thaibeachlovers

Obviously the people that matter don't, as I don't see any sign of the Russians going home.

Oooh, I'll bet that has Putin shaking in his shoes. If a trial that will likely have no effect on Putin and a few other high ranking Russians is all that the west is going to do, I'm happy about that as WW3 will do no one any good whatsoever. I just hope Biden sticks to sending some anti tank missiles and such like, as it he felt the need to actually do something militarily it'll be worse than the Cuban missile crisis IMO, and we were just lucky in that one.

Yes it does. I'd happily fall in love over and over and over if only I could afford to go to LOS.

Well said. It's unfortunate, IMO, that some countries allow or even encourage economic migrants from a completely different culture that will fundamentally change the existing culture under the guise of "multi culturalism" which never seems to work very well for the indigenous population. Far from wanting to assimilate, they seem to want to turn their new "home" into a replica of whatever <deleted><deleted> they left behind. BTW quite a lot of posters are often on this forum wanting Thailand to be more like the place they don't want to live in any more. LOL.

Yes NATO is a defensive alliance, but they have no mandate to get involved with countries that are not part of NATO.

It's no more Thailand's fight than Ethiopia or Yemen, IMO. Best staying out of it unless they are being threatened with invasion. IMO small countries rarely benefit from joining in the big boy's conflicts.

Perhaps that was before the time of masses of man portable tank killers that work. Used to be a time that battleships were regarded as the ultimate war weapon, but aircraft made them obsolete.

and if a Russian soldier sees his comrades being shot in the legs on tv how do you think he is going to behave next time he wins a battle? That's why there are rules of war.

Plenty of unsupported claims being made on here, but because they are of the "correct" side not being held to account for it, IMO.

I'm not so big on kittens, but I do like those hamster VDOs on U Tube.

It's irrelevant how much a flight costs if one doesn't earn enough to buy a ticket. Wages in NZ are so low and the cost of living so high that I had to work overseas to have a life. That's why so many Kiwis are heading to Australia and beyond. I didn't earn enough till i was over 40 to even consider an overseas holiday and I wasn't working in NZ at that time.

It's so easy to catch them in misinformation, isn't it? Google apparently censors by making it difficult to see sites they don't like, but that's just what I read, and I don't have a link. I do know that that twit thing cancelled the president of the USA. and yet, we have posters telling us as if it's true that we have a free media in the west. Free to censor and cancel, I guess.

You are the one making the statement, so up to you to prove it or qualify with an IMO.

If you're ugly or smell bad, the Thai babes can clock watch with the best of their western sisters. Far as I know I didn't, but I guess that would be another reason to go L T, rather than S T. While in the west a long time was something only the rich could afford, I never saw the point in LOS.

LOL, LOL, LOL. Doesn't matter what the cost in pounds or dollars was when the wages were soooooo much lower in real terms than now. Flight to Australia was NZ $300 at one stage but was unaffordable for me. Flying to Thailand ( and no visa exempt entry then ) paying for an hotel, and then paying for rumpty was not even a wet dream. My first job was as a farm hand at 8 quid, 10 shillings a week ( 4 quid of that for board ) - how far would that have paid for on a 707?

If I'd wanted a woman my age they were all over the place in home country, but usually with baggage like kids. Not having any desire to raise some other guys brats I chose to look in LOS where I could get one without stretch marks and unpleasant dependents.

LOL. No guarantees a kid will love you and anyway they don't stay kids, and they cost far too much. A dog is always a dog. Want love, get a dog. Cats don't love us, goldfish can't, parrots are not cuddly.

Plenty of hearsay going on and not just one sided..

In a war I doubt everything.

Prove it.

Google is your friend, but if you don't know what google is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent "In the United States, as late as the 1880s most states set the minimum age at ten to twelve (in Delaware, it was seven in 1895)."

In some countries I believe a 12 year old girl could get married, though that may have changed in recent years.

I wasn't making any point about Putin, as I don't know enough about either the reasons for going to war or how the war is going. All I know is that when wars are involved propaganda makes it difficult to know what is true or not. I've seen some tv news items on Al Jazira that looked to me to be faked, but that happens in every conflict. I'll leave it to others to be putting stuff on here as if it is gospel.

This is just boring so don't expect any more replies about the difference between girls and women on this thread from me. Bye.

When posters start to bring Trump into the thread it's obvious that it's not possible to have a reasonable conversation so I'll leave you guys to enjoy your hate fest. A win for cancel culture I guess.