thaibeachlovers

Ah, so it's all climate changes fault, and nothing to do with people being stupid enough to build a house on a water front property that has no sea wall.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I do believe that climate changes. I do not believe that anything that humans can do now will have any effect on increasing temperature levels- certainly not in the next decade or two. Is that clear of shall I repeat it more slowly just for you? I don't tell you what you are, so perhaps you can refrain from telling me what I am. I'm not the topic.

I wasn't referring to their greenhouse gas emissions. I was referring to them destroying carbon sinks at a great rate.

Google gives GOP 48 senate seats ( to 46 Democrat ) and three GOP wins at 99% reporting, which should give the GOP at least a one seat majority without a win in Georgia. Bye bye Kamala. Going by the number of seats google says are won by the GOP, they take the house by at least 1 seat Bye Bye Pelosi.

It occurs to me that the number of PTSD cases may correlate to the ease of getting something for it. If one can't afford private counseling, and the chances of public counseling is nil ( unless one tries to kill oneself ) there isn't much point in claiming to have it, but just get on and perhaps some pills from the GP.

Accepting that you saw those that suffered bad times, IMO most people in society never see a person die, never suffer more than a bit of bullying at work etc. Yet they still need alcohol, drugs, think they are hard done by. As a nurse I saw a number of people die, but it wasn't at all stressful- just part of the life cycle. The patients with the least difficult problems were usually the most difficult to look after, and the ones that were the worst off the easiest to look after. I had more agro from bullying managers than patients, though the relatives were sometimes nightmares. I did "burn out", but never thought I had PTSD. However, it was a happy day that I retired and never regretted leaving it. Too many bullies to love it.

After every time plane wheels touched land at Heathrow I could hardly wait till the next time they lifted off. When wheels touched down at Swampy I was so happy.

Far as nursing is concerned, why would anyone except the most sacrificing pay large to go to university to become a nurse, only to get paid a pittance in comparison to other jobs, that are waaaay less stressful? I'm not referring to the US where I believe they get paid quite well. Nurses are striking in the UK over pay. I don't know much about teaching other than it's a risky workplace for men given the potential to be accused of bad things by vicious students, who are apparently always believed over men.

till now.

These days government takes money off some and gives it to those that can't survive which means they breed and perpetuate those unable to adapt.

The opposite, which is abandoning the child to become feral, is causing a huge gang problem here. Fast becoming a country of teen criminals.

Just because Thailand was the wrong country for you, doesn't mean it isn't great for others. I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could. Never wanted to leave it.

First 5 + 7, 8, 9, 10 all too cold.

death of democracy orange man insurrection man made climate change rising sea levels

I likewise knew soldiers that served in Vietnam ( I wish I'd asked them more about it ) and they didn't seem mentally disturbed in any way, but it was a different war to such as WW1 and 2. No mass combat battles- more sneaking about in the bush.

I don't think "zany" is the correct word, but no matter. What has happened is that those people have been busily getting themselves in positions of influence in organisations and remaking those organisations to their own desire. The one I know best is nursing, where the top management went woke and forced the change from hospital training to university qualification, which now means not enough people want to be nurses anymore, but nursing has IMO gone woke. IMO teaching has also been corrupted to the point where a man would, IMO, have to be crazy to be a teacher. No more male role models, and they don't seem capable of educating children any more, except in private schools.

Perhaps we enjoy such posts and you don't need to look at them if you disagree. Unfortunately there are plenty of modern world gone mad situations to be going on about.

Unfortunately many places that are not infected by woke ism are generally places we wouldn't want to live in. So far Thailand has managed to avoid being sucked down the woke plug hole, but even there I've seen the stirrings of the dreaded lurgy.

None of us will ever know.

I don't like woke people, and if the word didn't exist I'd use rather more unpleasant words to describe them. I don't "fear" them ( they are certainly not a physical threat to me ), but pity would be appropriate.

Originally. Now it's been changed to to a word that mocks ultra liberals and PC people.

War related PTSD is real, as not many can kill people and see their mates killed without it affecting them. Ordinary life is less traumatic and IMO some claim to be affected by it when they ain't.

Depends on who they are shooting.

Those young people are softy mummy's boys/ girls and should never have joined the cops. Takes a real man to do that job. I'd never do it myself as I recognise I'm not hard enough to deal with the scum they have to.

Perhaps not, but a lot of posters apparently don't agree, as they keep talking about him, rather than the topic.