thaibeachlovers

More likely immigration jail and deportation for working in a restricted occupation. I can only imagine how many Thai tuktuk drivers will be reporting him to the plod.

Are not tour guides, hotel workers, drivers for hire restricted occupations? Forgetaboutit, IMO. If he wants to meet strangers I think TPV is the only option, but how about volunteering in an orphanage or such like ( with a work permit )?

Saved me writing that. He can probably drive one, but not take paying passengers.

If that's how you feel, you shouldn't have got married then. Did you think she was going to stay the same her entire life? I got divorced, because my wife became the screaming hagbitch from hell and wouldn't make love. Doesn't sound like that is your wife.

If I had loadsacash I wouldn't have left. I don't.

You bought her ( tied the knot ). Unless she does something bad enough to divorce her you owe her to stay married. However, if she won't do it with you, then I see no reason not to have some on the side. Seems that commitment and integrity are vanishing at a rapid rate these days.

Disagree. never wanted to breed- never saw any point to creating another consumer unit that would take a great deal of my money for decades. I've had very good platonic relationships, but all the ones I really got on with were already married, so never got to see if friendship is enough in a marriage to keep it alive.

Using a chemical that makes us stupid and spout a load of gibberish, while destroying our organs isn't, to my mind a good option. I'm not talking about a couple of beers, but getting drunk. Since I gave it up a long time ago, never regretted not using it and don't need it.

Boring- that depends. My wife was quite boring but that was fine as long as she did the horizontal folk dancing. She went to work 6 days a week which suited me just fine, as I like my space. Her interests were eating and playing on her phone, which is 180 degrees to myself. I didn't marry her for her conversational skills.

Oh dear, another poster that ( wrongly ) thinks they know everything about me. You don't! I speak from personal experience. After the rejection, just being in the same place day after day made me extremely depressed. Didn't end till she left.

Can't have rules based on "depends". Either ban sexual relationships at work or allow- no inbetweens.

Regret not being in LOS every day since I left. NZ isn't good without loadsacash. Never get married so I had enough money to never leave LOS.

Happily I never met a stockbroker, nor do I want to.

Disagree. If 2 employees have had a bad relationship, it's going to affect their work if they see each other every day at work. I support a ban on sexual relationships at work.

Perhaps I'm different, but I wanted sex every day with my partner(s). When they no longer wanted to do it at all was the beginning of the end for them in my life. I never needed another person in my life, except for sex, and was quite happy on my own. Would have been different if I'd wanted children, but I didn't.

When one is paying it doesn't matter if she gets pleasure. Having said that, I got more pleasure from sex if my partner was enjoying it.

Sex is a primary genetic imperative for men, so yes, they think about it a lot. It's normally not a topic in polite company, but on an anonymous forum like this we can discuss what we wouldn't with our mothers. Besides, it's way more interesting than where to get a pizza.

NZ had a practical and efficient reticulation system of underground pipes for CNG some decades ago. No reason why it should be different for hydrogen. Use solar and wind to power the conversion of water to hydrogen/ oxygen.

My contention is that it just isn't possible for many poor countries with large and rapidly getting larger populations to go to EVs. Far too expensive and they don't have the infrastructure to charge them or qualified people to fix them. I hope you are not suggesting that we pay for them to get such. Petrol/ diesel will remain the motive power for decades to come for most people IMO.

I hope this isn't just more talk, and they actually do something for more than a photo op.

Agree 100%. It's all about money IMO.

I wasn't referring to lithium, but to rare earth metals which are apparently essential for battery cars and windmills. Look at which country controls much of them. Yes, the human world has been dependent on fossil fuels since the early 20th century, and they allowed us to progress beyond horse, steam and wind power. I for one am grateful that they gave me a far, far better life than my ancestors ever had. Also, IMO battery cars are a dead end in the way that Beta VCRs were. Hydrogen and nuclear IMO are far better options in our current state of technology than battery cars and windmills.

You apparently have never suffered a chronic disease to understand why he left the cold country.

LOL. I left the country many years after I left my partner and her children, during which time none of them tried to stay in contact, so nothing to regret never seeing them again.

Well said. However the greensters with their "it's all our fault" mantra have IMO replaced God religion with the "man made climate change" religion and are just as fanatic about it. It's even similar, given God religion relies on people believing in a being that can't be seen, and the "man made climate change" religion relies on people believing in something that can't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In both case it's belief in a theory, IMO.