thaibeachlovers

I doubt any insurance company will cover no license or helmet. All my policies required both.

I used to ride a Click on the back road with the big trees from Lamphun to Chiang Mai all the time, and felt confident, EXCEPT for the potholes. So large, had I hit one I'd not be around to write this.

LOL. Even the car won't save you every time. I was going around a blind corner in the passing lane at 100 kph, big truck to my left, moron in another car comes round the corner in MY lane, overtaking. If I hadn't been able to just get in front of the truck in time ( by seconds ) it'd be game over for me, my wife and whoever was in the oncoming car. Airbags or not, deceleration from 100 kph to 0 in a millisecond is not survivable, IMO.

OK, fact- people ( or at least people with a functioning brain ) know that they should have insurance when traveling, yet they sometimes don't. I can't see that changing, no matter how many newspaper stories or go fund me begging occurs. Up to me tourists would not be allowed into Thailand without full and proper insurance from a reputable company, or buy one on arrival. Certainly, any company renting m'bikes without a m'bike licence and insurance, should have to pay all costs incurred when it goes wrong. They should also have to provide a helmet if renter does not have their own.

I have to agree with all that you wrote there. If all the money and effort put into war was used to build a better world, we'd be living in paradise. How utterly sad is it that we spend so much to kill each other.

Agree 100% with all in that post. IMO Kennedy was the last decent POTUS. At least his heart was in the right place, even if his little head was in the wrong places.

IMO the ordinary Israelis are as much victims of the situation as the Palestinians. The Palestinians suffer from oppression and the ordinary Israeli suffers from being forced by their government to be oppressors. Living a state of constant fear has very bad psychological effects on most people.

IMO they don't need to do much other than "capture parts of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region that were not already under occupation" dig in, fortify, and wait for American and European societies to stop their governments spending all the money on Ukraine. IMO once the arms and ammunition supply end it's game over for Ukraine.

Not yet. Of the last three mass murdering despots to rule, 2 died of natural causes in an intact country under their rule. I don't give the west too much longer though- too weak, too soft, too riven by irrelevant issues.

Were they not complaining about them being sent to NY before? LOL.

Finish the wall and make them stay there then. They are only a US problem if they get onto US soil.

I am worried.

IMO not a good idea. Either what the other guys said, or what I did which was using wall filler, Assuming the wall is painted, or white ( hard to tell from the photo ). Comes ready to use and needs no mixing. Personally, I'm not a fan of burying electric wires, and I put them through ducting screwed to the wall. Up to you.

I think we can safely predict that in the rest of this year there will be war, somewhere on the planet; the climate WILL change, there WILL be natural ( or un natural ) disasters, there WILL be economic uncertainty and a whole lot of etc, and the UN will only be able to wring it's collective hands and bleat at people to be "nice".

Second sentence- ain't that the truth! Second paragraph- some claims have been made on here it was tracked before it crossed the coast, so if that is true, why not shoot it down before it crossed the coast? That would be a political decision, surely?

If they put a small hole in the balloon it would descend slowly. Perhaps they don't really want to find out, or be able to claim that it was destroyed on landing. Be a bit embarrassing if it was just a weather research balloon.

I was going to give you a thumbs up till you spoiled the vibe with the last sentence.

changed mind

Never let a chance to attack Trump go by. Doesn't matter if it's fake news.

If you watched the James Bond films you would have seen that the US had the capability to capture balloons. If they could do that decades ago, why not now?

Soooo, Mr Guterres, how come you haven't noticed that there are a lot of wars going on and the UN hasn't been able to do sod all about most of them? IMO the UN is a failed organisation as was the League of Nations and should be relegated to an organisation of the bits that work, and stop the farce of the general assembly.

I don't really believe that you rarely think of him, but regardless he WAS a joke, and the joke was on the US that US politics have become so toxic that a man like that became POTUS. Sadly, his time is up but he hasn't got the message yet, but who can make him see that it's time to use the exit door from politics?

I loved my wife and thought she loved me, but it was only transactional for her, as I discovered later. She should have been an actress.

When I was in LOS the bank book had to be updated every time I withdrew money. Is that no longer in effect? I didn't do anything on line etc.

LOL. Reminds me of the time I went to Saudi to work and one of the guys from the accommodation building shouted me dinner. Last time he ever spoke to me. I found out later that he was finding out if I was going to join the homosexual community in the building, or not. I wasn't a prospective it turned out. 5555555555555 Expat community in LOS- they have them there? I'm jiggered, as all the farang expats I passed in the street looked the other way to avoid acknowledging my presence.