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Even the Black Death reached herd immunity. Had it not I doubt any of us would be around now.

Apples and oranges. STDs are almost completely avoidable by using condoms and completely avoidable by not exchanging bodily fluids at all. Corona is air transmissible so short of wearing full body protection anyone can catch it without doing anything but breathing.

Depending on your age, your parents and grandparents likely had to contend with WW2 and the great depression. I doubt they were concerned with the woke garbage that is consuming the PC generation.

Luckily for those of us that laugh AT the woke establishment, technology allows us to watch non PC humour such as Monty Python and most British comedies of the 60s and 70s. Recent remakes are best avoided though, as wokeness has rendered them, IMO, devoid of anything resembling humour. I think that where I'd choose to be would be somewhere that PC and wokeness is absent. Thailand comes close, but I don't know of anywhere that isn't infected with PC, so LOS would have to be the place.

Are you claiming that someone alive at the time has written an authentic book to prove that it isn't true. Surely there should be an IMO in there?

Currently I spend at least 4 hours of an evening watching DVD movies every day ( buy them for between 50 cents and $2 from op shops ). I used to spend 4 hours of an evening watching tv, but it's become so woke and waaaaay too many ads, so I don't anymore. In the past I'd go to the movies at least a couple times a week, but too expensive to do that now.

Pity she didn't decide to withdraw BEFORE excluding another gymnast that would have competed in the games.

Oh dear, Had you just used our friend google this would have popped up "Today, professional athletes are allowed to compete in the Olympic Games alongside their amateur counterparts." Had you done some research you'd know that professionals have been allowed since 1988 olympics. Torvill and Dean competed in 1994 despite having become professional after the 1984 olympics.

I assume you are referencing the credits when put on at the start. That doesn't happen very much now, and often don't even put the movie name at start. It'd take more than a boring into to put me off watching the movie. However, the intro scene of Winter Solstice is pretty good.

Haven't been interested in the olympics since they allowed professionals to compete. Zero interest in seeing overpaid "athletes" dominate. What amateur could hope to compete? Haven't watched any events in last few olympics and have no idea of who is competing this time. Correction, I saw a bit of the cycle event where they were wearing those stupid helmets and shiny suits. If it's all about technology and not about the person I consider that to be an obscenity. I did see on the news where the female soccer people were woke and did the virtue signalling thing. Like many, I was delighted that they lost.

Oh dear. Perhaps you should use an IMO in future.

Obviously I don't know her situation, but I see little difference sitting in biz or first compared to economy if sitting at the back of the plane where there are less seats. It might even be cheaper buying 2 seats compared to biz or first, so can sit by self. Anyway, I don't think the problem was being able to afford a seat. Tell me if I'm wrong.

That's ridiculous IMO. Most people are not against vaccination per se, but some are not convinced that the new technology corona vaccine is safe.

British humour, when it was funny, was very NOT PC. Along with everything fun it's been banned by the woke establishment. People IMO don't laugh anymore, at least not like we used to, when my sides actually hurt from laughing.

Agree. I almost went in the 90s, but had discovered LOS and didn't go anywhere else. The Philippine nurses I worked with recommended it. However, I saw a photo of it pre corona and could hardly see the sand for the horde. I think they had to close it to tourists because they had destroyed it.

I too liked Cathay, but I needed non stop from the UK to LOS, so it was Thai every time for me. Perhaps BA flew non stop, but after one flight with them I swore to never, ever fly BA again. I'd have flown Emirates, except they stopped on the way.

Looks very similar to the area around Chiang Dao. I liked that place a lot.

I liked Malaya 50 years ago, especially Penang, but when I did a visa run to Penang about 5 years ago I hated it. Seems to me that it's a fun devoid place now, that sold it's soul for money.

Thank you for that poem. As for "The Sistine Chapel comes to mind." I'm sure you know that is a product of religion. I, for one, don't regard the Sistine Chapel having much to do with belief in God, per se. However, you are correct in that the Sistine paintings do indicate that God lives in the sky, but how many would take that as a representation of reality?

Only you can answer that, as it lies within you. The path to discovery has been discussed often on these pages by Sunmaster, but it's up to you to decide whether you want to put in the work. Some, like myself, had a Damascus moment and don't need to do the work, so I consider myself fortunate. God is everywhere, but only you can open yourself to see.

I don't disagree with any of that, but some of us stopped talking about religion a long time ago. The religious thing was pounded for a long time after the thread started, but that got rather boring a couple hundred pages ago, so you will excuse us if we don't respond to all that religious stuff that we don't believe in.

That, to me is an admission that you are discussing religion. One of the three of us is discussing hallucinogens, but far as I know he's not into religion, which is what the "books" are about. Of course, you can discuss anything that can be reasonably linked to the OP, but I don't know who you are discussing it with, if it's about religion. You have been quoting me and then discussing religion, which is strange, seeing that I've often said I'm not religious. Sorry, but I have no idea how me saying "God doesn't need to punish humans for their misbehaviour. We are punishing ourselves by destroying the environment and humanity will suffer for it ( even more than already ) IMO. " has anything to do knowing what God's needs are. Far as I can see, I was saying that God is having NOTHING to do with punishing humanity.

Janis Joplin and Mama Cass. Sharon Tate.

That's OK. I changed the headline to "too soon", rather than "too young".

Speaking of Japan, a stay in the Ginza with unlimited funds would be enticing.