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I think I previously made a comment that the prisoner exchanged was one that made Biden look good. If I didn't, I'm saying it now.

I think you didn't mean it literally, but I agree with that, literally.

Imagination is a great thing, and we've seen a lot of it on these pages.

I remember it well, as being backstabbed by Britain. Almost destroyed NZ economically in my recollection. Frankly, I find it hard to be sympathetic to Britain now they are getting a bit of Karma.

Perhaps they are short of paying customers because they want too much to stay there. I've stayed in many a less than posh hotel in Thailand, but they were cheap, so a good trade off. In the last few years I was in LOS, too many crumbling ruins tarted themselves up and put up the prices because they knew they'd have a ready supply of customers fooled by the "boutique" description and they booked on line rather than having a look before staying. Not unusual for me to look in an hotel with a marvelous foyer and less than salubrious guest rooms.

Shock waves because they only just found out that there was corruption involved, or because some of the ( presumably ) guilty have been charged and others may be fearful of similar? ????

Ignoring that the USA is IMO probably unfixable, given the "dislike" between the opposing societies within it, don't you have any desire to find out if there is anything "there" in the information on the laptop? If only half true, it's not good for Biden.

Ironically, if one were to start a post by saying "The left has a deep psychological need for the ( insert any of the failed attempts to convict Trump on something ) story. They desperately want Trump to be corrupt and for the whole family to be, in ( insert one of any Anti Trumper ) words, “a crime family” it would describe the last 6 years quite well.

"Obscene"? Could they describe such for us please, just for information though, as none of us would ever stoop to doing anything "obscene" ourselves, would we?

Errr, if the Thai police want to randomly stop anyone they feel like, they can do so, and it's certainly not our place to claim that it's a "waste of resources". It's better to deter criminality by having a visible presence on the streets, than it is to turn up after the crime has happened. So, by making people think there is a chance of being picked up for overstay by a random stop, the overstayers may depart Thailand, and others may not become overstayers.

How can you say that overstaying is not a criminal offense? They deprive people of their liberty till they can pay for the ticket home. They also put a stamp in the passport to deny a return. Sure sounds like a criminal offense to me.

Excellent post. I often get a chuckle when some farang claims that the few thousands they contribute to the Thai economy means that "farangs" are important. What is rather astounding though, is that they actually seem to believe that Thai elites should change things to benefit farangs, because we want to live in LOS and marry Thai women. I can only believe that they don't get out much and visit more of the country than where they live. Farangs are so few on the ground in most of Thailand that IMO most Thais have no, or almost no, contact with a farang.

My experience of Washington Square was a single visit during the day. I regret now that I didn't go during the night time, so just another place to add to my list of places I should have gone to. Anyone know what it's like now?

Are you baiting? Did you not read my posts where I said it's not a good idea to own property in LOS? Did I have to spell it out that that that would apply to owning a company as well? IMO for every farang that doesn't lose his shirt by buying/ investing in LOS there must be more that do. IMO any farang that wins in LOS is an exception, not the rule. NB, I'm talking about individuals, not overseas companies or corporations. If you have any facts to prove that investing/ buying property in LOS is a good deal for a MAJORITY of farangs I'll be happy to see them.

Snowballs, melting and in hell come to mind about that. She must know that there is probably zero chance of that, so is taking the P in my opinion.

Happily I'll never see them as I stopped watching mainstream tv long ago. Nothing worth watching and infested with advertising. Only watch Al Jazeera which has minimal advertising and nothing of that sort. Don't miss it an iota.

I don't remember the morning after pill being available in the 60s. I do remember all the guys that had to get married because of pregnancy.

HIV AIDS didn't exist then. Why only start at 18? The ones that probably need them the most would be younger IMO.

Fair enough. Have a nice day.

Yes it is humerous, but don't expect any of them to see the joke as it's on them. Quite a long list of what was going to happen when he lost, including being served with divorce papers, and fleeing to Russia etc. It's a grey day here, but at least that headline cheered me up. I'm now waiting for the next session of congress when the old committees get the order of the boot and Jordan gets to head the one that matters.

I see your personal insult and choose not to respond in kind. Have a nice day.

LOL. I'd rather be longing for the good days to come without being under the Brussels yoke.

LOL. You completely ignored what I said in the post you quoted and posted about something else, ergo deflection.

LOL. You were the one bringing Trump into it, so you must consider him to have something to do with it, else why would you mention him at all?

IMO they can't legally, though a couple of exceptions have been mentioned by other posters. Illegally, Up to you.