thaibeachlovers

You are making me homesick for Antarctica! I spent a year there- best year of my life. I guess that oil hadn't been invented then as we always had to plug in the vehicles or leave them running.

I said Yule, not Yale, and given that Yale were an inferior brand of locks or a university in the USA I have no thoughts about either.

Had to buy the land, had to buy the material to build it, has to afford to get to and from. He's wealthy, even if not as wealthy as some.

You must have been born under a lucky star. You are living the dream.

I made almost every mistake it's possible to make and those mistakes will haunt me till my last breath, but the one mistake I didn't make was to have children to inherit what is coming. They say that we are the first generation to leave a worse world to our descendants, and i certainly agree that they will be unfortunate with what is IMO to come.

Why? For me it was only Thailand or home. Zero interest anywhere else. If I can't afford to live the dream in Thailand might as well live somewhere hospital is free for me, given my age.

That would be true except we have to give the money to the parents, not her. I look at it as having to "buy" her. I guess the idea was that they lost a free caretaker ( the daughter ) so needed compensation. In some countries a dowry was given to the wife to be, so your idea would be correct in that situation.

You're another that should take up comedy. You're a riot!

LOL. Make it cheaper and people will use more of it.

Renewable are probably WHY prices are sky high.

My prediction- it'll come to nothing, just like all the rest over past 6 years. Trump has been audited by the IRS already and they found nothing illegal to prosecute him over. One more nothing burger to add to the list of failed attempts.

Heard/ seen on Al Jazeera this morning: Women banned from NGOs. Women protesting in one of the cities were herded into a narrow street where they were attacked by water cannon and beaten. All the past occupation by western troops has done IMO was to give Afghan women false hope of being free to pursue education and a career. Should have left once al qaida was destroyed there.

We do know what rural Afghans want and it's not to be like us. Which only goes to show that western people have no right to try and impose our way of life on other societies. Any competent Afghan expert could have told western leaders the truth, but western leaders had an agenda obviously doomed to fail, short of keeping troops there for ever. BTW who are we to say we are a "better society"? Our civilization is IMO rotten, and obsessed with greed and hatred.

Propaganda BS. They were fighting the Russians for independence, not to liberate women.

DeSantis please, please, please. I couldn't stand another 4 years of the hatred.

Only 5 working days to go. 10, 9, 8, 7, ................................1 and gone into the oblivion they so richly deserve. Wish I was there to wave goodbye to that cheney woman. Great she lost her seat.

Perhaps so, but ignoring that made a convenient stick to beat Trump with, and he, apparently is all they think about. Given the facts as you post, which would come out in an actual trial in a real court of law ( not some Mickey Mouse biased committee ) and chances of Trump being actually convicted probably nil. No wonder the Justice Department has not yet invented a reason to indict him.

Al Jazeera had a bit about it and mentioned -38 degrees C in parts of the US. I don't think that is right though as can't find any site saying that- coldest given is -23 C on Canadian border. South is a lot warmer than that, though still cold. Just as well as -38 C is Antarctic temperature and car motors freeze unless fitted with heaters. Some people are strange though- look out the window and say "it's snowing, so a good time to go for a drive" despite not having chains for the wheels, and end up stranded and wasting people's time having to rescue them.

It's like the London tube service. A bit of snow or a few leaves on the overground part and it stopped operating.

I glad you said son singular. Indeed William is a son to be proud of. Conversely .............................

What else would an opposition politician say. If the car industry can't sell cars it's could be for any number of reasons eg they are rubbish or too expensive.

A lot of poor people seem to have plenty of money to buy cigarettes and booze. I live with a load of young unemployed people ( strangely they seem capable of work but choose not to, even though plenty of unskilled jobs locally available ). Never short of a can of booze or a ciggie. Nice life though- party on.

If you care about her that at least is something you can help her with without having to go through an agent. Dentists are not expensive unless needing crowns or implants.

I can't say if that would have happened, and neither can anyone else. It may very well have been but would parts of Ukraine have been a smoking bomb site and would all those people be dead? I have to disagree with everything you say about Obama, the man who drew red lines and did nothing when they were crossed. His first 4 years - so you think he's going to be back in '24? I agree about post 9 11. I can't think of a single good reason for all the allied deaths and all the money spent on Afghanistan to stay after al qaida was destroyed there. Obama should have ended it when he was elected. Not only that, but he didn't help those Pakistani guys that assisted in killing bin laden and jailed in Pakistan for doing so on his watch.

That's for sure. IMO it's going to get worse, not better. To get better would require good will on both sides and a statesman to unite them. Far as I can see, no good will exists and there are no statesmen to be seen. Undoubtedly there are good men out there, but given the media attacks on politicians I can't see any of them being prepared to take the abuse that would be heaped on them and their families. IMO the present political fiasco is entirely of the American people's own making, but it doesn't bode well for any of us.