thaibeachlovers

Saved me writing that. He can probably drive one, but not take paying passengers.

If that's how you feel, you shouldn't have got married then. Did you think she was going to stay the same her entire life? I got divorced, because my wife became the screaming hagbitch from hell and wouldn't make love. Doesn't sound like that is your wife.

If I had loadsacash I wouldn't have left. I don't.

You bought her ( tied the knot ). Unless she does something bad enough to divorce her you owe her to stay married. However, if she won't do it with you, then I see no reason not to have some on the side. Seems that commitment and integrity are vanishing at a rapid rate these days.

Using a chemical that makes us stupid and spout a load of gibberish, while destroying our organs isn't, to my mind a good option. I'm not talking about a couple of beers, but getting drunk. Since I gave it up a long time ago, never regretted not using it and don't need it.

Regret not being in LOS every day since I left. NZ isn't good without loadsacash. Never get married so I had enough money to never leave LOS.

Happily I never met a stockbroker, nor do I want to.

Perhaps I'm different, but I wanted sex every day with my partner(s). When they no longer wanted to do it at all was the beginning of the end for them in my life. I never needed another person in my life, except for sex, and was quite happy on my own. Would have been different if I'd wanted children, but I didn't.

When one is paying it doesn't matter if she gets pleasure. Having said that, I got more pleasure from sex if my partner was enjoying it.

Sex is a primary genetic imperative for men, so yes, they think about it a lot. It's normally not a topic in polite company, but on an anonymous forum like this we can discuss what we wouldn't with our mothers. Besides, it's way more interesting than where to get a pizza.

NZ had a practical and efficient reticulation system of underground pipes for CNG some decades ago. No reason why it should be different for hydrogen. Use solar and wind to power the conversion of water to hydrogen/ oxygen.

My contention is that it just isn't possible for many poor countries with large and rapidly getting larger populations to go to EVs. Far too expensive and they don't have the infrastructure to charge them or qualified people to fix them. I hope you are not suggesting that we pay for them to get such. Petrol/ diesel will remain the motive power for decades to come for most people IMO.

I hope this isn't just more talk, and they actually do something for more than a photo op.

Agree 100%. It's all about money IMO.

I wasn't referring to lithium, but to rare earth metals which are apparently essential for battery cars and windmills. Look at which country controls much of them. Yes, the human world has been dependent on fossil fuels since the early 20th century, and they allowed us to progress beyond horse, steam and wind power. I for one am grateful that they gave me a far, far better life than my ancestors ever had. Also, IMO battery cars are a dead end in the way that Beta VCRs were. Hydrogen and nuclear IMO are far better options in our current state of technology than battery cars and windmills.

You apparently have never suffered a chronic disease to understand why he left the cold country.

LOL. I left the country many years after I left my partner and her children, during which time none of them tried to stay in contact, so nothing to regret never seeing them again.

Well said. However the greensters with their "it's all our fault" mantra have IMO replaced God religion with the "man made climate change" religion and are just as fanatic about it. It's even similar, given God religion relies on people believing in a being that can't be seen, and the "man made climate change" religion relies on people believing in something that can't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In both case it's belief in a theory, IMO.

I have zero idea what you are saying. In 1923, transistors hadn't been invented, horses were still a major transport option, and computers were clever people that did maths.

Seems to me that you are fixated on western economies, yet the real problem is with countries like India and those in Africa that have no hope of changing to your dream of battery cars and solar panels. As long as their populations expand rapidly, IMO there is no hope of doing anything meaningful other than virtue signalling. I didn't include China, as they can be forced to change by the dictators in power, but I never want to live in that sort of country. Any "solution" has to be global and not just in western countries. BTW, given the use of rare minerals in your dream cars, the chance of them replacing simple tech ICEs is IMO a pipe dream.

Regardless, the real question is what are we going to do about it and IMO nothing is being done that would actually change anything. The little that has been done in western countries is meaningless as long as consumer units are being born at a rate that will negate any remedial action. IMO we were doomed the day the world's human population exceeded 3 billion. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the end. However, that doesn't mean we should not bother to stop polluting everything with our wasteful lives. We should.

Agree. I gave up maths because the teacher was useless and have never regretted it. Algebra has nothing to do with my life. Come to that, most of my schooling was a waste of time, and I was never prepared to spend my time studying outside school hours. After I left school at 18 I could do basic maths in my head, speak and read English, and loved reading books. Never held me back in the real world. PS I certainly didn't waste 3 or 4 years in a university.

Did you not read the OP where he said "I have just enough money to live on and I am a very, very long way from wealthy"? Yet you assume he has a car. I was in his situation and I certainly didn't have one, nor could I have gone out and bought one. Seems to me that a lot of posters having sold up the house back in the UK or wherever and coming into a substantial sum of money assume that all farangs are wealthy. Up to them if they want to live the rich man lifestyle in a country where their money goes a lot further, but it annoys me greatly that they assume all farangs are able to do so.

Some things one never gets over. I'm still aggrieved about how I got taken for a fool with my first partner and I left her in the 90s. Came out of that with almost nothing at 35 years old. I had it all and lost it all to her. Had to start over from nothing.

Never wasted my time reading the book but I did go to see the movie back when it was segregated showing for men and women. I have no idea what the fuss was about, and it was boring.