thaibeachlovers

When discussing transvestites, rather than those with full operative changes, how does one tell the difference between a man that just likes wearing a dress, and a man that identifies as a female? Of course a man that identifies as a female is not going to be a threat to women as they like men, but a man that just wears a dress is still attracted to women.

I rarely agree with you, but on this I do. At the moment, IMO, he is the most likely reason the Dems will keep the presidency next year. I can only hope that he either doesn't get the financing needed or fails in the primaries.

Sorry, but I don't get what you are trying to say there. I doubt many in government even understand what AI really is let alone have the guts to do something about it. It is coming and it will IMO be used by the 1 % to get even richer while everyone else ends up on the farcical "living wage". AI/ robotics will be able to do almost anything any human can do, and if we leave it to late to regulate it, it really will be too late for most. We don't even have widespread AI yet, and many jobs are already being lost to the machines.

Once again, for short term economic gain, the west shot itself in the foot in the long term.

The advantage of using "woke" to mock the left is that most understand what it is referring to without having to use a lot of words.

Seemed to me the only thing the EU did was to take as many as arrived on EU shores. That's not any sort of "control". IMO special forces should be used to eliminate the traffickers. Do that and a lot of economic migrants will not be able to get to Europe as IMO they are the ones able to pay.

Years ago would have had to have been the EU as Britain was still in it so unable to do so, and the EU leaders seem quite keen on letting them in. After that there was a little plague that sort of took over everything.

IMO it's become a symbol, so needs to be held or won. By making it so important, it will be a massive blow to Ukrainian morale if lost, and if Russia wins it will be a huge boost to Russian troops.

I said it's the "least biased", not that it's perfect. I don't know with regard to any news source, but it's pretty obvious what is propaganda if one uses common sense.

Given the <deleted> the world is in, one wonders why any money would have been spent introducing a vicious predator. Is there a plague of potential food animals that needs controlling?

LOL. I once visited Sri Lanka and was staying at an hotel with a massage service. Thought I might get a cute masseuse, but was disappointed when a blind man came to do the massage.

I tried to find out why massage is popular ( not the happy ending sort ) so I tried a lot, including wat Po massage school, but I never discovered the answer. Some were bad and caused a lot of pain, some were not, but I never felt any better after for it. In the end I just saved my money and wrote it off to one of those things in life that I don't get.

I don't know where you hang out in LOS, but while the Thais are as racist as any society I've ever lived in, they are not as bad as you make out, IMO. Perhaps you live in a big city to get such a negative idea- rural Thais are nothing like that in my experience.

Given that the husband would be paying, it's likely he is rich, which means that his "wife" would probably be attractive. When I was training as a nurse I had to work in maternity, and truthfully, I was amazed that some of the women had actually managed to get some guy to do it to get them pregnant.

I like your style. You tell it as it is.

Perhaps I will. I might even be rich, in which case my personality won't matter when it comes to attracting women.

LOL. I didn't have to become an expat to become estranged and socially alienated. Wherever one lives, society doesn't like those that are "different". Just by not joining in the after work swill I was out of the "cool guys club".

Not in any shopping center I ever went to in Thailand. You must live somewhere I never went.

Actually, the posters that I haven't put on ignore are nowhere as near negative as some of the people that I have to deal with on a daily basis. I can't deal with them, so I basically hide away and do things I can do inside. If I want to get away for a while, I'll go out into the country where there are no people at all- bliss. When I have to shop, I use the few places that I know have pleasant staff, and there are a few out there, but that's because I live in a rural town and not in a toxic city. Every time I have to go into the city I feel like a part of my soul is being cut out of me. I don't understand how anyone can like living in such a toxic environment.

AN make it really easy to avoid the usual negative suspects. My AN experience improved immensely after I put about 20 of the posters that liked to attack me personally, rather than address the topic, on ignore. The ones that are left are quite enough negativity for me to tolerate. That also goes for those posters that complain about my negativity- just put me on ignore- problem solved.

Agree. I already spend far too much time on a forum and if I watched or read every linked article I'd never be away from the computer. Some of us actually try to have lives apart from AN.

I could substitute CNN for Fox, as that was what I saw whenever I watched it.

If that's true, it is only more evidence that Trump shouldn't be the next POTUS, and needs to step aside so a Republican can win the big chair next year.

I don't watch RT. The only tv source I watch is Al Jazeera, which IMO is the least biased news source available. I think I can recognise propaganda, wherever I see it.

I'm not going to comment on the unfortunate situation the lad found himself in, but staff shortages seem to be a serious problem for prisons, not just in that one, but given the situation of PC ( and possibly wages/ conditions ) these days I'm not surprised. Who would want to put themselves in harms way when the rules mean that one can't do the job safely? It's not just a prison thing either. Other essential occupations are finding it difficult to attract staff because the "rules" are making it too difficult to do the job. Eg, men are understandably reluctant to go into teaching, it's hard to get any western people into nursing, hard guys don't want to be policemen anymore, etc. As long as the PC rules make it unattractive, I can't see the situation changing.