thaibeachlovers

The ones I think about the most were the ones I never got to do the biz with. Perhaps they'd have worked out better than the ones I did get homely with, or perhaps not. I once knew a woman at work that I got on very well with, and most importantly we had a lots of laughs together. She was married at the time, and when her husband died in an accident she had remarried by the time I found out. I met a few in my life that I really liked, and might have made a go of it with, but as usual, the ones I liked didn't like me that way, or someone else got there first. The most beautiful woman I ever had a friendship with unfortunately had a flat mate that disliked me, so that one never came to anything either.

I understand them, but it's never a happy life ( for the guy ) if the he has any urges at all.

Reminds me of going to Sri Lanka on the advice of a guy I knew, but when I saw him again he got an earful. Probably more going on in Saudi than in that <deleted> place.

Jokin' right? I've been to Blackpool and it's nothing like Pattaya in any possible way.

But do they go long time as in a week, or a month?

You reckon Amsterdam as good as Pattaya for the girlfriend experience and at the same equivalent price?

I used to watch that avidly, then it went woke and useless. Don't remember which series, but the one the main character left ( I wonder if he left because it was going woke ).

Watched Ambulance last night. A thin story that needed lots of padding to make a full length movie out of, but not a bad escapist movie, with a realistic ending ( ie not a typical Hollywood ending ), and not at all woke. The casting would be typical for that part of America IMO.

Are you being serious? Sometimes it's hard to know.

Oh dear, I never said all Arabs were lovely. I just said that not all were awful. IMO one shouldn't despise an entire population because of a few. Much like people in every country I've been in.

Stuff happens in every war, and every side loses it's way in the heat of battle. Plenty examples of such from Vietnam war. That was just one possible explanation, and there could be others, but at this stage the evidence is lacking. I'm just saying we don't actually know at this point in time.

Which could have been avoided if a negotiated settlement had been reached before the conflict started. I wasn't in the room, but from what I've read it seems it was the Ukrainian leader that chose war. Like I said, I wasn't in the room, and Putin might have just preferred to send his troops in to kill loads of people and blow up cities. Perhaps we'll learn what really happened sometime in the future when it becomes history.

Photos of dead people means nothing if we don't know who killed them. The propaganda says it was Russian soldiers, and that may be true, but they might also have been killed by other people for other reasons; perhaps because they were collaborators with the Russians, but at this stage we don't know the facts. Unless photographic evidence of a Russian soldier shooting them emerges, it's not a foregone conclusion. The above does not make me a Putin apologist, and any personal attack on me will be reported.

No you didn't. The Saudis had to pay well above market rate to get westerners to stay there as most I knew hated the religious police. If it wasn't for them, Saudi would have been a fantastic place to work. Most of the men I met were OK ( forbidden to meet women there ), and some were very nice, but some were really horrible.

No, I was responding to a different poster.

Ended for me when the sex stopped. Looking back it was apparent when they stopped loving me, but I ignored the signs, to my later disadvantage.

The cancel culture on this very forum. It's why on certain threads a small clique end up talking among themselves without any opposing input.

You raise an interesting point. If we ( the west ) are so invested in freedom and democracy ( LOL ) that we risk WW3 by getting involved in the Ukraine conflict, why are we allowing the Taliban to rule Afghanistan, when they are fundamentally opposed to freedom and democracy? I guess all those Allied troops died for nothing and it was a complete waste of money, but that's for a different conversation.

It's just a forum, not a meeting of the G7, and we should be able to post without getting abused by anonymous people. If he's wrong you can present your "facts" to correct him.

Why would Russia do so?

You thought he wouldn't use it if enemy nations sent planes to get involved? It's his trump card and I doubt any western leader doesn't know what the stakes are. Hopefully they won't do anything stupid that starts WW3. How do you think the US and allies would have reacted if Russia threatened to send aircraft over Iraq during the conflict to shoot down allied planes?

Are you confusing me with some other poster? I never mentioned a "small or regional nuclear war". Far as I'm concerned once the first one falls it's all in. BTW, IMO our world ( of humans ) is doomed from overpopulation anyway. Given the way we are destroying the forests and polluting the oceans into death it's just a matter of time. Gaia will be grateful when we are gone.

IMO it was to explain why there were a load of characters that were not in the book in the movie, but for sure the movie was too long, and could have been half an hour shorter if they'd cut out the irrelevant bits.

Being conservative does not mean that one isn't woke.

and why is it necessary to bring "diversity" into the group of main characters? It's a story about a group of 1930s English people on holiday on a boat on the Nile, not a group of Americans of a modern era. In his Orient Express movie Branagh didn't feel obliged to invent roles for minority ethnicity actors.