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I don't consider that "bitching", rather factual, but I guess we'll differ on that. While I do appreciate likes from any poster, sometimes you put laugh emojis on as many as 5 of my posts in a single thread ( I counted them up one time- but don't remember which thread now ). Just pointing out that the moderators have made several posts about not doing so any more, and I have endeavored to stop doing it myself.

I'd really like Salerno to say what was funny about that post. I guess he missed the message from the moderators that trolling with the laugh emoji isn't acceptable anymore.

Obama is to be proud of? LOL.

IMO it's an extremely sloppy way of dealing with classified documents. Is the US government so inefficient that they don't know who has classified documents? If any old so and so can get and keep them and leave them lying around for 6 years, what is the point of classifying them at all? A good starting point would be to find out who among Biden's staff had clearance to access them.

Unless the father was a real <deleted> it's IMO usually because the mother that gets custody poisons them against him. My father wasn't the greatest by a long shot, but I still didn't disown him.

If you don't have any farmer friends to explain it to you you'll have to look it up on google. It'd take too long to explain on here and what would be the point anyway? There are fewer farmers because mechanisation has reduced the need for workers, and there isn't enough money in farming to make it worthwhile now. I gave it up 2 years after I started because of 84 hour work weeks and pitiful pay. Didn't want to as that was what I wanted to do at school, but unless I married the farmer's daughter that was going to inherit, no future in it. Old farmers? A farmer friend of mine is 73 and not retiring any time soon. He works 7 days a week. How do you even do it when elderly? LOL. It's not like the old days. Ever heard of tractors? Hard jobs like fencing are done by machine, not with a spade, hay bales moved by tractor, fed out by machine etc. When I was farming everything was by hand and hard work- all gone now. Probably the hardest job that can't be done by a machine now is shearing. If one can drive and use a lever, that's enough.

Some of those tree houses were quite substantial and must have cost a lot for material. I doubt the "protestors" who seem not to be employed could afford them, so who is paying? Also did Greta walk there or take oil motivated transportation, and who paid for that? So much for the renewable energy strategy, LOL. Germany should have built more nuclear power plants!

Obviously someone knows that they had classified documents and that they should not, unless declassified. However, IMO if they were declassified Biden would have said so by now, ergo still classified. Given it was his garage they were found in, unless he can prove someone else put them there, a reasonable supposition can be made that he either put them there himself, or ordered someone else to. If he didn't put them there, and no one else can be found that did, surely there is some sort of record of who took them in the first place. If that isn't known, the only alternative is that person or persons unknown took classified documents for an unknown reason ( without any record of doing so ) and put them in Biden's garage without Biden's knowledge. I'm pretty certain that if it were Trump's garage that the documents were found in it would be claimed by certain posters on this forum that they were put there by Trump himself. I'm amazed that those posters still try and excuse Biden for somewhat spurious reasons.

Perhaps I'm not the best person to comment as I've never needed other people- happy to be alone. I guess I don't understand people that HAVE to be with others.

Perhaps, but if he's that careless with classified material it casts doubt on his ability to be leader of the free world, especially as it happened at least 6 years ago. The real question IMO is how did the Archives not know they were missing for 6 years, or did they know and not ask for them back? If that's not a crime IMO it should be.

The words at the bottom are a software glitch. Didn't notice till too late to edit

Neutral as in not declaring war on anyone else for a long time. I'm a bit surprised that they aligned themselves with the west though, unless they think it won't come back to bite them.

There is a difference between being bored sometimes and being bored all the time. Farming is a great way to not be bored. I've been involved in farming on and off since 1963, though it was my primary occupation for only a few years.

Fair enough. Not many 27 year olds posting on here. If you had lived in LOS in the 90s you might love LOS as much as I do. It really was paradise back then.

55555555555555555555555 NO. Didn't the word "bikini" indicate what gender they'd be? That also applies to men of the third gender, even if they look good in a bikini.

Whatever, is anywhere else as interesting, as much fun and as affordable as LOS? I've lived in a lot of places and I say NO.

IMO anyone that is bored in LOS will be just as bored anywhere. It's got something for everyone, but not all in the same place, and one has to make an effort- it's not going to be presented on a platter. I think people that leave because they are "bored" are just too lazy to find something worth while for themselves.

I'd have been happy as a sandboy in a very big pile of sand if my wife had stayed as nice as she was when we first got married. I'd also still be there.

I never, ever, in all the years I lived in LOS wanted to integrate. Happily one didn't need to to to have loadsafun in the sanuk paradise. If masks are enough to make you leave Thailand, you never really loved the place.

I do regret that I never really went anywhere else after I discovered LOS. I was having too much fun there to go anywhere else, but it'd have been nice to see other places too. I was going to go to the Philippines, but that was when the mayor closed the bar district ( forget the name of the area ) and I wasn't going somewhere I couldn't enjoy myself. I found out later that was just one area, but by then I was invested in LOS. Had everything I wanted there.

Actually, while I think Thailand has many problems and is far from perfect, I've always liked it far, far more than any western country I've lived in. I'd rather live there than anywhere else I can live. Most of the problems I had there were of my own making. I don't like competition as there are always losers in any competition. The only thing I'd really like to see change is immigration. I hated going there. I'd rather pay $XXX. 00 per year for a visa extension without the paperwork ( paperwork only for initial visa ), and forget all the BS 90 days and having to q at 4 am if one wants to extend oneself.

If anyone dislikes the Thai system they are free to take their money elsewhere. Surprisingly, many do despite the "rules". I guess they like Thailand then. I hope Thailand never becomes like a western country. If that's a problem for a farang, they know where the exit is.

So what? Why does everything have to be a competition? Life should be about more than greed.

As one that lives in a country where IMO just about everything important is owned by foreigners I support the Thais 100%. Why should foreigners be allowed to own anything in LOS anyway? If they want to they should become citizens. Without that competition, product and service quality is always going to remain very low and the investment in people, virtually non-existent. Competition isn't everything and the Thais have managed quite well so far. I'd rather live in LOS than in a western country which is all about greed profit over people.

Just my opinion, but if one chooses to not live in a certain country, why should one have a vote there?