thaibeachlovers

What's the follow up like if it goes wrong? Cheapness is not the thing to consider when dealing with eyes. We only get two for our entire life, no backups.

Apparently never used one where the "base" is the step to get onto the vehicle, also used frequently ( by myself included ) to stand on while the vehicle is doing 100 kph on the highway. Feel the freedom, love LOS! The bars to hang onto run the length of the back and are for the sitting passengers to hold onto. How are you going to get rid of them? Have you ever actually used one in a different city from Pattaya? They are not the same elsewhere.

It's not charging time, it's battery changing time. Given the lengthy stops on that line with diesel engines and having never arrived on time I doubt it makes much difference if they stop to change batteries anyway. Speed makes little difference as it's a single track system, and requires waiting for trains from the other direction to pass.

Some say that past and future don't really exist, but an infinite present moment exists Given that everything we are is based on electricity, how do we know that we are not just living in the NOW, and all our memories are not just manufactured? I'm talking about the Matrix.

Indeed, ying and yang, good against evil, the battle will rage till the earth dies.

They have consciousness to the point their genes allow, but no way we humans are going to give up our yummy meat. BTW, if we had to give animals human like intelligence, almost all farm animals would be allowed to die out as of no value if can't earn money as produce. PS. IMO the person that decided that animals are intelligent never raised sheep for a living.

Personally, I think we return to heaven ( or nirvana or paradise ) every time we die, and stay there till we return to another life form in this reality. Of course no one alive remembers what it was like. A long time ago I looked after a new born child that looked at me with intelligence after being born, but after it went to sleep it forgot and became a normal baby.

Actually, most of the bad people in my life really were bad people, not "good people" that erred a bit. However, most people in the world suffer, and always have, which leads me to wonder if the bad guys are winning.

I wasn't aware of any anti LGBT parades. Do tell me about them. It's also against the law to attack LGBT people in many countries- how much more do they want?

They have nuclear weapons, ergo they have nuclear power, so they can use nuclear power to desalinate sea water for irrigation during droughts. It's hardly new technology as the Saudis have been doing that for decades.

Surely this is as a direct result of Nth Korea government policies, and should be solved by them and their sponsor country. When they threaten to use nuclear weapons against us they can hardly expect much support from the west.

I agree 100% about abortion, but when the LG whatever crowd stop shouting at the rest of us is when I'll stop having something to say about it. You don't get to have a "Gay pride parade" and tell me not to say anything at the same time.

Errr, slavery was the norm back then and pretty much every country did it. BTW, Paul IMO had as much to do with the teachings of Christ as Santa, but this is getting to be off topic so 'nuff said about it. You can discuss on the Do you believe in God thread if you want to.

LOL. It was a rhetorical statement. I doubt you can tell me much about that subject that I'm not aware of.

Marcon was making a political statement imo trying to give Putin an out so he quits his criminal war no more I’m sure as most he would love to see Putin rubbed out and a puppet government in Russia. Fixed it for you

The French are welcome to pay for it then.

Would Dahl agree to his stories being mutilated by PC warriors?

All that is in the old testament which I discount. Actually I don't know why anyone says Judeo- Christian, as I'd prefer just Christian ( and don't get started on religion- stick to what the Christ is reported to have said ), but I was responding to the post that included Judeo- Christian in it.

and perhaps making the wrong decision will lead to the end of life as we know it. Do you understand what hundreds of nuclear weapons exploding will actually do to the planet? What is the point of defeating Russia in Ukraine only to see everyone you know destroyed?

My opinion hasn't changed since before the invasion, and you are welcome to read what I wrote on this thread back then

Don't blame me when our world freezes in nuclear winter then.

Oh dear, is this yet another farang that thinks they can tell Thais how to run their country. To repeat the oft used phrase- if you don't like living in LOS, you know where the exit is. Those slow songtheaws are providing a service for people, unlike the impatient morons that do risky overtaking and put pedestrians at risk.

Regardless, would you even get out of bed to do their job, given what they earn for doing it?

How can they blame the driver when they can't see in the back? Are they expected to start carrying conductors? Just another spur of the moment badly thought out stupid policy by someone that likely never traveled in a songtheaw in his life.

BS. I'm as safety conscious as any, but I've traveled dozens of times standing on the back step of a songtheaw and been happy to do so as otherwise it would take twice as long waiting to get on one. If they make it sitting only, they are not going to double the number of songtheaws, as earning less per trip. They'll probably put up the fare to compensate. PS I enjoyed standing on the back step giving a virtual finger salute to those health and safety wonks back home that are crushing everything fun to do in western countries.