thaibeachlovers

My mother never saw doctors, ate healthy, was into all the new age stuff. Lost a leg to diabetes and died not long after. Is that what you mean?

I don't play golf, but that's how I want to go, after doing something I love.

Bring back fat shaming. Education and being PC about them doesn't work. Make them pay for two seats on aircraft. Make them pay extra for hospital treatment for conditions brought about by obesity eg diabetes.

My old man was in his 90s when he died. I hadn't seen him for many years, and visited him about a year before he died. It was so sad to see him, as although he was in a good rest home, he had no friends, and basically sat in his room by himself. No family members as he chose to live in a foreign country ( that must strike a chord with some posters in LOS ) and refused to go back home where he had a daughter. I thought it was a release from a miserable life when he finally did pass.

If he's right, and you start to feel the effects of terminal cancer, it's too late to have any fun before you do die. How about a second opinion instead?

????? How are you supposed to duct tape the plastic bag if the valium made you go to sleep?

You just made me desire a big breakfast! PS. I hope you got rid of the fly before eating it.

Given Iran would IMO be spending that money on terrorism I hope they never get to sell their oil so long as the religious guys are in charge.

If that's true, it must be as big a failure in your country as IMO in mine.

If by "listen" you mean start agreeing with you ( and him ) on most subjects, don't hold your breath on that.

I'd certainly prefer a young daughter to use contraception if they couldn't say no. Far better than them getting pregnant. My partner put her daughter on the pill and I thought that was a good idea. Hasn't been brought up, but it takes two to make a baby, so I hope those posters with young boys have had the "talk" with them. However, this is somewhat off topic so I'll leave it at that.

Wanting to have sex and thinking about getting pregnant are apparently 2 different things, given the furore about abortion in the USA. If many females in the US don't think about the consequences of having sex, why does anyone expect females in Thailand to do so? In a perfect world no young teenagers would have sex and only mature women that can afford to have children would do so, but we don't live in a perfect world.

More to the point, they are already in France, a country that is "safe", so what is it about France that makes them risk leaky rubber boats to get to a country that some think is institutionally racist?

Indeed. However we live in an age when some are looking to find something/ anything, no matter how many rocks they have to look under, to be outraged about. They see fault where others see nothing much to get exercised about ( that reminds me of the Bruce Willis movie about the boy that saw ghosts ).

Perhaps Boris decided that the agro he'd get just wasn't worth it, or perhaps he didn't want the third candidate having a chance. Without Boris running it's highly likely that Sunak will be next PM.

I had to laugh when I saw this is right before the next thread which says that Boris is "clearly going to stand".

NZ doesn't need him back. A lengthy stay in a privately run prison in the USA is better.

Who is talking about without due process? Pass a law banning patches and jailing gang members and it's due process.

Isn't it just sooooo annoying when someone has the "wrong" ( as in not agreeing with you ) opinions?

Ever read Oliver Twist?

In Lamphun I lived in an area privately developed for residences. The concrete road obviously didn't have enough cement in the mix because the road fell apart. However, they never got the road builder back to repair it, so everyone had to put up with a terrible road.

I refuse to be exercised about criminals being targeted. If it is a slippery slope to remove criminals from society, I can live with that.

While they are IMO not "bikies", they are ( in the movie ) drug dealing criminals.

I doubt any law abiding person would object to banning gang patches, and IMO many would not object if all gangsters were locked up till they died in prison. Perhaps Australian bikies are not as bad as NZ ones given the apparent desire to give them a pass on their criminal activities.

Your post appears to have vanished, and I don't remember what it was, so can't answer that.