, modern israel would not exist. Likely it would still be part of Jordan, and the rest of the planet would not have been disturbed by the perpetual conflict in that area. Perhaps the Soviets knew the trauma they were visiting on the western world when they abstained and allowed the UN to create israel.

Given the amount of money they give to israel and the veto in the UN, if the US actually wanted to pressure israel they have all the tools they need to force israel to make peace. That they never have gives the lie to that idea. Now they don't even pretend to be even handed, and are all in for israel.

Please explain huge pressure from the USA to "get along". I have no idea what you mean by that. What pressure? Do you realise that israel was created in an area already populated and they couldn't just get rid of them all in 1948, so were condemned to live in close proximity?

Ah the old "national security" BS. How many crimes have been excused under "national security" which is rarely explained?

America has been supporting dictators for decades ( eg Saddam when he was an American ally ). Seems it's only dictators that are not backed by America that need to "pay a price". Isn't America broke? How come they can just keep paying out to other countries when there are so many problems at home? It's shennanigans like this from the W H that get people like Trump elected. IMO the greatest farce is claiming that israel needs billions more to defeat a few Hamas fighters armed with rifles and RPGs. Is the israeli army so weak it needs billions of US $ to win?

They will never defeat Hamas as it's an idea, not an army or a country. For every Palestinian they kill, probably a dozen more become Hamas supporters. They can kill every Gazan ( which is what they apparently want to do ), but Hamas will live on in every Arab country. Israel is headed, IMO, towards perpetual war, as thousands of boys grow up wanting revenge on israel. israel apparently hasn't learned in 30 years that repression doesn't create peace. If they think they can just kill every Palestinian, and have peace, they will fail, and they will never have peace. Jews claim they are God's chosen people, but if so, God apparently doesn't like the ones in israel very much, to surround them with those that hate them.

I've noticed that a lot. That side posts all sorts of things without links and when asked to do so make it someone else's job to find the links. Happens to me all the time.

No doubt those racist thugs have massed police and army support, while if any Palestinian saying the same thing but about the israelis would be arrested immediately.

Found it on google. Run for your life with Ben Gazzara.

A western series I liked was "Cimarron Strip"