thaibeachlovers

Does anyone really care about a band that used to be famous now? Personally I hated almost everything after they discovered LSD, and just about everything Lennon made after the Beatles died. However, actors and singers and artists should be marching on every AI machine with pitchforks as it's going to destroy their livelihood. Why bother putting up with petulant bands that think they are special, when a machine can make new songs that sound just like them- likewise for actors, and even painters, writers, glassblowers etc etc etc.

That particular variation was an unknown quantity to my explorations in the more exotic parts of Bangkok or Phuket for many years ( I never went to Pattaya for a long time, to my eternal regret ), and even after it was not a universal delight, as not all even knew how to do it.

If you are right about older being better the lasses at Virgin's corner on Transit Road should have had their customers singing the Hallelujah chorus. For those that don't know where Transit Road is, Google may assist.

I've always held the opinion that if one goes to a foreign country and finds it boring, the problem is within, rather than the place one has moved to. It's like the posters that complain that Thailand is boring. If they got their head outside and had a look around, Thailand is certainly one of the most interesting countries I've ever been to, with something new around every corner. I guess warming the same bar stool day after day probably does get boring.

Thai people speak better English. LOL. Go to a foreign country and expect them to speak English! The difference I expect is that while Thailand people depend to a certain extent on English speaking tourists, I doubt most Japanese gives a rat's bottom about English speaking tourists. BTW, the Japanese people I have met outside Japan have no problem speaking acceptable English.

Yet.

Actually it's not absurd at all. It takes money out of poor pockets and gives it to the 1%. They are happy- job done. Given that the 1% still fly around in private planes they obviously don't think it's a problem worth worrying about, and there is a certain US president that bought beach front property in Hawaii, so he obviously doesn't think it's a crisis. However, the 1% need to keep the sheeple occupied with irrelevant things so they don't start asking awkward questions, and man made climate change is as good a diversion as there could be.

Soooo, there is more CO2 in the atmosphere, whoopy doo. What are governments doing about it? you'll have to tell me because I don't see anything being done about it that is affordable, effective and acceptable. In NZ we just got rid of the stupid government that wanted to tax farmers into bankruptcy because cows belch methane, and good riddance to the idiots.

You nailed it, but some on here will believe that if they keep saying "humans caused it" over and over enough, the problem will go away. Despite me asking for their solutions I always get no response about any solutions that are affordable, effective and acceptable. Governments love those that want more tax for them to waste.

If people are allowed to build in a flood zone that is on the idiots that allowed it, and if they built on flood zones because there wasn't enough safe land to build on it's because there are too many people. The obvious answer is to stop building on flood zones and reduce the population.

Thanks ( or rather no thanks ) to MMP National has to grovel to Winston to form a government with a majority. Not a good result. Hopefully it's not like the labour party can win at the last minute. That would be absolutely horrible.

Thank you for introducing some humour into the thread. Keep 'em coming.

Thank you for that, but I was in error for not including your full sentence- ie I should have said "You'll need to quote a "congressman that declares an overwhelming case against Joe Biden without evidence as I'm not aware of any such." From your linked post, Comer has the evidence and he noted it.

Looks like Blinken's mission is on its way back to the US without much to show for it. Not much love being shown by Jordan and the Egyptians were quite frosty. Never mind, he got to be BFF with his buddy netanyahu again. Apparently he's stopping off in Turkey, though he may wish to avoid that disappointment, as the Turks are not impressed. It's not looking good for the US as support drains away as the populace of the western nations are increasing demands for a ceasefire. Meanwhile in London, a HUGE demonstration in Trafalgar square demanding a ceasefire. Large demonstrations in the US too, even outside the white House.

Just do it. You'll be glad you did. I put him on ignore ages ago and all the better for not reading his abusive posts.

The Biden administration is increasingly looking on the wrong side of history as the death toll of Palestinian children rises. Massive demonstrations around the world supporting Palestinians, and calling for a ceasefire. Apparently calls in Turkey for a convoy of ships protected by the navy to bring aid to Gaza. Now won't that be something if it happens. If israel attacks it like the last one they are attacking a NATO country so the US is obliged to go to its aid. I hope the convoy goes ahead. I don't normally make predictions of the future, but I think I'm pretty safe pointing out that israelis outside israel will be targets for revenge. Did netanyahu fail to take world reaction into account?

Does Japan have nothing more than food to offer?

I have no sympathy. If you didn't go and stay a while to see if you like it before moving for good you got the predictable result. When I moved permanently ( or I had hoped to ) I had visited Thailand many times for long periods, so knew exactly what I was moving to.

When women are educated and have careers that make them wealthy, why would Japanese women marry into the salaryman culture to a life revolving around a man and children? They are probably the most sane women on the planet not to look at marriage as something desirable. As anyone that knows my rambling understands, I have no wish to see children in a world rapidly being destroyed by overpopulation, so Japanese women are carrying the torch for depopulation, and kudos to them for it. While I am a male, I look at the males on offer in my life and for the most part I have to wonder why women are so desperate to marry them. PS. I also look at the women on offer in my life and I have to wonder why any sane man would marry them. The successful marriages that I know personally number 1 and in that case my friend and his wife were both exceptionally nice people. The few that stayed together devolved into some sort of loveless cohabitation. PPS, Yes I did get married for a while, but I plead insanity as a reason.

In a country with laws mandating wheelchair access to public buildings a wheelchair is not an obstacle to enjoying life. I know that as a fact. Thailand has no laws mandating wheelchair access to pavements, never mind public buildings.

but a kid that is legal for sex, assuming she still does. My petulant kid in women's skin didn't even do that much for me and got a divorce as a result.

LOL. My wife bought me a bicycle for my birthday, but I had to give her the money to buy it. She always put in an order for mascara of a brand not available in LOS when I went back to home country- damn expensive stuff even duty free. She did say thank you, but that was as far as it went.

Congratulations on your service, but it has no bearing on the value of your CD collection. I probably have more than that,, and more records than that, and more DVDs than that, all of which are of little value if I tried to sell them. In fact they will be given to a charity shop after I'm gone where they will be sold for a few cents or a couple of $. Stealing music is so easy on the internet that people can store hundreds of songs on a device as big as my thumb nail for the cost of the flash drive.

You beat me to it. I can buy CDs in mint condition in NZ for $0.50 cents. A CD or DVD collection is now only of value to the owner.

Perhaps governments are not buying the idea that anything can actually change climate, no matter what they do, so why spend money on it?