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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.

IMO stopping terrorists was never the motivation for the wall, but an added extra. IMO it was always about stopping people just walking into the USA without documentation. BTW Israel seems to believe their wall stops terrorists. They certainly didn't build it to stop illegal immigrants.

I used an agent and totally legit, but perhaps you are talking about people that use corrupt agents.

Probably none.

LOL. Were the troubles democratic? Why would Eire want them, but from the opposite side? Not everyone has forgotten those days.

Been a long time coming but welcome news. Seems Brexit has benefits after all.

Indeed, Eire would be inheriting a lot of non Catholics that would "strongly object" to being subject to Southern Ireland rule.

Agree. I had a couple of those incidents, and both completely unjustified, by arrogant <deleted> Sgt Majors. Considering I was a corporal at the time and they did so in front of junior ranks they were out of order, but sod all that a lowly cpl could do about it. BS like that was why I resigned and the thousands of $ they invested in my training were lost to the military. The problem with the military wasn't the life style ( loved it ) but some of the morons that rose to senior ranks.

He should do so without rubbishing his own family. They are not the royals for him, but his father, brother, uncles, aunts and in laws. I have lost any respect I once had for him as apparently a good leader in the army. Somewhere along the way he became a self entitled whining loser, and I have a good idea who did that to him.

Perhaps they didn't like him enough to help.

I'm disappointed that she was advised, and accepted, to do that. IMO she has nothing to apologise for.