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People keep saying that, but perhaps surprisingly I never experienced any corruption from any official in all my years there. I don't consider myself to be "lucky" so perhaps it's something that goes on mainly in Thai circles, rather than those that farangs live in.

I tried to go to as many beaches as possible, but too many to actually do them all I visited up to three on each trip, but as only had 2 visits a year I was never going to see them all anyway. My top beaches were Than Sadet, the main beach on Lanta ( forget name ), and Chaweng. The most enjoyable was Haad Khom, as I went with my wife when times were happy. The one I'd like to retire on is Than Sadet as hardly any people on it.

Yeah. If want to sweat in LOS, just do some physical work outside. My wife had one of those zip up things, but I never saw the point. The only saunas I used back home were in massage parlours, but the one I really liked was the one on the American base in Antarctica. - 40 degrees C outside and toasty in the box. They had a thing once a year when it got really cold in winter, where they sweltered in the sauna at max heat, went outside and ran around a course wearing only boots, and back into the sauna. Happy days back then.

That goes without saying. If an airline were to ban children I'd have flown with them on principle.

As Thailand was as good as it gets, how could it have got any better? Perhaps a boys only flight with "entertainment" from the hosties on the way there, and no fat gogo dancers, but otherwise I thought it was as close to paradise as ever I would find on Earth. However, it was becoming too much like the <deleted> place I came from before I left for the last time, so perhaps it's no longer LOS.

Um, if they ain't in the front they ain't leaders, by definition. Unfortunately our world is more like Oz and the people that really make the rules are behind the curtain. Perhaps we need a new word to define them.

Remember that Jim Carry movie where he was brought up under a dome in an artificial life? His "earth" was flat. Anyway, we don't live in a world that is either flat or round, as we are all in the Matrix, 55555555555555555555555

Re the OP, my definition of a bar girl is a female that works in a bar beer or Gogo and is available for conversation or to play those games they keep under the counter. As prostitution is illegal in LOS, they shouldn't be expected to be available for sex, as that is up to them. If they HAD to go for sex, that would make them hookers or prostitutes, rather than bar girls. BTW, they do sometimes say no. Some are there just for the wages plus tips/ drinks.

In all my years in LOS the only time I needed to speak conversational Thai was when I needed a battery charger in a non English speaking part of town. Somehow I don't think you have anything about battery chargers on your phone.

I'm not a misogynist by any means ( I loved many many women in LOS ), but we do always pay for it one way or another. I paid far more for the entirety of the sex I got from my first partner, including my house and my nice car, than if I gone with a high priced hooker for the same number of times. Of course that was long before I experienced the delights of LOS. Back when I thought sexless relationships were the norm in western society.

Perhaps relevant is my experience in a hospital that used radiation as a treatment. Despite the amount of radiation the actual device emitted being very small, the regulations for using it were draconian. Seems the authorities are quite paranoid when it comes to anything with "radiation" in the name. We used to joke that we'd get more radiation from a long distance flight than from the device.

Could be due to lifestyle choices as much as money in the bank. Professionals tend to not smoke or drink alcohol to excess, which saves a lot of money, and they tend to work longer than blue collar workers. Although I had to make do on pathetic nurse wages, I still financed holidays in Thailand by not smoking, drinking alcohol, or doing illegal drugs.

You may or may not be correct, but the fact remains, Brexit is a done deal. Time to move on.

Actually, the best option is selling the house at a huge profit and moving into a flat with plenty of money for food AND heating. I can understand them not wanting to rent out their rooms, given the sort of people roaming around these days.

Agree. However it takes longer to train a jet pilot than it does to train a tank crew on different equipment, so the war may be over before Ukrainian pilots are skilled enough to risk multi million $ planes.

Strange post IMO. You do know that Russia flies into space, and has a large nuclear arsenal, don't you? If they can do that, making anti tank weapons isn't a problem. The Ukrainians may find out that attacking a defensive line isn't as easy as picking off tanks driving along a road. In that situation, it's the attackers tanks that are exposed. BTW, it isn't necessary to destroy the actual tank ( the Leopards and Abrams have excellent armour ), as all that is necessary is to destroy the tracks so they are immobilized, and prevent recovery by less well protected vehicles.

I suspect there are a lot of British names in politics, but wisely don't want the high profile jobs given the attacks by the media.

I suspect he "fawns" over Musk because he's rich. Trump likes rich people, being one himself. However, electric vehicles are a separate subject. IMO they are a dead end, like Beta VDO recorders were. Hydrogen is the way to go IMO, and if not for spending most of the research money on EVs we'd likely be converting our existing cars to hydrogen power already. It's a proven technology, and doesn't rely on scarce raw materials or rare earth.

Deflection. Those "dozens of countries with far worse laws, human rights records, killings of journalists and repression of their population or minorities" are off topic. If there were threads about them we'd have something to say about them as well.

Don't hold your breath.

I can't believe that you post that last sentence. You normally make good posts, so I'm not going to put you on ignore, but I won't be reading any more of your posts on this thread.

Can we agree that "indoctrination" is not a good thing?

Deflection. I never said they were nazis. I only said it reminded me of it.

IMO the British bottled it in face of terrorism by Zionists and ran away, leaving a power vacuum. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stern-Gang Extremely anti-British, the group repeatedly attacked British personnel in Palestine and even invited aid from the Axis powers. ....................................... The group’s terrorist activities extended beyond Palestine: two members assassinated Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East, at Cairo (November 1944). and here's one about a future PM of Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin Begin ordered an attack on the British military and administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel following a request from the Haganah, although the Haganah's permission was later rescinded. The King David Hotel bombing resulted in the destruction of the building's southern wing, and 91 people, mostly British, Arabs, and Jews, were killed.

Are you are in favour of ethnic cleansing then?