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Indeed, one needs to be sure riding a m'bike is included on travel insurance if going to ride in LOS. Seems so many leave their brains behind when getting on a plane. When I visited Had Rin for the FMP usually saw farangs bandaged up from falling off m'bikes on the road over the hill. One accident I saw involved a farang family trying to ride m'bikes on the mud road north on east coast of Phangan. Mum, who may never have ridden a m'bike in her life had ridden off the road into the undergrowth! Luckily for her it appeared the only injury was to her dignity.

Beat me to it. No idea why anyone thinks a Thai can't do that. Also, does the OP speak excellent conversational Thai to manage staff?

LOL. IMO they spun it out as long as possible to have their time in the limelight, and hoped it would help in the election. IMO it's been entirely political theatre from the get go.

Not counting the NZ nurses and doctors that refused to have the jab and got sacked for it. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/456395/over-100-nurses-sacked-after-refusing-vaccine Just over 100 nurses, 14 midwives and 10 doctors have been sacked from District Health Boards for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Here's Carley Simon. She really knew how to sing a tearjerker Legend in your own time But you're a legend in your own time A hero in the footlights Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme But a legends only a lonely boy When he goes home alone and We have no secrets We have no secrets . We tell each other everything About the lovers in the past And why they didn't last We share a cast of characters from A to Z We know each others fantasies And though we know each other better when we explore Sometimes I wish Often I wish That I never knew some of those secrets of yours and The Carter family You used to make me moan in bed, but that can't be enough My friends complained your jokes were crude, Your manners were too rough Don't know just what I wanted, but I know I wanted more Someone smooth, presentable, to blend with my decor And now at night I think of how you grinned when you undressed And I find I miss you more than I'd ever have guessed. and That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be My father sits at night with no lights on His cigarette glows in the dark The living room is still I walk by, no remark I tiptoe past the master bedroom where My mother reads her magazines I hear her call sweet dreams But I forgot how to dream But you say it's time we moved in together And raised a family of our own, you and me Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be You want to marry me, we'll marry My friends from college they're all married now They have their houses and their lawns They have their silent noons Tearful nights, angry dawns Their children hate them for the things they're not They hate themselves for what they are And yet they drink, they laugh Close the wound, hide the scar

Indeed a sad song. Keeping it George, here's Last Christmas Once bitten and twice shy I keep my distance, but you still catch my eye Tell me baby, do you recognize me? Well, it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me Happy Christmas, I wrapped it up and sent it With a note saying "I love you", I meant it Now I know what a fool I've been But if you kissed me now, I know you'd fool me again Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away This year, to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special It reminds me of a false lover I had the misfortune to get involved with during a Christmas holiday many years ago. Really messed me up for long after.

The advertising blurb I read doesn't make me want to rush out to see it, though as I haven't seen anything on offer worthwhile for months I may go just to remember what seeing a proper movie is like. It's been a desert of movies to see recently. Loads of woke remakes if that takes your interest, but I dislike paying to be annoyed.

Ah, being pedantic I see. I made the mistake of not saying "Of course an AI will be able to reproduce Brando or Pacino. It's all just pixels and AI will be able to do anything. What we see on an electronic screen is indeed pixels, and given how much CGI is used in movies now they are a lot of pixels. Given that we bring our own experience to a movie, emotion is indeed evoked by pixels in formation. Have you even watched an emotional Anime?

I imagine they would have dual citizenship.

You didn't have to reply to him. As for Trump, if the Trump haters didn't keep bringing him up we could all move on, IMO he's yesterdays news.

IMO more to do with inventing money out of nothing to give away and the disruption caused by lockdowns than a war on the other side of the world.

To warn people thinking of going there!

You are a very lucky guy then! ???? I loved north and north east of Phangan. More like the 90s than anywhere on Samui. Over the years I stayed on every beach, but my favourite was always Than Sadet. 10 people on the sand was a busy day. Significant that it was difficult to get to which kept the louts and the day trippers away- being a National Park meant it couldn't be overdeveloped. Bottle was supposed to be great, but they ruined it with a concrete hotel in the middle of it.

Last visit was after tsunami, but all the news coming out of the place says it's just as rotten as it was back last century. If anything it's got worse.

Just as well I never mentioned swimming then. I never swam in water at Pattaya, but last century I'd go to Jomtien to swim.

I'm aware of that, so nothing on me. The tick tock was in relation to their time in the limelight ending very soon, not about the justice department.

Given AI when it exists ( it doesn't yet ) will be as intelligent as a human, it will be able to reproduce human emotions on screen. Anime characters already induce an emotional response in the audience and they are not even near AI capability.

Of course an AI can reproduce Brando or Pacino. It's all just pixels and AI can do anything. Perhaps cartoon characters are limited in nuance, but modern Anime characters certainly can do anything a live actor can. Graveyard of the Fireflies had the audience crying.

I watched a DVD so was able to see the extras. The flight scenes were the real deal and all the actors had to take an intensive course to be able to fly in the aircraft ( I don't think they were actually piloting the planes though ).

Watched it again last night. Perfect for a movie one doesn't have to think about, lots of action, minimal girl stuff, and if has any annoying wokeness in it I missed it.

I did that and it made the forum better for me.

It's not birds, it's burds and a valid description of young females. Try and keep up.

Africans. We are all descended from Africans.

It's part of UN. Only to be expected.

From the photos on the link seems to be cleared hillside. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/15/asia/malaysia-landslide-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html Selangor is the country’s most affluent state and has suffered landslides before, often attributed to forest and land clearance.