thaibeachlovers

Pity they weren't as keen to deal with the jet ski scammers.

He looked like a tosser when he did that, IMO. The only flautist I was interested in was the one in the American Pie movie who did interesting things with a flute.

I was going to make a comment that at least they haven't chopped all the trees down to erect some ghastly concrete hotel, but then I saw that some <deleted><deleted><deleted> resort owner encroached the beach with their <deleted><deleted> building. IMO people that do that should be sent to the worst jail in Thailand for 100 years. I only went to Koh Chang once, and never again, as the beaches just weren't that good. Lanta was way better, and been on better than that as well. Gulf coast where there are no resorts is amazing.

I bought a machine that plays ocean sounds while I go to sleep. Shuts off after 1/2 hour. Reminds me of going to sleep by a Thai beach.

Nah. It was usually hazy/ cloudy when I went to the beach. Rare to get a full on hot cloudless day like we get in NZ, which apparently has a high rate of skin cancer.

That's because they are infidels, or inferior. If they didn't NEED us to make things happen in Saudi, we'd have been treated like that too.

If the US was an ordinary country I wouldn't give this the time of day, but the fact is that if the US has a problem we all do, as proven when they thought giving people that couldn't repay the mortgages lots of money a good idea.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Seems she was only ever a huggy person with a toothy smile and a woke agenda. When the honeymoon ended, she showed she just doesn't have what it takes. Bye bye, and don't come back.

He was part of Adhern's government so already contaminated, but is National the right government, or the only alternative? One fears they won't be much better, other than not having a certain agenda. I can't see them building millions of houses, reducing rents, stopping inflation or cancelling 3 waters. Hopefully Seymour holds the balance of power.

He shouldn't get too comfortable, as unless National goes loopy and does something barking he'll be in opposition by November. Another fear I have is that Labour will try and bribe their way to winning by spending millions of the money they'd have to borrow to win votes. Sooner that government is gone the better, and they can stick their anti car, anti farmer woke policies where the sun don't shine.

Indeed. If anyone is thinking Germany will remove it's tanks from it's own defense IMO they are dreaming.

Hmmmmm. A question requires a question mark. Your post did not have one. If other posters claim that, IMO they are wrong. Farmers dislike her and her entire government because they are making things bad for farmers and some or many may have to sell up because of it.

People need something to do and a meaning to their life. An Antarctic base has the same situation as you describe, but because people work all day they don't become problem drunks. There is always a solution if enough people want it. Seems not enough do in your situation and in Australia.

Significant word is "escalation". Let's hope they don't escalate it into something everyone regrets.

In my experience the western people most likely to eat unhealthy food are also the ones spending a lot of money on cigarettes and alcohol. Question of priorities, isn't it?

If the Russians captured any Americans "aiding" the Ukrainians in the war zone IMO they have every right to assume the US is actually involved on the ground. By only sending weapons the west can maintain that they are not combatants.

I wouldn't be too worried about the jets. By the time Ukrainian pilots are able to use them the war will likely be over. If it's not, jets are the least of our worries, IMO.

Seems some posters enthusiasm for war is only surpassed by their lack of knowledge of what war entails. Nations have missile submarines to take revenge in the case where an enemy does attack the mainland and destroys the on land missiles.

Of course any outcome is possible, and I'm certainly no more psychic than any one else, but I see only 3 possibilities 1/ Russia wins in Ukraine 2/ Russia loses and becomes chaos 3/ nuclear war ensues.

To do so would entail threatening their own defence capabilities. I doubt they would do that. After all, some posters on here have been saying Russia won't stop at Ukraine if they win. Do you expect them to ignore that possibility? One of the reasons they want Leopards are because of the superior protection. If they are using Soviet tanks they would be losing a lot of tank crews, as the Ukrainians have proven how poor their armour is to modern anti tank weapons ( unless your claim is that the Russians don't have modern anti tank weapons ).

Indeed, and the 40 million Soviet citizens that died in it. ( From the book Barbarossa by Stewart Binns )

The armchair warriors won't be happy having their dreams dashed! They seem to think as soon as the tanks arrives they can be driven off to win the war. Never mind resupply, recovery, repair, as that can be ignored.

Been a few experts on Al Jazeera discussing just that. The estimates varied from 3 weeks to 4 months. What most people don't understand is the amount of maintenance a tank requires, and that depends on spares and trained people to do the maintenance. Also, things like the amount of fuel tanks use which is a LOT. Tanks without a big maintenance/ supply train are just stationary artillery, and even that requires weapon maintenance, and ammunition resupply. From some of the comments I've seen, some posters have no idea of the logistics involved to put a tank on the front line.

Do you not understand that nuclear winter is game over for humans? It doesn't require anyone to actually invade Russia to start it. If by any chance Thailand did survive, I'd be competing with several million refugees for those fish, and I doubt I'd be winning.

They really didn't have much choice, having perhaps mistakenly thought the US wouldn't send any. I'm certainly surprised they did, but it seems like the beginning of an escalation to a situation everyone will regret. Having sent a few, the pressure will be on to send more, and more, and more, and the next thing we know the nukes are flying.