thaibeachlovers

LOL. I'm constantly astonished by obese nurses. I don't know how they can tell patients how to eat healthy and exercise when they are a walking advertisement for lard and exercise avoidance. While I don't frequent hospitals as much as I did when working in them, nurses are often see in tv news items.

Not always true. When I acquired pre diabetes the GP referred me to a specialist nurse that sent me to a couple of free courses on eating healthy, and exercise ( I do loads of physical work, so no needs for gyms or such, but I needed to stop eating sugar. After doing so I lost over 10 kg and a few centimeters off the waist in a year ). I learned a lot from the eating healthy course, such as certain foods like white bread, pasta etc are converted to sugars after consumption, so not just sugar in sweets and desserts that has to be eliminated. Makes for a boring diet, but better than losing a leg to diabetes like my mother did.

Rather than solve the problem first time they just keep digging up the road to put in larger pipes. I saw that on Beach Rd in the 90s. Nice little earner for someone.

Dreaming much?

The worst "tradition" I encountered in the military was the "formal dinner" where after eating smoking was allowed. I hate cigarette smoke and I loath the vile stench of cigars, so such dinners were anathema for me. In Antarctica, the US military had a horrid tradition of packing newcomers- filling their pants with snow- on arrival. Some traditions I consider vile eg forcing anyone who didn't score in a game of pool to drink a yard glass of beer.

Of course it is. Afternoon tea with cucumber sandwiches is as British as it gets, IMO.

Ah, so because the west exploited them in an age when such was the norm, it's OK for China to do so now?

Many wore them long before covid because they think it stops breathing pollution, or perhaps they got dirty faces from the polluted air.

In NZ I live where some still mask up, but most don't. The only place it's still mandatory is in health facilities and old folk's homes. IMO the government saw that most were ignoring the mask requirements and gave it up, so as not to appear silly.

Why? Who really cares if we had it, so long as no problems arising? Despite being double vaxxed ( no booster ) I caught it from a family member, and no worse than a week of sore throat. The worst part was the long covid after that has made me more tired than before, but not really impacted my life in any way. I imagine that the vast majority that had it have a similar experience. Certainly nothing worth shutting down the economy for, IMO.

He died of a heart attack, despite being as fit as anyone could expect to be. Can't beat fate IMO.

Knowledge does not mean that someone can actually do something. Much is learned by experience. Would you have a root canal done by someone that learned how to do it from google? During my time as a nurse, I found that some university educated nurses couldn't actually nurse very well. They knew the theory, but the practice was too difficult, given that they had to deal with real people. It was well recognised that nurses trained under the old system of training while actually working in hospital were often superior when it came to actually looking after people.

Civilizations rot from the inside out. In the end a less rotten country takes over. One has only to look at what is happening to western countries to know we are rotten to the core. When the nonsense that there are more than 2 genders is taken seriously one knows that the end is nigh. NB, I don't care what a person thinks they are- that's their business, not anyone else's, but biologically there are only 2 genders, unless we include hermaphrodites as a separate gender.

While hilarious, the "stupid" labels are because of the IMO insane US court system where people can sue for anything and win large amounts of money. Ergo the labels are a sane reaction to an insane system.

I used to wonder how they didn't need to surface to get fresh air, but I found out recently they make O2 by electrolysis of water- unlimited O2 supply.

Giving out free condoms to anyone would help.

No.

No misunderstanding. I was replying specifically to "Speaking of MAGA fans they sure have gone awfully quiet".

???? He was referencing Ghana, not denigrating the parents personally. Google tells us that not all is well in that country. How is Ghana's economy now? The country remains at high risk of debt distress with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 77.5% in September 2021, against 76.1% in December 2020.

Unless the plan is for Biden to stand again, then resign shortly after winning again so Harris can take over. I doubt she has any more chance of being the candidate next time than last time she stood in a primary.

A patrol area is probably very large and a submarine could be anywhere in that area- quite hard to locate.

Regardless, if he says they are, they become a trigger point for escalation if attacked. Having told us for months how Putin is irrational etc, why would what you said make any difference to him?

You seem very sure of your opinion, but it is just an opinion.

I agree with that at least.

Recession or uncontrolled inflation? IMO inflation is worse for those with a fixed income such as pensioners, so bring on the raises. Also, it'd be a nice change to actually get some interest on money in the bank.