thaibeachlovers

I don't recall saying Ukraine was escalating the war, but the west certainly is by giving ever more advanced weapons to Ukraine to use which in turn leads to Russia responding in kind. Putin, IMO, had a point when he commented that the west will fight to the last Ukrainian. If they were bigger and stronger and better armed than I, certainly I'd be scared to do anything to stop them. Wouldn't you be?

LOL. Sadly the human world has never had peace, probably since cavemen discovered that a bone could kill someone else. So while I accept that wars are as much a part of our life as sleeping, I'd prefer it if, in the present day, politicians that vote for conflict had to serve in the front line.

I've given an answer to that before, so I don't feel any need to repeat myself.

I'm puzzled as to why that deserved a sad emoji. It's not like we were using live targets. Militaries, like wars are a fact of life and a military needs to practice to be able to kill the enemy. So what's the problem?

Thanks for that update, and I stand corrected, but I still think that everything gets sucked into black holes and eventually create another big bang. I just can't accept that the universe expands forever with a load of dead matter in it. However, perhaps there are loads of dead universes in the infinite space. It's not like there isn't room in infinity for an infinite number of universes.

I can speak from personal experience why the M16 was easier to carry around than an SLR, but on the firing range the larger caliber was evidentially superior in taking down the enemy. We used steel plates to shoot at, and we could hear the M16 rounds hit the plate without knocking it over, but the SLR round would knock it over every time.

He did his best to make the wall a fact, and it was only that other politicians wouldn't fund it that meant it wasn't completed. I bet Biden is regretting that one of the first thing he did was to stop work on it, leaving gaps for the "undocumented" to pass through on the southern border, which has led to the present crisis, which isn't going away

Hmmmm. Replace the word Biden with Trump, and it was no worse than many posts from anti Trumpers on this forum. Are they also worthy of pity?

There is a comparison. Jesus threatened the religious leaders and Trump IMO threatens the Washington establishment. In both cases they are out to remove them from being able to interfere. In Jesus's case by death and in Trump's case by making him unable to stand again, or if he does, by making him lose.

I take it that you are more than an average driver, but for Joe average I will never be convinced that they need a turbo charger on their trips to the supermarket. I've never owned a car with a turbocharger and during my many thousands of miles driven I never had a problem exceeding the speed limit if desired. I also never had to pay to get a turbo fixed. Everything breaks, eventually, so the less to go wrong is always a good thing.

I certainly do as I used to fix vehicles in a past life. IMO the less to go wrong is the way to go with machinery.

I've never understood why anyone that only drives on public roads gets a car with a turbo charger. If one can't drive at 150 kph it's just another thing to go wrong.

I always drive at 90 kph. It's more economical than 100 kph and I get to my destination after about the same length of time. Other drivers can't complain because if I was a truck that would be the legal speed, and I always pull over to let the speed freaks pass when possible. I used to drive to the limit back when petrol was affordably priced, but it's actually more pleasant driving at a more sedate speed. I always laugh like a drain when some <deleted> passes me on a yellow line or by speeding in a restricted speed zone and at my destination I'm right behind him.

The only homosexual that I actually knew about was a technician that I worked with, not that he made a big deal about it at work. I never met any openly lesbian at work, and I don't recall ever meeting one. It's just not that common, in my experience. There may have been more but they didn't talk about it. Actually it was rare for anyone to discuss their personal life. I did meet a sergeant in the military ( before he had the op ) that became a trans, but that was way back when it was almost unknown of and he became a sort of celebrity with magazine articles about him/ her. I gather that some people assume that a male nurse is a homosexual, but no one ever suggested that I was ( I'm not ).

I remember them too. They were rubbish and even I knew that way back then.

You'll have to remind me of that. Don't know what you are on about there.

My wife's family was much loved in the village, many of which were family. She, herself, was popular with the locals. I never went to town to sit in some bar leering at the local girls. When I was with my wife I had no interest in playing around.

Has any other poster said that they had a similar experience? I certainly never did.

Pop songs are not about real life.

I've heard of Thai girls who are prepared to go with farangs for free, but I suspect only with young handsome guys, not us old overweight bald guys.

IMO you heard wrong. There is no equivalent that I know of long time in the west except for extremely rich guys and once started one is "on the clock". The only non SEAsian long time that I know of for westerners was in Venezuela, when one could book a holiday at a sex hotel. I have no idea if still in operation. If Thai BGs were just wanting to get it over with, why would they go with customers for weeks or months at a time?

He can be smart and not care about the peasants. Mao was apparently instrumental in killing about 30 million of his own citizens and I haven't heard anyone saying he was an idiot.

I'm not going there, so don't bother trying again.

As I understand it, in x billion years the sun runs out of fuel and while dying it expands to consume all the planets in the solar system.

I admit I'm no scientist but IMO black holes connect to another dimension and eventually suck all the matter from this universe into that dimension where it is compressed into a small very dense sphere which eventually causes another big bang to create another universe, rinse and repeat ad infinitum. If the theory that this universe continues to expand forever, it will do so with a lot of dead suns and planets, once all the suns' fuel runs out.