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How about those of us that have no interest in playing the dating game of "will she or will she not" and just want a guaranteed happy ending and don't want to be in any sort of relationship with them? I knew a female that boasted how she could get free drinks all night at a bar from all the guys trying to get into her knickers, only to go home alone and laughing about the sad mutts she strung along. I certainly have no wish to get into that game.

How can it be Ukrainians if all Ukrainian men are forbidden to leave Ukraine? Some thing has not been reported correctly. Unless it's just Ukrainian women.

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Thanks for that. I'm not sure but I think Seletar was where I got myself arrested for trespassing when I went to have a look at a couple of derelict fighter planes on the far side of the runway from the control tower. It's not like I snuk in or anything- just walked through the gate and the security let me pass. As I was with ANZUK they just called up the duty officer and I was taken back to Nee Soon where I was confined to barracks for the weekend. Happy days back then, LOL. Best memories I have from that posting are of SCUBA diving off Mersing with the base sub aqua club. Also lucky enough to do security on Butterworth where they were flying Mirages. Used to take the ferry over to Penang to see Kung <deleted> movies.

Sorry, but I'm well past use by date and have no wish to hang around in a rest home which is not far off if nature doesn't eliminate me first. So for me it is almost all over, not that I have any desire to live longer. No family or girlfriend to want to carry on for. Never was the term "God's waiting room" more valid. I do write quite a lot that is positive, so you must have missed those posts. On any thread complaining about Thailand I'll be there pointing out why it's the best country in the world. It's hard to find anything positive to write about when politics is just barking crazy these sad days, and the human race is busily polluting itself into oblivion. Feel free to put my posts on ignore though. After I put about 20 posters on ignore my posting experience was much improved.

Rarely, I have to agree with you on that. The boffins are already working on human devoid fighting machines. If AI is ever reality, can "the Terminator" scenario be far behind?

How many millionaires convicted of paying off a prostitute end up in Sing Sing? Asking for a friend.

I gave that a thumbs up.

I never said they would lose, and short of NATO joining in I think it will end in a negotiated settlement. Eventually, IMO, it will become politically impossible for western nations in a financial crisis to continue pouring money into Ukraine, and then it's game over for Ukraine, unless they do negotiate. IMO all Russia has to do is hold on and wait.

LOL. I'm sure that if I wanted to I could find a few less than flattering pictures of Joe supporters.

If they had a proper, independent investigation we might find out the answer to that.

Do you have anything of relevance to say on the subject? Stop press- just heard on radio news. Someone in CNN ( didn't catch the name ) said that this case may help Trump politically. That it came from CNN shows that it has to be a consideration. Unintended consequences and all that, LOL.

But what will Russia do if they lose Crimea? Nuke Ukraine? That is exactly why such as I are concerned as to what would happen if Russia were to lose.

Do you have any proof that MAGA voters are less intelligent than those that voted for Joe and his sidekick? How is it going in the world since Joe took over- Afghanistan, southern border, Ukraine etc?

Correct, but how many of the ordinary people will care about the technicalities and will IMO rightly see it as a politically motivated prosecution. This sort of thing is exactly why Trump voters voted for him the first time.

Difference is that Capone didn't have millions of supporters. The Donald does, and IMO if they proceed with this trumped up case ( pun intended ) they will get unintended consequences they will regret.

Agree, It's an outrage that Kissinger is still a free man. Should have been in jail for life after that. However, I was restricting my comments to presidents.

and yet, Britain built advanced aircraft, and was even building missiles till they decided to buy American instead. Far as I know they did so without any foreign money. The Vulcan, IMO, was the most beautiful bomber ever made, and far more attractive than a B52.

We have something in common. I was posted to Nee Soon and had probably the best 2 years of my life in Singapore ( other than a year in Antarctica ). I did go back many years later after the SAF took it over and it was tragic how Transit road had become a decrepit wreck of a street. I assume it's all been redeveloped into high rise flats or a 4 lane highway or something now. I didn't even recognise down town anymore.

I assume he means the British aviation industry, not a particular company. They started the industrial revolution and led the world in innovation, but reduced to making "bits" and moving money around now. My, how the mighty has fallen. I blame it on Haig's insane strategy of sending the best and brightest of British male youth to die in futile frontal assaults on the western front. IMO Britain never recovered from that.

Obviously that's the cheese, but it was a choice between companionship without sex or meaningless sexual relationships.

You are lucky then. I always regret I never got to go back to Antarctica, but I was stupid enough to get myself into a relationship instead. Also, I'd like to have visited Japan and Taiwan. I didn't even go to Aqaba before it got popular or Jordan to see Petra when I was working in Saudi. I had the opportunity, but I'd fallen in love with LOS and never went anywhere else.

Disagree 100%. In the end companionship beats being alone with a string of meaningless sexual temporary relationships. In the end, as Carly Simon sang, "the river doesn't seem to stop here anymore", but companionship lasts till the end, if we are lucky. Don't get me wrong, a string of meaningless sexual temporary relationships beats being alone, PERIOD, but given the choice I'd rather have companionship without sex than sex without companionship.

Welcome to the elder human race. I think everyone regrets that they didn't do more when they could. I certainly do, and I did waaaaaay more than most. As I get older the more the ghosts of the past come to haunt me, and the regret for things not done is my constant companion. One of the reasons I keep posting instead of doing better things is that it helps me forget the regrets. BTW, congrats on still being together. My marriage was my last hope of not being lonely in my last years, and that certainly didn't work out for me. Just for that I envy you.

Over decades I visited everywhere in LOS except Issan. What I've been saying is that based on what I saw, the smile left LOS long ago, so nothing at all to do with present or covid situation. IMO the smile was progressively lost as Thailand became more like the west, and people stopped smiling in western countries I lived in a very long time ago. It's a bit like whistling, which is something people used to do in public when they were happy. I haven't heard anyone whistling in public for most of my life. IMO something has gone very wrong in this Brave New World of ours, and I doubt it will ever get fixed- certainly not in my lifetime.